Yuan Geng, the pawn of reform and opening up. 196 1 served as deputy director of the first bureau of the central investigation department, and cracked the "Xiangjiang case" in which the Kuomintang plotted to assassinate Liu Shaoqi. 1975 to 10, transferred to the post of Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Communications, and was appointed by Minister Ye Fei to investigate the operation of China Merchants. After completing the investigation, he wrote a report for instructions, and his suggestions in the report became the specific content of China's reform and opening-up policy. At the end of 1978, Yuan Geng, then the executive vice chairman of Hong Kong Investment Promotion Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, insisted on breaking the ice and founded Shekou Industrial Zone on the land of 2. 14 square kilometers of Shekou Peninsula in Bao 'an County (now under the jurisdiction of Nanshan District, Shenzhen City) allocated by Li Xiannian, and was praised as the first person in China's reform and opening up. In Shekou, with the dauntless spirit of "returning to Qincheng Prison", he dared to break through the ideological cage, fought his way out among thorns, and loudly put forward the slogan "Time is money, efficiency is life", which influenced all China.