China’s Rise and Inflation’s Fall From 1982 Until COVID

A cargo ship is carrying containers near the Yantian port in Shenzhen, in China's Guangdong Province, on May 17, 2020. Martin Pollard/Reuters

Commentary 

My tour of China with Australian journalists in 1981 concluded with a tour of the Shenzhen Free Trade Zone—which at that stage was little more than a mass of concrete being laid by the Australian company CSR.