Chapter 3 2. Speed ​​"talking about things"

To talk about things, read Frog (wa, Yang Qu Sheng) Shi (xi, Yang Qu Sheng).The original meaning is to use speech to convey things, and it is extended to exercise power.Such an interesting phenomenon often occurs at the dinner table of Cantonese people: everyone pushes back and forth, but never eats the only chicken head, fish head or squab head.Because either the head of a chicken or the head of a bull has a brain that directs the various systems of the body and a mouth that issues orders on behalf of the brain.The Cantonese summed up this leader's behavior in one word: "Talk about things."

Since the reform and opening up, the "talk" in Guangdong has always been economic development and the speed of modernization necessary for this development.However, the excessive speed and fierce competition have also caused Guangzhou, especially Shenzhen, to gradually lose its "Guangdong flavor".Yi Zhongtian said that "Shenzhen is a city without dialects", and even Guangzhou, where Cantonese is the main front, is also embarrassing for Guangzhou people at the time of the "Nuggets" in the Asian Games Year. A senior travel agency operator said that Guangzhou also wants to take advantage of the 2010 Asian Games to learn from the Shanghai World Expo and engage in tourism development. Inland cities have also developed. Guangzhou, as the frontier of reform and opening up, has not much to attract mainland tourists. For foreign tourists, Guangzhou’s local traditional culture, such as Xiguan culture, has also been demolished and rebuilt. has gradually disappeared."

"Shenzhen is not as readable as Beijing and Shanghai, nor is it easy to read. Beijing has city gates, Shanghai has the Bund; Beijing has alleys, and Shanghai has alleys. Wangchengmen, string alleys, eat candied haws or carrots all the way Li, listening to Beijing dialect that is as crisp as a cucumber all the way, you will find that you have entered the city of Beijing very quickly. Strolling around the Bund, walking in alleys, while identifying old concessions and old apartments, you can listen to Shanghainese speaking in straightforward Shanghai dialect. Haggling freely, you will soon feel that you are in Shanghai. Beijing and Shanghai are perceptual and concrete in your mind, and they are also vivid and vivid.” ()

What about Shenzhen?I think the reason for the lack of urban context in Shenzhen lies in its youth. Putting it together with Beijing and Shanghai, there is no historical context immediately, and the only coordinate found is Shennan Avenue. Shennan Avenue is a symbol of Shenzhen. It has been widened from 200 kilometers to 6,000 kilometers in 30 years—a record of 30 times, which is also a typical "Shenzhen speed".Shennan Avenue is located in the middle of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. It starts from Xinxiu Interchange of Yanhe Road in Luohu District in the east and ends at Nantou Special Inspection Station in Nanshan District in the west. It has a total length of 28 kilometers and crosses the three districts of Luohu, Futian and Nanshan. roads and landscaped avenues.Initially, Shennan Avenue was only 7 meters wide, but the design department proposed to widen it to 50 meters.Regarding this proposal, many people objected: "Small Shenzhen, how many cars are there? Is it necessary to build such a wide road? How much will it cost to build such a wide road? It is a waste of resources." No wonder people at that time would be like this Think, who would have expected that it almost records the history of Shenzhen's changes.

"Empty talk harms the country, and hard work rejuvenates the country." There are still discussions here, but there are people who have already started construction.The builders leveled the hills one by one in the road, widened and straightened the road.At the same time, tall buildings rose along Shennan Road. In 1983, the earliest 2.1-kilometer widening of Shennan Road was completed. At this time, people found that even the 50-meter-wide road began to be blocked. The development of Shenzhen is always in the blink of an eye. After 50 meters, Shennan Avenue ushered in its widening again.

After studying in Singapore, the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government decided to reposition Shennan Road: the design standard width of the entire road section is 140 meters, the green belts on both sides are 30 meters, the clear road width is 80 meters, and a 16-meter green belt is reserved in the middle of the road. , for the future construction of light rail. The width of 140 meters has also attracted criticism. Some people even suggested that this width is about to catch up with Chang'an Avenue, but the 140 meters that was later widened at least shows one point: Shenzhen's development is too fast.

Widening and traffic jams are like a film being fast forwarded, from a blank picture to more and more vehicles occupying the frame position, the rapid modernization of the city is vividly demonstrated on this road.For it, someone praises it like this: Shennan Avenue is the spiritual symbol and spiritual belonging of the city. It unfolds the open mind of the city: Civic Center, Central Park, Window of the World, Continental Hotel; It has witnessed the city growing taller day by day: China World Trade Building, Diwang Building, Newspaper Building; It sculpts the beautiful moments of the city: the portrait of Deng Xiaoping, the pioneer cow, the deep red of Shenzhen, and the deep blue of the imported;

It stirs the cultural melody of the city: Shenzhen Book City, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Grand Theater, Shenzhen Science Museum; It activates the development of the city: Overseas Chinese Town, Science and Technology Park, High-Tech Fair, SEG Electronic Plaza. However, this avenue always lacks a bit of humanistic charm, and the uniform modern appearance has brought about the "absence" of urban history. Shuttle on Shennan Avenue, you will always see a 160-meter-high, 53-story International Trade Building, which is the tallest building in China before the Shanghai World Financial Center.At that time, the building not only set the tallest record, but also set the other three "earliest", "first", and "fastest".It is the earliest construction project in my country to implement bidding; it is the first building in my country to use synovial membrane construction in a large area; it is the representative of the fastest construction record of "one floor in three days".

The architect of the building learned from Hehe Building, the tallest building in Hong Kong, and not only copied a revolving restaurant - "Spin Palace", but also designed an apron on the top of the square and straight main building of China World Tower.The completion of the International Trade Building not only made the "Shenzhen Speed" famous all over the world, but also became a banner that showed China's "reform and opening up" to the world at that time. At that time, the most widely circulated sentence on the construction site was "If the bonus is not capped, the building will be capped soon; if the bonus is capped, the building will not be capped".The upper floors of China Construction Third Bureau and the building builders are like tackling key problems, with the 5th to 10th floors, 7 days a floor; the 11th to 20th floors, 5 days a floor; the 21st to 30th floors, 4 days a floor; Above the first floor, the progress has reached one floor in three days, and the fastest is to complete this landmark in two and a half days.

The International Trade Building is almost just the beginning of Shenzhen's rapid urban construction. Subsequently, not only in terms of height, speed, and quantity, Shenzhen's successor buildings have frequently set new records. Four years after the completion of the China World Tower, Shenzhen Diwang Building broke the "Shenzhen Speed" with a record of "two and a half days and one floor", and also reshaped the height of Shenzhen with a height of 383.95 meters. In September 2009, the foundation stone was laid for the new "Shenzhen's tallest building", which is the Ping An International Finance Center, with a total design height of 588 meters.

Shenzhen, it took only 30 years to turn a small fishing village into a world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas lamented that "the central area of ​​Shenzhen is already comparable to the central areas of other famous cities in the world. comparable."He said, "When I first came to Shenzhen many years ago, Shenzhen was still an unremarkable small city. At that time, many foreigners were not familiar with the Pearl River Delta region including Shenzhen. Unexpectedly, in such a short period of time, Shenzhen can achieve such brilliant achievements and undergo such great changes, which impresses me deeply." When Koolhaas made this statement, it coincided with the capping of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Operation Center he designed for Shenzhen.The operation center of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange stands on a "floating platform" design with a height of more than 30 meters. It is the largest cantilevered platform in the world and is also the "largest sky garden in the world".Regarding this landmark of Shenzhen and China's financial industry, Xiong Derong, chairman of China Construction Third Bureau, said that China Construction Third Bureau once created the "Shenzhen Speed" of one floor in three days and the "New Shenzhen Speed" of one floor in two and a half days. Overcome the difficulties of the world's largest aerial platform in one fell swoop, and shine in the history of architecture with the spirit of daring to be the first in the world. However, this kind of rapid and rapid urban construction makes people have to reflect on what the famous graphic designer Han Jiaying said, "Shenzhen is a blank sheet of paper. It is different from Beijing and Shanghai. It is what you put in it. So in Planning requires an aesthetic and long-term vision.” Take Shenzhen CBD as an example. The development and construction of Shenzhen CBD and Lujiazui in Shanghai started almost at the same time in the early 1990s. Today, Lujiazui has become famous both at home and abroad. There are few voices of Shenzhen CBD at home or abroad. If you have been to Shenzhen, you may have such a sensory experience: in the center of the city where every inch of land is expensive, there are dilapidated urban villages on one side and luxurious commercial buildings on the other. This extreme disharmony is very eye-catching. The most typical ones are the buildings on both sides of Jintian Road in Futian CBD. On the west side are high-end office buildings and five-star hotels, and on the east side are farmer housing groups and industrial plants in the Gangxia Heyuan area. On July 22, 2010, a piece of news in the "Southern Metropolis Daily" brought up this scar in Shenzhen again.According to reports, there is a Great China Plaza in Futian CBD, which is known as the landmark building of Futian, and the super five-star Sheraton Hotel is located here.Guests staying in Sheraton's luxury suites opened the windows, and what they saw was not a pleasant view but an abrupt pile of waste.It was a large waste station, just to the south of the Great China Plaza, with an area of ​​nearly a thousand square meters.Some trucks and tricycles are often parked around the purchasing station, and some waste dealers set up mobile purchasing stations nearby to start second-hand transfer business.Those who go to sell waste products will first be collected by the mobile collection stations around the waste station, and then resold to this large waste station.In addition to Jintian Road, Futian South Road adjacent to the CBD is almost "occupied" by mobile waste stations. Peasant houses are just one of the failures of Shenzhen CBD. An author analyzed 10 reasons in his "Top 10 Failures of Shenzhen CBD". The planning of the CBD lacks strategic expansion space, the land development of the CBD lacks a reasonable rhythm, and there is no high standard for introducing developers, so small and medium-sized developers lack urban responsibility for quick success and quick profits, and split sales of office buildings, etc. The "speed" that Shenzhen has always pursued set new records one after another in the early stages of urban construction. However, the ancient motto of "haste makes waste" has also been interpreted in Shenzhen. Too fast development has caused "stubborn diseases" that will plague the future.