The Annual Report on the Development of China’s Special Economic Zones (2018) (Blue Book), co-authored by Prof. Tao Yitao and Prof. Yuan Yiming, is one of the premium academic brands founded in 2009 and vigorously promoted by the China Center for Special Economic Zone Research (CCSEZR), Shenzhen University, a key research base for humanities and social sciences under the Ministry of Education. Has been published in an uninterrupted run of 10 issues, the Blue Book has become an authoritative annual research report on SEZs. Since its first publication in 2016 in English version by Springer, a well-known publishing group in science, technology and medicine for more than 170 years, this Blue Book has become an authoritative report with significant academic clout inside and outside of China. Following its publication by Social Sciences Academic Press(China), the Annual Report on the Development of China’s Special Economic Zones (2018) (Blue Book) has grabbed great attention from the academia as it is a prominent fruit yielded while building a high-caliber university and also an important achievement for SZU to uphold its doctoral program research characteristics and direction in theoretical economics.
