Hubei enjoys a superior geographical position, located in the hinterland of China, with developed land and water transportation. Most cities along the Yangtze River can pass 10,000-ton ships, and Wuhan Railway Bureau is located in the center of the four major railway hubs in China. It has been known as the thoroughfare of nine provinces since ancient times.
Hubei is an important part of Han culture, the birthplace of Chu culture, the hometown of Qu Yuan, Zhang, Li Shizhen, Meng Haoran, Pi Rixiu and Li Siguang. It is the most dazzling area in modern China, an ancient civilization with a long history, and also the common name of modern people for the nine-headed bird in the sky. The results of the college entrance examination rank among the top three in the country.
The world-famous Hubei is a province, with Wuhan, once the second city in China, Xiangfan, Jingzhou, Xiaogan and other historical and cultural cities, Yichang Hydropower City, Shiyan Automobile City and other urban agglomerations.
In anyone's mind, Hubei is prosperous, rich and civilized, even if it is inconvenient for today's export-oriented economy, because it is a thoroughfare of nine provinces, a land of plenty, a place where nine birds live, and a province with splendid civilization and profound cultural accumulation.
However, the backwardness of Hubei today, the loss of dignity in Hubei today, the unconfidence of Hubei people today, the self-love of Hubei people today, and the inaction of Hubei people today. Even as an irrelevant foreigner, it is shocking, and I still sigh.
Hubei, you should cry for yourself!
One: Yichang:
With a population of more than 750,000, Yichang has begun to take shape and become a big city with a population of 6.5438+0 million.
Relying on the construction of the Three Gorges Hydropower Project, the investment of national resettlement funds, the rich mineral resources and the booming treasure-digging movement in the mountainous areas of western Hubei, Yichang achieved economic take-off in 15. In 2006, Yichang's GDP was about 70 billion, ranking very high among non-sub-provincial cities in the central and western regions.
However, in this GDP figure, the enterprises directly under the central government, such as the Three Gorges, have contributed greatly, because from the ranking of fiscal revenue of Hubei cities, only Yidu District of Yichang City can rank 10. Obviously, it is because the financial payment relationship of enterprises directly under the central government, such as the Three Gorges, is not in Yichang.
According to the prosperity index of the market, the appearance of Yichang can't support the economic figures of about 70 billion GDP. Or another game in which numbers become official!
In Yichang, except monopoly industries and large foreign state-owned assets, the average income level is relatively low, especially for a city with a population of 4.5 million and a GDP of 70 billion. How did this income level come from, or how was Yichang's 70 billion GDP calculated?
Among the cities in Hubei, Yichang is a place with relatively clean urban environment, reasonable urban planning and orderly urban order.
Praise me, in such a rough human environment in Hubei, Yichang has finally not turned a city into a free market.
Although it is out of the vicinity of Yichang International Trade Center and binjiang road along the Yangtze River, the urban construction of Yichang still looks shabby and depressed. There is no unified planning and centralized management for shops along the highway, such as capital market, auto repair and temporary shops.
But in such a humanistic environment, it is not easy to do this.
But one thing must be reminded to Yichang brothers.
There are so many brothels in Yichang that the locals almost turn a blind eye.
Basic dignity is very important for a place and a government. Although the existence of pornography is a common fact in the whole country, please remove them from the main road into the city. But please control the number of shops running red lights in a street to no more than ten or eight.
Can turning a blind eye to this situation be regarded as a sign that people in a place have lost their dignity? ?
Two: Jingzhou and Shashi;
Sorry, I didn't see either the state or the city in Jingsha. I only saw Jingcun and Shazhuang.
Economically, the GDP of Jingzhou in 2006 was 44 billion, and the population of Jingsha District was about 600,000. This figure is also acceptable in the central and western regions.
But when I first saw Jingsha, I clearly remembered my feeling of being shocked:
What kind of incompetent government can make a famous historical and cultural city so dilapidated and depressed?
What kind of lazy and incompetent people can destroy a place with flat terrain, convenient transportation, long history and rich humanities?
What kind of numbness and lack of progress can you endure living in such a village-level "city"!
The contrast between the beautiful ancient wall of Jingzhou and the dilapidated urban area of Jingzhou is so strong. People who absolutely don't obey the traffic rules, like locusts, rampage through cars honking their horns, which is simply a picture of the end of the world. All the shops are selling loudspeakers with decibel exceeding 120, and bagasse is everywhere. Any garbage collection bucket and the chaos around it make you have an illusion: Is this Africa or China, a barbaric and uncivilized place or 265438+?
What is even more ridiculous is that there is no crosswalk traffic light in this city with a population of 600,000. There is no clean land for gentlemen to stand on.
I have never seen such a city in my trip to China. The greening of a subtropical city is even more depressed than that of a northern city. The population of a medium-sized city is as chaotic as the rural market. It has the basic conditions for developing economy and improving people's livelihood, but it is poor and backward, and is determined to forge ahead. It has the geography and climate of the south, but it follows the living habits and behaviors of northerners. It prides itself on being unruly, but it is unwilling to try to change its life. It turned a blind eye to the ruin and depression of its own city.
Sorry, brothers in Jingzhou, please forgive my malice!
But Jingzhou is really one of the worst cities in southern China that I have ever seen.
Three: Jingmen:
Jingmen is located in the hinterland of Jianghan Plain, with an urban population of about 300,000. There are large enterprises such as Jingmen Petrochemical, Gezhouba Cement and Jinlongquan Beer in the territory, and it is a new industrial city. Its per capita GDP exceeds 1 10,000 yuan, making it one of the relatively wealthy cities in Hubei.
Jingmen's city is relatively small, and it looks rustic when it is integrated with the countryside. The process of urban transformation has a long way to go, and there are many old houses. Therefore, it still has the typical characteristics of a city in Hubei: lack of planning, slow progress in old city reconstruction, poor urban greening, lackluster city appearance and chaotic urban management order.
However, the small town of Jingmen, a bigger city than Jingzhou, has given me more confidence, because I think the local government has the basic concept of urban management and specific measures for urban transformation, whether it is the transformation of pedestrian streets, the opening of shopping malls from the east to China, the relocation of administrative centers and the construction of new urban areas driven by the relocation of administrative centers. Jingmen is still a city with specific measures and early actions.
In addition, Jingmen has an industrial base, and the local tax revenue is more than 700 million a year. On the basis of managing the city, attracting investment and making good use of local resources, Jingmen generally gives people a feeling of hopeless hope and entrepreneurship.
Besides, I sympathize with you. Outside the local administrative and monopoly industries, the salary level is very low, and the salary of employees in the general service industry is very sad, but the local price level is not too low.
All cities in Hubei have this situation. No matter how brilliant the local economic figures are, the level reflected in residents' income and consumption index is sympathetic. This is also the characteristic of most cities with state-owned capital as the main economic channel, such as Shandong, which is far more developed than Hubei, and Liaoning, which is slightly stronger.
Are state-owned assets the cruelest part of capital?
Then Jingmen is located in the center of Jianghan Plain, more than 0/00 kilometers away from Xiangfan and Jingzhou/KLOC. The construction of small towns and counties along the way is extremely poor, forming a typical urban-rural dual economic system. In the case of such a large population density in Hubei, the recession of a county with a population of one million at a time, the inaction of small town construction and the low urbanization rate may be one of the internal mechanisms of Hubei's economic figures, but in fact, the people are poor.
Generally speaking, Jingmen represents the awakening part of Hubei city. Although the foundation is weak, it has begun the pace of industrialization and urbanization.
Wish Jingmen a pleasant journey.
Four: Shiyan:
The famous automobile city seems a bit lonely today with the development of China automobile industry. Unfortunately, it was left behind by FAW, while SAIC, GAC and BAIC became a mountain in front of the employees of No.2 Automobile Company. If it is not done well, even Chongqing Chang 'an and Anhui Chery may leave the Second Automobile behind.
Is it that the Second Automobile Company chose the wrong Hubei, or that Hubei failed the Second Automobile Company?
What makes Shiyan people even more depressed is that even this 5678 car was taken to Wuhan by the Wuhan government. What remained in Shiyan were trucks and accessories.
However, I want to say that the decision of the Hubei government is correct. If Shiyan No.2 Automobile Company is still shrinking, there will be no No.2 Automobile Company on the list of automobile suppliers in China within ten years at most.
Shiyan, the product of digging deep into the times, is the city with the highest per capita GDP, the highest average wage and the highest level of industrialization in Hubei.
Shiyan, located in the depths of the mountains in western Hubei, is located near the beautiful Wudang Mountain and Danjiangkou Reservoir, the central hub of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, the largest water conservancy project in China, and has the innate conditions of a landscape city.
Shiyan is the only city in Hubei that has entered the era of citizen consumption. In Hubei, there are only three cities where traffic jams will occur, that is, Wuhan with narrow roads and no traffic rules, Xiangfan with narrow roads and few cars, and Shiyan in the era of citizens' cars. There are many "farmhouses" on both sides of the highway from the expressway to Shiyan city, and the business is quite prosperous. The dining car is full of parking lots. This is actually the best sign of whether a local economy is developed or not.
It's not luxurious places, landmark buildings and brilliant economic figures, but whether ordinary people can afford ordinary cars, whether they pay attention to diet, whether they have fun in life and whether the scope of life is narrow.
In the whole process of walking in Hubei, only Shiyan provided such a "clear picture on the Qinghe River" about people's lives.
However, the thorough understanding of the Ten Commandments is still disappointing.
Shiyan, a city composed of high-quality immigrants,
A city composed of highly organized working class,
A city led by enterprises and with unified decrees.
I don't know if the soil and water in Hubei sucked the spirit of Erqi people dry.
Or the second car man himself was born careless and didn't understand the three flavors of city life.
Shiyan's temperament is not industrialization, modernization and urbanization, and Shiyan has not realized the transfer and optimization of industrial structure.
On the contrary, Shiyan's temperament is rude, agricultural and chaotic.
The spirit of Shiyan is like a township enterprise, rich and poor.
With the local financial resources of Shiyan,
In the organization of local economic development led by the second automobile company.
Shiyan's urban construction, commercial and other tertiary industry development, urban planning, urban greening, urban cleaning and urban management are all very disappointing.
Especially the chaos, tatters, order and integrity of the infrastructure. It is not the level that a rich city engaged in modern large-scale industry should have.
Shiyan should be a model of urban construction and management in Hubei, which has influenced the roughness and local flavor of Hubei.
Shiyan should have the reputation of a landscape city, but it is as unkempt as a ragged country woman.
Shiyan should understand that urban construction and management are important ways to implement residents' welfare.
Shiyan should understand that urban construction and management are the only way to promote the development of the tertiary industry and improve the industrial gradient.
Shiyan should understand that good urban management is an inevitable condition for forging high-quality citizens and an inevitable choice for changing urban temperament and realizing Shiyan's sustainable development.
Shiyan, please return us a pearl of a landscape garden city! !
Five: Xiangfan;
Xiangfan, a famous historical and cultural city in China, is the place where Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion, the hometown of Wu Zixu, and the legendary place where Guo Daxia fought bloody battles with the Mongols.
Xiangfan is one of the largest cities in the central and western regions, with a GDP of about 63 billion yuan in 2006 and an urban population of about 800,000. It is the largest city in Hubei except Wuhan.
Hubei culture is influenced by Chu Xiang culture and Central Plains culture, while Xiangfan is obviously more influenced by Central Plains culture. In many counties and cities in Xiangfan, the accent is already a very obvious Henan accent. I think this is also the character code to see through the character of Xiangfan city!
What impressed me most in Xiangfan was the huge railway station and low and dilapidated commercial street in Xiangfan, the commodity and management level of Huayangtang, and the chaotic and crowded traffic in Xiangfan, where there were few cars and pedestrians crossing the road at will.
Xiangfan is a city taking shape, but there are bandits everywhere. This is different from Jingsha, which is sandy and angry, and Xiangfan bandits. During my three days in Xiangfan, I heard too many Jianghu vendettas, and witnessed the incident that three drug addicts robbed a taxi for 50 yuan, resulting in the driver's death. 50 yuan, I bought three lives!
Xiangfan people are proud of being gangsters and ashamed of being polite!
In addition, there are doubts about Xiangfan's economic development model. Xiangfan's industries include the gradient transfer of the second automobile industry, the old military industry, and some disorderly manufacturing industries such as textiles, thermal power and chemical fiber. But what puzzles me is that I don't see any decent market towns and small and medium-sized enterprise groups along the expressway, nor do I see any economic forms such as development zone economy, suburban economy, small town economy and small and medium-sized industrial belt.
It's hard to imagine a city with a developed manufacturing industry, with no exhibitions in the suburbs, and directly facing a piece of farmland after leaving the city.
It is also hard to imagine that a place where the private economy is inactive and the urban real estate industry is inactive, a place with the scale of medium and large cities but lacking the thinking of managing cities, can support the orderly development of the economy and the improvement of people's livelihood.
Xiangfan is a country that still dreams of being a big city.
Six, Suizhou:
Suizhou is a prefecture-level city, established in 2000. It is named after the ancient homeland of the country. Suizhou has a long history, and the tomb of Zeng Houyi and the bells of the Warring States Period were unearthed in Suizhou. There are many sites of the Warring States period in China, which is a national historical and cultural city.
Suizhou is a traditional agricultural economic zone with a weak industrial base. In 2006, the GDP was 2 1 100 million yuan, and the urban population was nearly 280,000. Suizhou is one of the cities with poor economic foundation in Hubei.
I don't want to have more bad comments on Suizhou, because it is a city that has just been established for 7 years.
I don't want to criticize Suizhou, because Suizhou's decay and weakness can't stand any blow.
I just want to give two suggestions about Suizhou.
First, the establishment of Suizhou City is the right decision, and Guangshui Brothers need not emphasize the difference between Suixian and Xiaogan.
Hubei has a large population with hundreds of thousands of counties, population 100. In such a county, the scale of towns is too small, the proportion of rural areas is too high, the scope of county management is too large, and the management functions are not easy to perform. Under such an administrative framework, small towns can't develop, the urbanization rate can't be improved, and it can't develop with the tertiary industry and industry of the city. Only one word is poor.
In Hubei, the administrative division is extremely unreasonable, and the population distribution does not match the administrative power at all.
The establishment of Suizhou not only improves the administrative layout and urban layout between Xiangfan and Xiaogan, but also helps to promote urban development, increase employment and improve economic level.
In my opinion, the administrative division of Suizhou is not complete, and the area of 6,543,800+7,000 people like Zengdu District is still too large, which needs further division.
I think it is appropriate to set up a county every 500,000 people under the current geographical population distribution in Hubei.
After all, the urban construction in Suizhou is a new beginning, and we should fully absorb the experience of advanced provinces and cities in urban planning and management, with a high starting point, long-term planning and scientific layout.
Don't take the disadvantages of Hubei urban construction and get rid of the unnecessary inertia of Hubei urban construction.
To be honest, I am not optimistic about the administrative ability of Suizhou.
Suizhou Commercial Street is well planned. How can I put it?
A rural supply and marketing cooperative! !
I am really worried about Suizhou. Low-level construction will waste the rare opportunity to build a city in Suizhou for a hundred years.
Suizhou, in a hopeless field!
Six: Xiaogan:
Xiaogan was named after the story of 24 filial piety. Three stories of 24 filial piety happened in Xiaogan, namely, Yong Dong sold his body to bury his father, Huang Xiang was gentle, and Meng Zong cried bamboo shoots. I think it is certainly not a fluke that sages have concentrated so many filial piety in one place, but it has its inherent cultural genes.
Xiaogan, located in the hinterland of Jianghan Plain, 60 kilometers away from Wuhan, has a GDP of about 40 billion in 2006 and an urban population of about 300,000.
Among the cities in Hubei, Xiaogan's city is the cleanest and neatest, and the paving and greening of the main streets of the city seem to have been planned and made great efforts. The city is not big, the streets are flat and spacious, and the main streets are not as crowded as Xiangfan and Jingzhou, so they are very orderly.
In addition, according to incomplete statistics, Xiaogan seems to be one of the few cities in Hubei with crosswalk traffic lights installed.
In the meantime, I had some exchanges with Xiaogan people. Generally speaking, I think Xiaogan people may have a tradition of attaching importance to literature and ceremony, and think that the average civilization of citizens is higher than that of other cities in Hubei, and their ways of speaking, words and deeds are more civilized.
Therefore, I think the folk rumors about the cunning of Xiaogan people are not authentic!
Xiaogan is a small town, shabby and formal, but this small town makes people feel that it is a city of self-love, self-esteem, education and a small family. The streets are not magnificent, but at least they are clean and tidy. Although this city is not a modern city, at least its planning is reasonable and moderate. Commercial streets in the city are orderly in terms of business distribution, shop decoration and business environment.
This also reflects the vision of Xiaogan administration in Hubei environment and the basic literacy of Xiaogan people.
At present, the whole industry in Hubei, except energy, almost all rely on the automobile industry chain driven by the second automobile. The same is true of Xiaogan's industry. The local area is rich in phosphate, salt and gypsum. Unfortunately, these minerals are not very profitable, and there are also some industrial categories such as machinery, textiles, electronics and food. The industrial base is poor and the industrial competitiveness is not strong. Strictly speaking, there should be no competitive industrial categories and industrial belts.
Judging from the connection between Xiaogan and Wuhan, the transportation is convenient, the labor force is sufficient, the educational resources are developed, and industrialization is obviously Xiaogan's shortcoming.
Xiaogan, a poor dutiful son, is a poor but self-respecting city.
Bless Xiaogan, knowing that people who love themselves will not be without spring.
Eight: Ezhou:
Ezhou is a very traditional city, once the ancient city of Wuwang, which truly inherited the lineage of Yunmeng osawa, the city of 100 lakes, which best represents the geographical characteristics of Jianghan Plain and is also the hometown of Wuchang fish.
Ezhou, with an urban population of about 280,000 and a GDP of about 654.38+0.3 billion yuan in 2006, is a pocket town.
Ezhou is a real water city in the south of the Yangtze River.
Especially from the highway, along the lakeside highway of Yanglan Lake, the real vegetation is lush, the water surface is flat, the breeze is blowing gently and sparkling. Urban architecture is mixed in it. Even though the beauty of the West Lake is not as magnificent as that of Yanglan Lake, it is a great achievement of the beauty of urban waterscape that I have seen in my life.
However, after crossing the lakeside and entering the urban area, Ezhou is no different from other cities in Hubei. Business is depressed, the city looks shabby, and the city is relatively rural. Judging from the loss of the core, the urban temperament is introverted and stingy, and there is a heavy impression of the countryside in it. Fortunately, the city is still small. Although the city is dilapidated, it does not appear chaotic.
From the administrative division of Ezhou and the establishment of the development zone, it can be seen that Hubei has the intention of taking Ezhou as a pilot of economic and social reform.
One is to divide administrative divisions, build small towns and characteristic industrial zones, the other is to establish high-paying technology parks for industrial development, and then the industrialization of agriculture and the development of tourism.
This idea itself has a far-sighted overall view, which should also be a good way for Hubei.
Unfortunately, Ezhou has developed for more than ten years, supported by Hubei and occupied by Ezhou.
The pilot project in Ezhou can be summarized as "painting a tiger does not make a dog".
This also shows the incompetence of previous ruling authorities, or the huge lag of Hubei rebellious culture in the process of modernization.
Ezhou, a city with a low vision and a dim future.
Nine: Huanggang "
There are more than 200 generals in Huanggang, and one middle school is more famous than Huanggang:
Huanggang is located at the junction of Hubei and Henan, on the north bank of the Yangtze River and at the south foot of Dabie Mountain. Huanggang has a population of less than 300,000, and its GDP in 2006 was nearly 40 billion yuan. With a population of over 7 million, this city has the lowest GDP per capita in Hubei Province except Enshi.
There is a misunderstanding about Huanggang. I always thought Huanggang was a mountain. So it can be understood that Huanggang's poverty lies in its geographical environment. In fact, less than 30% of Huanggang is really mountainous, and the rest are plains and hills with good farming conditions. Huanggang's poverty, but also to put aside geographical restrictions to find the root causes.
Later, I heard an allusion from a friend, which I think can reveal the reasons for poverty in Huanggang. It was in Hongan County that the taxi company invested by Wenzhou businessmen was leased by local people, and Wenzhou businessmen collectively lost to Hongan.
The reason why the folkway of Huangzhou is tenacious is that in the revolutionary era, it showed the spirit of resistance, and in the peaceful world, this spirit of resistance is unruly and fierce.
But the folk customs in Huangzhou are so strange. Under such folk customs, Huangzhou people attach great importance to education. There are Bi Sheng, the inventor of movable type printing in Song Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a medical sage in Ming Dynasty, Li Siguang, a giant of modern geological science, Wen Yiduo, a patriotic poet and scholar, Huang Kan, a master of Chinese studies, Xiong Shili, a philosopher, and Hu Feng's hometown. There is Huanggang Middle School, the most famous high school in China. The education penetration rate and enrollment rate of middle schools are also relatively high in China.
In addition, Huangmei County in Huanggang is also the hometown of Huangmei Opera, which is graceful and delicate and has always been my favorite drama.
Tough and delicate, arrogant and civilized, which is the truth of Huanggang?
Huangzhou city is small, and the city is divided into old and new parts. The beautiful Aokang Pedestrian Street has been built in the new city, but the old city is still the commercial center and administrative center now.
The construction of Huangzhou, limited by its weak financial resources, looks shabby and cramped. The whole city looks more like a small county town than an administrative center with a population of 7 million. The level of service industry, retail industry and other industries is very poor, and the local purchasing power is obviously insufficient. The market is not attractive.
In fact, all the cities around Wuhan have this problem. Weak Wuhan can not only bear the responsibility of stimulating the development of surrounding areas, but also absorb the resources and opportunities of surrounding cities with the help of the siphon function of central cities. Wuhan is not a division of labor with surrounding cities, but a competitive relationship. Even in retail, the primary industry, Wuhan's huge market attraction has stifled the development space of business and service industries in surrounding cities. It is also nonsense for the Hubei government to set up administrative divisions.
Why should we set up an administrative center with a population of 7 million on the edge of the whole region, next to Wuhan? Why not set it in the center of this area, such as Macheng and other cities?
An administrative center attached to Wuhan, in addition to benefiting Huangzhou citizens, is it the right solution for more than 6 million residents?
Hehe, the setting of administrative divisions in Hubei Province is not only changeable, but also amateur. Hubei is backward, which shows that Hubei officials are responsible!
Jojo, that's too far.
Huanggang, a mysterious city.