Written by | Meng Yaxu Editing | Fu Ning
When the official announcement that 50-year-old Zhou Jiangyong had joined the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, it was only four months before he became the new secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee.
Today (June 16), the official release of the news, the first plenary session of the 14th Zhejiang Provincial Committee elected 12 members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Zhou Jiangyong and Feng Zhili, director of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee, as the "new faces" in the new team in Zhejiang.
Because of this news, the political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) once again noticed the city in southern Zhejiang: Wenzhou.
Iron Triangle
"Yesterday's Wenzhou dared to be the first and lead the trend; today's Wenzhou has come out of the trough and taken the lead in breaking through; tomorrow's Wenzhou is preparing for the momentum and brewing butterfly changes." Just yesterday, Zhou Jiangyong, who was still a department official, was interviewed by the media and summed up Wenzhou's "past and present lives" in 24 words.
Although it is only a prefecture-level city, Wenzhou's influence in Zhejiang and even the whole country is extraordinary.
As early as 30 years ago, the "Wenzhou model" and the "southern Jiangsu model" became the two major benchmarks for the economic development of rural areas. On Zhejiang's economic map, Wenzhou ranks third in total, behind the two sub-provincial cities of Hangzhou and Ningbo.
As a result, these three cities are also known as the "Iron Triangle".
"Consolidate and enhance Wenzhou's position in the iron triangle of the province." It is also a sentence that Zhou Jiangyong mentioned many times after he became the new secretary of Wenzhou.
The small partners of the political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) have visited the "Iron Triangle" and are particularly impressed by Wenzhou's private economy.
First, local officials have a relatively deep humanistic background, active thinking, and quite enlightened, and do not take much care of the development of private enterprises; second, private enterprises play an active role in the local area, for example, a famous enterprise is allowed to name this road with its own money; third, entrepreneurs are very political. When Zheng Zhijun visited two large enterprises across the road from Liushi Town, party branches were set up, and the party building activities were very solid.
In the view of analysts, the solid foundation of southern Zhejiang not only produces experience and cadres, but also allows private capital to flow to a wider range.
However, after the 2008 financial crisis, Wenzhou once encountered a bottleneck.
"21st Century Business Herald" bluntly said, "Around 2012, many indicators in Wenzhou were 'at the bottom' in Zhejiang, and the ranking of the province's 'old third' was almost unsafe." ”
However, the political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) noted that Last year, Wenzhou's GDP exceeded the 500 billion yuan mark, and the average annual growth rate in the past five years was 7.6%, which was generally better than expected.
At this time, Zhou Jiangyong, who took up his new post, led a delegation to Hangzhou and Ningbo to learn from his experience, and repeatedly stated, "I hope that Big Brother will lead and lead us to further strengthen exchanges and cooperation at all levels and in all fields." ”
And he himself is one of the "Iron Triangle" - Ningbo - grew up cadres.
Taking over the baton "Wenzhou Model"
Before Zhou Jiangyong, Wenzhou also had several municipal party secretaries who became members of the standing committee of the provincial party committee.
In areas with an active private economy, most of the officials in charge of the government have to face a more complex economic situation and go through many experiences.
For example, the 10 years from 2002 to 2012 are considered to be 10 years of local economic difficulties.
Jiang Rubiao, vice president of wenzhou party school, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the "First Financial Daily" that from reform and opening up to the end of the last century, Wenzhou's economic development was very rapid and always in the rising stage. However, since the beginning of this century, with the changes in the domestic and foreign environment, Wenzhou's economy has experienced unprecedented difficulties. In the past decade, Wenzhou's economic decline has been very obvious, the gap in scale and speed has widened, and the number of social group incidents has increased, especially the mental slackness of some officials.
Breaking the "bottleneck" was Chen Derong, a technical cadre of the state-owned Hangzhou Steel Group.
Chen Derong took the helm of Wenzhou in July 2012, after he undertook drastic reforms of The Wenzhou as vice governor of Zhejiang Province.
Chen Derong became a member of the Standing Committee after two years as secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, during which time he often worked until the early hours of the morning and fainted three times due to fatigue.
After serving as the deputy head of the construction work leading group of Zhejiang Ecological Province for one year, Chen Derong returned to the bank to Baosteel Group and is now the general manager of China Baowu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd.
The one who took over Chen Derong was Chen Yixin.
After one and a half years as secretary, he became a member of the Standing Committee, after which he first entered Beijing and then went to the local government, serving as deputy secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee.
According to media reports, during his tenure as secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, Chen Yixin repeatedly stressed the need to adhere to and develop the "Wenzhou model" and asked Wenzhou to create new advantages in institutional mechanisms. He confronted the various doubts of the outside world about the "Wenzhou model", stressing that the "Wenzhou model" is not outdated, the "Wenzhou model" is still vibrant, Wenzhou used to be the pioneer area of China's reform, and now it is still a test field for China's reform.
Back and forth
The political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) has noticed that Wenzhou, as a "reform test field", has seen a new trend in recent years: returning to entrepreneurship.
In the early years, Wenzhou people worked everywhere and were known as migratory birds. However, many people are homesick and try to take time to visit their hometowns on holidays. Because of this, local officials in Wenzhou took advantage of holidays to invite Wenzhou businessmen to talk earnestly. According to official data, in 2015 alone, the total number of Wenshang returns maintained a doubling trend year after year, with the actual domestic investment in place of 111 billion yuan, breaking through the "100 billion mark" for the first time.
At the same time, some officials in Wenzhou have gone out. In recent years, two of Wenzhou's main leaders have entered Beijing: Liu Xirong and Chen Yixin.
Liu Xirong became a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee in January 1990, and after two positions as vice governor of Zhejiang Province and secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, he entered Beijing in 2000 as deputy secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission until October 2007, when he reached the age of 65.
After two years as secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, Chen Yixin went to Beijing to take up a post as the full-time deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform.
In addition, in addition to Chen Yixin, there are two former municipal party secretaries who have gone to other provinces after their transfers: Jiang Jufeng and Li Qiang.
Information | 21st Century Business Herald Xinhua Network The Paper, China Times, etc
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