not so Foxconn changed Zhengzhou, but rather Zhengzhou changed itself with Foxconn.
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Some time ago, the list of super-large and super-large cities in China was released.
Among the 14 megacities, Zhengzhou City surpassed Wuhan, Hangzhou and Xi'an with a total population of 12.6 million, ranking first.
Especially in the past 10 years, Zhengzhou has added nearly 4 million new urban population, and the labor force aged 16-59 accounts for 68.11%, reaching 8.5819 million, which is even higher than that of megacities such as Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin.
, which had no special presence in economic development , also took advantage of the large-scale inflow of labor force and industrial transformation and upgrading. From 10 years ago to 2011, it was almost a step in two years. It not only entered the "trillion club", but also ranked 15th in the country.
The transformation from "Dazheng County" to "International Zheng" is related to a company.
This company is Foxconn.
2011 was the turning point for Zhengzhou's economic takeoff.
This year, Zhengzhou Foxconn officially started production, which immediately drove Zhengzhou's economy to begin to soar.
Although we cannot attribute Zhengzhou's economic development to Foxconn's own efforts, it is undeniable that Foxconn has indeed changed Zhengzhou.
Foxconn Zhengzhou Airport Port Factory
The most intuitive change is that more people in Zhengzhou City have become.
5.6 million square meters, which is the area of the factory area of Foxconn Zhengzhou Airport Port Area.
This factory is not only the largest among the three factory areas of Foxconn in Zhengzhou, but also the largest factory area among all Foxconn factories and the world's largest Apple mobile phone processing factory. When the most
was found, there were more than 300,000 workers in Foxconn, Zhengzhou.
Among them, some people returned from other places, some people came from cities in Henan Province, and some people came from nearby provinces to work nearby.
As the capital of a province with large labor population outflow, the population siphon effect of Zhengzhou City began to appear due to the arrival of Foxconn.
Zhengzhou's total population changes in the past 10 years
A factory is like a small city.
not only adds Foxconn employees, but also the number of employees in the tertiary industry based on this is even larger.
"2010 Zhengzhou National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin" shows that in the first year after Foxconn landed in Zhengzhou, there were 4.693 million employees in the city, of which 2.095 million employees in the tertiary industry were.
The second year, the number of employees in the city increased to 5.144 million, and the number of employees in the tertiary industry of increased to 2.504 million, an increase of 19.5%.
10 years after Foxconn settled in Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou added 4 million new urban population, ranking among the country.
is also for this reason. Zhengzhou City ranked first in the megacities with 12.6 million permanent residents in the seventh national census of , and among the 14 megacities, the total population ranks first.
population situation of super-large and megacities
Moreover, the proportion of the labor force aged 15-59 has reached 68.11%, which is more than 8.58 million people, which is higher than that of the megacities such as Qingdao , Changsha and Dalian, and even higher than that of Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin.
The second significant change is that Foxconn has driven Zhengzhou's foreign trade growth rate.
Before Foxconn arrived, Zhengzhou, an inland city that is not along the border and not near the sea, had no foreign trade advantages and highlights.
In 2009, the total direct import and export volume of Zhengzhou City was US$3.6 billion, ranking only 36th among the top 100 foreign trade cities in the country, and fell behind Baotou , Hefei and other cities.
After Foxconn was launched, Zhengzhou's import and export volume began to soar.
In 2010, the city's total direct import and export volume was US$5.16 billion, an increase of 43.3%, and in 2011 it reached US$16 billion, an increase of 210.1% over the previous year.
Zhengzhou's comprehensive foreign trade ranking also jumped to 18th in the country, and has been in the top 20 in the country since then.
In 2019, Zhengzhou's total import and export volume was 412.99 billion yuan, and Foxconn accounted for 81%.
Top 100 export companies in China in 2020, ranking first was Zhengzhou Foxconn, with a total export volume of US$31.64 billion, which is almost double the total export volume of Huawei terminal US$15.97 billion.
2020 China's foreign trade export enterprise ranking
Statistics in the first three quarters of this year showed that Henan Province's mobile phone export value was 176.77 billion yuan, accounting for 52.2% of the province's total export volume, and the export volume accounted for 7.7% of the national mobile phone export volume, but the amount accounted for 28.3%. Among them, Foxconn accounts for the absolute majority.
Another change is that Foxconn has brought about the industrial transformation and upgrading of Zhengzhou.
Foxconn occupies most of Henan's foreign trade imports and exports, from 28.7% of the province's import and export volume in 2011 to a peak of 67.5% in 2015. But starting from 2016, this proportion began to fall slightly to 67.2%, 60.4% in 2018 and 59.5% in 2019.
continues to move downward. It is not that Foxconn's import and export amount has decreased, but under its leadership, Zhengzhou has formed a mobile phone industry cluster and is developing into the world's largest smart terminal industry base.
Speaking of Zhengzhou's previous pillar industries, textile, coal, electrolytic aluminum industries were all leading the way, and they have also shrunk with the development of the times.
It was not until 2011 that high-tech industry began to develop rapidly. The reason was that in addition to the financial and service industry enterprises absorbed by Zhengdong New District after the completion of Zhengdong New District , more importantly, Zhengzhou introduced Foxconn and gradually led to more than 300 upstream and downstream related companies in the industrial chain including ZTE , Skyworth , Tianyu, OPPO, etc., forming a world-class electronic information industry cluster represented by smart terminals, which in turn drove the industrial transformation and upgrading of the entire Zhengzhou.
In recent years, the electronic information industry has become the largest industry in Zhengzhou.
annual production of smartphones in Zhengzhou exceeds 200 million units, of which Foxconn produces 130 million units, accounting for 1/7 of the global output; sensors, especially gas sensors , have a production of 75% of the country.
With the help of the industrial transformation and upgrading driven by Foxconn, the electronic information industry has become the new pillar industry of Zhengzhou
Before Foxconn came, the output value of the electronic information industry in Zhengzhou was less than 15 billion billion, and now it has reached a scale of 530 billion.
Foxconn's changes to Zhengzhou and its contribution to import and export in Zhengzhou and even Henan Province can be clearly seen.
However, Henan values Foxconn not only GDP and employment brought by industrial transfer, but regards it as an important move in the "big chess game" of how inland cities go overseas.
On June 20, 2010, the then governor of Henan was waiting for a guest at the airport in front of the big sun. This guest was Guo Taiming .
time is pushing forward for one month, and Shenzhen Foxconn's "ten consecutive jumps" are pushing Terry Gou and Foxconn to the forefront.
In 2011, after Foxconn settled in Zhengzhou, Terry Gou visited Luoyang.Guo Gengmao, then the governor of Henan, accompanied
, Foxconn, who had not been invited for three years, finally arrived.
Henan has what Foxconn wants: land, taxation, preferential policies and various conveniences for recruitment; Foxconn also has places that Henan values. In addition to GDP and employment and driving the industrial transformation of Zhengzhou, Henan's deeper idea is to rely on Foxconn's huge shipments to open up connections with the global market.
One son lives, and the whole plate is alive. Putting Foxconn in Zhengzhou Airport Port District is the key move in this game.
Let’s first sort out a timeline:
In 2011, Zhengzhou Foxconn was put into production;
In December 2012, Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport Phase II project was approved;
l4 In 2013, the State Council approved the "Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone Development Plan";
In 2015, Xinzheng International Airport Phase II was officially put into operation, and Zhengzhou Foxconn's import and export volume also reached its peak this year;
In 2018, Xinzheng International Airport became the 12th highest-level airport in the country, and fully implemented the "7*24-hour" "full-time" customs clearance.
Zhengzhou relies on Foxconn's large-scale shipments to drive the rapid development of modern logistics industry represented by aviation logistics, attracting many top international and domestic logistics groups such as UPS, Kerry Chase, Itochu Logistics, Hong Kong Merchants Group, China Southern Airlines , HNA, Shenzhen Airlines and other top international and domestic logistics groups.
Zhengzhou Airport's freight throughput is second only to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu, ranking 6th in the country
A "Sky Silk Road" that takes Henan to the world is busy.
In 2020, Zhengzhou Airport's mail cargo throughput was 639,400 tons, ranking 6th in the country, with 31 cargo airlines, 51 cargo routes, and 63 cities that are open to navigation.
Does this operation look familiar?
is very similar to invite an internet celebrity host to bring huge traffic to the platform with his huge fans.
In fact, as early as 2008, the ruling in Henan proposed that the construction of Zhengzhou Airport should become Henan's "No. 1 Project", because "Henan is an inland province. To develop, it must first be open. To open up, it is necessary to find a breakthrough to connect the world, and aviation is a good choice."
Facts also prove that the second phase of Zhengzhou Airport project, the largest single project in Henan since the founding of the People's Republic of China, is worth spending money.
And in the process of Zhengzhou becoming an important node of the " Air Silk Road ", Foxconn undoubtedly played the role of "catalyst".
In 2020, Zhengzhou's GDP reached 1200.3 billion yuan, ranking 16th in the country; the permanent population was 12.6 million, ranking 10th in the country. Although these developments are not achieved by Foxconn alone, the role played by Foxconn in it is indeed very important.
Since 2011, Zhengzhou's GDP ranking in the country has been almost two years. It has developed upwardly in one step.
Starting from taking over the industrial transfer of coastal areas, it has moved from Foxconn's world's most important OEM center to Henan. With the huge import and export flow of Foxconn's OEM, Zhengzhou has established a close connection with the world economy, expanded the influence of shipping routes, brought upstream and downstream industrial chains, and formed new industries, from the previous low-end industries such as coal, steel, and textiles to high-end manufacturing and high-tech industries.
Just as Henan media said in a report that Zhengzhou became the 11th among the top 100 foreign trade cities in the country in 2017:
Zhengzhou and Foxconn are a story of mutual achievements and mutual benefit.
Rather than saying that Foxconn changed Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou changed itself with Foxconn.
I wish Zhengzhou, which strives to move forward, will develop better and better.
