Institute helps make startups' dreams come true in Shenzhen

City nurtures entrepreneurs with a market-driven R&D, investment model

Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up. As a major part of economic reform and opening-up to the world, China established five Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. The rise of Shenzhen, the first such zone, epitomizes China's transition from being economically underdeveloped into the world's second-largest economy. This is the third of a series on Shenzhen.

For She Zhending, a 35-year-old entrepreneur in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, the beauty of starting a business is more than "skindeep".