Among the 28 provincial capitals in the country, Fuzhou is the most depressed! Why?
Excluding the four municipalities directly under the central government – Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing , and excluding Hong Kong and Macau , of the remaining 23 provinces and five autonomous regions , Fuzhou in Fujian Province is the most helpless provincial capital.
Xiamen
The first ladder - the four municipalities directly under the central government needless to say, properly at the provincial level, and the political status is higher than that of the province, the four municipal party secretaries are all members of the Politburo, vice-state level, belong to the ranks of state leaders.
The second tier consists of 15 sub-provincial cities, namely: Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Dalian, Jinan, Qingdao, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xi'an and Wuhan. Among them, 10 cities are provincial capitals and 5 cities are listed separately.
A province has two sub-provincial cities: Liaoning (Shenyang and Dalian), Shandong (Jinan and Qingdao), Zhejiang (Hangzhou and Ningbo), and Guangdong (Guangzhou and Shenzhen). Fujian Province is an exception, the provincial capital Fuzhou is not a sub-provincial level, but Xiamen is.
Fuzhou City
Therefore, the mayor of Fuzhou Is at the level of the main department, while the mayor of Xiamen is at the level of vice province and minister! Central management cadres. The mayor of Xiamen is one level higher than the mayor of Fuzhou. The remaining provinces do not have sub-provincial cities, but the provincial capital is still the boss of the province and has not been suppressed by another city in the province. Rank and status are the same, both are departmental level.
They are: Anhui (Hefei), Jiangxi (Nanchang), Hebei (Shijiazhuang), Henan (Zhengzhou), Shanxi (Taiyuan), Inner Mongolia (Hohhot), Xinjiang (Urumqi), Ningxia (Yinchuan), Tibet (Lhasa), Qinghai (Xining), Guangxi (Nanning), Hunan (Changsha), Gansu (Lanzhou), Yunnan (Kunming), Guizhou (Guiyang), Hainan (Haikou), Taiwan (Taipei), these 17 provinces and autonomous regions do not have sub-provincial cities, but their provincial capitals are still the leaders of the province. Only Fuzhou, which is obviously the capital of Fujian Province, has a lower political status than that of Xiamen.
Xiamen City
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Fuzhou would like to say that since Xiamen is a sub-provincial city, why should the provincial capital be located in Fuzhou? Since I am the capital city, why should my level be lower than xiamen?
In fact, this is not to blame Fuzhou, nor to Xiamen. Xiamen is a city listed separately in the plan, and Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo and Shenzhen are the same identity, and the level of the planned city is sub-provincial, which is one level higher than that of the general department-level cities. These are all necessary for reform and opening up, and they are also necessary for the rapid development of the economy. Fuzhou, like Changsha, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Nanchang and other cities, is a standard departmental city. The capital complained that Xiamen's geographical location was too important, and the state, out of the need to develop the economy, set aside it as a separate planned city.
So why not set the capital of Fujian Province in Xiamen? In this way, fuzhou will not complain? In fact, Fuzhou's history and culture are even older, Xiamen is a peninsula, small in area, and partial to a corner, not suitable for being the provincial capital. In addition, Xiamen is too close to the sea and is susceptible to typhoons. The economic center of southern Fujian is Quanzhou, the economic center of northern Fujian is Fuzhou, and Xiamen has no radiation capacity. It is obviously inappropriate to set up all the administrative organs of Fujian Province in Xiamen. Of course, there is another reason, that is, Xiamen is too close to Taiwan, and everyone understands this reason.
In Fujian, Xiamen's economy ranks third, lower than Fuzhou and Quanzhou. Xiamen is one of the treaty ports in modern times, and in the past, Xiamen was only a district under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou City. Economically, provincial capitals are not the first in the province, such as Qingdao pressing Jinan, Suzhou pressing Nanjing, Shenzhen pressing Guangzhou, etc., Shenyang and Dalian are no different. Xiamen's development is significantly inferior to Shenzhen's, nor is it as good as quanzhou and Fuzhou in this province. As a treaty port in Fujian Province, Xiamen as a planned city was decided in the 1980s, but because Xiamen was constrained by its geographical location, its development was slow, its small size, small population, and proximity to the seaside were all disadvantages.
Fuzhou, also known as Rongcheng, has a long history, is an important city on the southeast coast of the mainland, the first batch of coastal cities opened to the outside world, a marine economic development demonstration zone, the gateway of the Maritime Silk Road, a component of the Fujian Free Trade Zone, and is one of the five earliest open treaty ports in modern China.
Fuzhou is also a national historical and cultural city, as early as 202 BC in the Qin and Han Dynasties on the city, because there is a Fushan in the territory and named Fuzhou, has long been the political center of Fujian, Mawei Port is also the cradle of China's modern navy, the birthplace of Chinese shipping culture. Fuzhou has won many honors, obviously more than Xiamen, there are
Fuzhou
Therefore, Fuzhou is not bad in other aspects except that it is not a sub-provincial city. And China's five planned cities, Shenzhen is far ahead, not only stronger than the other four planned cities, and even more than the vast majority of cities in the country, second only to Shanghai and Beijing, ranking third in the country! It is followed by Ningbo, Qingdao, Dalian and Xiamen. Xiamen ranks at the bottom of the five separately planned cities.
In summary, Xiamen is a sub-provincial city, which was specially designed for economic development in the early days of reform and opening up in the last century! In addition, it is not stronger than Fuzhou in all aspects! Now, Xiamen's development rate is slower than That of Fuzhou. The level of mainland cities has not been adjusted for decades, and has always remained the same, except for Chongqing, which has been upgraded to a municipality directly under the central government, other cities have maintained the settings of the 80s and 90s, and the four municipalities directly under the central government and 15 sub-provincial cities have not changed.
However, economic strength is not the political and cultural center, so Suzhou is stronger than Nanjing's economic strength, but it is impossible to replace Nanjing, after all, Nanjing is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with deep historical and cultural heritage, located in the middle of Jiangsu Province, with strong radiation capacity, and Suzhou is too south, close to Shanghai and Zhejiang, and its geographical location is not as good as Nanjing.