The one-time fishing village of less than 30,000 has mushroomed into a megapolis of an estimated 20 million people since Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping declared it a "free economic zone" in 1979 and unleashed China's modern capitalist boom.
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Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once famously quipped that while the Middle East had oil, China had rare earths.
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