Chapter 83 Advantages

At the beginning of reform and opening up, China established four special economic zones, three of which are located in eastern Guangdong Province, namely Jiangzhou Special Economic Zone, Shenzhou Special Economic Zone and Nanjiang Special Economic Zone. Among them, Nanjiang Special Economic Zone is the most eye-catching. After nearly 30 years of development, Nanjiang City has developed from a desolate small fishing village to a modern international metropolis, and together with Yangcheng City, it has become one of the two leading leaders in driving the economic development of the Yujiang Delta and even the entire southern China.

However, in recent years, especially after entering 2000, compared with other important cities in China, Nanjiang City's development pace has slowed down significantly, and has even become stagnant and stagnant. Many knowledgeable people in Nanjiang have seen this keenly, and finally someone shouted a heavyweight cry online: Nanjiang, who have you abandoned?

Why did Du Hongjun, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, pay attention to this post? It is because Du Hongjun and Nanjiang City have a deep connection. Du Hongjun started step by step as deputy mayor of Nanjiang City, served as mayor of Nanjiang City, secretary of Nanjiang City, and then to the governor of eastern Guangdong Province, and finally became secretary of eastern Guangdong Province. When talking about Nanjiang, he had a deeper relationship than other leaders of eastern Guangdong Province. Du Hongjun has always been concerned about Nanjiang City, and Du Hongjun is also very clear about the fact that Nanjiang City has slowed down in recent years. It is only because Nanjiang City has an important influence across the country, even if Du

The Red Army is a heavyweight post on Piaotianyi of the Provincial Party Committee. The title is "Nanjiang, who have abandoned you?". It sharply raised one question after another in response to the current situation of Nanjiang City. Du Hongjun immediately asked his secretary Liu Yansong to print out the post, took it in his hand and read it again and again, thinking about the questions raised in the post. Just when Zhao Changfeng came in, Du Hongjun was still studying this post. At this time, he heard Zhao Changfeng say that he had read this post, and he asked casually: "What do you think of the questions raised in the post? Who do you think abandoned Nanjiang?"

Zhao Changfeng did a lot of homework before coming, all about the reform of Haizhou City’s fiscal system. However, he did not expect that Du Hongjun did not ask much about this aspect, but instead asked about Nanjiang City, more than 100 kilometers away from Haizhou City. Zhao Changfeng was not prepared for this homework and was not easy to answer it in a hurry. He pondered for a while before he spoke solemnly: "Secretary Du, when I saw this post two months ago, I also thought about it. But after all, I have never worked in Nanjiang City and have no personal feelings in the post. My thinking may be just scratching the surface and cannot hit the nail on the head..."

Du Hongjun laughed, and waved his hand and said, "Changfeng, it's just a casual conversation. How is it that serious? I just want to hear how you young people view this issue."

Du Hongjun's attitude made Zhao Changfeng much more relaxed. As long as it was not formally soliciting opinions and just talk casually, there was no need to worry so much. Just talk about it whatever he thought. He paused for a moment, sorted his thoughts in his mind, and then he spoke again: "In my opinion, no one abandoned Nanjiang, it was Nanjiang who abandoned himself."

"Oh? Why do you say that? Tell me your reasons." Du Hongjun asked with interest.

"As the post said, if you want to ask who abandoned Nanjiang, you must first ask why Nanjiang was chosen." Zhao Changfeng said: "There were two main points when choosing Nanjiang. One thing was that Nanjiang was adjacent to the Xiangjiang area and had geographical advantages. The other thing was that Nanjiang was just a small fishing village at that time, and it was easy to paint with a piece of white paper. You can let go and innovate. Even if the reform experiment failed, it would not cause much loss. So Nanjiang City received many special preferential policies granted by the state. Therefore, Nanjiang City's original success can be attributed to these two points, policy advantages and geographical advantages."

"But in recent years, Nanjiang's development has slowed down and the economy has lost its vitality. On the surface, it seems that Nanjiang City has gradually lost these two advantages. First, the financial crisis that swept Asia in 1997. Xiangjiang's economy suffered a heavy blow and the economy fell into a downturn. It has not been adjusted yet. This has inevitably affected the economy of Nanjiang. Nanjiang City's geographical advantages adjacent to Xiangjiang have been greatly weakened; secondly, with the deepening of reform and opening up, the development of mainland my country's diving has begun to take place.

The experimental stage of the Ministry began to advance towards universal reform, engaging in a market economy, opening up to the outside world, and connecting with the international market has become the requirement of China and cannot be limited to a few special areas. This also means that Nanjiang City can no longer enjoy the dividends brought by preferential policies with special preferential policies. Nanjiang City has to face the embarrassing situation of the special zone and go to the same starting line as other cities across the country for the first time to compete fairly. When the two factors are combined, the current economic situation in Nanjiang City has been created."

"So, do you think it was the times that abandoned Nanjiang, and policies that abandoned Nanjiang?" Du Hongjun asked.

Zhao Changfeng shook his head, "No, on the contrary, I think it was Nanjiang who abandoned Nanjiang by himself."

"Oh? Let's talk about it." Du Hongjun said with interest.

Zhao Changfeng said: "Compared with other cities in the mainland, Nanjiang already has a huge first-mover advantage. Even though the geographical advantages are weakened and the special policy advantages no longer exist, Nanjiang City has enjoyed more than 20 years of policy dividends and geographical dividends. The accumulation of these more than 20 years is enough to allow Nanjiang City to easily leave the mainland competitors far behind. However, Nanjiang City did not show this potential, but was caught up with or even surpassed by mainland competitors one by one. Faced with these situations, the decision makers of Nanjiang City did not find a way to actively deal with it. They just stood there and complained about the world, complained that the country did not give them new preferential policies, and complained that the competition situation now is too fierce. This only shows that Nanjiang City abandoned Nanjiang itself."

"Well, there is some truth." Du Hongjun nodded and said, "Continue talking..."

Encouraged by Du Hongjun, Zhao Changfeng let go of his concerns and continued to speak according to his own ideas: "In my opinion, it is completely wrong to attribute the idea that Nanjiang's telling development to the perfect combination of geographical advantages and policy advantages. The reason why Nanjiang City can tell development is actually two words: innovation!"
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