Volume 2 Rising to the Fore Chapter 51 Xinhai Special Zone
Xinhai City is located on the east coast of Fusang Island, and from the perspective of topography, it not only has developed sea and land transportation, but also has a very flat terrain and a relatively livable climate, which belongs to the golden zone.
In the eighteenth century, the Ming Dynasty snatched Fusang Island from the British Empire, the east coast has not received the same attention as the north coast, the original site of the Xinhai Special Zone has been a naval base for hundreds of years, and the former attached city of Jianing is only a small city with a population of 500,000, and the families of the army account for one-third.
Later, Daming decided to integrate Jianing City in the Xinhai base area to establish a special economic zone, so Xinhai City was officially established.
Why has the Xinhai Special Economic Zone been able to become one of the world's three major economic centers in just 30 years from a small city attached to a naval base on the border of the Ming Dynasty?
The reason for this can be regarded as the firm determination and bold attempt of the Ming Dynasty, an ancient empire, and it can also be understood as the latecomer advantage of Xinhai City.
Cities as non-agricultural population areas have a history of thousands of years in human history, the Ming Dynasty, as the first empire that inherited the mantle of China for 5,000 years, is more familiar with the construction of cities, but with the development of human beings, the volume of cities has also increased exponentially.
The problems that have arisen are also problems that city builders have not encountered, problems that cannot be read from previous historical research, and all the world's leading cities, although all of them have a long history, have been the center of their regions since a long time ago, bringing great benefits to the local community.
But nothing is broken, and the urban construction of these old megacities is tinkering with the infrastructure and urban framework of their predecessors.
The new citizens have nowhere to live, so let's plan a large residential area in the vacant area.
If you can't find a job, okay, then we'll allocate a lot of money to build a new industrial park.
From the perspective of the system, everyone's work has been solved, the housing has been solved, and the officials in charge of urban construction can be greatly commended, but what awaits the officials in a few days is the promotion. However, did the officials who presided over the construction really solve the fundamental problem by building housing circles and work areas for the citizens, and was it a sustainable path for the development of the city?
In fact, it is not, because when the newly appointed urban construction official is ready to make a big move, he can't really do it vigorously, although he is the biggest official in this area, everyone else has to obey him, but the whole command system has a bright side and can not see the intertwined roots, some people in the process of executing his orders if they go against their own interests, they can only choose to obey the yang and the yin.
Therefore, he can only add his own expectations and ideas on the original basis, and then find a balance between the two, and find an implementation plan that everyone is satisfied with.
From the perspective of urban construction, which area of the old super city is engaged in commerce, which area is engaged in industry, which area is the main road, and which is the auxiliary road. They were all set decades or even hundreds of years ago, but they were designed according to the size of the city at that time, and once the city developed, the old plan could not meet the existing needs.
What to do? All demolished and rebuilt? That is not possible, and the only way to do this is to seek a breakthrough on the outskirts of the city and build new urban areas.
Although this method is a helpless move, it has endless consequences. Just like a person who has a three-story attic in his ancestry, this high-rise building was very imposing at first, but later with the development of the surrounding area, this building is nothing.
In order to restore the splendor of the building, he had to build a new building that doubled in size but retained the old structure, so the craftsmen who spent a lot of money had to build a new reinforced concrete building on top of the old building to meet the employer's requirements.
If a wooden structure building with original column support is forcibly built on top of a reinforced concrete structure building with wall support, is this building a new building or an old building? Is this building reliable?
Therefore, the old super city is the old city with a modern coat on the outside, it is still an old city in essence, population problems, traffic problems, employment problems, the gap between the rich and the poor, etc., for this old city is like a variety of geriatric diseases for the elderly. It becomes an incurable disease, and the disease can only be delayed by various drugs and other treatments.
This is the disadvantage of the old megacities, under the old and corrupt state system, it is difficult to make new achievements and progress under the chaotic urban framework.
The purpose of the establishment of the Xinhai Special Economic Zone is this, since the old pattern and foundation cannot give birth to a new miracle, then the Ming Dynasty silently wrote down all the urban construction experience and failure cases accumulated in dozens of medium-sized and large cities over the past few hundred years, and then poured all the resources of the empire into building a new city on the east coast of Fuso.
It took 30 years of Daming and 30 years of continuous all-round support to make Xinhai the largest city in the Western Hemisphere, and the local Shencheng and the European London to become the three major global economic centers.
Therefore, for Xinhai City to have today's achievements, the right time, place and people are indispensable.
The Ming Dynasty inherited the mantle of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization and has been established for more than 600 years, all the way steadily and steadily, without interruption, and finally became the first empire of the ages.
The vigorous national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty have gradually declined in the past 50 years, and the speed of development is not as good as before, although the territory has not decreased at its peak, but the development of science and technology economy has come to a standstill, the domestic bureaucracy is swollen and corrupt, although it has undergone several reforms, but it still cannot get rid of the feudal background centered on the emperor, and the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty live in misery, and the life of the top nobles is luxurious and erosive.
Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, which has become the main tone in human society after thousands of years. In the long run, the Ming Dynasty of the Eternal Empire feared to collapse from within.
Under the bold decision of the emperor, the Ming Empire increased the construction of Fusang Island, of which the Xinhai Special Zone was a key step in this decision, becoming a key development area, the Ming Dynasty achieved the dazzling Xinhai City, and the Xinhai City saved the Ming Dynasty that was about to decline. This is the time of day in Xinhai City.
Shinkai City is an area made up of bays, islands, and coastal plains. To the south and east are the sea, the terrain is flat and the territorial sea is on both sides, and the natural resources are superior. Coupled with the amplified advantages of Xinhai City's transportation hub, Xinhai City has become a unique place suitable for building a super city. This is the geographical advantage of Xinhai City.
The Chinese nation has been an agrarian civilization for 5,000 years, and at the same time, the agrarian civilization has also determined the characteristics of Chinese culture. The culture of the Ming Dynasty is a type of culture that is different from the nomadic culture of Europe, and agriculture plays a decisive role in it. The agricultural civilization of living together and cultivating intensively has given birth to a restrained and self-sufficient lifestyle, cultural traditions, agricultural ideology, rural management system, etc., which coincides with the concept of harmony, environmental protection and low carbon advocated today.
Historically, nomadic civilizations have often disappeared abruptly because they were unable to adapt to changes in their environment. The regional diversity, ethnic diversity, historical inheritance and local folk nature of agricultural civilization not only endow Chinese culture with important characteristics, but also are important reasons why Chinese culture continues to flourish for a long time.
The people of the Ming Dynasty have always been obedient, have a strong sense of collectivity, and are industrious.
Under the call of the imperial court, as many as 6 million laborers were directly transferred and voluntarily relocated to build the Xinhai Special Zone, and in just 30 years, they built one human miracle after another with their hands. This is the people of Shinkai City and.
However, Xinhaishi, who combines the right time and place, did not expect the greed and ugliness formed by human nature.
It is a miracle that the Xinhai Special Economic Zone was born under the 600-year-old feudal dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, and the bureaucratic system of Xinhai was very different from that of the mainland and even the entire Fusang Continent.
Lowering the imperial power, taking economic construction as the first place, attracting investment around the world, so that many domestic and foreign businessmen came to Xinhai City to invest in various fields, and these people have accumulated amazing wealth in Xinhai City in just a few years.
At the same time as the rapid rise of Xinhai City, many rich capital groups were also born. These people relied on the diligent work of the people of the Ming Dynasty and the enlightened policies of the Ming Dynasty to produce a lot of wealth and means of production.
They hold countless bills and influence all areas of Xinhai City, but in the end, instead of giving back to the society, they continue to exploit the people of Xinhai and run on competitors.
Xinhai is a brand new city, but it has a slum shanty town that a new city should not have, and although it has been less than 30 years since its founding, the city is aging at an unprecedented rate.
The people have forgotten when the shantytowns of Xinhai City were formed, and perhaps those laborers who got up early and worked late for the construction of Xinhai City lived in this low shantytown from the beginning, until the construction of Xinhai City was completed, and Xinhai City never looked back to remember the low-level people who left blood and sweat for the construction of Xinhai City in the past.
No matter how diligent the people who do not have the means of production in their hands, they cannot control their own destiny, and no matter how prosperous the city is, they cannot change their lives.
Since the establishment of Xinhai City, many rich people have been born, but the vast majority of poor people have not been able to change the status quo, especially after the completion of the construction of Xinhai City, mechanization and intelligence have been continuously improved, and the employment in Xinhai City has plummeted, and the lives of the people at the bottom are much worse than before, and the population and fertility rate have also begun to show negative growth.
Crime and education rates are matched by declining employment and fertility rates, people in slums do not have stable jobs, crime becomes commonplace, and the education-age population does not go to school, but instead roams the streets and becomes a scout for criminal syndicates.
Fusozhou's heavy industry from the Great Lakes to the east coast quickly became apparent, and climate and environmental problems such as increased ultraviolet intensity, disturbed average temperatures, declining air quality, and rising precipitation hindered production in Xinhai City.
A large number of construction workers in Xinhai City work outdoors all year round, with strong ultraviolet radiation and unsafe work, and the population of skin cancer, cataracts, disability and other related diseases has become the largest number among all cities in Daming.
Crime, environmental disease, and other problems quickly plagued Xinhai City like other old cities, and what is even more troublesome is that Xinhai City is also facing new problems that other cities do not have.
In the face of new problems, it also gives the decision-makers of Xinhai City a free choice, and the decision-makers of Xinhai City have also given birth to an extreme radical faction, and there is a faint tendency to gradually become the mainstream.