The trillion club refers to a city with a gdp of Chinese mainland annual reach or exceed one trillion yuan; this is a symbol of strength and a reflection of the development of the city's economic scale to a certain extent, not a physical club. After 2021, the trillion club city camp in the mainland will expand again; Dongguan will become the 24th trillion club city in the mainland and the fourth trillion city in Guangdong after Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan.
At the same time, as of the end of 2020, the permanent population of Dongguan City has also exceeded the order of ten million, and its population attractiveness ranks among the top three in the country. Such a new starting point of "double ten thousand" also allows Dongguan to usher in a highlight moment in 2021. This "world factory", with scientific and technological innovation industry and strong manufacturing industry, with the upgrading of the urban industrial structure, it is not surprising to achieve rapid and high-quality development.
In the past, people had many misunderstandings and stereotypes about Dongguan. A few years ago, if a man talked about going to Dongguan, he was likely to receive ridicule from people around him. In addition to this, many people's impression of Dongguan is still stuck in the small southern industrial city with a large number of migrant workers, except that the factory is a worker. Hong Kong cultural celebrity Leung Man-tao once described Dongguan bluntly: "In my impression, Dongguan is a city of hotels and factories."
In fact, when we jump out of misunderstandings and prejudices and slowly approach it, we will find that Dongguan not only has a manufacturing industry that helps the economy take off, but also has a very rich cultural connotation. In addition to the stage leap of GDP, the rise of cities is also the release of humanistic "soft power". Dongguan is an important birthplace of Lingnan culture, and also retains and inherits the Culture of the Central Plains; the outstanding figures of Dongguan background represented by Yuan Chonghuan and Zhang Mu have left a song and weeping deeds and spirit for this land. The city is multi-faceted and difficult to sum up in just one sentence.
Dongguan's urban style is also different from the general city, or this is one of the reasons why many young people "don't want to leave when they come". In addition to the urban bustling area represented by the East City and the South City, Dongguan gives a more intuitive impression of high-density greening, and the honors of National Forest City and International Garden City are the best proof. Dongguan is also one of the cities with the largest number of parks in China; in small cities, it is dotted with urban gardens, natural reservoirs, and ecological wetlands such as Keyuan, Qifeng Park, Songshan Lake, and Longwan Wetland.
The creative 33 town in the city, the No. 8 Creative Park of Workers and Farmers, and the XiabaFang represent the fashion and vitality of Dongguan, and are the places where young people love to linger. In the past, Dongguan was known for "manufacturing". In recent years, Dongguan's "culture" label has been like a flourishing flower, blooming everywhere. In the Creative Park, young people come together to visit bookstores, watch exhibitions, take photos and punch cards; in the "database" of the national Internet celebrity punch card, there are also gradually updated POIs from Dongguan. At night, the bar street is neon-lit, and the melodious folk music floats out, and Dongguan, which is also ancient and modern, is indeed intoxicating.
As a Guangdong city, Dongguan's cuisine is naturally not to be underestimated. If it is not a city of food, it is impossible to make a food documentary like "Taste of Dongguan". White sand oil duck, Humen cream crab, Xian Sha fish balls, Daojiao meatballs, oil chicken sesame powder, dwarf sausage, Tangxia Lu goose, Hong Mei three rolling bones... When a series of delicacies gather at four times, they come from all over the world, but they are still the tip of the iceberg of Dongguan cuisine. The authentic and seductive flavor of Dongguan comforts the appetite of people in the city all the time.
The rapid development of the city is earning more and more "labels" for Dongguan; I hope that these "labels" can replace the misunderstandings of the past and let people see a new Dongguan.