Word: hainan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like any good negotiator, Wu questioned whether Wang could really deliver the goods. With the tape rolling, Wang eagerly showed him official-looking documents stating he had been a prosecutor on Hainan Island in southern China. He assured Wu that he had attended numerous executions and could coordinate the extraction of body parts from 50 of the 200 prisoners killed on Hainan each year...
...Shanghai is caught up in entrepreneurial energy. In the mid-'80s, while southern provinces like Guangdong and Hainan turned Deng's experiment in "special zones" into a capitalist boom, Shanghai's decrepit state industries stagnated, its infrastructure disintegrated, and its people sulked. The economic revolution wasn't reaching far beyond a few chosen cities. Recalls Li Bo, a Shanghai economist who runs a consulting firm for German companies: "The most popular expression in 1991 was 'Gao bu hao le'--everything's hopeless...
...agricultural practices and inane technologies turned China into an immense archipelago of unproductive communes racked by famine. No one had clean hands--not the urbane Premier Zhou Enlai, who, though skeptical of collectivization, kept a polite silence; not the gentlemanly President Liu Shaoqi, who withdrew to the island of Hainan to avoid bringing up the subject of famine. Deng himself sycophantically proclaimed high expectations for grain harvests: "We can all have as much as we want." His own home county would be ravaged by hunger...
Some provinces are even more gung-ho for growth than the bosses in Beijing. Hainan in the far south plans to build itself into another Hong Kong. Guangdong and Shandong hope to catch up with such Asian powerhouses as South Korea and Singapore by 2015. The special economic zone of Shenzhen is two hours' drive from the southern city of Guangzhou, where bustling construction sites and rows of town houses, factories and shopping centers line the road through the Pearl River delta. In Shanghai, China's New York City, shop windows are crammed with chic imports, electronic pagers and fancy...