Introduction: In the era of maritime power, in the global division of labor, central and western provinces and northern provinces cannot compete with the southeast coast in light industry due to their high geographical location and logistics costs. The southeast coast is God’s reward for food, and he is unique in doing foreign trade and will always be rich. Many people say that the north or central and western regions are poor because people are not good and their thoughts are not good. This is purely because people’s sense of superiority is the biggest reason.
(Ningbo Port, Zhejiang)
In recent days, the governments of developed provinces in the southeastern coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other Southeast coastal areas have taken the lead in taking the lead in Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea to grab orders and attract customers to blast the Internet, occupying the headlines. Many people lament that this is the reason why the south is rich, while the north and the central and western regions are still doing nucleic acid and control. This is the reason why the north and the mainland are poor. This view is actually in line with human nature. They all admire the mentality of being strong and rich, but putting aside the essence, why is the southeast coast so rich? The mainland and northern provinces also follow the trend to learn from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Will charter flights take the lead in foreign investment promotion? I want to say that it has some effect, but it doesn't work much.
(1. Coastal logistics costs are low)
The reason why the southeast coast goes abroad to large-scale orders is closely related to the industrial structure. The southeast coast has become the best base for light industrial product production with the lowest cost of seaport logistics and transportation closest to the global market. After the opening of the 1980s, large European, American, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong-funded Chinese and overseas Chinese enterprises have been opened on the coast. Many of these bosses are overseas Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang overseas Chinese, and naturally willing to build factories in their hometowns. Because of the long geographical distance, the transportation cost is farther from the Southeast Asian, European and American markets. The transportation cost is much higher than that of the southeast coastal provinces. It is also a piece of clothing. It only costs 100 yuan for transport from Fujian and Guangdong to Europe, but where does it take to transport from Henan or Hunan to Europe? You have to ship it to the Guangdong port first and then to Europe. The cost is at least twice as high. Are you the boss, where do you choose to open a factory?
will naturally lose to coastal provinces, so look at the economic structures of the central and western regions and the north are mostly heavy industries, because heavy industries are large in the east and west, and it involves the military-industry and the heavy weapons of major military-industry countries are given priority not economic benefits or security. The fact that light industry in the central and western regions cannot develop is that logistics costs are lost to coastal areas, not because of human reasons.
(Fujian Shoe and Hat Factory)
(2. Coastal people have broad vision and broad knowledge and professional business)
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian are both major foreign trade export provinces. Almost all daily necessities light industries in the world are sold from small commodity export bases such as Yiwu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, Guangdong, are also clothing, shoes and hat bases everywhere. Guangzhou Zengcheng denim factory, Dongguan 's electronic products factory and so on are the best in the world. Look at the home appliances and textbooks you use, almost all are produced in Guangdong. Midea's air-conditioning, rice cookers, mobile phones, etc. are all produced along the coast. There are almost no products in the mainland and the north. Except for Qingdao Haier , there are almost no light industrial brands and factories in the mainland and the north to produce these things. They are all produced in the southeast coast. It is equivalent to the boss of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian. Not only sells light industrial products to the large market of 1.4 billion people in the country, but also opens up these small commodities to the global market, sells Africa, and sells Russian Middle East Europe and the United States.
(Dongguan village and town factory)
Think about it, the domestic market alone can make a lot of money for bosses in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian and Guangdong, let alone export to the whole world market. Can , the southern coastal areas be rich? Looking back at the central and western provinces of the mainland and northern provinces, what light industrial brands do you have in your own province? There is no such thing as apart from the traditional heavy industry in the provincial capitals, steel plants and automobile machinery factories, etc., other counties and cities are almost all agricultural society and wholesale real estate, and there is no factory or industrialization at all. To put it bluntly, it is a small city formed by the natural commerce of the agricultural society.
Look at the small villages and towns below the southeast coast of Dongguan, Wenzhou, Foshan, Yiwu, Suzhou, Kunshan and other cities, which are full of factories. Every day, they face business exchanges, manufacturing expertise, overseas procurement, and they are busy with these. They deal with foreigners and have a broad vision, and people become more and more confident, knowledgeable and enlightened, because only by communicating and contacting with the world abroad can they understand the nature of the world's business and learn from the advantages of others to understand what customers want.
(Dongguan Electronics Factory)
In contrast, what are the villagers in the central and western regions and northern provinces doing? Because there is no factory and no contact and communication with foreigners, I can only engage in agriculture and go out to work on the coast every day. My thoughts are either limited to the county town or work peacefully, not to mention doing foreign business. I guess I can’t even understand the minimum business contact? Over time, although it is also 2022, there is a huge gap between people's knowledge and thoughts and coastal people. This is reality. This is the fundamental difference between the ideas of the north and south and the economic development of the . The essence is insufficient industrialization, especially the light industry has no factories, no experience in doing business with the outside world, and no business contact ability at all. How can this make people progress and develop? Don’t underestimate light industry, most job opportunities and wealth are brought by light industry.
(3. The population of the central and western provinces is too large, and it is necessary to develop high-tech things and the tertiary industry in a misaligned manner. It is difficult to become rich and noble)
If the central and western provinces want to truly rise, they must go out more and see the outside world, exercise more, and see how the business atmosphere and business contact are formed. In addition, they must develop high-value-added things, and Coastal is misplaced to compete with . Light industry cannot compete with coastal areas, and transportation costs are there. It is necessary to develop high-tech or living food giants in service and tourism. Changsha is a good example. He knows that he cannot compete with foreign trade and light industry. Because there is no big seaport, he started media industry TV, etc., as well as heavy industry Sany Zhonglian and other large value-added enterprises that can offset logistics costs.
Northern provinces blindly learn what coastal areas want to play to make pots and pans. It is unrealistic to export clothes and shoes globally, because the logistics cost is higher than that in the south, so Shandong has succeeded. Qingdao Haier’s home appliance brands are still because Qingdao and other ports have reduced the logistics cost and have a chance. Other northern provinces really find it difficult to compete with the southern coastal areas to lighten the industry. There is no way. This is determined by geographical location. God is rewarding food. It is not something you said today that you should learn from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangdong, and shout slogans to achieve prosperity.
(Qingdao Haier Industrial Park)
( 4. The rise of India's manufacturing industry in Southeast Asia will be the biggest competitor, and it will be even more difficult in the future)
is not only the competitors of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Now, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, , with a better geographical location, is also rising rapidly. It is using the young huge demographic dividend to seize the business and orders of OEM factories in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Light industries, which were previously exclusive to coastal provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangdong and Fujian, face the strongest competition in Southeast Asia.
(Indian manufacturing factory, it can be seen that it is as professional and orderly as our domestic factories)
In fact, this situation just shows that we are facing a truly increasingly severe sluggish foreign trade. Just because other parts of the world are also developing, orders continue to flow out to Southeast Asia, India, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Guangdong are all aware of the light industry bosses and local officials. Because masks have had to go abroad to personally pull orders to maintain food, which is why Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Guangdong are so anxious to go overseas to grab orders.
is difficult. At this time, the industrialization of the central and western provinces has not been completed, and light industry will be transferred to Southeast Asia and India. This is terrible. I hope that the central and western provinces and northern provinces will work together! Of course, coastal provinces are the objects of learning, and they are all Chinese, so we must build the land of China together.
