Chaoshan has many rich people. Why can't they develop and fall behind?

Chaoshan is the region with the most development conditions in Guangdong Province except the Pearl River Delta. There are fundamental factors why it is underdeveloped and seriously lagging behind. Chaoshan is far away from Guangzhou, the central city of the provincial capital, and it is difficult to develop and grow on its own. If we enlarge Chaoshan to Guangdong province, we can see that Guangdong's resource allocation is completely around the economic development circle centered on Guangzhou. Chaoshan is located in a completely marginalized area 300 kilometers away from Guangzhou, and the development resources allocated to Chaoshan are limited, which is not enough to meet the most basic development conditions. Chaoshan is adjacent to the Pearl River Delta. Let me sort out the following points.

First, make good use of the independent policy advantages of its own special economic zones to apply to the provincial central government, and position Chaoshan as a regional economic center in eastern Guangdong and a strategic highland connecting Guangdong, Taiwan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. 2. Realize the big traffic strategy, declare the construction of Ganzhou-Shantou Expressway in Jiangxi via Meizhou, declare the construction of Jiangxi-Shantou high-speed railway to turn Chaoshan into a high-speed rail hub, declare the construction of Shantou Port international deep-water wharf, declare the opening of direct flights from Shantou to Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province, declare the high-standard construction of key roads connecting Fujian, and enhance the road capacity of Chaoshan and Jieyang. Third, make initial use of the existing economic development conditions, support a number of export-oriented enterprises, give play to traditional manufacturing industries such as ceramic toys and clothing, build large industrial parks, expand investment attraction, and encourage local people abroad to return to their hometowns to start businesses.

4. Build Shantou Port into an important seaport in eastern Guangdong, and become the first choice of export products in southern Jiangxi together with Jiangxi, attract some foreign trade exports near Fujian to Shantou Port, support the integrated development of Meizhou and Chaoshan areas, and establish cooperative relations with Kaohsiung Port in Taiwan Province Province to facilitate the layout and development of Taiwanese businessmen in eastern Guangdong. Five: Plan and build Chaoshan New City with a high starting point and high standards, encourage Chaoshan people scattered around the world to return to their hometowns to start businesses, promote higher education, train high-quality talents, encourage outstanding foreigners to develop in Chaoshan, lower the threshold to absorb immigrants, and turn Chaoshan into a super-large city! Six: change ideas for development, cross the river by feeling the stones and explore new opportunities. As long as this huge ship in Chaoshan area sets sail slowly, I believe that with the wisdom of Chaoshan people, we can definitely find the direction. If history gives Chaoshan a chance, successful development is inevitable. Good luck to Chaoshan brothers!

Chaoshan can not develop because Chaoshan people like "congou"; It is also said that Chaoshan people are safe when they are small and rich; Even superstition and xenophobia in Chaoshan area. But this may be a few words you heard through hearsay or a personal opinion you don't understand. Behind these external manifestations, there must be reasons why it cannot develop. Obviously, the economic development of a region is related to policies, talents and foreign capital, and Chaoshan does not seem to lack these conditions. Shantou, as a special economic zone after the reform and opening up, has policy support; There are a large number of outstanding Chaoshan overseas Chinese and chapman, as well as a large number of Chaoshan international students, and there are many self-sufficient talents. At the beginning of the establishment of the special zone, there were indeed foreign businessmen such as Taiwanese businessmen and overseas Chinese to invest. But why was Chaoshan finally left behind by Shenzhen, which is also a special zone? Some netizens said that the development of Chaoshan lacks the linkage of the surrounding economy, is far from the provincial capital, and is weak in development. There are many reasons for this. But the more fundamental reason should be the strong human social consciousness and business consciousness in Chaoshan area.

Human society and business consciousness can be said to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, paying attention to human feelings (as the saying goes, human feelings are debts) makes Chaoshan people unite, and business traditions make Chaoshan people especially good at doing business; On the other hand, attaching importance to human feelings hinders the government's ruling ability, and a strong sense of business makes people like to use money to solve problems. As for how the human society and strong business consciousness are formed, I think it has a lot to do with the geographical environment in Chaoshan area. In the era when the ancient traffic was still far behind, the Chaoshan area was surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side, and thieves and pirates often appeared. In addition, it is far from the political center and the government cannot manage it in time. This has caused Chaoshan people to rely on clan ties to form a strong self-protection network, which is the basis for the formation of human society; In addition, Chaoshan area is vast and sparsely populated. In order to make a living, many Chaoshan people were forced to go to sea to do business in Southeast Asia at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. When a person comes to a foreign country, he has to rely on contact and unity to have a good development, which strengthens human society to some extent and forms a strong business culture in Chaoshan.

Shantou, as the first batch of special economic zones in China, is a national policy, a land and water transportation hub and a well-known hometown of overseas Chinese. However, the city's economy is at the bottom of the first four special economic zones, and it has never been able to produce a report card that matches its identity. The data shows that in 20 15 years, the total GDP of Shantou was185 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP was 33,400 yuan, while the GDP of Shenzhen, Xiamen and Zhuhai, both special economic zones, was 9 times, 1.8 times and1.

In April 2004, Li Tongshu, then secretary of Shantou Municipal Party Committee, was invited to CCTV to talk about credit construction. Cui Yongyuan, the host, said at the beginning: "I'm learning to praise people recently. I boast that girls are beautiful, that young men are energetic, that children are smart, and that Shantou people say that you really don't look like Shantou people. " Cui Yongyuan's half-joking opening remarks may have revealed many people's general impression of Chaoshan people at that time. Behind the brilliant commercial achievements of Chaoshan people, the shadow of "lack of integrity" has been lingering. 200 1 An official in State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China, People's Republic of China (PRC) once said: Like Xiashan Market in Chaoyang, Shantou, I have been there, where the fakes are really made and the prices are incredibly cheap. If this kind of intelligence is used on the right path, it should be promising. Smart Chaoshan people keep sowing the seeds of "gray economy" in their own homes, but what really pushed it to the extreme was * * * and the most serious series of tax fraud cases in China history.

Since August 2000, the the State Council Working Group on Combating Cheating Export Tax Refund (referred to as "Working Group 807") has been stationed in Chaoyang and Puning. A huge black hole appeared in front of the public: in the past few years, more than 0/000 export enterprises in Chaoyang and Puning violated the law, of which more than 98% violated the law. According to incomplete statistics, the two places falsely issued 88,000 VAT invoices, falsely issued 22.3 billion yuan of tax, and were suspected of tax fraud of 4.2 billion yuan. What is even more shocking is that in a hotel in Tongyu Town, Chaoyang City, Shantou, a bronze medal engraved with the name of the enterprise is hung in front of each house. 37 companies in 37 rooms are all engaged in falsely issuing VAT invoices and defrauding export tax rebates. There is a cadre in charge of 16 enterprise, of which 15 is a fake enterprise. Some criminals even rented the identity cards of 88-year-old women and 16-year-old girls to set up fake companies to defraud taxes. As a frontier city of reform and opening up, Shantou's import and export business should have been its dominant industry, but in 20 15, Shantou's import and export business declined seriously. According to official data, the total import and export volume of Shantou in 20 15 was 9.285 billion US dollars, which was 2.9% lower than that in 20 14. From each set of data, it can be concluded that Shantou's economy is almost at the bottom of these special zones. Nowadays, when people talk about special economic zones, they think more about Shenzhen and Xiamen. Some people don't even know that Shantou is actually a special economic zone.

Therefore, based on the above reasons, Chaoshan culture has long influenced the political economy, and has no open and free sense of competition and no mind to accommodate foreign cultures, which makes Chaoshan region lack of new foreign investment after experiencing early rapid development (once the second largest economy in Guangdong), resulting in weak follow-up development. In addition, the traffic of Chaoshan three cities has not been well opened, and there is no good traffic connection with the Pearl River Delta, which makes the development of Chaoshan area stagnate.

Ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, the backwardness of Chaoshan area is only temporary, and the development of Shantou in the past two years is expected to break this deadlock. Humanities, society and business culture are not bad things. Everything should be viewed from both sides. Since Chapman has been rich in unity and commerce for a long time, he can also prosper, but he needs top-down reform. In a sense, the society, government and market in Chaoshan area are full of family ties and blood ties. Because of this, local protectionism prevails in Shantou, and human feelings and nepotism are rampant. When Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other special economic zones achieved economic take-off, Shantou missed a great opportunity as one of the four special economic zones.

In three months, Shantou will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Special Economic Zone, and its former glory is declining. Now it seems that Shantou is not much different from any ordinary city. When Chapman was fighting in the capital market, many old Shantou people were lamenting Shantou, a pearl that was falling day by day.