Chapter 13 Introduction to experience "China's No. 1 City"

First, the reason why I took up this title is that the 20th century is the most proud era for Chinese people after history, and the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics advocated by Deng Xiaoping will make the 1.2 billion Chinese people live at the end of the century. The last 20 years have created the most brilliant performance of the 20th century.During this period, I think the great practice carried out by the people of Yiwu, Zhejiang is a classic of the continuous self-revolution of Chinese peasants in the 20th century. For me who has lived in the capital Beijing for a long time, it was a bit funny when someone told me for the first time that there was a first city in China in a small place in China; but it was soon confirmed that this is indeed a fact. In the three or four months between the end of 1988 and the beginning of 1999, due to work needs, I shuttled back and forth between Beijing, Shenzhen, Hainan and southern Jiangsu, experiencing China's capital, special economic zone, large special zone and the city known as the reform and opening up. After South Jiangsu, one of the most active areas, I came to Yiwu, a little-known small city in the middle of Zhejiang, twice. What I didn’t expect was: I really saw the No. 1 city in China here. A city that outshines others with its prosperity and vitality.

In Shenzhen and Hainan, perhaps it has gone through its most glorious era, and perhaps it has not yet emerged from the shadow of the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia. In short, I am not as excited by its prosperity and prosperity as I was in the past. It is very peaceful or the business atmosphere is obviously a bit depressed. Southern Jiangsu is my hometown. In the past few years, I have devoted great enthusiasm to it and praised it many times with my pen.But when I went back to Yiwu and took a look at my hometown, I had to admit somewhat sadly: Today’s Yiwu people, no matter from the external intuition or the deep-level substantive content, have surpassed the southern Jiangsu area. And at least five years or even a longer distance...

Although there is no place that can be compared with the capital Beijing, there is one thing that makes me ponder and surprise: In the past few years, Beijing has built one after another large shopping malls, each of which is better than the other in terms of scale and luxury. After the opening of many shopping malls, the situation is not satisfactory. The venues are deserted, and many of them close their doors after a short time.Xinwantong Plaza, which is located on the side of the Second Ring Road, is an example. However, this new commercial building, which is first-class in terms of grade, scale, and terrain, had to close Zhang Geye within less than two years of opening, which made people feel uncomfortable. The people in the nearby capital were amazed. On New Year's Day in 1999, when I passed by this place again, I saw Xinwantong transformed into a small department store wholesale market.Unable to withstand the temptation of the crowds, when I walked into the building, I couldn't help being pleasantly surprised, because the commercial atmosphere here is far better than those old famous streets of Xidan and Wangfujing, and it has become a commercial building that Beijingers long for.After careful inquiry, what is even more surprising is that one-third of the owners who hold up this prosperous commercial building in the capital are from Yiwu, and almost half of the commodities that fascinate the people in the capital come from thousands of miles away. Yiwu City!

It is not acceptable to be dissatisfied.With the development of the times, we can no longer follow the traditional concept when discussing who is a hero. The computer kingdom can actually control the entire output value and profits of dozens or even hundreds of large state-owned enterprises in China; don't you see, why is there always someone in a small country like Japan who is unwilling to lower the head of militarism? It is because it is backed by the financial resources and technology of ten or twenty countries superior to yours; don’t we also have one or two brands like Chunlan and Haier worth a few percent or more than half of the gross national product of some provinces? ?

Yiwu people are becoming such a role in the lives of our 1.2 billion Chinese people.Whether you admit it or not, this is already an indisputable fact! There is already a small commodity wholesale market with the largest scale in the country; Here is a Langsha socks factory run by three brothers, which can produce one pair of socks for 1.2 billion people a year; There is a small town called Dachen who can supply the whole Chinese with a shirt of high quality and fashionable style every three years; Here... There are countless number ones in the country that have already quietly entered our lives. Believe it or not, only those who have been to Yiwu and can observe carefully will approve of this.

I agree that Yiwu is the No. 1 city of Huasha, neither because it has been the first in business sales for seven consecutive years among the tens of thousands of professional markets in the country, nor because this modernized city has risen almost overnight. How the city shines with dazzling brilliance in the middle of Zhejiang, but I can feel it from a few things I have seen and seen-the first time I felt excited about Yiwu was that the owner here personally led me to that boundless place. In the boundless world of commodities, I proudly slid my foot on the spot and said: The selling price per square meter of land here is as high as 69,000 yuan! 69,000 yuan per square meter?Then the owner who built a building and set up a shop here would have to pay more than 500,000 yuan just to buy this piece of land?When I gasped, the owner smiled smartly and said that although the owner paid more, if he can get such a treasured land, he will earn more!Later, I checked the information and found out that the land price in the prime location of Shenzhen has always been the highest in China. There was an astronomical figure of 72,000 yuan for 1 square meter at auction, but that was ten years ago. Now let alone Shenzhen, it is the most prosperous place in Hong Kong. It is rare super news that commercial land can be offered at a price of 50,000 yuan per square meter.But the 69,000 yuan per square meter in Yiwu happened in 1998.There is a saying that if you don't leave a penny of silver on Changjie in the poor city, you can buy tons of gold for every inch of land in the expensive city.It can be seen that the city of Yiwu has a high gold content.

The second thing is my feelings along the way to Yiwu at the beginning of this year.It was more than 10 o'clock when I got off the plane and left Hangzhou city that night. It took nearly 3 hours to travel from the West Lake to Yiwu.At first I thought I could steal all the way, but I couldn't because my eyes were completely infected by the bustling scene of traffic on the road, and this feeling reminded me of the time I visited the United States a year ago when I went to New York City. The night road to Washington.Although the road from Hangzhou to Yiwu is much worse than the expressway from New York to Washington, how can people not be awed by such a constant flow of vehicles?From this, I also think of the situation of not seeing a car for a few minutes or even ten minutes while driving on the Beijing-Tianjin Expressway at the same time.So although that night was full of dust and dust, it greatly deepened my understanding and understanding of Yiwu City.

What is a city?Only the kind of place where the avenues are open, where merchants gather and are always prosperous, is the real city. Yiwu is such a commercial city that people praise from the bottom of their hearts.The city of Yiwu is not only in the vision of high-rise buildings and mansions, roads and shopping malls that you can see, but also in the benefits that you can buy more types and higher quality children with the same money than other places.What's more, you can feel it from the space here, from the atmosphere here, from every speeding vehicle here, from every shrewd face and every casual language here...