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No Land that does not flow through waterNo City that does not be shaped by commerce
Hangzhou's Spring Festival travel rush comes earlier than before.
Zhan Zhengkai, an entrepreneur who has lived in Hangzhou for more than 20 years, has the most unforgettable feeling about this. In fact, throughout the second half of 2019, he was busy bidding farewell to his friends from all walks of life. Some of these friends returned to Beijing and Shanghai, while others returned to Guangzhou and Shenzhen. They were all a group of especially elites in various fields, but they abandoned their lives in those big cities and devoted themselves to the "jianghu" of Hangzhou without hesitation. At that time, most of them were full of vitality. However, the more eager you come, the more sad you will be when you go back.
, the "voting with your feet" that goes in and out is the embarrassing situation in Hangzhou this year. Although West Lake is still beautiful, the rapid advancement of the mobile Internet economy in previous years has begun to fade. Teacher Ma retired this year, and the traditional e-commerce he supported was also counterattacked by the bottom layer of Pinduoduo .
On several other tracks, Hangzhou's mobile Internet economy has also been hit by targeted attacks. Some of the people Wuqiujun and Zhan Zhengkai knew each lost their freedom because of this. Even at the end of the year, Tongdun Technology, which was previously a "unicorn", was pursued by Heilongjiang police across provinces after the reptile storm. These and the previously messy P2P have turned the water of West Lake in Hangzhou into tears.
Once upon a time, Hangzhou was full of confidence. Chengdu used to propose the concept of the fourth city, but now Hangzhou wants to attack the fifth city. But what is placed in front of it is Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Especially in 2019, its actual permanent population exceeded 10 million, making up for its "shortcomings" and added confidence in addition to its appearance.
However, for this statement, not to mention Nanjing, Wuhan, and even Zhengzhou and Xi'an do not agree. Zhengzhou and Xi'an are both national central cities, , and Hangzhou is famous but less affordable. is even among China's coastal cities. It is the only provincial capital without a free trade zone or a national new zone. Even its brother of the same province, Ningbo , is a little dissatisfied in his heart. These hidden problems of
were once covered up by the name of Hangzhou’s “e-commerce capital”. The longer people who live in Hangzhou are, the more they are brought to this kind of illusory "Hua Tou" and the pilgrimage abortions on the West Lake on May 11, they are "going to the sky". They forget that they have lived farther and farther away. Not to mention Xiaoshan Yuhang, even Haining, which crosses the city, has become a necessary option because it is separated from Xiasha Street, but the monthly salary is getting less and less than enough, and a bowl of noodles costs twenty or thirty yuan.
Look back and see, Hangzhou really wants to say that it is not easy to love you.
Awakening
Even in Marco Polo's writing, Hangzhou "the solemnity and beauty of this city is the best among other cities in the world", but just like the hazy and gentleness of the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, for more than a thousand years, Hangzhou has been carrying a small and beautiful spring dream in the praise of "there is heaven above and Suzhou below and Hangzhou below". It was not until nearly a hundred years ago that Hangzhou had the idea of changing its life.
What made Hangzhou a little "awakened" was Chiang Kai-shek's eldest brother Zhang Jingjiang . This disabled boy who came out of Huzhou later became a business tycoon and the most loyal partner of the revolution. Before Sun Yat-sen's death, he made a will, and the first signer appointed was Zhang Jingjiang. However, after the Northern Expedition, he was different from his former brothers in his country's founding strategy - the former wanted to build, while the latter wanted to suppress the Communist Party and unify the country by force. In addition, he was excluded by the "four major families", so he was sent back to his hometown to serve and served as the chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Government for the second time.
Today, on the Beishan Road by West Lake, there is the Xinxin Hotel he has stayed in and his quiet villa. This is the most embarrassing period in Zhang Jingjiang's life, but Hangzhou's delicate body is cheered up because of the arrival of this fellow villager.
[Picture: Zhang Jingjiang’s villa on Beishan Road (photo by Wang Qianma)]
is where he lives in Hangzhou. While walking, Zhang Jingjiang explained his ideas for the city to his friends: "I do have some ambitions to concentrate a group of talents to make Hangzhou rise rapidly and become New York in the East." This big man who cannot realize his ideal of building his own country will be second to the next, and regards Hangzhou as a blueprint for realizing his own ideas.
Today, Beishan Road in Hangzhou, there are also traces of Zhang Jingjiang's efforts for it that year - the former site of the West Lake Expo Museum. This very few large-span public buildings preserved in modern Zhejiang Province are not only one of the few memories of the Republic of China that have been preserved in Hangzhou, but also the best physical case for studying the development of Hangzhou's economy, exhibition industry, and public building changes in modern times.
It was also at the first West Lake Expo held here that tens of thousands of items were exhibited, including heavy industry, light industry, cotton spinning, machinery, handicrafts, chemistry, electronics, instruments, mining and smelting, building materials, food, aquatic products, tobacco and alcohol, grain and oil, hardware, electronics, postal services, daily industrial products, etc. It not only stimulated the development of the national industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but also played a huge role in promoting the city of Hangzhou. It’s a pity that the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War interrupted the modernization process of Hangzhou. At the same time, Zhang Jingjiang first lived in Hankou, then went to Switzerland and the United States through Hong Kong, lived in New York, and died of illness here.
Fortunately, the founding of New China has given Hangzhou a new fighting spirit. From 1958 to 1960, in the second round of urban master plan, Hangzhou proposed the call to "struggle for three years and five years" and build Hangzhou into a "comprehensive industrial city based on heavy industry." Today, when you walk around West Lake, it is hard to imagine that Hangzhou has laid out many industrial sectors, such as Wulinmen Electronics Industrial Zone, Beidaqiao Chemical Industrial Zone, Banshan Heavy Industry Zone, and of course, Jinhua Road, which gathers more than a dozen large state-owned factories such as Hangzhou Yimeng, Hangzhou No. wool mill, and Hangzhou Silk Printing and Dyeing Joint Factory. It was transformed into a Beijing-style cultural and creative zone today. The emergence of sectors such as
has made Hangzhou "heavy" and moved from a scenic city to an industrial city. However, the industry is in good shape, but West Lake is "diseased". With the "invasion" of wastewater, waste gas and noise, the original garden scenery and natural scenery of West Lake were severely damaged. Speaking of which, due to the limitations of the terrain, the existence of the West Lake Mountains, the Xixi Wetlands, the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, and the Qiantang River, which passes from southwest to northeast, has caused the old city of Hangzhou to fall into the pattern of "three-sided clouds and one-sided city". The urban area is only more than 400 square kilometers, especially the area of the city is narrower and narrower as it goes south, and it looks like a waist drum, also known as "Wait Gu City". Although these industrial sectors are as far away from West Lake as possible, today they seem to be at the entrance of West Lake.
In the painful choice, Hangzhou has been correcting its mistakes since 1983, and has returned from an industrial city to the positioning of "a historical and cultural city and a national key scenic tourist city", but its ambition has not retreated. Because another great man had already made an expiration to it, that is, to become "Geneva of the East". The ancestral home of this great man was also in Zhejiang. He went to Zhejiang at least 34 times in his life, living and working in Zhejiang for at least 145 days (according to information from the Party History Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee). He is Premier Zhou. In 1954, he showed his diplomatic style in Geneva. His argument against the Sixteen countries represented by the United States not only hit the arrogance of American hegemony, but also greatly enhanced China's international prestige.
has built Hangzhou into "Eastern Geneva". It not only attracted the view that there is a green bay of lakes in both places, but also embodies the great man's expectations for Hangzhou. , that is, Hangzhou can also become a exhibition and tourism city with world-class quality of life, with world-class influence, just like Geneva.
[Picture: In August 1979, Zhejiang Light Textile Industry New Products Exhibition (Remake of Wang Qianma)]
[Picture: On February 25, 1988, the Second Zhejiang Export Commodity Fair (Remake of Wang Qianma)]
From February 26 to 27, 1972, Zhou Enlai accompanied Nixon to visit Hangzhou. This was his 33rd trip to Zhejiang.It was this time that the Sino-US Joint Communiqué, which shocked the world, was drafted in Hangzhou. It also made the old Hangzhou people remember Premier Zhou’s trip to Hangzhou the most deeply. In fact, he first came to Zhejiang in 1937, which was also a major matter with Chiang Kai-shek to secretly negotiate the cessation of civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and jointly fight against Japan. The 3-story milky Western-style villa named Chenglu, which stands on Nanshan Road, stands by the lake and is a 3-story milky yellow villa named Chenglu, witnesses this history.
After that, Hangzhou focused on West Lake. In 2002, while migrating hundreds of industrial enterprises in the old city, it boldly demolished the walls of West Lake and canceled the tickets, making it the first 5A-level scenic spot in the country to be free of tickets.
In a sense, despite the repetition, for a considerable period of time, one West Lake can define the whole of Hangzhou.
Fighting
Wuqiujun first arrived in Hangzhou in March 2002, Hangzhou was also called "Shanghai's back garden". In the following years, Wuqiujun's salary was almost five or six thousand yuan a month, and the internal price given by Tiandu City in the north of the city was only more than 2,000 yuan per square meter, but because of the distance, it would be sneered.
At that time, it was quite comfortable and leisurely to be a cultural person in Hangzhou. As long as you have the ability and ideal news, there were many newspapers here for you to take in. At that time, the newspaper industry, in addition to Qianjiang Evening News, Urban Express, and Today's Morning News , was invested by Guangsha and revised from Zhejiang Youth Daily, and was also in its prime as a group of young people joined.
These metropolitan newspapers enrich the city's breakfast and dinner. But in the cracks of competition among these newspapers, the birth of the e-Times Weekly is more interesting to the future, but no one noticed it at that time.
It was also from that time that Wu Qiujun noticed that Wu Xiaobo often appeared in major newspapers in Hangzhou, and negotiated for the promotional cooperation of book publishing for himself. Although he has just released "The Great Defeat", which made him recognized by the world, no one would have thought that this modest and elegant young man would become a great god in the self-media world in the future. Behind the success of
is Hangzhou's gradual strengthening. When financial writers like him wanted to achieve success, they would go to Beijing or Shanghai, even in the vigorous Shenzhen, which was the right way. This is like the fact that you often seize the high ground in war, and through condescending strikes, the effect will be twice the result with half the effort. But at this time, Hangzhou refreshed the outsiders' perception of it again and again, and finally formed the following sentence: Staying in Hangzhou can achieve great achievements.
Talk about Hangzhou's change again, and a strong ruling leader, Wang Guoping, will definitely not be ignored. Wu Xiaobo's early evolution and his administration career in Hangzhou have a close "intersection" in public.
Interestingly, in 1950, Zhang Jingjiang died, he was just born in Hangzhou. He might not have known Zhang Jingjiang's hopes for Hangzhou at that time, but he would definitely know Premier Zhou's expectations for Hangzhou. His father Wang Pingyi was once the most popular secretary of the municipal party committee in Hangzhou. After taking office in 1962, he protected Lingyin Temple from impact and damage, and accepted the instructions of Premier Zhou to build Hangzhou into Geneva in the East.
In a sense, after Wang Guoping became the Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee in 2000, he spent ten years rebuilding the Ten Scenery of West Lake and managing Xixi , which is an inheritance of the will of his father.
It was under his promotion that West Lake achieved "free opening". At that time, many people disagreed with this proposal, saying that the ticket revenue was reduced by more than 20 million yuan a year, and it would be better to change it to a water park and collect more expensive tickets. He blurted out a national scolding on the spot.
This municipal party secretary who graduated from Hefei University of Technology’s rare smelting majors habitually uses national scolding to beat his subordinates. But this scolding is very effective. Hangzhou, which does not have West Lake ticket revenue, has driven the rapid development of the surrounding economy. In 2010, Hangzhou's tourism revenue exceeded 100 billion yuan, and by 2019, it was nearly 423.6 billion yuan.
[Picture says: Even in the general season, there is no shortage of people by the West Lake (photo taken by Wang Qianma)]
does not have this open and shared mentality, and Hangzhou will definitely not think of keeping Alibaba, which was not yet in a state of beauty back then. At the same time, influenced by this mentality, Alibaba has fully demonstrated its free strategy after settling in Hangzhou.
Taobao , founded in 2003, is a free C2C shopping website. An article wrote, "In 2005, West Lake was fully free, and Hangzhou reduced its ticket revenue by 30 million yuan, but its tourism revenue doubled immediately. This year, the general manager of Taobao , Sun Tongyu , announced that it would continue to be free, leaving its rival eBay far behind." This made the connection between Hangzhou and Alibaba closer.
On January 13, 2004, Alibaba announced in Hong Kong and Hangzhou that Alibaba and Hangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone Management Committee signed an agreement to purchase 100 acres of land in Hangzhou High-tech Zone to set up the Alibaba (China) Software R&D Center. What surprised the media was that Wang Guoping, Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, who usually rarely attends corporate press conferences, made a debut at the press conference.
At the meeting, Wang Guoping revealed that the relevant parties in Hangzhou will fully support companies like Alibaba and work hard to build Hangzhou into an e-commerce capital in China and even the world. According to a reporter from Hangzhou media, this should be the first time Hangzhou has proposed the idea of building an e-commerce capital. The consensus from top to bottom of has made Hangzhou start the road of "overtaking on a curve".
In Wuqiujun's view, this press conference actually revealed another of Wang Guoping's governance concepts for Hangzhou - expanding west and advancing east, and developing across the river. Alibaba responded to the call and moved Taobao from Huaxing Plaza in , Xihu District, to today's Xixi Taobao City. In addition, B2B was moved to Binjiang on the other side of Qiantang River. This Binjiang District , which was newly built in December 1996, was established in three townships designated by Xiaoshan. After 2002, it was "two brands and one team" with the Hi-tech Zone.
It was also in 2003 that Li Shufu, who started to build cars in Taizhou and was well-known, moved the management headquarters, marketing headquarters and R&D headquarters of Geely to Binjiang. Since then, Geely has not only been a good fortune for the people of Taizhou, but also for all Zhejiang people. As the Hangzhou train that is developing rapidly, Geely has also begun to become Geely in China and Geely in the world.
When Hangzhou passed by, it was like "out of the province" to the other side of Qiantang River. This is similar to the situation before the development of Shanghai Pudong . "I would rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong." Now, through the prefecture-level and development of Binjiang, Hangzhou has quietly opened an opening to the east.
However, there is another thing worthy of the story of this period, that is, as soon as Wang Guoping took office, he decided to resume holding the West Expo after 71 years, and since then, it will be held every year and new every year. In ten years, the West Expo has grown from only 39 projects to 122 projects, and its scale, quality and influence have continued to improve. A large number of national and international exhibition projects such as the Global Online Business Conference, the International Forum for Leisure Development, and the China International Silk Expo have emerged.
Although the differences in camp and ideological situations made Zhang Jingjiang return to his roots, his unfinished career was still echoed in the hands of future generations.
's harvest of various honors and the skyrocketing reputation have made the capital of e-commerce unable to accommodate Hangzhou's ambitions. If Zhang Jingjiang's expectation for Hangzhou is "New York in the East", Wang Guoping's father wanted to work hard to realize the hope that Hangzhou would become "Geneva in the East". After Wang Guoping's hand, he was targeted at Dubai, which was flat on the desert.
In 2008, he personally brought the vast party and government cadres and private enterprise bosses to Dubai for inspection, and opened a study class in Dubai to prepare them for the next round of ideological liberation - derived from the interpretation of the same article, "It may mean that people can be replaced without changing their thoughts." However, building Dubai requires a lot of money. "In order to solve this problem, Wang Guoping drew a circle on the map, incorporated Yuhang Xiaoshan into Hangzhou, and sold land for money.”
[Picture: Merging Yuhang Xiaoshan gave Hangzhou a big meal]
This makes Hangzhou, the third-last and last-last among the 15 sub-provincial cities in the country. It changed its bird guns and cannons at once, and the area has expanded by nearly 3.5 times compared to the original, becoming the second largest regional metropolis in the Yangtze River Delta region after Shanghai. The money from selling land is in turn used for the construction of Hangzhou. The beautiful West Lake and the dilapidated Hangzhou have gone forever.
is on the verge of Qiantang River, across the river from the Binjiang River, and has citizens The Qianjiang New City of the center and the Grand Theater rewritten the skyline of Hangzhou city, and the Hangzhou East Station , which was renovated and expanded on December 27, 2008, will also become one of the large railway hubs in China.
At the same time, the rail transit network plan of the subway logo color according to the order of "red orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple" was also released soon. Metro Line 1, with the logo color "red", will also open the first phase of the operation project in November 2012. These earth-shaking changes have made many people admit that " the lost decade of Guangzhou was the decade of the rise of Hangzhou. ”
It’s a pity that Wang Guoping, who stepped down as Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee in early 2010, did not wait for the scenes he wanted to see in this term.
But it has to be admitted that he has been the longest-time leader in charge of Hangzhou in recent years.
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— tml0 editor | Wang Qianma (Chinese enterprise researcher, the first person to write commercial geography in China. The novels "The Media Circle" and "The Hormones at a loss", and the editors include "Can't Live Alone: To the Young People Who Feed" and "The Unanxiety Youth". In recent years, they have successively launched "Rediscovering Shanghai 1843-1949", "The Resurrection of the Shanghai School", "Ningbo Gang: How the No. 1 Business Gang in the World stirs up modern China", "Revitalizing: Chinese Private Finance Hundreds" in recent years, "Ningbo Gang: How the No. 1 Business Gang in the World in the World" and "Revitalizing: Chinese Private Finance Hundreds Years of the Year", "Fun Beauty: Red Star Macalline's 30 Years of Exclusive Business Wisdom", "Seaweed Dad", "New Manufacturing Era: Li Shufu and Geely, Volvo's Super Manufacturing", "Great Power Travel: Urban War in the Cars" and other works.)
Historical Material Source: Zhejiang Provincial Party History Research Office
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