Why have people at home and abroad always said that Hefei is a dark horse?

From 65438 to 0952, when Hefei became the Anhui Provincial Association, its population was only over 50,000, and its economic scale was almost at the bottom of all major cities in China. The author has repeatedly checked the gross national product of Hefei from 65438 to 0952, but I can't find it! It can be seen how bad Hefei's economy was at that time! At least, the economic situation of Hefei at that time was absolutely the worst among the provincial capitals (the capital of the autonomous region)!

From 1954 to 1978, the state financial input of Anhui Province is only slightly higher than that of Tibet! You know, although Anhui is smaller than Tibet, its population is more than 20 times that of Tibet! 1959 Tibet population10.2 million, while the population of Anhui province is 3 1 10,000! With such a low financial input, many resources have to be allocated to support brother provinces and cities, the most important of which are Shanghai and Zhejiang.

It is such a city. After 65 years' development, it has risen from the initial penultimate in the country to the 23rd in the country (as of the first three quarters of 20 17) and the top ten provincial capital cities. Most of the cities that once had a better foundation than Hefei were left behind!

Therefore, in terms of economic development, Hefei is definitely a well-deserved dark horse!

Anhui is a province that attaches great importance to learning and education, especially in central and southern Anhui, and is a province with a large number of talents in history. Therefore, in the most difficult economic times, Anhui did not mistreat the educational and scientific research institutions in the province. Especially after receiving China University of Science and Technology and Institute of Material Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui Province will tighten its belt and give priority to supplying non-staple food rations to China University of Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences! At that time, Henan didn't want to distribute non-staple food rations, and directly rejected China University of Science and Technology, which was their first choice. In order not to increase their burden and avoid being hit by the Cultural Revolution, Hubei and Jiangxi also rejected China University of Science and Technology.

Anhui not only accepted the Chinese University of Science and Technology, but also tightened its belt to give priority to the supply of non-staple food rations to the Chinese University of Science and Technology and the Institute of Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also built a heating system for them!

When other cities give priority to the development of applied scientific research for rapid development, Anhui supports the Chinese University of Science and Technology to engage in basic scientific research. So today, Hefei's basic scientific research strength is almost at the national leading level, and the scientific research achievements of many disciplines are even in the world leading position!

The proportion of citizens with higher education in Hefei ranks first in China —— According to the survey results of Unilever in 2009 and 20 14.

So Hefei has finally become a dark horse in the field of basic scientific research! It has also been selected as the only pilot city of scientific and technological creativity demonstration in China and one of the three comprehensive science centers in China! Comments on Hefei's scientific research strength by the British science magazine Nature-based on second-tier cities, it has created scientific research strength that only first-tier cities can have! New york Times Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei are the three major scientific research centers in China, and Beijing and Hefei are the future Silicon Valley of the world!

When other cities are attracting investment for various projects in order to improve their economic output, Hefei says no to high-pollution and high-energy-consuming enterprises-except for the high-pollution and high-energy-consuming enterprises originally built by the country, there are basically no high-pollution and high-energy-consuming enterprises that attract investment by themselves! Later, Hefei simply shut down the high-pollution and high-energy-consuming enterprises returned by the state, or forced such enterprises to improve their pollution control level!

Therefore, Hefei has as many as 1588 state-level high-tech enterprises-this is another dark horse!

The population has grown from more than 50,000 at the beginning to 7.869 million at present.

Among the cities with the same foundation in China, except Shenzhen, which is vigorously developed by the country, only Hefei has the fastest development!

Hefei is really a dark horse.

Since the founding of New China, Hefei was still a small county when 1952 took over as the capital of Anhui. At the same time, it is located in Anhui, and the priority development policy of eastern coastal cities is beyond Anhui's reach. Later, the western development countries fully supported the western resource finance, and Anhui was the left-behind province. As the capital, Hefei has been developing tepidly.

There is no financial support in the province and no policy support in the country. From 1954 to 1978, the state's financial support is similar to that of Tibet, while the population of Anhui is 3 1 10,000, and that of Tibet is10.2 million. Relatively few.

After so many years of development, Hefei has finally ushered in the spring in recent years, the policy of the rise of central China has been implemented, and Hefei has entered the Yangtze River Delta economic belt with high profile.

Hefei is included in Chaohu Lake as an inner city lake.

Introduce South China City, few cities introduce projects.

At the same time, the opening of the subway ushered in a new era of transportation. It has also become an important hub for national high-speed rail transportation.

This series of developments in Hefei has prompted it to surpass many cities in recent years. By 20 17, it ranked 23rd in China, and the provincial capital cities ranked first 10.

In recent years, it is the biggest increase in global housing prices, and the economic growth rate is among the best in China. Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei are comprehensive science and technology cities in China, and The New York Times even claimed that Beijing and Hefei will be the Silicon Valley of China in the future.

The Yangtze River Delta Economic Belt not only includes Hefei, but also plans Hefei to be a 1 big city with Suzhou and Hangzhou besides Shanghai and Nanjing.

The development of Hefei lies in prospering the city through science and technology. In that era when science and technology were not emphasized, China University of Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences were rejected by Henan, abandoned by Anqing and taken over by Hefei. Hefei would rather give up a small part of its finance to support the development of China University of Science and Technology. Finally, in this era of science and technology, China University of Science and Technology has given off its brilliance and brought the best return to Hefei.

The development of Hefei is obvious to all. Hefei is a dark horse, and the future is BMW!

Once, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) broadcast a feature film about Hefei's urban tourism, entitled "Visiting the fastest growing cities in the world", in which Hefei was called "one of the fastest growing cities in the world". Such a high evaluation is not without foundation.

When Hefei officially became the capital of Anhui, its position was absolutely embarrassing, because economically, Wuhu and Anqing in the province were definitely ahead of Hefei. Even after Hefei became the capital of Hefei, it took twenty or thirty years to gradually surpass Wuhu and become the most powerful capital of Anhui Province. So Hefei at that time can be imagined. I don't know the specific data, but growing up in Hefei, I can see the bits and pieces of Hefei. What used to be farmland has become high-rise buildings, and what used to be barren for human eyes has now become crowded. I remember that at that time, Dashu Mountain was surrounded by farmland, or the countryside. On the other hand, now, there is a world of difference. There is Swan Lake, which is deserted at first sight, and now it is more prosperous than the old city.

As can be seen from the above figure, in 2007, Hefei's GDP ranked only 56th among major cities in China, and even the total GDP in 2006 was 1074 billion yuan.

This is the data of 20 16, and the ranking basis has risen to 26, with a total GDP of 627.43 billion yuan. GDP has increased by about 5.84 times in ten years, and even ranked in the top ten among provincial capitals.

This is only what happened in the past ten years.

Hefei has also developed from an obscure town into a comprehensive national science center except Beijing and Shanghai. In layman's terms, it is the base for the state to organize cutting-edge research and gather innovative resources.

I believe all these undoubtedly prove that Hefei's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and it also shows that Hefei is a real dark horse.

When People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 49, there were only 50,000-70,000 people in Hefei.

In 2005, Hefei's GDP ranked 60-80 in China.

In 20 16, the GDP of Hefei ranked 25th in China and 9th in the provincial capital.

Before 2005, Hefei did muddle along, but from 2005 to 20 16/year, the growth rate of Hefei was faster than that of Shenzhen, and it was praised as a miracle of the world.

Many people and lists habitually ignore Hefei. In the eyes of more people, Changsha is the fastest-growing central city, climbing from 40+ in 49 years to more than a dozen today.

In fact, in terms of climbing ranking and speed, Hefei is much faster than Changsha, but most media and institutions directly exclude the cities after 50 in the early days of the People's Republic of China from the statistics when ranking.

It can be said that Hefei is the fastest growing city in China.

The speed of Hefei is absolutely the most unexpected for most people.

If this is not a dark horse, what else can it be called?

Hefei, the capital of the eighth most populous province in China, with a registered population of about 70.83 million (20 19), is located in the geographical center of Anhui Province, with an urban area of 1 1445. 1 square kilometer.

In 20 19, the resident population of Hefei was about 8190,000, the annual GDP was 940.94 billion yuan (the national city ranked 2 1), and the per capita income was1/5623 yuan; Fiscal revenue143.238 billion yuan (the top 20 cities in China).

In the same period, the total GDP of Anhui Province, located in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, was 37110.40 billion yuan, ranking 11th in China. Ranked thirteenth in the country per capita.

That year, the economic data of Hefei and Anhui both reached new highs!

However, compared with the ranking of Anhui population and even the position of Hefei in Anhui, and the surrounding economic provinces, these data are not outstanding, and even most of them are behind!

In recent years, Hefei, including Anhui, has really won wide acclaim from all sides for its real changes, and was rated as "the most attractive city in China" by foreign experts working in China on 20 18 and 20 19, second only to Shanghai and Beijing! What is the root of this contrast?

Through the reverse comparison, we have to say: yesterday's Hefei, yesterday's Anhui, really bad!

As a big agricultural province with nine disasters in ten years, Anhui has always been positioned as a country: exporting agricultural products, industrial and mining raw materials, primary industrial products, migrant workers and flood storage and detention areas. For decades, due to the scissors difference between workers and peasants in the planned economy era, Anhui's invisible contribution to the core area of the Yangtze River Delta (mainstream view: from 1953-1985, the scissors difference between workers and peasants in China led to the blood sucking of 600-800 billion yuan from cities (industries) to rural areas (agriculture)) led to Anhui's self-economic accumulation. At the same time, the state's investment in Anhui was just an "excessive" treatment of various provinces and cities: until the 1990s, Anhui's per capita economic aggregate was still in the dilemma of the 28th in China.

Hefei, the capital of the eighth largest province in China, 1990 ranked 88th among the top 100 cities in China. At that time, there was only one single-track cecum Huainan railway in Hefei, and the waiting room area of the railway station was only 800 square meters.

By 2000, Hefei ranked 82nd among the top 100 cities in China.

By 2005, Hefei ranked 62nd;

By 20 10, the ranking of Hefei will be promoted to 46th;

By 20 15, Hefei ranked 28th.

From 1990 to 20 19, Hefei's GDP ranking rose by 67 places among cities in China, becoming a well-deserved champion!

In the new century, Hefei has gradually won the opportunity to get the support of national policies, and accelerated the expansion of the city and the upgrading of infrastructure (three points Chaohu Lake, the construction of new urban areas, the counterattack of high-speed rail upstarts, the opening of Jianghuai Canal, etc.). ). Advantages of household appliances (Meiling, Rongshida, Wanyan, Swan), automobiles (Jianghuai, An Kai, Flying Tiger), daily chemicals (herbs), mining engineering machinery (excavators, forklifts, forging presses), tires, etc. What was saved around the 1990s was used to attract large enterprises and powerful industries, and its efforts to attract investment and create a good business environment were unprecedented.

On the other hand, with the arrival of the high-tech tide, the Chinese University of Science and Technology and many scientific research institutions that were unexpectedly absorbed and gathered in the past, as well as the scientific instruments built silently, made Hefei, a small town that has been unremarkable, a "star" in the future scientific research battlefield; The National Comprehensive Science Center, which is as famous as Beijing and Shanghai, has given Hefei an unprecedented new national orientation and a proud aura!

Hefei Binhu Anhui Innovation Museum

It is this "Hefei climate" and "Hefei characteristics" that allows Hefei to gather emerging industries such as new national displays, integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles and high-end home appliances; The landing of Hefei-Wuhu-Bengbu Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and Anhui Free Trade Zone has given Hefei and even Anhui the opportunity to receive national policy dividends for the first time. Quantum, controlled nuclear fusion, new light source, ion medicine and other major projects occupying the forefront of world science and technology are also hatched in several Hefei national laboratories!

Growing Hefei, as the leading city in Hefei metropolitan area, is more capable of integrating, driving and leading twin cities in Hefei metropolitan area, participating in increasingly fierce industrial competition and making new contributions to the rise of Anhui!

Once a small town in Jianghuai, the humble younger brother in the provincial capital city, Hefei has become a high-end industrial town in China and a world famous science and technology city. Its "dark horse" title is appropriate and worthy of the name!

Those who say that Hefei is not good and that Hefei is not suitable to be the capital of Anhui Province may not know that choosing Hefei as the capital is a strategic decision made by the great leader Chairman Mao after careful consideration. With Chairman Mao's great talent and boldness of vision, his old man's house made a far-sighted decision beyond ordinary people's vision after comprehensive consideration and repeated brewing. Who refuses to accept the prestige of Chairman Mao's achievements? Who is as clever as his old man? Those who spray Hefei are a handful of short-sighted and ignorant people.

It is not surprising that Hefei has become a group of dark horses in the provincial capital cities.

The rapid development and outstanding achievements of Hefei in recent ten years have aroused great concern and interest from the outside world in this originally unknown city.

In 2020, in the ranking of city commercial charm selected by CBN, Hefei became the most concerned group of dark horses, squeezing out star cities such as Dalian and advancing to the ranks of new first-tier cities. Among all the new first-tier cities, Hefei is the only city whose GDP has not exceeded one trillion.

In 2020, Hefei will be promoted to the ranks of first-tier cities.

The fundamental reason why Hefei can suddenly become a dark horse lies in:

First, Anhui has a profound history, its potential is stimulated, and its rapid development is inevitable.

During the Qing Dynasty, both Anhui and Jiangsu belonged to jiangnan province, and the scope of jiangnan province roughly included today's Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. In the early Qing dynasty, the tax revenue of a province in the south of the Yangtze River accounted for one third of the whole country. Every scientific research, Jiangnan province accounts for half of the country, so there are "talents in the world, and half of them are from Jiangnan." Say it.

In 20 19, the registered population of Anhui was 71194,000, and the permanent population was 63.659 million, covering an area of 140 1 10,000 square kilometers. In 20 18, the total GDP of Anhui reached 30,006.82 million, and in 20 19, it reached 370,000. At the end of 20 19, the resident population of Hefei was 80189,000, with a total GDP of 940.94 billion and a per capita GDP of15623 yuan (the per capita GDP of Anhui province in 20 19 was 58,496 yuan, equivalent to 8480 US dollars). Therefore, it is not surprising that Hefei, as a leading city in Anhui Province, has a large population, good geographical and natural conditions, profound cultural heritage and great development potential.

Second, the increase of Hefei's GDP has also contributed greatly to the merger of Chaohu's core city and a county.

In order to improve Hefei, the provincial capital, Anhui Province split the prefecture-level Chaohu City, and Juchao District and Lujiang County, the central city of Chaohu, were merged into Hefei, which greatly increased the area and population of Hefei's jurisdiction and expanded the space for urban development. After the merger of one city and one county, the total GDP of Hefei will naturally increase greatly.

Thirdly, the rapid development of Hefei is closely related to having China University of Science and Technology as a first-class university.

A first-class research-oriented top university stands out in Hefei. Without the intellectual support of first-class universities, cities cannot develop high-value-added high-tech emerging industrial clusters, such as Zhongguancun High-tech Industrial Park, which Beijing relies on first-class universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua, Silicon Valley, which San Francisco relies on Stanford, and a world-class high-tech industrial park. Hefei can also rely on China University of Science and Technology to develop Hefei's high-tech industrial parks and high-tech industrial clusters.

When University of Science and Technology China moved out of Beijing, many provinces were unwilling to accept it. China University of Science and Technology was moved to Hefei after the decisive admission of Anhui Province. Now it seems that we have to admire the foresight of the leaders of Anhui Province.

Fourth, there are many successful entrepreneurs with outstanding achievements in Anhui, and Hefei and even Anhui cities are endowed with unique investment resources.

Anhui famous entrepreneurs include Zhu, founder of Vanke Group, founder of Jiangsu Yurun Food Group, Wang Chuanfu, founder of BYD, Yang, chairman of Lenovo Group, Shi Yuzhu, founder of Giant Group, Suning Appliance, Zhang, Brother, founder of Wang, chairman of Gree Electric Dong Mingzhu, CEO of Midea Fang Hongbo, founder of Iflytek Liu Qingfeng, founder of Weilai New Energy Automobile Li Bin, founder of three squirrels and so on.

Anhui entrepreneurs are full of stars, big bosses and strong strength. Most of these successful entrepreneurs from Anhui will pay attention to and care about the development of their hometown, and are willing to invest in their hometown to help it develop. For example, Weilai Automobile Li Bin set its China headquarters in Hefei, and the investment in Hefei headquarters and production base reached1126 million. Weilai located its China headquarters and production base in Hefei, largely because its founder Li Bin was from Anhui.

So to sum up, Hefei can stand out from the fierce competition in many cities and become a dazzling dark horse.

The so-called core cities in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, the single-core provincial capital with a population of 60 million, the optimized and upgraded manufacturing innovation base, Hefei Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China University of Science and Technology, the shore of Chaohu Lake, the five largest freshwater lakes in China, and the newly-built high-speed rail hub city are not the key factors that make Hefei stand out.

The rise of Hefei is essentially the direct beneficiary of the economic spillover effect of the rapid development of the Yangtze River Delta in China. Why does Hefei undertake spillover? Instead of Zhengzhou, Nanchang and other traditional capital cities in central China, this is of course inseparable from Hefei's own efforts, but sometimes you have to admit your fate. We are all betting on luck, personal fate, the fate of the city and the fate of the country.

Hefei's housing price increase ranks first and third in the world, and the whole world knows that it is of course a dark horse. Moreover, Hefei is also a famous city of great lakes, and a rain can turn it into Venice, a water city. Awesome, my Hefei! Awesome, my third brother! Awesome, an innovative capital with international influence!

Because before liberation, Hefei was also an inconspicuous small county. It can be said that it is a small county in Hefei, which looks like a fat circle at close range. The old man knocked on the board and all the doors rang. After liberation, it was changed to the capital of Anhui. The struggle of Jianghuai children changed the face of the youngest capital city in China, changed the scale of this small town that has never been valued at home and abroad, and changed people's horizons. He appeared in people's eyes, like a handsome black horse falling from the sky.

It is no exaggeration to say that Hefei is a dark horse.