Xiaomi makes cars and settles in a carnival party in the small town of Majuqiao

Majiaqiao is a small town outside the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing.

The nearest metro station is 10 kilometers away. After getting off the Yizhuang Line, there will be a black cab driver waiting for a long time at the entrance of the subway station. They shouted in the local dialect, "Maju Bridge can't be walked, only one is missing." In the town, there is a large area of ??farmland between the villages. Chickens and dogs croaked one after another. As the sun sets, this is a rare pastoral song in Beijing.

The news of the settlement of Xiaomi Automobile Factory broke the long-term calm. The air was filled with anticipation and a hint of anxiety. Majiaqiao has never been so lively. Overnight, all the attention of the outside world was focused on Majiaqiao, and the media came one after another.

With the official launch of a building called "Majuqiao Intelligent Manufacturing Base Retirement Headquarters", the town begins to move towards the future.

The signing of the paper agreement on November 27 indicates that the Xiaomi Automobile Factory with a total investment of 63 billion yuan will emerge in Majiaqiao Town in the next few years and bring considerable employment opportunities here.

"Industry is king", everyone knows that Majiaqiao Town is on the verge of taking off. The entire automobile industry chain is staring at this small town, trying to find clues about Xiaomi cars in the barking of street dogs and the yellow corn stalks in the wheat fields.

What the people in the small town are more concerned about is what kind of fateful turn they will encounter under the torrent of industrial development. Although Xiaomi's first car will not be mass-produced until 2024, in the small town of Majiaqiao, the waves are lapping on the shore and there is an undercurrent.

■Villers’ “Wealth Code”

Standing in Fangxindian Village, villager Ajie looked up and saw new changes at the construction site in the distance.

A project called "Hechuang Industrial Center" is about to be completed. Around the project, more and more cranes are piling buildings higher and higher. The boundaries between new towns and villages are increasingly blurred. Ajie smiled and said that the bungalow he lived in was just a relatively small "villa". Sooner or later, the village beneath his feet will become a prosperous city.

"Did you see the sign over there?" Looking in the direction of Ajie's finger, there were four words on the blue sign that stood out - "vacation area."

Sign marked "vacate area"

Ajie said that as long as the brand is inserted, the dust will eventually return to the dust and become the construction land for the factory. The demolished owners will also receive considerable demolition compensation.

Not only Fangxindian Village where Ajie is located, but also eight villages including Zhouying Village, Xiaoxing Village, Yangxiudian Village, Guzhuang Village, Zhangxiaoxingwan Village, Zhang Village, and Shichun Village , such slogans are plastered everywhere, instead of the word "demolition" written on the houses in the early years. Although the visual impact is much less, both are the same "wealth password".

Majiaqiao strives to build this land into an intelligent manufacturing industry cluster with a "network flavor".

Public information shows that in March 2021, the Majuqiao Intelligent Manufacturing Base Retreat Headquarters successively issued 15 bidding announcements, and there were 15 bidding projects. In the planning, the total demolished construction area of ??the project is 411,000 square meters, with a total budget of 2.42 billion yuan, of which the Fangxindian Village project fund is as high as 1.3 billion yuan.

According to the Regional Coordination Affairs Bureau of the Development Zone, Majuqiao Town is located in the Yizhuang New City Intelligent Manufacturing Group. According to the Yizhuang New City plan, the intelligent manufacturing industrial zone will focus on the development of high-end manufacturing.

"Majuqiao Intelligent Manufacturing Base Retreat Headquarters"

Around the headquarters, some houses have been demolished, and the broken tiles on the ground are the remains of these houses. There are "vacation area" signs around the headquarters, indicating that eventually even the headquarters on the second floor will be demolished.

"I heard that these villages will be moved before March next year, and the area west of Fangxindian may eventually become Xiaomi's factory."

Ajie was at the wine shop last night The news was heard at the table. An old man said that the Xiaomi automobile factory is in the field in front of Fang Xin's store. The land is now surrounded by fences and filled with crops.

In Fangxindian, almost every household knows that the millet factory is going to be established here. This is their biggest talking point after dinner. A few years ago, people here did not participate in the "demolition and construction" feast. Finally, there is an opportunity before us. Xiaomi is here.

Some renters have already begun negotiations with tenants, so the lease contract is only signed until March 2022. At the junction of Xindian and Zhouying, many doors were closed and the windows were covered with dust.

At least at this moment, the villagers are happy. They built the village and now they want to see it disappear. Coming and going will lead to a better life.

■After a “blind date” with Weilai, Yizhuang finally “married” Xiaomi.

The wave of travel changes is rolling in, and Yizhuang, where Fangxin Store is located, has become a blessed place for high-end manufacturing in Beijing.

After nearly 30 years of development and construction, in the first three quarters of this year, the high-end automobile and new energy smart automobile industry in Yizhuang Economic Development Zone achieved an output value of 146.6 billion yuan, accounting for 35% of the total industrial output value of the region.

In 2021, Yizhuang has missed Weilai. It is rumored that in 2021, NIO is "a matter of life and death", and Yizhuang is unwilling to invest, so that NIO, whose life hangs on a thread, chose Hefei, which makes Yizhuang people regret it to this day.

Fate came again, and this time Yizhuang caught it. After dating Wei Lai, Yizhuang finally married Xiaomi.

The Xiaomi Automobile project will build the Xiaomi Automobile headquarters base, sales headquarters and R&D headquarters in Yizhuang. In other words, Xiaomi Auto is almost a pure "Yizhuang enterprise", starting from here and taking off.

"Xiaomi automobile factory will be built on this empty land"

On an empty piece of land, Xiaomi will build an automobile factory with an annual output of 300,000 vehicles in two phases, one of which will The annual output of the first and second phases is 150,000 units respectively. It is expected that in 2024, Yizhuang will see Xiaomi's first car roll off the assembly line and achieve mass production.

After leaving the village, you can enter Majiaqiao, a newly built urban area that is two worlds away from Fangxindian Village in less than 5 minutes’ walk. There are new high-rise buildings everywhere, and many shops have no owners yet.

In the past period of time, with the tightening of regulation, housing prices here have been falling. One walker said pessimistically, "Now the price of each house has dropped by hundreds of thousands from the opening price." But with the arrival of the Xiaomi factory, real estate agents began to get excited.

Real estate agent Xu Li used a laser pointer to draw an irregular circle on the map of Majuqiao - "The Xiaomi factory is coming soon." The circle surrounded Zhou Ying and Fang Xin's store. The nearest park is Lee Andong U Valley, and the nearest community is Pearl River View.

"Majiaqiao still belongs to Tongzhou now. If there are purchase restrictions, you can only buy a house if you meet Tongzhou's five-year social security requirements. Therefore, commercial and residential buildings are about 10,000 square meters, and pure houses are more expensive."

The day Xiaomi signed a contract with Yizhuang, Xu Li was very excited. He shared the good news in his circle of friends very early and urged customers to establish their intention as soon as possible. "The current housing prices are almost the lowest in history. After Xiaomi comes, they will only rise, not fall."

Xu Li is calculating the logic of rising property prices nearby, just like reading her own family tree. "Once the Zhou Ying and Fang Xin stores are demolished, people in the village will definitely be able to find a place to live. In the short term, there will be a small rental boom here."

"New buildings are being developed continuously"

"In the long run, the Xiaomi factory will definitely not come by itself, but will also bring some supporting companies. Thousands of people work, eat, and live here. Can housing prices not rise?"

What makes him even more embarrassed is that this place may one day be administratively classified as Daxing, thereby enjoying a more relaxed purchase restriction policy. In terms of transportation, there is no subway here, but it is not ruled out that there will be one in the future. After all, a project as big as Xiaomi Auto brings unlimited possibilities here.

Xu Li stared at the land and seemed to see Silicon Valley.

■Xiaomi’s future for Yizhuang

This is not the first time that Xiaomi has chosen Yizhuang. In 2021, Xiaomi Internet Industrial Park will take root here.

When building Xiaomi Internet Industrial Park, Xiaomi felt the true feelings of Yizhuang Economic Development Zone. It is said that when Xiaomi first planned to invest in the Economic and Technological Development Zone, the Industrial Development and Operations and Scheduling Department of the Economic and Technological Development Zone would assign key personnel every week to coordinate various departments to provide services for Xiaomi through phone calls, WeChat, discussions, etc.

In addition to government services, Xiaomi can also find the entire industry chain in Yizhuang. In the words of the Yizhuang Economic Development Zone, Yizhuang's industrial chain can be such that "quartz sand goes in and TVs come out."

Although Lei Jun is the son of Wuhan, he is also the boss of Beijing. The same logic applies to Xiaomi's choice to build cars in the economic development zone instead of Wuhan.

In the future, the economic development zone will center around the Xiaomi factory and have national technology innovation centers such as the National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center and the National Intelligent Networked Vehicle Innovation Center, as well as Beijing’s high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone, which can provide Xiaomi provides intellectual support.

In addition, around Beijing Benz and BAIC New Energy, the Economic Development Zone has deployed dozens of supporting companies including ZF, Delphi, and Hainachuan. Xiaomi can easily find its own supporting supply chain.

Compared to Wei Xiaoli, Xiaomi Auto arrived a little later. At this time, only by investing strong funds, resources and confidence can we be more likely to win. For Xiaomi, "standing on the shoulders of giants" is obviously more important than "starting from scratch."

With the arrival of Xiaomi, Yizhuang’s overall support capabilities will also be improved by moving up a level. In 2021, Xiaomi will begin to invest heavily in related industries, including but not limited to autonomous driving, semiconductor industry chain, power battery and other related companies.

As of the end of September 2021, Xiaomi has invested in 62 companies in the field of smart cars. Among them, there are 17 companies with smart driving layout, 13 companies with smart electric layout, and 6 companies with smart cockpit layout.

In its third quarter financial report, Xiaomi once again mentioned its progress in car manufacturing. Currently, the smart electric vehicle business is progressing smoothly, with more than 500 team members, and the commitment to mass production of new vehicles in the first half of 2024 has been reiterated.

These companies will also beat with the pulse of Xiaomi. Many people are looking forward to whether the supporting companies invested by Xiaomi will see them in Yizhuang in the future. Yizhuang is building a whole smart car industry chain, and Xiaomi is an important part of it. After missing Wei Lai, Yizhuang will not miss this opportunity.

"Fangxindian Village under the Sunset"

As the sun set, Ajie's shadow stretched for a long time. He was indifferent to the outside attention on the turbulent Majiaqiao. He said he didn’t care whether Xiaomi could build cars or how the industrial chain would develop. Even humans are too far away.

In Fangxindian, before dinner, the fragrance of rice will float out from the village. The young people walked into the narrow alley, and the old people were still admiring the last sunset.

Majiaqiao Town is developing rapidly, and every room planned to be demolished is a feast of an era. People are enjoying the joy that is coming, and no one will have any nostalgia. @2019