Immigrant Kaifeng

Kaifeng, a city most suitable for crossing. Thousands of years ago, the city's position in the world was roughly equivalent to that of new york today. As the treasure of China Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo, Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival shows this city, and Kaifeng made life better as early as the Northern Song Dynasty. Bao Zheng, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Su Xun, Ceng Gong, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi, Li Yu, Yang Ye, Pan Renmei, Kou Zhun, Liu Zongyuan, Zhou Dunyi, Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Shen Kuo, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Song Huizong and Shi Li.

10 years ago, Kaifeng, a famous "shanty town" and "three-wheeled town" in Henan Province, had the lowest economic indicators, and the Central Plains urban agglomeration was the last. Before the reform and opening up, its advantages in light industry were almost lost. The article "From Kaifeng to new york-Brilliant as a fleeting cloud" written by a commentator in The New York Times, USA, thousands of miles away, takes Kaifeng as a decadent example to remind new york not to take the old road of Kaifeng and push Kaifeng, which is almost forgotten by the world, to the embarrassing front.

Today's Kaifeng, GDP has finally climbed to the 100 billion mark. 20 1 1 Kaifeng ranks first in Henan province in terms of urban fixed assets investment, total retail sales of social consumer goods and general budget revenue. Kaifeng has returned to the middle reaches in the ranking of prefecture-level cities in Henan, and the integration of Zhengzhou and Bian has achieved initial results. Kaifeng has become the core and pilot area of the Central Plains Economic Zone, and Juniper Culture Industrial Park has become one of the six national cultural industrial parks ... Kaifeng has found its own position and way out, and is struggling to move forward on the road of rejuvenation.

Ten years ago, the decline of Kaifeng was embarrassing.

Kaifeng is one of the oldest cities in China. In the urban history of more than 2,700 years, Wei in the Warring States Period, Jin in the Five Dynasties, Hou Jin, Hou Han, Hou Zhou, Northern Song Dynasty, Jin and others all established their capitals here. Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty was a leading international metropolis and was regarded as the beginning of the transformation from classical to modern world cities. "With a population of over one million, there is no wealth in the world", which is far better than Xi 'an in Han and Tang Dynasties.

After the Song Dynasty, with the gradual loss of political status, the flood of the Yellow River and the ravages of many wars, Kaifeng experienced several tenacious reconstructions, but its prosperity gradually disappeared. Even so, when New China was founded, it was still the capital of Henan and the center of the Central Plains, and its city size was more than twice that of Zhengzhou and Luoyang. With the relocation of the provincial capital to Zhengzhou in 1954, a large number of institutions and personnel moved away, and the city scale was reduced to a provincial-level medium-sized city. Since then, Kaifeng's light industry was once brilliant. The first TV set, the first refrigerator, the first bicycle, the first sewing machine, even the first ham sausage and the first bottle of beer were born in Kaifeng. However, under the tide of the new era, most of the golden flowers in Kaifeng's industrial history have withered, which directly affects the government's income and secondary distribution, forming a series of chain effects. There are many laid-off workers, the urban environment cannot be improved, and a large number of shanty towns left over from history cannot be transformed. Tricycles scurrying about in the street not only threaten the safety of citizens and tourists, but also greatly affect the city image of Kaifeng.

By 2002, Kaifeng's fiscal revenue had been hovering around 200 million for ten years, but this year it was 20 million less than ten years ago. Almost all indicators are at the bottom of Henan 18 city, and the development speed is even worse. Over the years, the population structure of Kaifeng has been very stable, with few people going out and few immigrants, making it difficult for college students to stay. Kaifeng people have been in a relatively closed state for many years, always contradictory and entangled, both proud and inferior, both proud and lost. Kaifeng people sometimes look down on Zhengzhou people and think they are "nouveau riche", and sometimes they are secretly sad about the situation in their city. Some people even fear the integration of Zhengzhou and Bian, thinking that Kaifeng will become the "eastern suburb" of Zhengzhou.

"In those days, the merchants who came to inspect the investment turned around the places of interest in Kaifeng, drank a good wine and turned around and went to Zhengzhou. They couldn't help it, so everyone discouraged it several times. " Some "old people" in Kaifeng city authorities said. After the reform and opening up, Kaifeng's urban development ideas have been wavering. Because it is too close to Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, driven by polarization effect, a large number of resources are concentrated in Zhengzhou, and Kaifeng is gradually evacuated. open

On the one hand, we should build industrialized cities, give consideration to agriculture and promote cities, and at the same time, we should vigorously develop tourism. On the one hand, it is arrogant, on the other hand, it is clinging to the shortcomings, which seriously affects the development of Kaifeng.

In the past ten years, "depression" has gradually recovered.

Since 2003, Kaifeng has ushered in the starting point of reincarnation and slowly explored its own way out. In recent years, Kaifeng's economy has obviously picked up, and various indicators have increased a lot, and it has begun to "revive". At present, many indicators have basically reached the level of cities in the middle reaches of the province. Although this inland "economic depression" that has been silent for many years cannot be achieved overnight, it will take time to "restore vitality", but the integration of Zhengzhou and Bian and the construction of the Central Plains Economic Zone have given it the courage to revive.

Toughness is Kaifeng's character. Historically, Kaifeng miraculously stood up again and again under the devastating disaster, never leaving, and came back. Six cities built heavy bases on the original site, resulting in the world wonder of "one city after another", which requires how strong courage and will. Nowadays, when it is faced with the temptation of capital wealth, it is the only practical choice to find the right position, open up and abandon the closure.

Qi Jinli, secretary of the Kaifeng Municipal Party Committee, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter: "There are six cities buried underground in Kaifeng. For Kaifeng, these six cities are gold burying, and gold panning in Kaifeng is gold panning culture. We should have such cultural awareness. We must always run the city around culture. If we don't do this, we will lose our direction, lose our opportunities and be ashamed of the city's heritage. "

Ryan Avenue and the intercity railway under construction have narrowed the distance between the two cities, and the integration of telecommunications, finance and other industries will definitely give Kaifeng a great boost. However, Kaifeng will not become a part of Zhengzhou. Kaifeng cannot compete with Zhengzhou for real estate, high-rise buildings, commerce and industry. We should foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, strive for culture and characteristics, and get rid of the side of a thousand cities. "Qi Jinli said.

Qi Jinli said that to build Kaifeng, which is "classical outside and fashionable inside", what is lacking is not private funds, but good projects. It is necessary to have a clear goal, strengthen confidence and create fine products one by one. In this way, the overall investment environment is good, and projects and private capital will not worry. In recent years, due to the correct thinking of Kaifeng, the growth rate of major economic indicators ranks in the forefront of the province, which is the result of the superposition of good projects.

"Our strategy of building an international cultural tourism city, which accounts for half of the province's shantytown renovation plan and Juniper Ancient City Cultural Industrial Park, is quite arduous and risks do exist, but I believe that as long as we operate intelligently, scientifically and reasonably, it is not a problem to achieve the expected goals." Qi Jinli has a clear understanding of the future.

Take off the hat of "three-wheeled city" overnight

In the past ten years, Kaifeng has done a lot of important things related to people's livelihood. The connectivity project of restoring the "water system" thousands of years ago, which began in 2002, has been "stepped down" from the planning map step by step, and "one city has exhausted its waters", which has greatly improved the living environment of residents and will become another famous tourism project in Kaifeng.

No auto parts company has introduced Chery automobile project in Kaifeng before. After the Chery automobile project came in, Kaifeng not only had an automobile factory, but also nearly 100 automobile parts enterprises settled in the local area, which solved many jobs and gradually transformed the whole industrial system.