In the eyes of the older generation, Northeast is definitely the region with the strongest industrial strength in China. After the founding of New China, many industrial bases were gathered. Now, only the only ones that can make people call it the name are Changchun FAW and the S

China Revitalization of Northeast has been proposed for decades, but why has it been unsuccessful? Can Northeast return to its former glory?

In the eyes of the older generation, Northeast is definitely the region with the strongest industrial strength in China. After the founding of New China, many industrial bases were gathered together. Now, only the only ones that can make people call the name are Changchun FAW and Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory under the Aviation Industry Group. In the eyes of the new generation of young Chinese people, the Northeast is just a comedy with a sip of big slag flavor. Of course, this is true. It is undeniable that the economy of Northeast China has declined, and the most impressive one is the most regional accent.

Where exactly did the lost Northeast go? In fact, the northeast has always been there. Looking at the territory of China, the northeast is located at the location of the chicken head, including the three eastern provinces of , and the eastern region of Inner Mongolia. However, in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, the rooster is the deep mountains and dense forests of the Daxinganling at the back of the neck, and further north is the prairie of Hulunbuir . Therefore, the main industrial development is also concentrated in the Northeast Plain in the southeast direction of the Greater Xing'anling.

As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. When the land of China is still in a chaotic situation of warlord disputes, the Northeast developed industrial construction with peace of mind because it was in a safe and secure place. By the 1930s, it had initially had a relatively complete industrial system. However, as the Northeast was occupied by Japan, a large number of resources occupied by Japan were plundered, the people of the Northeast still insisted on fighting and developing in a difficult environment.

However, this unyielding tenacity accumulated since broke into Guandong did not restore the decline of Northeast China in the new era. After the Soviets sent troops to drive away the Japanese invaders, the Northeast experienced the Liberation War and ushered in the construction of New China, and the location advantage of Northeast China once again played a role.

Because it is closer to the Soviet Union, the first generation of leaders of the New China decided to place China's heavy industrial base in the Northeast, so that it is easier to accept construction assistance from the Soviet Union. In addition, the original industrial foundation in the Northeast can give priority to establishing a heavy industrial area with a complete industrial system in the land of China where everything is in ruins.

This decision made the Northeast very accurately at that time, and still allowed Northeast region to occupy 98% of China's heavy industry, but this is the time to create heroes when policies and situations change. The horn of reform and opening up means the destined decline of the Northeast, and the strategy of revitalizing the Northeast has been established, but there has been no major breakthrough for decades.

The strategy of revitalizing the Northeast has been mentioned for decades, but it is difficult to achieve success. So what is wrong with the Northeast's revitalization?

In fact, this area of ​​the Northeast has always been a rich place. Since the rise of Qing Dynasty , it has regarded the Northeast as a place of dragon development, but it is strictly forbidden for Han people outside the pass to move into the Northeast. This pass is just Wu Sangui , which is angry as a beauty, Shanhaiguan, which is located in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province today. As the starting point of Ming Great Wall , after passing Shanhaiguan, it is the northeast, so there is another saying about the northeast.

Shandong and other places encountered famine in the late Qing Dynasty. Countless Han people in the Central Plains started a large population migration called "Breakthrough to Guandong until the Republic of China". The population of the Northeast, a sparsely populated area, began to grow continuously. By 1910, the population of the entire Northeast reached 18 million, and by the eve of the founding of New China, the population of the Northeast reached 40 million.

The growth of population has brought rich labor. Only the fertile black soil between the white mountains and black waters can continue to exert vitality. After the founding of New China, the strategy of Northeast as a heavy industrial base will allow Northeast talents to gather. However, after the reform and opening up, institutional reform and private enterprises emerged, and the southeast coast became a new development opportunity. Talents from all over the country gathered towards the southeast coast, which naturally also included the northeast region.

Northeast has changed from a heavy industrial base to an old industrial base. Although the Northeast has not changed, the situation has changed. The center of gravity of economic development has shifted. When the coastal areas gradually develop, the revitalization and decline of Northeast is naturally put on the agenda.However, a major congenital defect in the Northeast is facing, and the lack of an eastward estuary seriously hinders the development of Northeast marine trade.

At that time, Japan and South Korea were the most rapidly developing in East Asia. In fact, the northeast is very close to Japan and South Korea in a straight line. If there is an outlet from Jilin in the east, then the northeast may be the forefront of reform and opening up. Although Liaoning can go to sea from Dalian Port on the Liaodong Peninsula, it is farther away from South Korea to Japan through the Bohai Sea through the Bohai , which is obviously inadequate in the Yangtze River Delta region where Shanghai is located.

So after the Northeast's location advantage changed into a disadvantage, under the influence of the major economic situation, the Northeast's talent loss is becoming more and more serious, and economic development is becoming less and less motivated. The country's support cannot blindly turn to the Northeast in the new historical period.

Under a number of measures to revitalize the Northeast, the Northeast still has not achieved its former spirit. So where is the road to revitalizing the Northeast today?

Since the strategy of revitalizing the Northeast was officially proposed in the 1990s, the country has actually given many support policies to the Northeast, and the main direction is to boost the development vitality of heavy industry. However, with the rapid development of China's economy, pure heavy industry alone cannot become the whole of China's national economy, and innovative technology and high-tech industries are the undeveloped directions.

So rather than saying that the Northeast has declined, the Northeast is going against the current and will retreat. The decline of the Northeast is compared with the rapid development of the southeast coastal areas. Therefore, the country proposed a strategy of comprehensively revitalizing the old industrial base in Northeast China in 2015, but no matter what, it is impossible to make the Northeast a region that accounts for the vast majority of China's economy again. This is inevitable for the current economic situation.

Revitalizing the Northeast and developing the Great Northwest and the Southwest are the strategy of achieving balanced national development after the development of the southeast coastal areas. But I have always felt that revitalizing the Northeast was unsuccessful, but I never said that the development of the Southwest and Northwest was unsuccessful. This is because the Northeast used to start too high, and today the Northeast is just becoming ordinary.

Some people may say that the economy of Northeast China has fallen to the end of the country. In fact, if the Northeast is regarded as a whole block, it is difficult to compare with the provinces. If you look at the provinces in 2021, the GDP rankings in Jilin and Heilongjiang ranked 25th and 26th respectively, which is really a pair of brothers and brothers are only a little better than Gansu and Ningxia. However, although Liaoning, another Northeast province, is not very good, it has reached the medium level of 17th. In fact, it is very obvious that Liaoning has better location advantages and can develop marine trade.

and the national revitalizes the old industrial base in Northeast China , which is not blindly pursuing GDP growth, but the important role of the Northeast in facing East Asia and as an industrial base in preparation for emergencies. As for economic development, as long as the people live a happy and well-off life, whether they must occupy a dominant position in China's economic structure is not that important. Moreover, the Northeast must find its right position for the development direction. For example, since 2018, the country defines the Northeast as a national granary, which is a reshaping of the Northeast and another direction of the Northeast's development.