Wenzhou is half a place behind Taizhou.

A few days ago, I accidentally saw a news, and I was very depressed:

Compared with Taizhou and Wenzhou, there is no inner ring expressway until now, only an east-west Ouhai Avenue is supported there, and the north-south direction is still a damn section. Cities with a population of more than 965,438+10,000 have no inner ring road, which lags behind Taizhou.

Considering that Wenzhou was kicked out of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration last year, Taizhou is still on the list. Wenzhou, together with Lishui Quzhou, is included in the urban agglomeration on the west side of the Taiwan Strait, which is dominated by Fujian.

Awkward.

Taizhou, a former class brother, has now surpassed Wenzhou in some ways.

At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the manufacturing industry and commerce in Taizhou and Wenzhou started and developed almost at the same time, and the industrial structure was once very similar. For example, Wenzhou made fake leather shoes at that time, and Taizhou also made fake leather shoes; Wenzhou people sell fake shoes all over the country, and Taizhou people also sell fake shoes all over the country. The only difference is that because Wenzhou is famous, Taizhou people say that the shoes they sell for Luqiao are authentic Wenzhou goods, not Wenzhou people.

Therefore, Premier Zhu Rongji said that "your Wenzhou fake shoes are famous all over the country", and the military medal is half that of Taizhou.

Although selling fake shoes is a joke, Taizhou has been called the city next to Wenzhou for many years, which is justified. Wenzhou used to be a big tree in front of Taizhou, and its shadow was too big and lush, so it seemed difficult for Taizhou to get out of Wenzhou's shadow. However, in recent years, the economic development of the two places has come and gone, and in many respects Wenzhou has fallen behind Taizhou by half.

Let's say listed companies.

Number of listed companies in Zhejiang Province

So far, even with those listed in Hong Kong and overseas, there are only 23 * * * in Wenzhou, and only 4 have a market value of over 10 billion. Taizhou has the fourth largest number of listed companies in prefecture-level cities in China (after Suzhou, Wuxi and Shaoxing), with 50 listed companies.

List of listed companies in Wenzhou

Among the listed companies in Wenzhou, only Zhengtai and Mason Clothing have a market value of more than 20 billion. However, from Taizhou, Geely Automobile, Jack Holdings and Feiyue Group, the world's largest sewing machine manufacturer, Haizheng Pharmaceutical, the largest raw material drug manufacturer in China, and Qianjiang Motorcycle, the main motorcycle manufacturer in China, have come out.

Enterprises in Wenzhou are still facing huge transformation problems.

The high proportion of labor-intensive industries, coupled with rising labor costs, leads to high land costs. If you don't transform, you will die slowly, and once you transform, you may die immediately. Wenzhou's five traditional industries, shoes and clothing, pumps and valves, electric power, automobile and motorcycle fittings, are all facing such problems.

As a city dominated by private capital, if enterprises cannot develop, how can the city develop and attract talents? As the year is approaching, will young people who are still in Wenzhou this year, whether foreigners or locals, stay here next year?

It is the sorrow of a private city that you can't see outside and there is no god inside.