President Hu Jintao hailed the southern economic powerhouse of Shenzhen as a "miracle" on Monday as China marked 30 years of reforms of the city that provided the blueprint for the country's economic rebirth. Full story

1983: 1st joint-stock enterprise established; 1984: Deng Xiaoping visited Shenzhen on his first South China tour; 1989: Millions of people began to pour into Shenzhen