袁庚中国20世纪80年代的对外开放实践,最初发端是深圳蛇口,而计划出自袁庚的手。1978年10月9日,时任交通部外事局副局长的袁庚,在一份上报中央的请示报告中,第一次提出“适应国际市场特点,走出门搞调查,做买卖”的对外开放建议。25天以后,副总理李先念用红铅笔在地图轻轻一勾,对袁庚说: Yuan Geng China’s practice of opening up to the outside world in the 1980s was originally started by Shekou, Shenzhen, and was planned by Yuan Geng’s hand. On October 9, 1978, Yuan Geng, then the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, made the first request in a petition for reporting to the Central Government that he “adapt to the characteristics of the international market and go out to conduct investigations and do business”. Open to the outside world 25 days later, Deputy Prime Minister Li Xiannian with a red pencil in the map gently hook on the Yuan Geng said: