This book reflects the latest academic achievements, research progress and policy propositions on China’s special economic zones study. This book analyzes the problems encountered in the development of China’s basic special economic zones and the theory of economic system reform, introduces the achievements and prospects of the development of China’s special economic zones in the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, explores the successful experience of the special economic zones as China’s new economic system, and conducts the comparative study with Shanghai Pudong New Area, Singapore and Hong Kong regarding of the rise of the finance industry.