Chapter 24 3. Rim of the Bohai Sea

Dreams are the most indispensable thing in Chinese cities today. You can't bargain with your dreams and cities.We need to face life directly, it takes courage to go, and even more courage to leave.Leave Beijing, turn around, and enter the Bohai Rim region, which is praised by economists as the third "growth pole" of China's economy after the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. Zhao Shihong, secretary of the Langfang Municipal Party Committee, said that Langfang would not be Beijing's "back garden" and would not be content with low-end development, but should give full play to Langfang's location advantages and achieve full integration with Beijing and Tianjin.

Zhao Shihong said: "In the past, Langfang was also active in connecting with Beijing and Tianjin, but it was only wishful thinking. The main reason was that the timing was wrong. Now the time, location, and people are all ready. The secretary of the provincial party committee and the governor personally led the team to Beijing and Tianjin a few days ago. Langfang benefited the most from the signing of the memorandum of cooperation, and the light rail project from Beijing to Langfang was signed this time. Once the light rail is connected, it will truly be a 'same city'." The memorandum mentioned by Zhao Shihong refers to the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Transportation Integration Cooperation Memorandum" signed on May 18, 2010.According to the specific opinions in the "Memorandum", the Department of Transportation of Hebei Province and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transportation jointly reported to the Ministry of Communications to include the Mizhuo Expressway, which is a section of the Beijing Great Outer Ring Expressway, into the national expressway network planning.Some analysts believe that this move means that the 900-kilometer outer ring in Beijing has been fully defined and has entered a substantive operational stage.

"In addition to the docking of infrastructure, the setting of new lines is more convenient for the people and more conducive to regional economic development." Dai Dongchang, chief planner of the Ministry of Transport, said that the Ministry of Transport attaches great importance to the development of the transportation industry in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The "Bohai Rim and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Highway and Waterway Development Plan" was compiled to meet the strong requirements of the regional economic and social development for transportation network and integration.

Langfang's strong confidence in future development is also the common attitude of the eight cities including Shijiazhuang, Qinhuangdao, and Tangshan in the "Regional Planning of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Area". About ten years ago, Professor Wu Liangyong proposed the concept of "Greater Beijing". At the time, 89-year-old Professor Wu called himself: an extremely optimistic worryer.He believes that the city will continue to focus on the center, and protection and development will form a contradiction, and the burden will become heavier and heavier. Therefore, "spreading the pie"-style expansion is not the answer. Professor Wu said:

"Adding more water and noodles, and adding more water to noodles will never solve the problem. The fundamental thing is to turn a single center into a multi-center, with a more reasonable functional layout. The current single center is very terrible. My wife and I went to Tiananmen Square on National Day. I can’t get out, I don’t have a car.” "The city must be protected and developed. It is a contradiction. Development still needs to be developed, and protection cannot be avoided. However, it is impossible to put Beijing's protection and development in one space. It is very simple. It is best to solve it in different spaces. effective way."

In July 2010, the Chaoyang District Government of Beijing announced that it would build a "Bohai Rim Headquarters Business District" near the Southeast Fourth Ring Road to the Beijing-Tianjin Second Passageway, with a planned land area of ​​15.6 square kilometers.It is said that after the completion of the business district, it is expected to become the image area of ​​the southeast gateway of Beijing Central City. This change in Beijing's spatial pattern, coupled with the overall planning of "two axes, two belts and multi-centers" and the development of satellite cities, has brought "integration" to Sanhe Yanjiao, Dachang, Xianghe and Gu'an in Langfang City, Hebei, which are adjacent to the southeast of Beijing. Beijing" opportunity.

The construction of a world city requires Beijing's industries to gradually transfer to surrounding counties and cities.At present, there are only three internationally recognized world cities: New York, London, and Tokyo.The development models of these three cities all appear as satellite cities, rather than Beijing’s previous model of spreading big cakes.The development of satellite cities is a new driving force for Beijing's development, and it is also one of the manifestations of Beijing's radiation power. As a concept, satellite city was first proposed by American scholar Taylor in 1915.It is characterized by low building density and high environmental quality, generally separated from the central city by green space, the purpose is to disperse the population and industry of the central city.Satellite cities are actually so-called counter-urbanization, that is, suburban urbanization.For China, this is characteristic of the second wave of urbanization.Counties and cities around Beijing such as Gu'an, Dachang and Zhuozhou will be the beneficiaries of this round of urbanization boom.

Just as Chen Zhiran, partner of Peking University Vertical and Horizontal Management Consulting Group, said: "The expansion of small and medium-sized cities and urbanization has also accelerated the transformation of second- and third-tier cities into regional economic centers and distribution centers, driving the growth of demand for high-tech talents and middle- and senior-skilled talents; The secondary and tertiary industries in the second and third tier cities in the center will gain opportunities for rapid growth and stimulate employment.” "With the increase in operating costs and intensified competition in first-tier cities, some large and medium-sized enterprises have a tendency to migrate or expand to second-tier cities, which objectively drives the demand for talents in second-tier cities."

"Second and third-tier cities have lower living costs and a better living environment, with less work pressure, high living comfort, and great attraction for employment. The cost of living and business in big cities is too high, as evidenced by skyrocketing housing prices. Big cities The city's public service capacity is also stuck in a bottleneck, such as overcrowded traffic; the competition in the workplace in big cities is fierce, and work pressure is high." Under such circumstances, those who stay in Beijing are not heroes. Even if you "sacrifice", no one will award you a medal.Because this kind of sacrifice is not worth it, you can open up another piece of sky for yourself, just next door to Beijing - the Bohai Rim area.

The Bohai Rim region includes Beijing and Tianjin, two municipalities directly under the central government, and two provinces, Hebei and Shandong, with a total of 30 cities.Among them, Hebei Province includes 11 cities including Tangshan, Shijiazhuang, and Qinhuangdao, and Shandong Province includes 17 cities including Qingdao, Jinan, and Weihai. Today, the Bohai Rim region has become the "engine" of economic development in northern China. The "Blue Book of Urban Competitiveness 2009" shows that the comprehensive growth competitiveness of the Bohai Rim region ranks first in the country.The comprehensive growth competitiveness index is 0.784, and the comprehensive GDP growth rate is 15.748%. In 2007, the per capita GDP was 40,670 yuan/person, and the ability to create value in the Bohai Rim region is also the highest in the country.In addition, 12 cities in the Bohai Rim region have entered the top 50 growth cities, and 18 cities have entered the top 100 growth cities.Among them, the top 10 cities in the region's comprehensive competitiveness are Beijing, Qingdao, Tianjin, Dongying, Jinan, Yantai, Weihai, Zibo, Shijiazhuang and Tangshan.

Li Jingguo, director of the Land and Real Estate Research Office of the Institute of Urban Development and Environment, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "One of the future development trends of Chinese cities is metropolitan circles, also called urban agglomerations. Urban agglomeration. With the development of transportation, the large, medium and small cities in the urban agglomeration are very closely connected, and their economic development has a greater driving effect on the economic development of the entire country than a single city. The Pearl River and the Yangtze River Delta have formed outlines, Beijing, Tianjin and Tang is taking shape." At present, there are three main directions for the expansion of Beijing's industry. The first is to expand eastward, to Tongzhou, Shunyi, Yanjiao, Dachang and other places.The second one goes southeast and develops along Jingjintang, from Yizhuang to Langfang to Tanggu.The third direction is to extend south along the Jingkai and Jingshi Expressway towards Daxing. "Economic Observer" reporter Wen Wu wrote: "It is not difficult to find that the construction of a world city has expanded Beijing's space again, which has also accelerated the pace of Beijing's eastward expansion. First, the eastward expansion plan of the CBD, followed by the approval of the Tongzhou International New City plan, and then It is the bidding for the planning of the Bohai Rim Headquarters Business District. These eastward expansion plans have brought Yanjiao, Dachang, Xianghe and other places in Hebei closer to Beijing." "This eastward expansion has brought a series of impacts on industrial adjustments, including real estate development, consumer service markets, and regional cooperation. Wei Houkai, deputy director of the Institute of Urban Development and Environment, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, summarized the future trend of Beijing's industrial development as follows: 14 words: high-end, chain development, center transfer, suburbanization.” Bian Hongdeng, secretary-general of the Asia-Pacific Urban Development Research Association, has always been an advocate of the eastward expansion of the capital. "For Beijing, after eastward expansion, it will gradually enter the Bohai Rim Economic Circle, and eventually form a pattern of Greater Beijing." Undoubtedly, the Bohai Rim region is a treasure land. Even if you leave Beijing, you can still find more development opportunities under this vast sky.So what is the specific employment situation?In this regard, Zhou Yupeng, COO of Jobku.com, said: "From the perspective of online recruitment data, the cities with a large demand for professional talents are firstly provincial capitals such as Xi'an, Hangzhou, and Nanjing, followed by economically developed cities such as Tianjin, Shenzhen, and Chongqing. The prefecture-level cities in this area are Qingdao, Suzhou, Ningbo and other ordinary prefecture-level cities supported by the state. The industry with the largest talent demand gap in second- and third-tier cities is the real estate construction industry. Taking Tianjin as an example, the number of new real estate job postings in March accounted for About 72% of the total recruitment in the whole industry. Other industries with large demand are computer/Internet, industrial machinery, advertising and public relations, consumer goods/manufacturing, etc.” Going out is the current trend. First of all, in order to build Beijing into a world city, it needs to expand outward, but it is not simply "swallowing land". Although Beijing's satellite city planning has long been in place, it has been developing slowly.The relatively successful satellite cities are Tongzhou in the east of Beijing, Yanjiao in Sanhe, Hebei, and Tiantongyuan and Huilongguan in the north.However, the success of these satellite cities is based on the development and hype of real estate, not a satellite city in a healthy sense, so they become "sleeping cities". Therefore, the so-called "Greater Beijing Area" requires Beijing to separate out its industries and functions that have been hidden and tucked away. Therefore, Shougang moved to Tangshan, and the hundreds of thousands of dairy cows of Sanyuan Group and other agricultural enterprises left the city. up.This kind of "separation" also means the emergence of employment opportunities, which means that you don't have to spend 5 hours a day commuting on various ring roads in Beijing, and you don't have to live in a village in the city just to save 100 yuan a month. The second and third tier cities outside of Beijing have found a better life.Job opportunities are flowing out one after another, but what reason do you have to stay in the city?Miss the car exhaust on the Loop? "With the development of transportation, especially the construction of high-speed trains and expressways, the formation of urban networks and urban agglomerations, coupled with the development of the Internet and the arrival of the automobile age, small cities can share a lot of opportunities." said Wang Zhigang, an urban marketing expert. , "Many accomplished people in the UK live two hours' drive from London—one to two hundred kilometers or even four to five hundred kilometers."Those who live in urban areas are either the so-called super nouveau riche, like the rich in Russia and China, or the super poor, such as beggars. "This phenomenon is a kind of progress," Wang Zhigang said.From the perspective of the development of human society, it has to go through such a process - mega-urbanization, high-level urbanization and then counter-urbanization. This is a trend. Therefore, among many reasons, the only wrong statement is that you regard "escape" as a tragedy-someone leaves, which is a win-win situation for humanity and the city.Some people should not stop at a big city, and their life will be brighter if they take a step back; while some cities should not become a big city, because the happiest and happiest cities in the world are often not big cities. Go out, maybe tomorrow you will be able to face the sea, spring is warm and flowers are blooming.