General Report: Annual Report on the Development of China's Special Economic Zones (2020).- Chapter 1: Report on the Development of the Green Industrial Transformation of China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 2: Report on Carbon Productivity and Sustainable Development of China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 3: Report on Innovation in and Development of China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 4: Report on the Development of Social Security in China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 5: Report on the Development of the System of Public Employment Services in China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 6: Report on the Development of the Financial Industry in China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 7: Report on the Development of Cultural Industries in China's Special Economic Zones.- Chapter 8: Report on the Construction and Development of Laos' Special Economic Zones.

This annual report presents an overview of the development of Chinäs special economic zones in 2021, including reform pilot zones and some new special zones, from the perspective of the overall national development strategic planning. It takes the development status, comparative analysis and policy suggestions of the special zones as the starting point, summarizes and analyzes the transformation problems, carbon production and sustainable development problems, scientific and technological innovation problems, social
security problems, employment service problems, financial system reform problems, cultural industry problems, and puts forward suggestions for development.

Yitao Tao, director of China Center for Special Economic

Zone Research. She has been engaged in the research of Chinese

and Western economic thoughts and theories for a long time, covering economic

history, history of economic thoughts, institutional economics, etc. In the

past 20 years, she has devoted herself to the comparative study of the history

of China's reform and opening up,  the

history of China's special economic zones.

Yiming Yuan China Center for Special Economic Zone Research, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China