What are the development prospects of Xinyang?

Henan ranks last in GDP ranking

Speaking of Xinyang, many people in other provinces may have never heard of the name of such a city. However, Xinyang is also famous for two things, a dish of tea and a song.

"Daodaocha" refers to "Xinyang Maojian", one of the top ten famous teas in China. According to a Xinyang boss, when he was attending training in Beijing, he once made a bet with someone at the wine table. If someone said something about Xinyang, he would drink a glass of wine. In the end, he only drank one glass for Xinyang Maojian. Xinyang's superior climate and soil conditions are an ideal environment for green tea production. The hand-made tea-making technology that has been inherited for thousands of years makes "Xinyang Maojian" have an unparalleled unique flavor. Lu Yu, the tea sage, listed Guangzhou tea (Xinyang Maojian) as the top grade tea in his "Tea Classic".

And "a song" is the revolutionary historical song "Osmanthus Blossoms Everywhere in August" that is popular in China. It was used when the Red Army captured Shangcheng County in December 1929 to celebrate the establishment of the first county-level Workers' and Peasants' Soviet in Henan Province. The folk song during the regime was later sung throughout China.

Of course Xinyang has more than just these two things. Cao Minggui, dean of the School of Economics and Management of Xinyang Normal University, introduced various advantages of Xinyang to reporters. He said: "Xinyang actually has a very large space for development, and there are also many advantages in location, nature, and humanity. However, Xinyang people have low self-esteem and do not think about striving for development, but want to be the last."

< p> Cao Minggui believes that originally, Xinyang could write a lot of articles, such as the "red" article. Xinyang is an old revolutionary area, and 23 generals were produced in the new county; for example, the "water" article, the natural precipitation is 4 more than Zhengzhou. Times, there have been rare floods in 58 years, and there is still Nanwan Lake, which is drinkable and is known as the Pearl of Southern Henan; for example, in the article "Mountain", Xinyang is located in the Dabie Mountains, and Jigong Mountain is known as one of the four villa mountains in China. , there are more than 200 villas left over from the last century on the mountain; for example, according to the "People" article, 1.5 million of Xinyang's total population of 7.8 million work at home and abroad, and the labor economy brings more than 4 billion yuan in direct income to Xinyang every year. ......

Although it has various advantages, Xinyang has not made good use of it. Among the city competitiveness rankings of more than 600 provincial and municipalities in the country done by Dr. Ni Pengfei of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , Xinyang was ranked behind 400.

Such a ranking is not surprising. You can know why by looking at its economic situation: in 2003, Xinyang City, with a population of 7.8 million, had a GDP of 34.41 billion yuan, while Foshan City had a population of only 1.1 million yuan. Shunde District's GDP in 2002 was 43.689 billion yuan. From this we can see the huge gap between Xinyang. Such results make Xinyang ranked second to last in Henan. Xinyang people have mixed feelings in this regard. In 2001, Xinyang City's tax revenue exceeded 100 million yuan for the first time, and publicity began. Cao Minggui felt dumbfounded by this: "How can such a big place with such a large taxation be so embarrassed to publicize it in such a big way? I wonder what outsiders will think of Xinyang after seeing it?"

A reporter A fellow who works in Xinyang Tobacco Department told reporters: "When I first came to Xinyang, I often walked around the city at first, but after a few days, I didn't want to leave. Why? Because it's not worth it." Why isn't it worth it? ? Because the streets in Xinyang City are dirty and messy, there is no place to linger, even the park, there is no decent place. "The taste of urban planning is so bad!"

In Xinyang urban area, the reporter could hardly see a landmark building, the traffic order was extremely poor, and the sanitary conditions were poor. Motorcycles, tricycles, and taxis were parked and driven randomly, and what was ironic was that the dilapidated tricycles running around the streets carried the slogan "Build the image of a civilized city." Among the provincial cities that reporters in Henan Province have visited, Xinyang is the only city in their impression where tricycles run so unscrupulously on the streets. According to local people, Xinyang is the only provincial city that has not passed the civilized and sanitary city assessment. "Not even as good as Gushi." Such an evaluation shows that the Xinyang people themselves are also very disappointed.

The Sorrow of Jigong Mountain

Jigong Mountain is a national scenic spot and nature reserve mentioned by Xinyang people. It is a branch of the Dabie Mountains. The main peak, Jigongtou, is also known as Xiaoxiao Peak. It looks like a crowing rooster, hence the name Jigong Mountain. It is said that before liberation, Jigong Mountain was a place for foreigners, warlords, bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen to have fun.

Unlike some other famous mountains in China, most of my country's famous mountains were developed earlier and were famous in ancient times. Many famous mountains are also sacred places for Buddhism or Taoism. Jigong Mountain was only developed at the beginning of this century.

Jigong Mountain is located at the junction of Henan and Hubei provinces, only 180 kilometers south of Wuhan. In 1903, American missionaries Li Lisheng and Shi Daoge went hiking to explore the mountains. After climbing Jigong Mountain, they proudly sent good news to the American Consulate in Hankou, boasting of their achievements. The American consul went to the mountain to take a look and found that the scenery was beautiful and the climate was pleasant. Compared with Wuhan, which is known as the "big furnace", this place is simply paradise. After the consul returned, he wrote many articles and praised Jigong Mountain's clear, cool and pleasant forests and springs in Western newspapers. Foreigners from Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places heard the news and came to carry out large-scale construction projects. Thanks to the praise of foreigners, Jigong Mountain became famous in the early 20th century. Together with Lushan Mountain, Mogan Mountain and Beidaihe, it became one of the four major summer resorts in China. According to statistics, pastors, missionaries, wealthy businessmen and Chinese bureaucrats and warlords from more than 20 countries have built more than 300 Western-style villas with different characteristics here. Although they have been destroyed by wars, 212 of them still exist. Distributed among green bushes and beautiful peaks. It is said that during its heyday as a summer resort, as many as two to three thousand Chinese and foreigners lived on the mountain, making it a prosperous mountain city.

But it is no longer what it used to be, with few tourists and increasingly desolate. Shen Feng from the Xinyang Municipal Commerce and Trade Bureau Office said that the development efforts of Jigong Mountain are not enough at all. Not only is the management chaotic, but the services cannot keep up. There are fewer and fewer people coming, and even the locals in Xinyang are too lazy to go. At the same time, Jigong Mountain has now become the back garden of Wuhan and even Hubei, with an endless stream of people from Hubei visiting it. So much so that there is a saying: Hubei has always demanded that Jigong Mountain be handed over to them for management! "It's really sad to imagine the prosperous history in the past!"

Cao Minggui said that this is a strange circle. It is a pity that Xinyang has so many tourism resources but does not know how to integrate and develop them. No one has ever stopped Xinyang from developing, and no one has ever stopped Xinyang people from getting rich and pursuing happiness. But why is Xinyang developing so slowly? The comparison between Xinyang and developed areas makes people suddenly realize that Xinyang seems to have a knot that is difficult to untie. This knot suppresses and kills the passion, ideals, pursuits and creativity in the hearts of Xinyang people, leaving behind feelings of loss, helplessness, depression, sadness and even anger. There is nothing greater to mourn than to die! Such a statement makes one's soul tremble.

A City of Disorientation

Zhang Chunming, a fellow reporter working in Xinyang, said that after living in Xinyang for more than three years, he felt more and more that Xinyang seemed to have become a city where the people had lost their direction. city. In fact, in interviews with reporters, many Xinyang people expressed their confusion after loss. They will feel this way when they eat hot dry noodles in the morning and eat at the food stalls all over the street at night; they will feel this way when they take a tricycle that can travel around the city for 3 yuan; they live their daily lives You will also feel this way when you commute to get off work on time and receive a fixed salary.

This disorientation is also reflected in the government's urban development plan for Xinyang, which is swinging between a "landscape garden city" and a regional central city in southern Henan.

The vacillation of government departments is also reflected in government decision-making and services. A Xinyang entrepreneur criticized the government's lack of integrity and compared the government's investment promotion behavior to "promising you half a day before investing, but then closing the door and beating the dog after you come in. Really, the people of Xinyang are crazy about poverty." "

Cao Minggui believes that the local government also lacks continuity in policy decision-making and cannot fulfill its commitments in attracting investment, causing great troubles and obstacles to foreign investors. He said: "The direct result of the government's low credibility and lack of integrity is that the Tea Festival has been held for 12 consecutive years, but very few projects have been introduced, and none of the well-known enterprises and large projects have settled in Xinyang." A persuasive example is that the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hudong Development Zone in Nanwan Reservoir was originally held, but because no one invested, there is no news now. Now that Yangshan New District has been planned, whether it can attract investors is still questionable.

An entrepreneur who returned to his hometown expressed his emotion on the BBS of Xinyang Information Port: "I have been running a business abroad for more than 10 years and pay taxes of 200,000 yuan every year. I thought a lot about it, so I moved the business Return to Xinyang and contribute your taxes to your hometown.

But what I encountered was not caring but too much gesticulation. They didn't know that the immature company was not mature yet and needed more care from all walks of life. I moved my company to Xinyang in 2001 and have paid nearly 200,000 yuan in taxes so far. But I lost nearly 300,000 yuan and was asked to pay corporate income tax. Can I still do this? I had no choice but to leave my hometown again. "

Cao Minggui's words may reveal the crux of Xinyang's problem: "From a hardware perspective, Xinyang has the basic conditions to develop into a medium-developed city, but in terms of soft environment, Xinyang lags behind. fatal injury. For example, the functional transformation of the Xinyang government, the quality and structure of Xinyang's population, and even the overall economic consciousness of Xinyang people may become the driving force or resistance to the development of a place. "