Chapter 18 Chapter 4 Transformation. Zhaoxin

The "Bible" reads: I have seen that under the sun, those who run fast may not necessarily win, and those who fight hard may not win; Time" and "Opportunity". It has to be admitted that the reform and opening up in 1978 was a great opportunity for China and the Chinese people. While Dongguan was struggling to change the destiny of its agricultural county under this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, in Xingning, Meizhou, Guangdong, a rural youth was also struggling to change the destiny of his own farmers.The 22-year-old never dreamed that the trajectory of his life would take a new course.What's more, after 26 years of sailing, my life ship will sail to a city called Dongguan, and we will help each other from now on...

This person is Liu Zhigeng, the current Party Secretary of Dongguan City. The Spring Festival in 2004 was very special for Liu Zhigeng, then mayor of Qingyuan City. Two days ago, on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Yupu, head of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, suddenly talked to him and told him: "The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee It has been studied and decided to appoint you as the acting mayor of Dongguan." Since ancient times, politicians have a classic grand theory of governing the world.On the day when Liu Zhigeng reported to the Dongguan Municipal Government, he said five sentences that all Dongguan people still remember: The key to politics lies in the development of business; the main policy of politics lies in innovation; It's about unity.

When Liu Zhigeng first arrived in Dongguan, one of the things he did the most was to spread his legs and run to and from the grassroots.This run unexpectedly brought out many emotions from Liu Zhigeng, and gave him a new understanding of this rich land. On this day, Liu Zhigeng went to the fishermen's village in Humen.What shocked Liu Zhigeng was that a group of impoverished fishermen lived in this land of utter wealth in the Chinese impression.These fishermen have lived by the sea for generations. Now, the inland river is polluted, and they cannot go out to the sea due to lack of equipment.Because they lived on the boat for many years, it was difficult for them to adapt to the life on the shore. They could only stay in the dilapidated boat, looking at the sea and sighing, living a life of embarrassment.When Liu Zhigeng went into the homes of those people, there was garbage everywhere on the boat, and there were even dead rats.Where is this place where people can live? !The scene in front of him made Liu Zhigeng suddenly feel the pain he had not seen for a long time. This pain has spread to the weakest part of his heart, making him feel a heart-wrenching pain. He never expected to enter the 21st century. There are still such people living in heaven. Obviously, they have been abandoned and forgotten by the train of the rapid development of the times... Liu Zhigeng also went to a backward village in Dalingshan Town, an old revolutionary area. Once I was so sad that I shed tears. Those people lived on the government's minimum living standard subsidy, which was only 380 yuan a month.

"Tell me, how do you live in Dongguan with this little money?" Liu Zhigeng asked everyone at the meeting again and again, "Comrades, we must know that we still have many poor people, and some people have no houses to live in!" In the early summer of 2008, when the author interviewed Liu Zhigeng, when this civilian secretary who walked out of the fields talked about all this to the author, his face was moved: "Every time the central leaders come over, everyone is used to taking them to visit the richest town in Dongguan. , the conclusion is that Dongguan is very rich. In fact, there are still some groups of us who live very hard. I saw that Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries have some good practices in this regard, so we also decided to distribute some money to these vulnerable groups. subsidy."

The decision Liu Zhigeng mentioned was the red envelope distribution in Dongguan, which was widely hyped up by the media. On May 28, 2008, the Dongguan Municipal Government issued a document, deciding to issue a one-time temporary living subsidy to 7 categories of people in Dongguan who have difficulty in household registration, namely, low-income recipients, special care recipients, and five-guarantee households, and 8 types of people on the edge of the low-income households. , Each person is issued a red envelope of 1,000 yuan.This is the first time in the mainland that the government has issued red envelopes.

Some people say that the "economic barometer" usually comes from the rich, and the "social barometer" usually comes from the poor.Since the reform and opening up, people have paid too much attention to the stories of the rich, but few people have paid attention to the poor in the affluent society.In fact, how an affluent society benefits the poor is fundamental to building a harmonious society.In Liu Zhigeng's mind, the true prosperity of socialism must be common prosperity, and the communists must make all the people prosperous if they want to realize the ultimate goal of governing for the people.This is the ruling concept of the municipal party secretary who grew up with a farmer's son, and it reflects an ideal and pursuit of contemporary Chinese Communists.

Liu Zhigeng looks modest and behaves modestly.He will read all the letters written by ordinary people and give instructions.The common people know that their secretary not only reads letters, but also can solve problems, so all the annoying things that the common people encounter in their lives, and even those old things that have been accumulated for many years, all ran out at once, and ran into a Letters addressed to "Liu Zhigeng"... Zhang Qiping, a farmer in Huarong County, Hunan Province, who works in Dongguan, wrote a letter of help to Liu Zhigeng with a glimmer of hope in order to save the life of his 17-year-old daughter Zhang Mengling who suffered from "acute lymphoblastic leukemia". I hope the media appeals to the society for help; Liang Jiangling bought a house in Dongguan, but she didn’t have a registered permanent residence in Dongguan, and her daughter couldn’t go to Satisfied Middle School, so she wrote to Liu Zhigeng, and Liu Zhigeng read her letter at the city-wide cadre meeting; Yang Shengde, a foreign worker who was hit by a car and fell on the bed, wrote a letter to Liu Zhigeng, calling for the construction of an overpass, and received Liu Zhigeng's instructions...

As a result, the recipient was so busy day and night that he even made full use of his time in the car. Sometimes he could receive more than 100 letters a day, and he couldn't finish reading them. He took them home and read them again.He made a rule for himself that no matter how late it was, he had to read the letter that day.Liu Zhigeng believes that this is not only a responsibility, but also a feeling. "If you don't have basic feelings for the masses, you won't feel that other people's affairs are so important. The interests of the people are no small matter. The person who wrote to me must have encountered real difficulties."

A few words, Liu Zhigeng said very calmly and casually, but after listening to it, the author savored it deeply, and felt the kindness deep in the heart of this civilian leader that would never fade. A municipal party secretary who is at the forefront of China's economic development is so humble and close to the people. Isn't this the blessing of this galloping city?People from Dongguan, you are so lucky! In March 2006, Liu Zhigeng officially took up the post of Secretary of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee. During Liu Zhigeng's tenure as the secretary of the municipal party committee for less than a year, he did two things that didn't seem to fit his kind personality—both things were easy to offend!

The first thing Liu Zhigeng did was to ruin the job of the motorcycle driver. It stands to reason that motorcycle drivers are considered a vulnerable group, not to mention the wind and the sun, not to mention the safety hazards, and the money they can earn every month is really limited.So, why does Liu Zhigeng, who is kind-hearted and caring about the disadvantaged groups, want to take the jobs of these disadvantaged groups? The author asked him. Liu Zhigeng smiled, and told the author about an event that impressed him deeply: "That was the annual meeting of prosecutors and chief prosecutors across the country held in Dongguan Convention and Exhibition Center. When the meeting was about to end, the chief prosecutor of Dongguan kindly reminded everyone : Public security in Dongguan is not good, you must be careful when you go out on the street, it is best not to bring a bag, don’t go out alone, it is best to go out in two together. I was also sitting on the rostrum at the time, and I felt very embarrassed.”

This incident touched Liu Zhigeng a lot. At that time, he secretly made up his mind to ensure law and order. "I think we don't have to worry about the current economic development in Dongguan. The key is to provide the common people with a stable social environment. Now the common people in Dongguan are gradually getting richer, but the social security is poor. If you can't even save your life, what's the point of being rich?" significance?" Indeed, as Dongguan becomes richer, its social security also shows a worrying side.It is said that there is a popular saying among robbers: it is better to rob once in Dongguan than to rob once in the mainland.The temptation of huge interests makes criminals take risks.In addition, Dongguan has a special population structure: the registered population of Dongguan is 1.71 million, the permanent population is 6.97 million, plus the floating population, the total population reaches 12 million, ranking third in Guangdong Province, which determines that Dongguan bears huge pressure on public security . In April 2006, Liu Zhigeng, on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, made a solemn promise to the people of the city: the social order in Dongguan must be significantly improved by the end of this year. With this absolute "military order", a massive "security movement" kicked off in Dongguan.Among them, the biggest action is Zhimo (motorcycle). But don't underestimate this Zhimo.After the successful management of motorcycles in Dongguan, Zhang Dejiang, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, proudly introduced to Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan: "All 36 cities in the country have failed in the management of motorcycles, and Dongguan is the only successful city." the only one?Is Zhimo so difficult? And it is.Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s talk about Guangzhou and Shenzhen. These two cities have taken anti-corruption measures, but in the end they failed because of the pressure.Many people in Shenzhen can still remember the spectacular scene when they were riding motorcycles. Thousands of motorcycles gathered in the square, and it was a chaotic scene. Thousands of motorcycle drivers shouted slogans... Even Dongguan itself, a few There were also two large-scale anti-motorcycle operations in 2010, and the government building was surrounded by thousands of motorcycles. After the successful management of motorcycles in Dongguan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities came to learn from it.They got the most core point: humanized work is the magic weapon for successful management. In fact, the management of friction seems to be a specific matter, but it is actually a test of the governance ability and governance philosophy of a rapidly developing city that has reached a certain stage. Foreign capital used to have an impression of Dongguan: the economy is developing fast, but there are many problems that follow, because some phenomena like the motorcycle accident always greatly reduce the development and image of Dongguan.Liu Zhigeng and the leaders of Dongguan City seized this phenomenon and took massive rectification measures. In fact, they rectified the essential problems exposed in the process of economic development and urban modernization in Dongguan City by rectifying the surface, namely, rapid economic development, urbanization process and improving the quality of citizens. , Strengthening the relationship between urban scientific management must go hand in hand, both are indispensable. Everything revolves around the word "person", empathy, and first ignites one's humble heart as a torch, so that no matter how difficult the situation is, you will not lose your way.Tagore said it well: When we are humble, we are most recently great. Of all things, the most difficult thing to do is to do things that involve the interests of "people". In 2006, when the towns in Dongguan changed their terms, Liu Zhigeng encountered a troublesome thing.According to the new regulations of the country, each town must reduce the number of deputy secretaries of the town committee to two.At that time, most of the deputy secretaries of the town committees in each town had four, and some had five. Everyone is happy to be promoted, but it is not a matter of face to let the cadres down from their current positions.In traditional Chinese culture, people have long been accustomed to the fact that they can go up but not down. Unless you make a mistake, how can there be a good reason to go down? It's a real headache. However, Liu Zhigeng had to bite the bullet to deal with this headache. This matter was handled very satisfactorily afterwards, but Liu Zhigeng did not know how many times he had a headache at the beginning.At that time, there were more than 100 secretaries and deputy secretaries of 32 townships in Dongguan. Liu Zhigeng talked to them all separately within a month. What is especially important is that Liu Zhigeng did not ask them to come to the office, but went to the township in person. Here, go to the door one by one.No matter how reluctant the cadres were, the grievances in their hearts dissipated when they saw the modest secretary who visited in person, and the change of office went smoothly. The second offending thing Liu Zhigeng did after he became secretary was the "double transformation" well known to everyone in Dongguan. This matter is much bigger than the movement of Zhimo. The author saw it on the BBS of the website, and there was a lot of discussion.Why did Liu Zhigeng look for trouble when he had nothing to do, and bring himself a troublesome matter that would attract criticism and offend others? "I can't just think about the present, I have to think about the future of Dongguan from a long-term perspective. If we don't take this step now, if we don't take measures, then if the national policy is adjusted in the future, coupled with certain factors, it will be very difficult. It may lead to the hollowing out of Dongguan’s industry. At that time, it will be too late for you to think of a solution. Who will live in so many hotels? Who will rent so many houses? Therefore, we leaders must be sober, and we must not I am reluctant to give up the small profits in front of me, I must have a strategic vision, and I must not pursue temporary political achievements. I will do it even if I offend others!" Liu Zhigeng said. Through the sobriety of city leaders like Liu Zhigeng, the author found that since the reform and opening up, Dongguan has been riding the wind and waves, setting sail and making progress, and has made remarkable achievements. Unexpectedly, the situation has changed dramatically.It can be said that this giant economic ship has never been in such a dangerous situation as it is today. First of all, the dark cloudy climate is not optimistic.Our shrinking world has reached a "threshold" threatened by competition.More importantly, after so many years of fast driving, Dongguan, a giant economic ship, has begun to reveal its own problems.Behind the brilliant achievements, there are many deep-seated problems and contradictions, such as resource shortages and environmental degradation.Regarding these issues, Liu Zhigeng once gave the author a simple example: For example, electricity consumption in Dongguan was 50.8 billion kilowatt-hours in 2007, surpassing Guangzhou and Shenzhen and ranking first in Guangdong.The output value of Dongguan in 2007 was more than 300 billion, while that of Shenzhen was more than 600 billion. "This shows that our industrial structure is unreasonable. In other words, our rapid development is supported by the consumption of a lot of manpower, material resources, and resources. The cost is too high! There are also environmental pollution, social security, overpopulation, Many problems, such as traffic jams, were caused by the rapid development in the past. If we do not adjust the industrial structure, then the following problems will accumulate..." Apparently, after years of voyage, Dongguan, a huge economic ship, is already overloaded and surrounded by hidden reefs. If it continues on its original course, the consequences will be disastrous.Only when the difficult action of turning the rudder is completed can Dongguan create a real miracle. In April 2006, Liu Zhigeng led a delegation to the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta to conduct on-the-spot investigations in eight cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Suzhou.Not long after returning from his investigation in the Yangtze River Delta, Liu Zhigeng proposed the idea of ​​"double transformation" (economic transformation and social transformation) at the meeting.He clarified one point to everyone: "It will take at least ten years for us to carry out the dual transformation. Of course, I also know that the development of high-tech is a process and there are certain difficulties, but we must start with a goal, otherwise how can we move forward? Walk?" In the meeting room, the new leadership team once again weighed the future and destiny of Dongguan, looking for the safest and most accurate course... On January 9, 2007, at the Twelfth Party Congress of Dongguan City, Liu Zhigeng, on behalf of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee, made a report entitled "Promoting Economic and Social Transformation and Building a Prosperous and Harmonious New Dongguan".This is a scene of great significance in the history of Dongguan's reform and opening up.From this day on, the giant economic ship of Dongguan began to turn its bow and sail away from its original course. However, once this giant economic ship changed course, it immediately fell into a huge vortex.Listen carefully, in the sound of the waves, there seems to be a solemn and stirring song of Chu singing in all directions.Indeed, the songs of Chu come from four groups: enterprises, migrant workers, village collectives, and ordinary people. The reform itself is a reform of interests, and it is bound to involve the interests of some people.These four groups are the losers in this transformation. Liu Zhigeng, who acts meticulously, knows in his heart that when you block one road, the government that introduces reform measures should open up another road, otherwise unimaginable social problems will arise, such as the management of motorcycles. If there are two roads, then you have to guide the other two roads: one is the road for motorcycle drivers to survive, and the other is the road for ordinary people to travel. Therefore, as long as the re-employment problems of motorcycle drivers and the public transport problems are solved, The Najima problem will be solved.But this time the problem is much more complicated. The great transformation of Dongguan will affect many groups, and its breadth and depth are unprecedented. That is to say, you must guide the corresponding conditions for these four groups Only then will this huge vortex become calm and full of harmonious beauty. Let’s talk about enterprises first, which are the main body of economic transformation.In fact, not all companies are resistant to transformation.Faced with unfavorable factors such as rising labor costs and declining exports, as far as enterprises themselves are concerned, they also have an inherent desire to enhance their competitiveness.In terms of this desire, what the government needs to do is to guide and promote, and help companies find ways to break through as much as possible: Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have formulated some policies that are conducive to industrial upgrading, such as spending 1 billion a year for five consecutive years to establish The Science and Technology Dongguan Fund is used to promote industrial upgrading and enterprise upgrading and transformation. Look at migrant workers.How to guide them from low-skilled workers to high-quality workers?The author learned that Dongguan’s practice is: Dongguan’s finance department spends 60 million yuan each year to train new Dongguan people. It is hoped that through their skill training, they will be able to master higher skills, adapt to the requirements of industrial upgrading, and be able to come together with the city. Improve and progress together with the city. Relatively speaking, the problems of enterprises and migrant workers are easy to resolve, but the double embarrassment from village cadres and villagers is not very pleasant, because this transformation involves the interests of the village collective and villagers, which are their own up.In a word, the revolution has come to him! As we all know, most of the tens of thousands of enterprises in Dongguan are located in the village, and most of the industrial areas are located in the village.For the current industrial transformation, the village level is obviously reluctant. In order to solve employment, rent collection fees and develop the service industry, they are more willing to retain labor-intensive enterprises. The actual situation is that the rental economy is an important channel for the village and group income. , The income of the villagers also mostly depends on the collective economy. This transformation means that the old pattern of interests will be broken. No wonder the opposition from the village cadres is endless.The biggest reason is: "Industrial restructuring should be done in accordance with economic laws, the government should not interfere, and those bosses can leave if they want." This is a real revolution!Its impact and controversy are no less than any major reform in Dongguan after the reform and opening up.More importantly, the reforms in the past all jumped out of the ultra-leftist line and revolutionized the old system. However, this time the revolution has fallen on itself—not only from past experience, Jumping out of the concept and path dependence, it will also carry out fundamental reforms on the "mountain" of vested interests, and the degree of difficulty can be imagined.Liu Zhigeng said frankly to the author: "Dongguan started with 'three to one supplement', and 'three to one supplement' made a great contribution to Dongguan's primitive accumulation, and its historical role is indispensable. But this special industrial structure Adjustments must be made now. Secretary Wang Yang is very accurate. He proposed to us to adjust the industrial structure and carry out industrial upgrading, which is consistent with the "double transformation" we proposed. This is a major milestone in the history of Dongguan's reform and opening up. Turning point. This adjustment process is a very painful process. We must endure the temporary pain, because the adjustment will definitely touch the interests of some people. We must also endure the economic slowdown. With a temporary reduction in income, we have to bear the pain to part with each other. In addition, we must endure all kinds of criticism from society..." People-oriented, people-oriented, and scientific development are exactly what the new generation of Dongguan leaders are pursuing in their hearts and in their actual work.Since then, Dongguan has embarked on a thorny road to the future.This is a rough road full of ups and downs, but also a glorious road full of hope. We look forward to the song of Chu turning into an ode to victory soon! In fact, the prelude to victory has already sounded.And the creators of truly glorious history are always the masses of the people.To give a specific example: Fenggang Town originally had 1,200 enterprises, but after transformation, the number has been reduced to 800. However, its economic aggregate has increased by more than 20%, and its export earnings have also increased by 20%.It cannot be said that it is not amazing! Speaking of the future of Dongguan, Liu Zhigeng showed a bright smile on his face. He said: "After we adjust the industrial structure, the speed will definitely slow down, but it will increase sooner or later. I believe that Dongguan's future economy should develop at a high speed. The environment It will be more beautiful, and the society will be more harmonious. The Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have clearly proposed to establish a global perspective, plan development from the height of global economic development, take emancipation of the mind as the source of power to promote development, and promote a new leap in development with emancipation of the mind... ..." Following Liu Zhigeng's world perspective, we can find that according to the national medium and long-term development strategy, by 2030, China will become one of the largest economies in the world, which requires China to have world-class cities in the future. Undoubtedly, this worldwide strategic vision is farther and deeper. December 31, 1992.The clouds are calm and the wind is light. This day is an extraordinary day for all Qishi people.On this day, Qishi Town was deserted by thousands of people. All the villagers got up early in the morning and flocked to the town from all directions to watch the foundation stone laying and completion ceremonies of 12 major projects in Qishi Town like a carnival. .Indeed, this grand foundation-laying ceremony is extraordinary, absolutely unprecedented in the history of Qishi.Among them, the most exciting finale program was a very creative skydiving performance—following the roar of the helicopter, five pilots passed through the clouds and fog, descended leisurely from the sky, and slowly landed in a large empty farmland... All Qishi people exclaimed! However, for Qishi farmers, their purpose of coming from afar is not satisfied just to see the "Western view".The ceremony is over, but their carnival is not over, it even means the real beginning.These farmers who have become rich have enough money in their pockets, and they want to enter the Jewel Hotel, one of the 12 major projects, to visit, consume and enjoy. This day was also very special for all the employees of the three-star Gem Hotel. Perhaps the memory of this day will remain in their minds forever and become a special mark of a certain era.Many years later, the hotel attendant Xiong Suqiong recalled: "As soon as the ceremony ended that day, our hotel officially opened. All the restaurants in our hotel were full of farmers, and the restaurants were full of people waiting to eat. That scene Looking back now, it really feels like a lifetime ago. I remember that when they entered the hotel, most of them wore slippers, and some simply came in with bare feet..." It is obvious to all that earth-shaking changes have taken place in Dongguan over the years.Whether they are from Dongguan, from Dongguan, or outsiders like Xiong Suqiong, they have all undergone a transformation from the inside out. In November 2007, in the office of the general manager of Huatong City Hotel, the generous, beautiful and capable Xiong Suqiong always had a smile on her face when she recalled the scene back then. It’s different. I’ve seen with my own eyes that their quality is improving year by year. They gradually know how to dress carefully, and they start to wear suits and shoes. They enter the hotel like a gentleman, so you can’t even recognize them now as they used to be. Those farmers have changed. And many of those farmers started to do business again later, after more than ten years, they are completely different, their temperament has changed, and their whole person has changed. I feel so strongly about this!" Laughing and talking about the past, the past is like a passing cloud.During the ten years in Qishi, Xiong Suqiong has witnessed all the changes here, seeing with her own eyes the asphalt roads and high-rise buildings erected one by one.And Xiong Suqiong herself has undergone tremendous changes. From a cleaner to the general manager of a five-star hotel, her transformation process seems to be interpreting the myth of "a sparrow turns into a phoenix". When she first came to Gem Hotel, Xiong Suqiong was working as a cleaner.While others work 8 hours a day, Xiong Suqiong often works 12 hours a day.In those years, Xiong Suqiong sorted out 7,987 rooms and made as many as 174 work logs. In 1996, Xiong Suqiong was exceptionally promoted to the supervisor of the guest room department because of her outstanding work. The next year, she was promoted to the supervisor of the front office, and a year later, she was promoted to the deputy manager.By 2001, she had become the housekeeping director of the three-star hotel.This year, Xiong Suqiong's life took a new turning point. She was invited to join a five-star hotel that just opened - Huatong City Hotel. "I was the sixth general manager when I came in, which means that the previous five general managers worked for a short time. When I came, the hotel's efficiency was very poor. The boss told me, I don't need you to make a lot of money. You just need to build up your popularity. At that time, I told the boss, since you said such a thing, it means that I have a lot of room to operate, and I believe I will not let you down." Xiong Suqiong not only did not disappoint the boss, but also made the boss feel very lucky-he finally found a best management talent.However, Xiong Suqiong's painstaking efforts are unimaginable to ordinary people.Since taking over the responsibility of the general manager, she sleeps only 5 hours a day.Under her careful management, the benefits of Huatong City Hotel have improved rapidly, and the development has been step by step. The entertainment building was built in 2003, the sauna building was built in 2004, and the business building was built in 2005. Until 2007, the turnover of Huatong City increased by 20% every year, and Huatong City Hotel was changed into Huatong City Hotel. Xiong Suqiong feels that her biggest regret is her child. "My son is 12 years old this year and has been in Chongqing. He asked his aunt to take care of him because we are too busy to take care of him. I go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and come home at 10 o'clock in the evening. Every day is like this. There are no weekends. That’s what being a hotel is all about.” Looking at her, the author was deeply moved. In fact, it is precisely because of the hard work of thousands of Xiong Suqiong that Dongguan has such a brilliant today... Xiong Suqiong said that she has long since become a Dongguan native: "Because the lifestyle and work style are basically in line with here, after all, I have lived here for more than ten years. Now the conditions in Dongguan are good in all aspects, so we moved to Dongguan three years ago. With an idea, let’s make our home here. Now 98% of our hotel’s employees are from other places. To be honest, if a foreigner comes to Dongguan, he will not fall in love with Dongguan within a year or two. Many people He came here to look for opportunities. If he develops, he will stay, and if he does not develop, he will go back. But after he stays here for three or four years, he will get used to and accept everything here, and he will develop feelings for it. Love for a long time." Dongguan is really a city that makes people fall in love with each other for a long time and want to leave. In fact, it is not only because of its beauty, wealth, culture, and taste that foreigners fall in love with a city, but also because of the opportunities, platforms and opportunities that the city can provide them. what kind of future. On the way back to Dongguan from Qishi, the shock that the interview with Xiong Suqiong brought to our hearts is still lingering.On that day, Liu Dongwu, editor-in-chief of "Southern Flying Geese" magazine, accompanied the author in the interview. He lamented that Dongguan is a place where miracles occur: "Dongguan's development itself is a miracle, and this great miracle is also composed of many individual small miracles. It can be He said that everyone can create a miracle in Dongguan. I have several fellow villagers who came to Dongguan to work for a few years and then slowly started their own businesses. Now they are all bosses, and they all bought houses here to live and work in peace. .” After the reform and opening up, tens of thousands of farmers in China went south one after another, flying from the farmland to the city like sparrows. Their biggest dream is to change their humble fate of being born like a sparrow and become like a phoenix in their eyes. city ​​people. The "Southern Flying Geese" magazine edited by Liu Dongwu is specially organized for migrant workers in Dongguan, so he has come into contact with too many cases of "sparrows turning into phoenixes". Town, there was a young man from a mountain village in Fujian.The young man dropped out of school early because of his poor family in the first year of junior high school. He went out to work at the age of 16, and soon fell in love with a girl.The woman's family thought he was a pauper and did not agree with their relationship, so the young man had to elope with his girlfriend to Qishi Town, Dongguan, in 1992.After coming to Qishi, the young man found a part-time job, helping a waterworks under construction to approve the wall, and it cost two yuan per square meter.When criticizing the wall, the clever young man had an extra mind, taught himself a painting technique, and made his own inventions.Through experiments, he found that the effect of adding glass glue and moisture-proof glue to the paint is better. Painting the wall in this way is not only cheap, good quality, but also moisture-proof.With this unique secret skill, after approving these walls, the young man did not lose his job, and took some work to paint walls, and managed to survive in Qishi Town.Later, the young man took over an urgent job for a large company with a cost of 10,000 yuan. He worked overtime day and night, and finally delivered it on time.This satisfied the boss, and gave him another project with a cost of 50,000 yuan, and then gave him some projects one after another. Three years later, the young man earned hundreds of thousands.He started the company with this start-up capital. After five or six years, his Yixin Steel Industry Company has developed into a large enterprise with an annual output value of over 100 million yuan, and has become a major taxpayer in Qishi Town.Now, this young man named Qiu Qiguang is very grateful to the Qishi town government for its support to his enterprise, and has also moved his household registration from his hometown to Qishi, saying that Qishi is a good place, where the right time, place and people have brought him the best of his life. good luck good chance. After hearing this story, the author sighs that Dongguan is indeed a big stage full of opportunities. She not only creates miracles for herself every day, but also creates a possibility for thousands of foreigners to realize the value of life—here, You don't need to have a degree or background, as long as you are hardworking, hardworking, and persevering, you will definitely be able to dig treasures in this rich mine in Dongguan.The sun shines on everyone here. Liu Dongwu nodded in agreement.In fact, Liu Dongwu herself is also a typical example of "a sparrow turns into a phoenix".Not long ago, he just published a book called "Spiritual Birthmark from Countryside to City", which is the first theoretical research monograph on "migrant poetry" in the country, which is very remarkable.The articles written by this "worker poet" who never went to university are often published in journals such as "Dushu", "Tianya", "Literary Contest", etc., which has to be impressive.A few years ago, he just moved his household registration from his hometown in the countryside and became a real Dongguan native. Since he came to Dongguan to work in 1993, he has grown from a wage earner to a writer and editor-in-chief. Liu Dongwu said that his development is a gradual process, which is accompanied by the growth of Dongguan city. The hot land of Dongguan gave Liu Dong the memories of crying blood, and also gave him unlimited world and opportunities.It's hard to imagine, if it wasn't for the difficult wandering more than ten years ago, if it wasn't finally transplanted to the vast and rich land of Dongguan, how could he play the strong voice of life?When will this sparrow turn into a phoenix? After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, especially in the mid-1980s, the younger generation of farmers in China left their hometowns one after another, and began to change and change in their lives. No matter how they change, they will always follow an old saying :Water flows to lower place, man goes to higher position.In this transformation, countless migrant workers have flown to Dongguan to find their dreams like sparrows. We can say lyrically that the fate of Dongguan is their destiny. They rest on her shoulders like sparrows, draw strength from her, and thus realize their dreams; in fact, we can also say lyrically that their fate That is the fate of Dongguan. It is the energy released by these swarms of sparrows with their lives that condenses into a fire of nirvana.In the raging fire, they passed into nirvana, and so did Dongguan. Some data that are not lyrical seem to support the lyrical description above: According to the statistics of the "Dongguan Labor Service Company" in 1978, there were only 5,000 migrant workers in Dongguan that year, but from 1985 to 2005, the number of migrant workers in Dongguan skyrocketed from 156,200 To 5.8498 million, an increase of 36.45 times in 20 years; while the migrant workers in Dongguan skyrocketed, Dongguan's GDP also increased from 2.26 billion yuan in 1985 to 218.16 billion yuan in 2005, an increase of 9.55 billion in 20 years. times. Of course, there is also another set of data that can be used as a comparison: the amount of money remitted by migrant workers in Dongguan to their hometowns through the post office was 11.9 billion yuan in 1999, 13.76 billion yuan in 2001, and 14.2 billion yuan in 2002;邮局汇款金额累计高达1400亿元，东莞为全国约千万外来务工人员创造了就业机会。值得注意的是，无数的外来务工者在东莞学到了技术，学到了管理，他们自身的素质和修养也在这所“黄埔军校”内得到了提升。 无论如何，东莞将永远铭记和感谢这些曾为东莞付出过努力的每一位外来工。事实上，东莞也早已张开双臂热情地拥抱着他们，并赋予他们一个新的身份——新莞人。这些新莞人也早已爱上东莞，和这座城市深深地融为一体。他们在这里不仅可以圆梦，还能得到充满人情味的关心和爱护。 这也是一个富有意味的跨越。 如今的东莞给人的感觉是和谐，天与地的和谐，山与水的和谐，人与自然的和谐，老莞人和新莞人的和谐……在这些和谐中，令人感受最深的是政通人和的一种和谐。 2008年，对东莞来说，意味着一个新的历史转折点。 在中国改革开放30周年之际，东莞交出了一份气势非凡的完美答卷——2007年，东莞全市生产总值3151亿元，比1978年增长120倍，年均增长18％；2007年来源于东莞的财政收入540亿元，比1978年增长440余倍，年均增长22.5％。2007年东莞市村组集体净资产超800亿元。全市32个镇街地方财政可支配收入总额159亿元，平均每个镇4.97亿元，其中超10亿元的镇街3个…… 这份答卷意味着什么？ 意味着东莞从改革开放之初中国2000多个农业县中脱颖而出，迈入了北京、上海、广州、天津、深圳这样的大城市行列，而这样的大城市在中国还只有十几个！ 这不是神话又是什么？ 排在东莞身后的，无论是沈阳、大连、武汉，还是济南、哈尔滨、石家庄，在20多年前，默默无闻的东莞，怎么可能想到有朝一日自己竟会赶超这些实力雄厚的大城市呢？ 这确实是神话！据说，国外一位研究遥感技术的科学家曾经发出这样的惊叹：10多年前从卫星地图上看，广州和深圳之间还是一片空白，几年间在这片空白处冒出了一座城市。 不显山不露水，突然崛起。从一个农业县到一个世人瞩目的现代化大城市，这样的横空出世实在令人惊叹！ 在成绩面前，具有超前思维的东莞人并没有被辉煌所迷惑，他们又开始了探索——2008年的东莞将承载着先行试点、先出成绩、先出经验，为全省乃至全国做好解放思想、落实科学发展观这个探路榜样的重任。 在改革开放30周年之际，东莞新一轮的思想解放开始了。 关于广东省委书记汪洋发起的新一轮解放思想，我们不难发现，“解放思想”这个词在中共十七大被反复提及并被着重强调。在2008年的“两会”上，温家宝总理在回答中外记者提问时，说解放思想“将永不停止，一直到中国现代化的成功”。 改革开放30年的历史，其实就是一部思想解放史。 通过东莞改革开放30年，我们可以发现，解放思想的力度有多大，发展的空间就有多大。东莞改革开放30年，每一次的改革，都是以解放思想作为先导。 在解放思想下，东莞赢得了财富：1978年，东莞的地方预算财政收入总额只有0.66亿元，1985年开始突破1亿元，1994年突破10亿元，2000年突破100亿元，2007年则为186.45亿元。 在解放思想下，东莞人走上了富裕之路：1980年，东莞的城乡居民储蓄存款余额首次突破1亿元，1986年突破10亿元，1993年突破100亿元。据报道，2006年底东莞市银行存款总额为3400亿元，其中至少1000亿是个人存款。如果加上东莞居民投资在房地产、股票上的资产，东莞民间财富的总量有数千亿之巨。 在解放思想下，东莞孕育出了一大批自己的民营企业家：东莞初期引进的3000多家毛织厂，已基本由当时“洗脚上田”进厂的农民变成老板，如今成了民营企业家。服装、家具、电子、电脑、信息等产业也在“双转型”中逐步把核心掌控在自己手中。 在解放思想下，东莞的集体经济、民营企业、第三产业得到了蓬勃发展，全市大小工商企业发展到十几万户。东莞的村经济占整个广东省村经济的三分之一…… 够了，关于东莞30年所创造的神话，我们已经听得太多太多了。对于东莞神话，我们无论用什么样的词汇用什么样的事例描述都显得苍白无力，因为东莞的神话就如同上帝的杰作，完美无缺。比较中国各城市的改革开放史，我们不难发现创造东莞神话的一个法宝是：超前思维！在每一个发展的关键时期，东莞人都用这一法宝及时提升自己。 如今，在进一步解放思想下，在“双转型”精神的指引下，东莞人更加信心十足，东莞必将赢得更辉煌的明天。 遥想1434年，明朝的皇帝解散了郑和率领的船队，结束了海上贸易和探险，开始了闭门锁国的历史。这也是天朝大国走向衰落的开始。此时的中国，技术在全球仍居于领先地位，直至17世纪工业革命使西方世界崛起。中国错过了第一次、第二次工业革命，当第三次工业革命在美国兴起时，中国打开了改革开放的大门，在始于上世纪70年代末期的全球化浪潮中获益巨大，成为这个浪潮中最大的受益者。 这道国门的打开从根本上改变了整个中国的命运和局势，使历史向着胜利的方向行驶，并以诗意的手法创造了令世人震惊的奇迹——世界的重心东移了！中国在崛起！ 在中华人民共和国九百六十万平方公里的版图上，东莞曾经如同浩瀚大海中的一朵浪花，无人知晓，正如闭门后的中国在世人眼里微不足道。然而凭借着中国伟大的改革东风，东莞迅速崛起，以她那耀眼的光芒为世界解开了谜底：中国之所以崛起，是因为中华民族是一个坚不可摧的民族，这个民族有着非凡的聪明才智，有着超人的胆识魄力，有着顽强的拼搏精神，有着钢铁般的坚强意志…… 东莞的发展史绝不是一个普通意义上的城市发展史，也绝不仅仅是中国改革开放历史上一个成功典范那么简单，她的意义更在于，这是一首中华儿女奋发图强改变命运的英雄交响曲，更是一首解放思想、落实科学发展观的辉煌交响乐。 如今，这座城市是新生的，从内到外，她所有的一切都是新的。这个“新生儿”通体所散发出的金色光芒让人迷恋。在这金色光芒里，我们似乎看见了林则徐的身影。也许，正是他的英雄气概永远留了下来，使这片土地上的人们在改革大潮中，用他们开拓者的身躯为东莞的未来开辟出一条辉煌之路，把中国人几千年来强国富民的愿望变成了现实。他们的痛苦和欢乐，他们的幸福和悲伤，他们的成功和教训，他们曾经的血汗、眼泪、希望、焦灼、智慧、渴望，不仅仅是东莞自己的，更应是社会的共同财富！ 东莞终于迎来了涅槃。 涅槃给了东莞一个全新的生命！ 而东莞的涅槃，则向世界解开了中国崛起的谜团！