It took me 20 years to get to know Leiyang.

Every time I go home, I feel great changes in my hometown. From 2009 to 20 10, a series of high-rise buildings with more than 30 floors have mushroomed in Leiyang. This county-level city with the largest area and the largest population in Hunan Province is being turned upside down. Right in the city center, the demolition of old houses and the rise of new ones are amazing. The city has become beautiful and feels more modern. People who have just arrived in Leiyang will feel that the urban construction of Leiyang is better than Chenzhou and Hengyang. The pride of being a Leiyang person naturally arises.

? But I'm not here to celebrate. Facing Sunshine New Town, Guo Mao New Town, Zhongxing Square, Five-Star Ring Road opposite Inventor Square, Harmony Garden in Jinnan and countless other elevator rooms on May 1st Road, I wonder whether these modern commercial houses have brought Leiyang people a blessing or a curse. Walking into Leiyang, you will find that this is an entertainment city. The urban area is not big, but hotels, restaurants, KTV, bars, Internet cafes, billiards and other entertainment places are dotted. Every night, the General, Inventor Square, Shenlong Square, West Lake Garden and other places are very lively, and the crowd will gradually disperse until the landscape lights in the square are turned off at midnight. On Jiang Yan Road, from Wuyi Square to the observation deck along the Yangtze River in Zhangfei Square, there is nothing during the day, but there are stalls at night, and the snack business is very hot. Five yuan for a bundle of beer, ten yuan for a bowl of fried snails, and one yuan for a barbecue. As long as the cost is very low, you can get together with friends at the Leishui River to have a breeze, chat, drink and eat. In addition to these low consumption, there are many advanced places for friends, such as western restaurants, bars and bars. But people prefer to be close to nature and put their tables outdoors. People here don't like work, and poker and mahjong have become a way of life for them. Many hotels, teahouses and chess rooms all over the residential area provide places for people. 20 18 February 13 in the hot winter, you are walking in the street, and a group of people are gathered under a certain shade, and there is a circle of motorcycles outside. Those are the drivers who are riding motorcycles, stabbing golden flowers or bullfighting. Without venues, they will also create venues. People who play cards are used to coming back late, sleeping late and getting up late. We know breakfast will be served here at eleven o'clock. These are contrary to the place where I work now-Jiangsu. People there work hard during the day and go home to rest at night. Nightlife is scarce. Although it has created high GDP growth, it can also live under various high housing price pressures. My mother once told me that although we are not as rich as our relatives in big cities, we live more smartly than them.

After all this effort, I just want to say that ordinary Leiyang people live a lazy life and are eager for pleasure. I can't list all the reasons, but I know that one of the important reasons must be the low housing prices in Leiyang. Although the consumption of high-end hotels and restaurants in Leiyang is much higher than that in Hengyang, even higher than that in Changsha, the provincial capital. But that's where the rich go after all. People here don't have to spend most of their savings on buying a house, so they spend a lot of money on eating, traveling and buying a car. Even if you only have more than 3,000 yuan a month in Leiyang, you can easily own a house of 100 square meters and a car of100 million ten years later. Many teachers only get a salary of two or three thousand yuan from the school, but they don't make up classes in a unified way. Many of them have cars and houses. This is the life of Leiyang people now.

? Compared with the developed coastal cities, the housing prices in Leiyang can make you surprisingly low. A relative of mine has invested in twenty suites. It is a small property right house built by private individuals on their own homestead. Some people will say that it is illegal for coastal cities to do so. Because according to the provisions of the Land Management Law of the People's Republic of China, the land use right collectively owned by farmers may not be sold, transferred or leased for non-agricultural construction. And private bosses are used for non-agricultural construction. But such examples are very common in Leiyang. Just before and after my home, every family tore down their own one or two-story buildings and built seven or eight-story high-rise buildings, either for rent or for sale. Even some private homestead near the road, through various channels of financing, built an elevator room on the first floor as a facade, and a dozen or twenty floors as housing. Exchange land for cash.

Although such a house is illegal, it is close to the people's feelings. These private houses are more acceptable to Leiyang people with an average wage of only 1000 compared with commercial houses with a price of 2,000 to 31000 square meters sold by developers. Here, housing is not monopolized by the government and developers, and these privately built buildings have well restricted those commercial houses. So its price won't go up too much. With so many elevators, I know that even a small city with rapid urbanization like Leiyang is attracting many rural people to the city, but I am still worried about whether there are enough tourists to consume these commercial houses, and those farmers who enter the city will have the money to buy these commercial houses instead of buying private small property houses. Besides, I heard from a friend who works in the construction site of Guo Mao New Town that in fact, those high-rise elevator rooms are rarely bought locally. I wonder how many of these foreigners really intend to live in Leiyang, or do they want to raise local housing prices in Leiyang and buy low and sell high to take a sum of money? Most of these properties are Hong Kong-funded and Guangdong-funded. Are they really willing to stay and help us with urban construction?

I'm thinking, if one day the government really banned the small property houses and replaced them with commercial houses of developers. When we walk on the streets of Leiyang, we are proud of modern high-rise buildings and spacious and beautiful avenues. Will our life be as comfortable and happy as we said before?

The whole of China, I have been to many cities, all carved from the same mold. How many central cities are facing the same choice as Leiyang? Perhaps this is the choice of China as a whole.