Chapter 60 idealistic light

It was also by chance that we learned the news about the docking between the Shanghai Commodity Exchange and the Nanxun Building Materials Market. The two parties seemed to value exploration more than creating any sensational news.It is understood that at the beginning of 1997, the Nanxun building materials market realized a cooperative relationship with Suzhou Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Building Materials Exchange. This interview gave us a lot of stimulation, because we once again felt the extraordinary imagination of farmers in Zhejiang, and also looked forward to the infinite expansion space for the future development of the professional market.

We would like to tell another idealistic story below. It is a pity that it is not as successful as Nanxun, but the light of inspiration and thoughts shining in this story is not inferior to the former one at all. The protagonist of the story is even more famous than the Nanxun building materials market: Yongkang China Science and Technology Hardware City. "Hardware craftsmen travel all over the world, and the prefectures and counties can't leave Kang." The century-old ballad has been sung to this day, and the "Kang" in the song is Yongkang in the Central Zhejiang Basin.

Yongkang has always been known as "the hometown of a hundred craftsmen".In this county-level city, there are as many as 4,000 hardware and machinery companies, with 150,000 employees, accounting for about half of the labor force in Yongkang.Yongkang's hardware products range from cars and tractors to steel drums and hot pots.Among them, the annual output of electric tools is more than 1 million pieces, accounting for one-third of the total output of the country. Since the 1980s, 16 small hardware professional markets have spontaneously emerged in various villages and towns in Yongkang, with a total annual turnover of about 1.4 billion yuan.However, due to the scattered layout, it is still impossible to form a fist market.The neighboring county of Yongkang is Yiwu, which is famous for "the best market in the world".It was inspired by this strong neighbor that Yongkang people took a bold step.

In June 1994, an ambitious market plan was launched: Yongkang people took out the most potential piece of land in the territory, at the intersection of Jinwen and Hangwen highways on the east side of the city, requisitioned 500 卣 of land to create a hardware market. "Our vision is," they wrote in a market blueprint, "to build the hardware market into a comprehensive, multi-functional, and distinctive large-scale market focusing on hardware wholesale, combining scientific and technological information with the market, Gather hardware products from all over the country in one city, and gradually connect with the international hardware futures market..."

Obviously, Yongkang people want to take a new road that is completely different from Yiwu market. It seems that their starting point and vision are higher than those of Yiwu people. They knocked on the door of the State Science and Technology Commission, China's top science and technology leadership body. "Hardware is a modern industry with great potential for development, but the technological content of hardware products in our country is very low and cannot be compared with developed countries at all. Our Yongkang Hardware Market is willing to serve as a pilot of the National Science and Technology Commission to contribute to the technological progress and development of my country's hardware industry. Do your best to communicate.”

The State Science and Technology Commission was moved by this group of simple and high-spirited farmers. The relevant leaders made a decision and agreed to be one of the cooperative units of the hardware market and fully support the development of the market. They knocked on the door of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China's highest scientific research institution. "The reason why my country's hardware industry lags behind is that the latest technology and information cannot communicate with scientists and enterprises at the fastest speed. The factory directors of countless enterprises are troubled by not being able to find a good project. Lying in a safe and sleeping. Yongkang Hardware Market is willing to become a window for communication."

Scientists were also touched. Many academicians of the Academy of Sciences expressed their willingness to take their research results to the hardware market and to give on-site guidance in person. In such running and communication, the signboard of the hardware market was hung up: Yongkang China Science and Technology Hardware City. Among the tens of thousands of professional markets in China, there are only a few with the title of "China", and among all the markets, only Yongkang is based on technology. "We want to realize the marriage of modern technology and the professional market." This is an unheard of large construction.

"Yongkang has the largest hardware industry group in the country. Even if only 20% of the 4,000 enterprises have obtained it from the hardware city, new technologies and information may have a huge impetus for Yongkang and China's hardware industry. .” Market creators have big ambitions. In order to get rid of the traditional market-making routine, Yongkang people started their own exploration by referring to the permanent exposition model of developed countries.In just over two years, with the full support of the National Science and Technology Commission and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they have successively established the Yongkang Branch Center of the China Daily Hardware Technology Development Center and the Yongkang Science and Technology Information Center in the market, and established a "Science and Technology Project Pavilion" , "New Hardware Sample Hall", "Domestic and Foreign Sample Hall", and designed and developed the first domestic "hardware patent query system" and "hardware talent project query system".

A completely unfamiliar professional market is vividly presented in front of the farmers. "Technology is bought from the market, and products are sold to the market." This is the latest concept of running a market put forward by the creators of the market.Indeed, Yongkang people have done their best in the marriage of technology and market. Yongkang's market experience has been highly appraised by the press and theoretical circles. In the market, news can be gathered everywhere that certain companies have obtained Italian projects from the Science and Technology Center. Good reviews are like tides, expectations are like high clouds.

However, in the past few years since the establishment of the market, the turnover of the market has not increased rapidly, and the business room of the huge trading site has been opened and closed. Compared with the soaring popularity of the Yiwu market tens of kilometers away, this place is inevitably a bit deserted. It's hard to say that their attempt was a complete failure. After all, the Hardware City is still the largest professional hardware market in the country, but the frustration of Yongkang people is still written on their faces: Is our idea of ​​marriage too advanced? Or have we not found a better way that can be accepted by business owners?Or have we neglected something that should not have occurred in a certain link?

The discrepancy between ideal and reality has troubled Yongkang people today with severe facts. Here, we have no intention of finding answers for the way out of the Hardware City. What we want to talk about is the unconstrained and unconstrained new market thinking embodied by Yongkang farmers in this exploration.It is comparable to the peasants in Yiwu, Shaoxing and Nanxun. The creativity and imagination inspired by them are the most important source of life for the professional market to survive and develop. In the past two decades, the professional market has never been static. It has been turbulent and breaking through, and has been seeking for a more reasonable and richer survival connotation. It is always changing with the times and will never be finalized. In recent years, one of the most important features is that the professional market is always seeking to collide and merge with other economic factors to produce new operating functions. What we have seen is: the grafting of the market and industry has produced the Shaoxing model; the grafting of the market and urban commerce has produced the Hangzhou model; the grafting of the market and futures has produced the Nanxun model; today the market hopes to graft with technology.A refreshing Yongkang model has emerged. In other markets in Zhejiang, and in many markets across the country, such grafting and collisions have never stopped.Perhaps, Yongkang's market downturn is temporary; perhaps, Yongkang's exploration failed.However, another group of farmers will eventually succeed in exploring in other places. No one can predict what will happen in the next 10 or 20 years, what will happen to the strange flowers in the professional market that grow on the local soil. In fact, such predictions are meaningless. In Zhejiang, markets are shrinking and disappearing every day, and there are always things that are intentionally planted but not blooming; but at the same time, new markets are born and growing, and things that are unintentionally planted willows often happen.The market road of farmers in Zhejiang started from thorns. How could they find a ready-made shortcut in the future?How can the future of the professional market depend on a certain established model? As Mr. Lu Xun, their predecessor, said: In fact, there is no road on the ground, and when there are many people walking, the road becomes a road. This generation of farmers has always been accustomed to finding their own way to make their own way.