The Birth Process of Ten Most Influential Concepts in Shenzhen

This is the first time that the leaders have not made a final decision, "let citizens choose for themselves"

On August, 2065438 1 day, the netizen posted "Come to Shenzhen 18 years, and then recall the slogan that once made my blood boil" in the "Shenzhen Forum" column of Shenzhen News Network.

"I came to Shenzhen in May. 1992. Before that, I was in Hainan. At that time, the information was not as developed as it is today. Listening to the radio is a fashion. Sitting on the bus from Xiangmihu to the railway station on the 2 15 road, the driver is listening to the radio, and the first sentence he hears is' Together, create a better tomorrow'. " This is written in the post.

There is also a black-and-white photo in the article, which is a huge placard erected in Shekou Industrial Zone that year: "Time is money, efficiency is life."

"Hearing this slogan, we can't help but think of those people who have contributed their youth and blood to the construction of Shenzhen. After leaving Shenzhen and returning to our hometown, whenever we hear this sentence, we will be extremely excited, and we will think of those passionate years in Shenzhen. "

The post quickly won a warm reply from netizens and topped the list the next day.

Thanks to the popularity of online hot posts, sponsored by Shenzhen Newspaper Group, Shenzhen Business Daily, Bao Jing and Shenzhen News Network, the campaign of "Top Ten Most Influential Concepts in Shenzhen" was collected from the public.

In order to collect the ideas submitted by citizens, Shenzhen News Network also set up a "message wall", and each message was coded and displayed on the website.

Xia Youwei, who has been the host for many years, didn't expect the activity to be hot at first. "I just wanted to evaluate the concept of 10, so I evaluated 10." As a result, in one month, thousands of "tips" were left on this electronic message wall.

This time, the selection for our city received a warm response from the public. Xia Youwei remembers that he once received a phone call from a 70-year-old man who had lived in Shenzhen for more than 20 years to "protest" because the message wall was only open between 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon, and the old man suddenly thought of an idea after10 in the afternoon, and there was nowhere to mention it when he wanted to go online.

"Shenzhen is becoming more and more urbanized." Xia Youwei said that most of the hot topics in the forums he manages are related to urban development. "In other cities, everyone is inherited from others and has a rich heritage. Shenzhen is really a group of people crowded together, gearing up and building bit by bit, just like swallows piling branches to build nests. "

"Shenzhen contributes not only to GDP, not only to nightclubs, but more importantly to ideas." Hu Hongxia, deputy editor-in-chief of Shenbao Group, commented.

Facing the message board that takes a lot of time just to turn pages, there was a "primary election" inside the website. They made thousands of ideas into presentations and projected them on the big screen. Seven or eight staff members looked up and flashed in front of them one by one, and deleted them when they met. "It's a bit like a game to test memory-eliminate it."

In this way, thousands of ideas have been reduced to 200. At this time, Xia Youwei, who was exhausted by the concept of "killing fools", "intends to be lazy". As the interactive director of Shenzhen News Network, this is not the first time he has organized an activity to solicit ideas from the public. Which of these 10 ideas can be selected in the end? He wants to follow the old rules and hand them over. "Let the leader take a board and decide directly."

However, the list handed in was quickly returned, and the reply was simple and clear-"Let the citizens choose for themselves."

"Let citizens vote directly" is the first time in Xia Youwei's memory that he often deals with the government.

"If you do this, it must be representative and worthy of Shenzhen's 30 years!"

Until today, people can still see all kinds of ideas put forward on the message board, such as "Fight our way out", "Civil society grows together", "Heroes don't ask the source", "If you don't work hard today, try to find a job tomorrow", "I don't agree with you, but I defend your right to speak", and some even have only one word "Chuang".

When netizens voted for 30 candidate entries in the first round, Xuan Zhuxi, editor-in-chief of Shenzhen Newspaper Group, looked at the list and muttered, "Why is there another one called' Come, you are from Shenzhen'? Isn't this the vernacular? Is this an idea? "

Although I don't like this alternative concept at all, this time, the editor-in-chief who has the final distribution right is just whispering in his heart. The decision on the final list of Shenzhen's top ten ideas is half in the hands of netizens who participated in the voting and half in the hands of a jury composed of experts. Among these judges, "government officials are not needed".

15 people from social science, academia and media formed the jury. In order to select the most suitable concept of 10, they also held a seminar and voted on the candidate concepts by secret ballot. At the same time, the organizer specially set up an IP voting platform on Shenzhen News Network, which needs to log in with ID card information, has strict identification, and accepts people's voting on these 30 candidate concepts.

In the conference room on the 9th floor of Shenzhen Newspaper Group, the judges' meeting was not harmonious. They state their reasons loudly, "canvass" for their favorite ideas, and even when they are in full swing, they don't hesitate to "make excuses".

At the seminar, someone stood up and said directly, "The article" Civil Society, Growing Together * * * "must be promoted, because it is in line with the future development direction of China society. If the' civil society' article is not selected, I am sorry for the rule of law in Shenzhen. "

Some people also said, "If you don't work hard today, try to find a job tomorrow." This is the fighting spirit we feel when we come to Shenzhen! "

But someone immediately refuted him: "You are too cruel, this is totally naked capitalism!" "

The words at the discussion site were sharp, and the organizer Xia Youwei had to arrange for reporters to write down everything the judges said. "I have to write it down in case they don't admit it later."

Even the "time is money, efficiency is life", which has always been ranked first, has caused some controversy.

"This article is out of date, and it is no longer appropriate to overemphasize today and things." Some judges said.

But someone immediately retorted: "It is the product of history and the purest spirit of Shenzhen. There is no doubt that this one should be chosen, and there is no need to argue at all. "

This discussion continued until the final round of voting, and the organizers had to organize judges to score and decide the outcome. Just before the vote, the judges were fighting for opinions.

"'Heroes don't ask the source', this is Shenzhen!" Cultural scholars talk nonsense. As the winner of the China Prize for Journalism, he went to Shenzhen to write the most basic news from scratch. Shenzhen gave him the impression that there was no strict hierarchy, so he insisted that "this must be entered."

Zhang Qing, director of the Culture and News Department of Shenzhen Business Daily, presided over the judges' voting. He is the main person in charge of the selection of the top ten concepts in Shenzhen. However, even He, who should be neutral and concentrate on presiding over the voting, couldn't help interrupting: "There is another one,' I don't agree with your point of view, but I defend your right to speak', which is definitely worth it!"

Xia Youwei remembers that at that time, some experts outside the system were "sharp-edged" and even excitedly struck the table: "You must be representative and worthy of Shenzhen's 30 years!"

In the end, it depends on the number of votes. By the end of voting, netizens had voted 66,874 times, and selected the former 10 in their hearts. The judges also voted on 10 ideas by secret ballot, with two votes each accounting for 50% of the weight, and finally the result was obtained.

As soon as the results came out, Zhang Qing was surprised to find that 90% of the online voting results were completely consistent with the expert voting results. But he also looked at his favorite one with "great regret" and was blocked from the top ten concept list with a slight gap.

"This selection process itself is the result of Shenzhen's reform and opening up."

Before the selection of the top ten concepts, Zhang Qing was responsible for many similar activities. He thought that this time it would be the same as before, "evaluate an election, award an award, and it will be over."

But in fact, this is just the beginning.

As the person in charge of coordinating the writing of the top ten concept books, he was surprised to find that in Kunming, which is 784 kilometers away from Shenzhen/KLOC-0, the details of purchasing the book "Top Ten Concepts in Shenzhen" turned out to be "1 1000 copies". "Ten Concepts in Shenzhen" became a hot word in Kunming, and he quickly sent his own reporters to interview.

As a result, the reporter brought back such details:

Chou He, then secretary of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee, signed autographs for more than 500 party representatives at the party congress. "Later, my hands became stiff." The party representative who received the gift book said: "This is the first time that I have received a gift book inscribed by the secretary of the municipal party committee in my 30 years of work." Some people bluntly said that after reading the ten concepts in Shenzhen, they felt "both cordial and shocking". Fortunately, some concepts in the book are familiar to them many years ago, while others are being practiced in Kunming's reform in recent years.

Hu Hongxia, as one of the organizers, listened to the comments on the "great significance" of these concepts at the symposium on top ten concepts held in Shenzhen, and "he was shocked".

In the words of Li Junru, the former vice-president of the Central Party School, the selection process of the top ten concepts of Shenzhen "is not the traditional kind of recalling bitter experience and thinking sweet", "it is not invented by a few scholars", but "words familiar to the people", which come from the people and go to the people.

Hu Hongxia remembers that some scholars commented at the symposium: "This selection process itself is the result of Shenzhen's reform and opening up."

"These ideas are not written by a few scholars behind closed doors. These concepts are shaped by the historical development of Shenzhen, part of Shenzhen's development and part of Shenzhen's history. " Qiang Shigong, a professor at Peking University Law School, said at the forum.

However, Zhou Weimin, director of the Marxist Theory Department of the Central Party School, believes that "China is at a very critical and severe historical juncture, whether it is advancing on such a road opened up by reform and opening up, or regressing to the old system or even the Cultural Revolution". The Ten Concepts of Shenzhen have answered the questions of "Why is the reform and opening up" and "It is a positive response to the reform and opening up".

In addition to praise, people did not shy away from the criticism of the selection of the top ten concepts in Shenzhen.

"I think there is still a deficiency in this book, that is, among the top ten concepts, there is no concept corresponding to the construction of political civilization." Ma Licheng, a former commentator of People's Daily, said, for example, the concept of candidate in Article 25 "I don't agree with your point of view, but I defend your right to speak".

Until now, Xia Youwei has often received complaints, "How come there is no such thing, there is no such thing, is there a shady?" Among them, the most frequently mentioned concept is "Gan Dang and Niu". Some old comrades believe that the spirit of more than 20,000 infrastructure engineers and pioneers of the older generation who came to Shenzhen in those years has not been reflected.

Others called and pointed out bluntly: "Shenzhen should also list some things that are not very positive to reflect the real situation." And netizens will also criticize discontentedly: "The selection is just praising virtue and not recording the lessons of history."

However, such sharp criticism is a first-hand information that Xia Youwei is willing to accept. Because every time he and his colleagues go to the city for a meeting, the leader will knock on the table and say, "Give me a sharp voice. Your voice is not sharp enough. "

"They want to see someone discussing Shenzhen, no matter what it is, singing bad, as long as it is pertinent." Xia Youwei said.