Chapter 407 of the main text, a special city

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"This is the Embroidery City?"

Xin Xiaosong is the director of the Institute of Technology and Standards of the Chinese Academy of Postal Sciences, and it should be said that he has been to many places all over the country, and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland have left his footsteps.

However, when he set foot on the land of Xiucheng, he unconsciously slowed down and hesitated.

"Hey, trouble, let go!"

A voice came from behind Xin Xiaosong, making him involuntarily give way to the side.

In a moment, a man ran past him like the wind. He was a young man in a blue hurdle vest, with a simple headset in his ear, a Walkman pinned to his waist, and white pull-back sneakers on his feet, and he ran with ease and confidence - this is not surprising, if Director Xin, oh, Director Xin was a little older, if his son could have a Walkman on his waist, he would have to run early in the morning until he had no strength.

Even if you stick out your tongue when you are tired, rest assured, this is also a sweet thing for young people. In the era when buying a cassette recorder was like buying a 155mm grenade, being able to straddle the audio equipment around your waist was like the powerful little pistol of the man in black.

In the era of lack of entertainment, the envious and novel eyes of the people around you during the morning jog are enough to pay off the ticket price. A person with an anniversary on his waist flatly refuses to run in a place where there are few people. Only where there are many people, can you plunge into it somewhere.

"Sassy bag. Xin Xiaosong shook his head and pursed his lips.

"Young people nowadays, really, huh-"

Fortunately, the man in front was running while listening to the song, and Xin Xiaosong's words could not be heard. However, if Xin Xiaosong can notice the shape of his mouth, he will find that the young man who is running is constantly reading something silently. Judging by the shape of his mouth that he keeps repeating, it looks like he is repeating the way an English word is pronounced.

Fortunately, this young man's mind is not on Xin Xiaosong, otherwise with the violent temper of the Northeast people, he can't actually do anything to him.

Northeast people are also ordinary people, jumping without saying a word, oh no, they are the kind of people who fight at a glance, and they are also rare breeds before the Northeast is laid off. Like that kind of second-rate gangster in society, in fact, he is the lowest level of the social chain.

That is, ten years after the original history, the economic collapse of the Northeast brought about the evil consequences. Not to mention the Northeast, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, skinheads were one of the top ten gangsters in the world. When the Soviet Union was still around, what was the garbage of the Gulag?

After complaining a little, Xin Xiaosong picked up the suitcase in his hand again and began to look around. Soon, he found his name among a group of cards held aloft.

"Hey, you're from Xinke Corporation? I'm Xin Xiaosong. ”

"Oh, hello Director Xin, I am from the public relations department of Xinke Company, my surname is Xu, you can call me Xiao Xu. ”

The young man with the Xin Xiaosong brand hurriedly stretched out his hand and wanted to shake hands with him. Unexpectedly, the next moment a suitcase was stuffed into his hand.

"Help me hold it, don't bump into it!" Xin Xiaosong loosened the button of his collar and gasped twice: "Let's go, go to the guest house first and arrange for me to rest." A night on the train was exhausting!"

"Okay, you go this way. Xiao Xu didn't see the slightest dissatisfaction, and led the way in front with a smile on his face.

The passing train that stopped at Xiucheng at seven o'clock in the morning, Xin Xiaosong sat on a sleeper on the train, but he was not too tired. At this time, the hand was light, and then I looked up at the surrounding scenery, and I saw the difference between Xiucheng and other places.

One of them is that there are a lot of motorcycles on the streets of Xiucheng. However, compared to so many motorcycles, the number of cars is not very conspicuous.

There are domestic products such as Jialing, Qingqi and Dawn, as well as imported cars such as Kawasaki 125. In those days, when the average person rides a motorcycle, it is the same as driving a sports car thirty years later. The light rider can be regarded as a beautiful leopard, and the Jialing 250 is similar to the style of the cool school. The Yangtze River 750 is a Wrangler, and if the crotch riding is a Kawasaki 125, it is at least equivalent to an Audi TT.

If you go out and drive a Fiat Potato, needless to say, you won't be able to drive a Porsche in 30 years!

Just in the morning, motorcycles on the streets of Xiucheng accounted for at least one-tenth of the sea of bicycles! Even if they were placed in the imperial capital, there was not such a high proportion.

But compared to so many motorcycles, the income of people who want to come to Xiucheng must be very high, right? Maybe there are many people who drive cars?

However, in the morning, there are not many cars on the streets. There are some Fiat potatoes, some Soviet Lada, and Dagu Dafa vans and very few Santana. More of them are round-headed, round-headed, cute-looking buses that look like whales in a school of sardines in a sea of bicycles and motorcycles.

Although I heard that Xiucheng is likely to win a special zone quota this year, it is a different style compared to Fukatogawa.

The status of the Special Economic Zone of Fukatogawa is greatly appreciated because it faces and lives next to the Xiangjiang River, which gives it a special advantage in international economic exchanges.

Economically, Shentuchuan mainly undertakes Hong Kong capital, overseas Chinese capital and international investment, and the mode of economic operation is export-oriented, mainly import and export. In terms of industrial model, it is mainly the processing industry, such as garment factories, electronics factories, and toy factories, and the industry is concentrated in labor-intensive fields.

However, for Xiucheng, it is impossible to do this. First of all, Xiucheng does not have this geographical advantage, it is located in the inner side of the Bohai Sea, there is no Xiangjiang River around, and the appeal to foreign capital is not so great.

Secondly, it cannot be compared with the national support in the construction of Shentuchuan in that year, and Xiucheng can only rely on the strength of Bohai Province, and at most the three eastern provinces work together. Even if the preferential import and export policies are the same, I am afraid that they will not be able to compare with Fukatogawa, which has a first-mover advantage.

In addition, the workers of Fukatogawa can be said to be hard-working, and the female workers can sit in front of the operating table all day, and even have a time limit for going to the toilet. However, this kind of labor discipline, whether in the 80s or the 21st century, has never been popular in the Northeast.

The reason for this is probably that Northeast China has entered a highly urbanized society prematurely. Taking Bohai Province as an example, the urbanization rate was as high as 42.4% in the 80s, second only to the three municipalities directly under the central government, namely the imperial capital and the magic capital and Dagu.

By 1990, the urbanization rate in Bohai Province was 50 percent, and by the 21st century, it was 67 percent. In the past 30 years of China's rapid development, the urbanization rate has increased by 25%. However, with such a low growth rate, Bohai Province's urbanization rate was still the fifth highest in the country by 2014.

In the eighties, the townsfolk were a privileged class relative to the agricultural population, and their lives were much better. Welfare, living conditions and employment levels are theoretically far higher than those of other provinces and regions in China. Workers in Northeast China, who are not worried about employment, cannot "endure" the management model of the "sweatshop" in Fukatogawa.

Or to put it another way, Bohai Province in the 80s could probably be regarded as a "poor developed country". Similar to those developed countries that will be crushed by China's industry in the future, the first to be crushed by the productive forces that have exploded after China's reform are the "developed regions" in China, that is, the eldest sons of the republic.

Just as developed countries cannot afford to engage in labor-intensive industries, the soil in the Northeast is not suitable for this path at this stage.

In this way, it is fundamentally clear that even if Xiucheng becomes a special zone, it is impossible to copy the experience of Fukatokawa.

This kind of guiding ideology is expressed in reality, which is the two diametrically opposed urban temperaments of Xiucheng and Shentuchuan.

On the city roads of Fukatogawa, there are already quite a few cars running. The "tallest building in China", the Shentuchuan Building, has become a symbol of reopening. The spacious and prosperous Shennan Avenue can be called the pulse of the times. In the wasteland of Huaqiangbei, factories have begun to rise from the ground.

Compared to the Fukatsuchigawa, which is full of vitality, Xiucheng seems to be a little ordinary.

The tallest building in the city is an ancient stone tower built in 1057. The widest road in the city is a four-lane commercial street in both directions in front of the train station. The most common high-rise buildings in the entire city are the chimneys that rise from factories. The clothes on people's bodies don't seem to be catching up with the trend like the Fukatogawa Special Zone. On the surface, Xiucheng is not much different from other heavy industrial cities in China today.

Except for people.

On the streets of Xiucheng, you can see that many people are still holding a book and sweeping their eyes while waiting for the red light.

It's not necessarily how studious this person is, maybe his unit has a test being prepared today.

Compared with other industrial cities, there are many more commuter cars in the morning in Xiucheng. Buses with factory names and company names with round heads and round brains drove past Xin Xiaosong's eyes, and there seemed to be no end.

Generally speaking, businesses with factories built in the city do not need commuter buses. Only if the commuting time is too long, the unit will be equipped with commuting in order not to affect the working hours and the work efficiency of employees.

Judging by the number of commuter cars on the streets of Xiucheng, it is clear that many factories have moved out of the city.

With the possibility of the opening of the special zone in Xiucheng increasing, the land value of Xiucheng is undoubtedly growing rapidly. Moving factories to the outskirts of the city and vacating the land for development has become the choice of many enterprises. Learning a new lesson: companies engage in real estate development and take care of their own people, which is definitely a good way to win people's hearts.

The resulting sense of honor and vanity satisfaction can win enough support for business leaders to carry out reforms.

These people who sit in the commuter bus in the morning still don't forget to hold a book to read when they ride the bus. It doesn't have to be studious, maybe it's reading idle books to relieve boredom, or it's a hobby?

But inexplicably, Xin Xiaosong will feel that the city of Xiucheng is different from other cities.

In fact, it is easy to say, the power of example is endless.

There is no living miracle in front of us that can inspire more action.

The urban legend of Hu Wenhai of Xinke Group can be said to be a household name in Xiucheng. From red dot sights to blue pills, from lithium batteries to power electronics, science and technology are real and can be turned into real money.

This is already a well-known truth in Xiucheng.

Why can Hu Wenhai do it, but I can't?

This is what many people really think in their hearts.

Xiucheng Heavy Machinery Factory, construction machinery and construction vehicles are not only supplied to the whole country, and even exported to Iraq in large quantities, and recently even some European countries have come to inquire about the price of enterprises.

Xiucheng Computer Factory has won the production of a number of electronic products from the 7 billion project. Not only that, under the leadership of Ran Ni, the director of Princeton University's high-achieving female factory, Xiucheng Computer Factory has also mastered the technology of PSG sounder. The sound generating unit provided for Xinke Electronics was used in the export of electronic game consoles to the Soviet Union, and also served as the assembly of game consoles, with an annual profit of hundreds of millions of yuan!

Xiucheng Textile Factory, after the liberalization of textile control in Bohai Province, has made a lot of money with its self-developed chemical fiber blending technology.

In the embroidery city, such examples can be said to be numerous. Some of the workers' proposals for technical improvement are also given quite satisfactory incentives organizationally if they are approved. In addition to the eight-level work system, Xiucheng also began to conduct professional level examinations. For the same position and job, one more job title salary can be received, so as to encourage workers to learn this professional knowledge.

Some self-employed people have improved the pancakes and fruits of Dagu, which are very popular after meeting the taste of Northeast people. Because it can save time for breakfast, the dining method is flexible and the taste is unique, and it has taken the city by storm in two months. Just by driving a pancake and fruit training class and selling a food truck, the reformers have amassed a lot of wealth in a short period of time, and they have even enjoyed the special interviews and reports of the Xiucheng Daily.

There are many similar examples, of course, there are also civil science and pseudo-scientific products such as "far-infrared spectrum energy therapy instrument" circulating in the market, but the official crackdown on these fake dealers is very strong, and the side effects are minimized.

So many people and companies who have become rich with technology are playing a huge role in leading and demonstrating. In Xiucheng, a wave of learning is sweeping all levels of society.

While it's inevitable that there will be some utilitarianism, anyone who is somewhat motivated will be exhausted thinking about how to improve the way they work, or find a good idea that will be welcomed by people.

No matter how small the chance of success, there will always be lucky people who succeed in the millions of citizens of Embroidery City. And these lucky people have led more people to embark on this road, and knowledge to change fate has become the consensus of Xiucheng people.

Although Xin Xiaosong didn't know much about the causes of this atmosphere in Xiucheng, as the director of a research institute, he was too familiar with this feeling.

It's as if he's not in a city, but in a university.

This embroidery city is really a special city