The Shenzhen Daily is starting an in depth series on the rise of Shenzhen as a Financial Center by Liu Minxia.
THERE have never been so many Chinese people so enthusiastic about making investments, either in the stock market or through banks, as in the past two years.
Three decades ago, however, with no stock market or other investment channels, people had no option but to put their savings in banks. At that time, the eight existing bank outlets in Shenzhen provided only three kinds of services: deposit, loan and remittance.