Source: Economic Daily
"Whatever kind of door you want, you can almost always find it in the town." In the "door industry town" of the coal dam in Ningxiang, Hunan, Huang Ziqiang, general manager of Hunan Xiwang Door Industry, told reporters.
In 2014, the small workshops gathered near the Changsha South Railway Station of the high-speed rail were demolished, and the Xiwang Door Industry, which was set up by Huang Ziqiang's leased façade, was also among the demolitions. Like other tenants facing demolition, he faces the dilemma of where the business is going. Also in this year, the coal mine in the coal dam town of "Xiangzhong Coal Capital", which is famous for coal, prosperous because of coal, and has a history of coal mining for hundreds of years, was completely closed, and in the past it was one of the townships with the richest economy and the most active market in Hunan, and suddenly fell into the embarrassment of where industrial workers are going and how the industry develops.
On the one hand, there is a small town with 3 square kilometers of land but no industry, and on the other hand, there are enterprises that urgently need land expansion to become bigger and stronger. Coal Dam Town frequently throws out "olive branches", and the first 5 enterprises, including Xiwang, settle in Coal Dam and become the first batch of visitors to the "Door Industry Concentration Area". In April 2014, Xiwang Gate Industry entered the coal dam to build a factory, and officially put into operation in January 2015. "We have now opened more than 100 stores, and we are currently working hard to improve our independent research and development capabilities, and go to the top of the industrial chain through branding." In the face of the increasingly homogeneous competition in the national door industry market, Huang Ziqiang, like other peers in Coal Dam Door Town, is using innovative and green concepts to create brands and break into the market, and is committed to contributing to the gorgeous transformation of "Xiangzhong Coal Capital" to "Hunan Gate City".
Marching on the Jade Coal Avenue, a patch of factory buildings and corporate signboards are hidden in the verdant green leaves. It is hard to imagine that this was once a coal city with "one city of coal ash and half of the city". Before 2014, Coal Dam Town was an important coal industry base in Hunan, and with the emergence of problems such as resource depletion and geological collapse, coal dam town large and small coal mines were shut down one after another.
Coal dams, eager for new life, block the coal channels that have been dug for hundreds of years, and open the "door" of green development for industrial transformation and life upgrading. "The transformation of the industry from 'underground' to 'above ground' is more difficult than imagined." Hu Lang, mayor of Coal Dam Town, said. Despite this, the coal dam people have built a "door industry concentration area" on the wasteland with the Jade Coal Avenue as the axis and the planned area of 3 square kilometers.
Song Qiang, secretary of the party committee of Coal Dam Town, said that the characteristics and specialties of the "characteristic town" have promoted the further gathering of the town, and the total output value of 102 enterprises in 2020 will exceed 9.8 billion yuan, and the development trend of 20 new enterprises will be maintained every year from this year. "At present, the industrial chain of the door town is becoming more and more mature, and the whole industrial chain integrating product design, style creativity, technology research and development, production and marketing and service has initially been formed. The town is building a national coal mining township industrial transformation demonstration town, further introducing the upstream industrial chain, and improving the industrial cluster. Song Qiang said that Coal Dam Town adheres to the concept of "three-life integration" of production, life and ecology to promote the construction of characteristic towns, and the goal is to build a door town with distinctive industrial characteristics, beautiful ecological environment, happy people's lives, and obvious demonstration effects. (Economic Daily-China Economic Network reporter Liu Lin Xie Yao)