What significance does Taizhou’s humanistic spirit have to Taizhou’s economic and social development?

Promote the humanistic spirit and highlight the soul of soft power

"Soft power" is relative to "hard power" such as economy, technology, and military strength, and refers to the culture and values ??of a place , the influence and appeal of social systems and development models. Among them, the humanistic spirit is the most original factor, embodying the intangible and the tangible, affecting the way of thinking and behavior. In the process of regional development, the humanistic spirit profoundly affects people's mental outlook, cultural form and development model. To enhance and enhance soft power, the most fundamental thing is to commit to the inheritance, transformation and innovation of the humanistic spirit. "Dare to take risks, be tough, good at creation, and not ostentatious" is a vivid summary of the characteristics of Taizhou's humanistic spirit, and it is constantly given new connotations of the times. Carrying forward Taizhou’s humanistic spirit will help enhance Taizhou’s soft power construction and promote faster and better economic and social development.

1. Follow the trend and create the "Soul of Taizhou"

The formation of the humanistic spirit is in a specific resource endowment environment and social and historical conditions. , accumulated, integrated and refined in the long-term cultural creation process in order to seek sustainable development. Which development model to choose and what development path to take are inseparable from the specific local resources, environment, lifestyle and humanistic foundation. In his famous book "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism", Max Weber believed that Protestant ethics, such as honesty, trustworthiness, diligence, and the courage to take risks, are prerequisites for the emergence and development of Western capitalism. North (1994) pointed out that the gradual characteristics of institutional changes are mainly determined by the gradual evolution of informal institutions, that is, the habits, ethics, cultural traditions, and values ??gradually formed by people in their long-term social life. Concepts and ideologies, etc. Since the reform and opening up, the people of Taizhou have bravely stood up to the trend, dared to innovate, persisted in taking institutional innovation and technological innovation as the guide, and blazed a regional development path with local characteristics, creating today's advantageous industries with strong tension, a development mechanism full of competitive vitality, and Taizhou's unique and charming spirit has become one of the most dynamic areas for economic and social development in China. Studying along the original path and established direction of institutional change, it is not difficult to find that "being good at creation, focusing on hard work, and courageous pioneering" has played an important role in Taizhou's early establishment of an economic development path with the private economy as the main body and market-oriented reform as the orientation. to a key role.

(1) "Good Creation" has made Taizhou take off

Taizhou is located between mountains and the sea, with scarce land resources, inconvenient transportation, and coastal defense On the front line, there is little state investment and the foundation of the state-owned collective economy is weak. The tense relationship between people and land forces Taizhou people to dare to venture and take risks, forming a pragmatic, flexible and innovative humanistic spirit. It is this kind of creative humanistic spirit that prompted Taizhou people to break through the shackles of various systems and concepts at the beginning of reform and opening up, overcome obstacles such as shortages of resources, talents, and funds, and create a first-mover advantage for Taizhou's economic take-off.

As early as the early 1980s, Taizhou creatively proposed the implementation of "three major developments" (developing barren mountains, barren beaches, and barren water) and developing "two waters and one plus" (developing barren mountains, barren beaches, and barren water). Taizhou's natural resource advantages of "aquatic products and fruits", vigorously establishing agricultural product processing industries), carrying out "two construction and one export" (construction industry, building materials industry and labor export), collecting old and recycling waste, etc., effectively breaking through the limitations of resources and systems . Utilizing the developed processing industry, we vigorously set up various markets and embarked on an innovative path of primitive accumulation of capital. Taking advantage of the folk tradition of "making meetings" and through the forms of "partnership management" and "hard shares", we finally formed the first joint-stock cooperative business model in the country, effectively solving the problem of insufficient funds for industrial development. The lack of professional talents forced Taizhou people to start "bringing in intelligence" early, breaking the institutional constraints on talent flow, and hiring engineering and technical personnel from Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places as "Sunday engineers".

Taizhou’s innovative spirit is also reflected in the construction of democratic politics. The emergence of grassroots democratic political forms such as Wenling’s “Democracy Day”, Yuhuan’s “Democracy Hearings”, Luqiao’s “People’s Situation Night Talk”, etc. By encouraging the masses to express their own interests and aspirations, communication channels between cadres and the masses are smoothed. After long-term practice and deepening, the form has been continuously improved and a "democratic talk" system has been formed. "Democracy Talk" has brought Taizhou's grassroots democratic management, democratic decision-making, and democratic supervision to a new stage. At the same time, innovative measures such as the permanent system for party congresses and the "full service agency system" have had a profound impact on the province and even the country.

It has realized a regional economic and social development model that takes the interaction and linkage between the private sector and the government as the approach, takes the coordinated development of "private economy, private culture, and grassroots democratic politics" as the important feature, and aims to enrich the people and strengthen the city.

(2) "Practice-oriented" made Taizhou successful

The southeastern part of Zhejiang, where Taizhou is located, has historically been an important birthplace of schools such as the Eastern Zhejiang School and the Yongjia School that focused on performance. . Whether it is the "pragmatic but not pragmatic" Yongjia school represented by Ye Shi, or the Yongkang school represented by "talent, virtue, justice and benefit" represented by Chen Liang; whether it is the "Qie Yu" school represented by Lu Zuqian The Jinhua School of thought is "practical", or the Yangming School of Mind advocates individual consciousness and subjective initiative. The essence of their thoughts is to emphasize functionality and practical benefits, and advocate "trade and benefit industry", forming a "coexistence of justice and benefit, and the foundation of both industry and commerce". Negate and break through the traditional economic view of "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of the end". All these have shaped and strengthened Taizhou's cultural spirit of focusing on business and entrepreneurship, being less constrained by traditional systems, emphasizing results, and being pragmatic and good at operations.

"Practice-oriented" reflects that Taizhou people are sensitive to the market, respond quickly, and are good at seizing development opportunities. At the beginning of reform and opening up, we seized the opportunity of the "shortage economy" and let go of the development of township and village enterprises and individual and private enterprises, achieving primitive accumulation of capital. Seizing the opportunity of the country's implementation of the coastal open development strategy and making full use of the country's policies, the rapid expansion of the economic aggregate has been achieved, forming a Taizhou block economy with regional characteristics. Seize the favorable opportunity of global industrial gradient shift to expand and strengthen Taizhou's manufacturing industry. At present, the output value of nine pillar industries, including automobiles and motorcycles and their accessories, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, plastic molds, household appliances, clothing machinery, water pumps and valves, arts and crafts, food and beverages, shoes, hats and clothing, accounts for more than 85% of the total industrial output value. , automobiles and motorcycles and accessories, pharmaceutical chemicals, mold plastics, sewing equipment, and household appliances are Taizhou's five leading industries, showing a trend of industrial clustering and enterprise large-scale, with 48 industrial products ranking first in the country in market share. So far, it has won 9 national-level titles, including "China's Chemical API Export Base", "China's Plastic Daily Necessities Capital", "China's Water Pumps' Hometown", "China's Valve Capital", and "China's Handicrafts Capital". Among them, the automobile, motorcycle and accessories industry is led by Geely Automobile and Qianjiang Motorcycle, with more than 4,500 manufacturing companies. More than 80% of the accessories can be processed in Taizhou, with strong supporting capabilities.

Taizhou’s vitality lies in the private sector, and Taizhou’s economy has a profound folk foundation and a large group lineup. There are nearly 300,000 private enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the city. On average, there is one entrepreneur for every twenty people, ranking among the top in the country. In the 2005 city competitiveness ranking published, Taizhou was considered to have strong cultural competitiveness, ranking 13th. Its entrepreneurial spirit and innovative atmosphere are relatively conducive to economic development. It can be said that Taizhou’s humanistic spirit has created a development environment where everyone wants to and can start a business, stimulating the creative and entrepreneurial vitality of the whole society.

(3) "Brave pioneering" achieves Ivy League economy

Taizhou is located on the coast of the East China Sea, with the longest coastline in Zhejiang Province. Since the Han Dynasty established Huipu County, the Three Kingdoms and Wu Dynasties established Linhai County and made their first voyage to Taiwan. This is a maritime culture that is not afraid of hardships, forges ahead, and bravely stands at the forefront. It has formed the cultural characteristics of Taizhou people who are at home in all corners of the world and venture into the world. It has established the spirit of Taizhou people's courage to explore and dare to take risks, and created an alternative business consciousness. Marine culture has formed the dynamic thinking habits of Taizhou people. At the same time, after being tempered by typhoons, the "anti-Taiwan spirit" of perseverance, solidarity and mutual assistance in the face of difficulties continues to exude new vitality.

Since the reform and opening up, thousands of Taizhou people have left their hometowns and traveled north and south, repairing shoes, playing cotton, exchanging chicken feathers for sugar, and engaging in trafficking, construction, etc., looking for jobs in the planned economy system The gap in the market is not only the objective reason of lack of resources, but also the inner impulse rooted in the character to dare to venture and take risks, and to be pragmatic and commercial in marine culture. With the continuous accumulation of entrepreneurial capital, from "goodsmen" to Taizhou merchants and entrepreneurs, from individual and small-scale activities to organized business networks, Taizhou people's markets, Taizhou enterprises, Taizhou streets, etc. are constantly emerging all over the country. Taizhou is a gathering place for businessmen. Their tentacles have extended to various fields such as agriculture, resource development, manufacturing, construction, real estate, logistics, infrastructure, etc., and their investment scale is expanding day by day.

Taizhou businessmen not only spread across the country, but also extended abroad, entering the international economic stage and becoming international in many aspects such as markets, marketing networks, production bases, technology, brands, and talents. According to statistics, Taizhou currently has more than 300 overseas enterprises, more than 600 permanent overseas personnel, and more than 1,000 employees, distributed in more than 60 countries and regions including the United States, Russia, Vietnam, and Mexico. Last year, 48 overseas investment projects were newly approved, with Chinese investment amounting to US$18.92 million, driving exports of US$386.8 million, a year-on-year increase of 22%. In order to meet the needs of higher-level entrepreneurship and cooperation, Taizhou's degree of organization for overseas entrepreneurship has been continuously improved. More than 40 Taizhou out-of-town chambers of commerce have been established in Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Shenyang, and overseas places such as the United Arab Emirates and Russia to solve original problems through the strength of the team. For problems that are difficult for a single merchant to solve, we can realize the sharing of information, resources, and benefits, unite together, form synergy, and develop together.

The economy of Taizhou people starting businesses outside is an important part of Taizhou’s economy. The millions of Taizhou people starting businesses outside are an important force in Taizhou’s opening up to the outside world. They have accumulated funds, technology and management experience by starting businesses outside, and they have also fed back to the hometown. Zi, Taizhou’s economy is the “Ivy Economy”. There are more than 1 million people in Taizhou doing business and setting up enterprises abroad, and more than 50% of Taizhou's products are sold abroad, which has effectively promoted Taizhou's foreign exchanges, cooperation and opening up. It can be said that as long as there is a market, there will be Taizhou businessmen.