Why is southeast Henan so poor? Such as Zhoukou.

Zhoukou is located in the southeast of Henan Province, in the hinterland of Huanghuai Plain, bordering Fuyang City in Anhui Province in the east, Luohe City and Xuchang City in Henan Province in the west, Zhumadian City in the south and Kaifeng City and Shangqiu City in the north. 1965 established Zhoukou area (later changed to Zhoukou area), and in 2000, Zhoukou city was revoked with the approval of the State Council. It has jurisdiction over Fugou County, Xihua County, Shangshui County, Taikang County, Luyi County (directly administered by the province), dancheng, Huaiyang County, shenqiu county City, Xiangcheng City and Chuanhui District, with a total area of 1 1959 square kilometers and a total population of 1959. Zhoukou is a big city of human resources. There are more than 6 million rural laborers in the city, including 3.55 million surplus laborers, most of whom work outside the home for many years.

Zhoukou's per capita GDP is 25655 yuan.

Zhoukou, as a provincial city with the lowest per capita GDP in Henan (only 25,655 yuan in 20 16), lacks leading enterprises except lotus gourmet powder and Golden Monkey (registered in Shanghai), and its economy is dominated by agricultural economy and migrant workers.

Golden monkey toffee

Lotus gourmet powder

The four cities of Huanghuai are typical agricultural areas, grain areas, industrial areas and poor financial areas. It can be said that the four cities of Huanghuai are synonymous with poverty and backwardness in Henan Province. What is My Brother? The collective characteristics of southeastern Henan are the lack of mineral resources and large state-owned enterprises (although there was Yongmei in Shangqiu before, Yongcheng was directly under Shangqiu). Then, why did Zhoukou become the poorest provincial city among the four cities?

How did all this happen?

One of the important reasons is that poor traffic conditions are not conducive to industrial development. Many printing houses, furniture factories, watch wholesalers and clothing wholesalers are reluctant to invest.

Among the four cities of Huanghuai, Shangqiu, Zhumadian and Xinyang are all located in the main railway lines (Longhai Line and Beijing-Guangzhou Line), so it is relatively convenient to travel. Only Zhoukou opened the railway at the beginning of 2 1 century, and there was a semi-passenger train. It was not until the last two years that several trains were added, which had a serious impact on the development of Zhoukou.

zhoukou railway station

Except the railway, expressway in Zhoukou is a little better, but the traffic conditions such as national highway are obviously different from other cities under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, and the road conditions are relatively poor. Although there is inland river transportation in Zhoukou, in fact, only small and medium-sized ships can sail, and only the fourth-class waterway 89 kilometers below Zhoukou in Sha Ying can sail all the year round.

It is difficult to see tall buildings in Zhoukou city.

Zhoukou city has a small urban area and slow development.

Almost all the cities under the jurisdiction of Henan Province 18 have been to Bian Xiao, and the smallest one is Zhoukou, whose development level is basically equivalent to an ordinary county in northern Henan. As the central city of a provincial city, Chuanhui District of Zhoukou City is only equivalent to Minggang Town, Pingqiao District, Xinyang City. Standing on the street in the city center, you can actually see the power plants in the suburbs. Due to the small urban area and relatively underdeveloped business, the radiation capacity of Zhoukou main city to counties (cities) under its jurisdiction is extremely limited, and large supermarkets and shopping malls in the urban area can be counted with one hand, so I won't go into details here.

If you want to build roads first, start construction from Zhengzhou via Zhoukou high-speed railway to Hefei; The electrification reconstruction project of Luo (He)-Fu (Yang) double-track railway will be put into operation, which will facilitate people's travel in Zhoukou. At the same time, it will attract investment, such as developing light printing plants, clothing dealers (clothing factories such as work clothes from the grassroots), jewelry industries, such as building brand watch factories, and developing home improvement industries such as furniture in combination with agriculture, which will greatly promote Zhoukou's economic development.

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