Recently, a lot of big things have happened in Zhengzhou.
First of all, it was difficult to survive the three epidemics and one flood in 2021, and the beginning of 2022 was the epidemic.
The epidemic situation has not been eliminated, and the 7.20 rainstorm investigation report has been released again, and the whole country has been in an uproar for a time.
Fortunately, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it has now been solved.
In terms of the epidemic, starting from 12:00 noon yesterday, the people of Zhengzhou can restore the order of regular production and life, and it is expected that the whole region can be reduced to a low-risk area before the Spring Festival.
In terms of the follow-up impact of heavy rains, Zhengzhou also ushered in a new acting mayor this morning.
When we were all mourning the lives taken away by the torrential rain and marveling at the speed of epidemic control in Zhengzhou, we did not think that "Zhengzhou black" had emerged again.
Zhengzhou: "Regional Black" hardest hit area
This netizen lightly fluttered a question that negated the strong execution of more than 12 million nucleic acid samples in 6 hours and the past achievements of SO many years of GDP climbing step by step.
As an outsider, Uncle Fang may have to argue two sentences unconvincingly.
However, Zhengzhou people can not only lie flat and let the "black", but also sort out a "regional black" problem for Zhengzhou.
Attraction collapses?
The people of Zhengzhou, who have been blackened, may reply, we were not originally "the city of dick silk", where is the attraction?
Zhengzhou was blackened as the "City of Diaosi" because it was poor.
In 1999, Zhengzhou's GDP ranked 32nd among the national cities, which is undoubtedly in the middle and lower reaches of the provincial capital.
But Henan's poverty is actually the tears of history.
The main battlefield of the modern Sino-Japanese War was in Henan, followed by the Great Famine in Henan in 1946 and the typhoon and rain in 1975. The collapse of reservoirs in Henan Province has caused more than 10 million people to be affected, and Henan's economy has been in a slump since then until the beginning of this century.
And Zhengzhou is poor how many years ago the old yellow calendar?
In just over a decade, Zhengzhou's urban GDP has climbed into the top 20 in the country step by step.
Let's look at the city GDP ranking in the first three quarters of 2021, Zhengzhou retained the 16th ranking, and the 15th Changsha is only 25.8 billion yuan.
Why say "only"? Because according to the latest determination of the State Council investigation team, the direct economic losses caused by rare rainstorms to Zhengzhou city reached 120.06 billion yuan, not counting the long-term indirect losses caused by the three waves of epidemics and rare rainstorms to people's production.
Objectively speaking, Zhengzhou in the first three quarters of last year even has the potential to surpass Changsha.
Yesterday, Zhengzhou released the latest GDP in 2021, 1269.102 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7% year-on-year. Changsha's data has not yet been released, and we can wait to see the results of the competition between the two cities.
GDP has developed to this point today, but if you search the Internet casually for "what will you think of when you mention Zhengzhou", you must still not be able to avoid "Zhengzhou Zhengzhou, digging ditches every day".
Even if there are local netizens who have looked down on Zhengzhou and felt that Zhengzhou is chaotic, but in the end, the local netizens who are really fragrant appeared and said that Zhengzhou is still "poor".
The people of Zhengzhou said that they were powerless, so they joined the army of self-black in anger, and instead of resisting, it was better to "black out of the characteristics".
"Zheng County is not worthy to be the provincial capital"?
The tragedy is that Zhengzhou is not only "recruiting black" outside the province, but also being ridiculed by kaifeng and Luoyang people as a "cultural and historical depression" in the province, and "small counties and towns are not worthy of being provincial capitals".
In fact, the so-called "cultural and historical depression" is because Zhengzhou is unfortunately sandwiched between Kaifeng and Luoyang.
Historically, Zhengzhou has also been the capital of xia, shang, Zheng, Han and other regimes, including the hometown of the Yellow Emperor, the ruins of Shangcheng and other monuments.
But after all, Kaifeng, as the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties, served as the capital of Henan Province for hundreds of years, and Luoyang was the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties.
Compared with these two cities, Zhengzhou has become a small transparent. And before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhengzhou was also called Zheng County, no wonder the people in these two places were not convinced.
However, in fact, Zhengzhou has been a Zhengxian County for less than 30 years, and it has been through the Pinghan Line (one of the predecessors of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway) since the end of the Qing Dynasty, and later became the intersection of two major railway arteries.
Suitable for the construction of railways is the fundamental reason why this "city pulled by trains" was able to compete with the provincial capital in those years.
The topography and geology of Kaifeng and Luoyang are indeed not suitable for overhauling railways. The former is too much affected by the Yellow River, which is a potential risk to the railway; the latter is a criss-crossed mountain and hilly territory, the terrain is complex and diverse, and the construction cost is extremely high.
The waterway era to the land era is an inevitable development process, and the history and culture of the ancient capital must of course be protected, but we must determine that the provincial capital will look at the future development space after all.
In contrast, Zhengzhou not only has natural conditions suitable for the construction of railways, but also is located in the hinterland of the hinterland, which is an excellent transportation hub, and thus wins the game of provincial capital competition.
After the establishment of the provincial capital in 1954, Zhengzhou's first task was to expand its position as the heart of transportation.
In the peak years of ordinary railways, the Zhengzhou Bureau developed into the first overall situation of the whole road, once managing the railway in the central region and controlling most of the traffic lifeline in China; Zhengzhou Station built the first largest station on the whole road, and every train must stop.
After entering the era of high-speed rail, Zhengzhou has the only "meter-shaped high-speed rail" that has been formed so far.
Not only did land transportation favor the location of the hinterland of the Central Plains, but the state also planned the country's only state-level airport area in Zhengzhou.
In 2015, Zhengzhou Airport also obtained the fifth air right, and as far as Uncle Fang knows, there are only 14 cities in China that have this air right so far.
The fifth right of navigation is called the "most economically substantial" right of navigation, which means that the aircraft on the route can pick up and drop off passengers and load and unload cargo in the stopover area/country.
Taking the earliest "Zheng-Lu" route as an example, after the cargo plane operated by Lu Cargo Airlines takes off from the country of origin, it can collect and adjust the goods at Zhengzhou Airport without having to return to Europe, and distribute the logistics goods of the three continents to the greatest extent.
So far, Zhengzhou has not only become the "traffic heart" of China on land and in the air, but also pointed to the international freight hub.
The convenient transportation, developed freight, bonded warehouse has attracted Foxconn, Apple, UPS, Zhengwei and other Fortune 500 companies in the world, as well as nearly 100 well-known enterprises in the industry such as Youjia and Huazhong Cold Chain Port, Ruihongyuan, MattelBao, cainiao and so on to settle in the airport area.
It is difficult for us to say now that "Zheng County is not worthy of being the provincial capital", right?
Zhengzhou's "King Bomb" and forever "Zhengzhou Black"
Some local netizens commented on the development of Zhengzhou as: "A bad hand, play the king bomb".
The most important "king bomb" mentioned by everyone is to attract Foxconn to settle in, foxconn came to Zhengzhou in 2010-2011 is called the inflection point of Zhengzhou's economy.
But when Foxconn was introduced to Zheng, it was not less "hacked".
In fact, in 2007, when Foxconn first considered going to the mainland, it was still a fragrant food, and Chengdu, Chongqing, Taiyuan, Wuhan and Tianjin were all competing. At that time, the director of the foreign investment management department of the provincial department of commerce once bluntly said that Foxconn had little interest in Zhengzhou.
But after the financial crisis in 2010 hit the coastal manufacturing industry, Foxconn suffered from shrinking orders, workers' wage increases, and the thrilling "10 consecutive jumps" in 2010, basically only Zhengzhou was willing to issue a generous "dowry".
It seems that Foxconn was really as "Zhengzhou Black" said, it was not wanted by coastal and other cities, and it was picked up by Zhengzhou.
But Uncle Fang had to say that the domestic economic development always has a priority, Foxconn may not be suitable for Shenzhen in 2010, but for Zhengzhou in 2010, it is an absolute advantage over the disadvantages.
When Foxconn first came, the average wage of workers who met the recruitment conditions in the local small factory was 700-800, while Foxconn offered 950, counting overtime pay, and a person's basic income was about 1800-2500 yuan.
But when Foxconn provides jobs for 300,000 Henan people every year, "Zhengzhou Black" has to say that this is a "sweatshop" and "low-end industry" with mobile phones.
But Uncle Yao said that Foxconn is far from just bringing jobs, but also moving to its supporting upstream and downstream enterprises, bringing the most lacking cutting-edge industrial system in Zhengzhou, opening the door for other electronic information companies to settle in Zhengzhou.
Since there is a question of "low-end industry", Zhengzhou will return the respect with another hand "Wang Bomb".
That is Zhengdong New District.
The local government wanted the area to be completely demarcated from the "poor and low-end" in the mouth of "Zhengzhou Black", and set aside 115 square kilometers (in fact, it was later expanded), and asked the world's best architects to plan and bid.
Of course, you can also think of how much criticism at home and abroad can be gained by such a city that is famous for "stealing manhole covers" and "digging big ditches".
For a long time, Zhengdong New District was ridiculed as a "ghost town", although this is a necessary process for the development of any new district.
But as some local netizens said, the contribution of the new district planning is not only in urban governance and providing better housing for citizens, but most importantly, as the most high-end business card for Zhengzhou to attract investment.
Under the operation of the government, Zhengdong New Area has successfully attracted 226 financial institutions of various types, a number of foreign banks, 12 provincial branches of national banks, more than 20 insurance institutions and local legal person financial institutions. There are also dennis, large commercial enterprises such as Dashang stationed in the East District, as well as various types of high-end service industries, high-end auto retail stores, high-end leisure catering and entertainment industry.
Relying on this business card, Zhengzhou finally has a high-end industrial zone that brings together financial and technological research and development.
The strong siphon effect of Zhengdong New Area on the financial resources, resources and population inside and outside the province is directly reflected in the housing prices.
However, "Zhengzhou Black" always has something to say, which can also scold a "blood-sucking provincial capital".
But let's be fair, no one can stop people from going up, right?
It is not Zhengzhou that also has the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and it is also a good choice to provide young people in the province with a new first-tier city that does not have to go to other places and is within reach.
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Uncle Yao said that some "Zhengzhou black" may be locals, and they are really making comments.
After all, which city doesn't have a problem? The traffic congestion caused by Zhengzhou's large population, the difficulty of the "hell level" college entrance examination, and the shortage of local education resources have indeed not been solved.
But some "Zhengzhou black", just like the netizens who sang the future of Zhengzhou early at the beginning, have to take Zhengzhou and the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen to compare income and resources, hangzhou to compare the Internet, Kunming to Qingdao to compare the environment, and Changsha chengdu to compare food.
Uncle Fang wanted to ask, which city can not be scolded so much than a circle?
Perhaps as local netizens said, in the end what evaluation of Zhengzhou, do not have to look at the so-called "high-end people" the same criticism, willing to stay here better and better small days is the most appropriate evaluation of Zhengzhou.
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Source: Sohu Focus @ Uncle Fang Interesting