1. Inside and outside the island
I feel that the main distinguishing point of Xiamen is inside and outside the island. Siming District and Huli District on the island are rich in entertainment complexes (SM Square, Vientiane City, Robinson, etc. ), sound medical institutions, good educational resources and so on. Generally speaking, you can have a good leisure, entertainment, medical security and educational experience on the island. Relatively speaking, Haicang District, jimei district District, Xiang 'an District and Tong 'an District outside the island have their own characteristics, but compared with the island, there are still some gaps and high transportation costs. At present, there are Haicang Bridge, Jimei Bridge, Xinglin Bridge and Xiang 'an Tunnel connecting the island and the outside, all of which are relatively congested, and the infrastructure is not as good as that on the island, but there are also advantages that are not available outside the island.
2. Wages and house prices
The wage level in Xiamen is not high, but there are housing prices that are different from the wage level. Compared with first-tier cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the wage level in Xiamen seems to have been lowered a lot. This has a lot to do with Xiamen's urban attributes. Xiamen is a tourist city, with no large industrial enterprises and high-tech companies. Xiamen's GDP ranks only about the third in Fujian Province. However, because Xiamen has attracted a lot of foreign population, a lot of foreign capital has flowed into the real estate market, which has led to an increase in housing prices in Xiamen. Although there are restrictions on policy liberalization this year, the overall level of housing prices is still very high.
Feel comfortable
Xiamen's weather and urban attributes make it a very comfortable city. Except for occasional typhoons, the weather in Xiamen is within a comfortable range. When you get up in the morning, you can see the eye-catching green and breathe fresh air. When you are bored, you can go to the seaside, climb mountains, taste Xiamen's special food, or go to tourist attractions to feel the enthusiasm of the crowd. This can be done in one day, because the island is really small, and there are BRT and subway. It will be faster if you take a taxi (Monday morning and Friday afternoon are the most congested except for the daily commuting time).
Generally speaking, Xiamen is a comfortable second-tier tourist city. You are welcome to see and experience for yourself.
Because my children are in Xiamen, I went to Xiamen for several years after retiring from a famous university company in Beijing, and I saw Xiamen in my eyes.
The national strategy has planned the policy of Xiamen Special Economic Zone to Haidong. After years of practice, Xiamen failed to make good use of the special economic zone policy, which disappointed the country. At the same time, why is there such a big gap between the SAR and Shenzhen? What is the reason why Xiamen didn't make good use of the special zone policy?
It is also a reality to give people recognition. Second-tier cities rank first-tier housing prices nationwide, while Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xiamen are higher than first-tier cities. The cost of living is out of proportion to the city, driving away many talents. The economy is lower than Quanzhou, the neighboring city, and the tourist city has the reputation of "enough paper to blow"! Gulangyu is nothing special. A tiny island is crowded with superior citizens, while citizens outside the island are classified as inferior citizens. The narrow concept is that there is a lake. If you think about it clearly, don't call it. Call the island an upper island and a lower island. How could this happen in Xiamen? In order to counter Haidong's efforts to build a special zone for many years, it should be that several leading teams of jl sampan did nothing and failed to build the Haixi Special Zone into an aircraft carrier. How can we not disappoint the country? There is no scientific planning and good construction in a promising area. The integration of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou has been called for many years, and the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Why is the integration of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou so difficult? It is the root cause of being too narrow-minded Xiamen may lose its advantage over Haidong Special Zone. Personally, in order to unify the development strategy of Haidong, the state has formulated three plans: Haidong Tunnel Bridge-North Fuqing-Pingtan Island-Haidong Hsinchu. Central Putian-Su Huang. Xiamen South-Jinmen-Penghu-Chiayi. In the future, Xiamen will lose its development advantage with China as the north and south, which is the trend in the next few decades, and the trend of unification will become a reality.
An inclusive small and exquisite garden-style coastal city.
Xiamen is a city that does not pursue high GDP. The comprehensive strength of both domestic and foreign countries ranks in the top 17, which is quite good.
First of all, Xiamen's economy and GDP are not high, but its fiscal revenue ranks first in the province, which reflects that Xiamen's GDP has the highest gold content and there is no water injection. Secondly, Xiamen's business environment, talent reserve and cultural quality have laid the foundation for the tertiary industry. Finally, Xiamen's international reputation is very high, and its comprehensive strength at home and abroad ranks first in the province. Holding some famous expositions often can provide some good platforms for enterprises.
Those who say that Xiamen feeds on Quanzhou are ignorant people. Xiamen has its own three Fortune 500 companies. Which one is Quanzhou? None! Quanzhou relies on this 40 billion yuan fiscal and taxation. How does it support buildings and the environment? I don't think I can even get the money to repair the subway. So what is the use of high GDP? With water, India's GDP is also high. Can it compare with the developed small countries in Europe? Others say that Xiamen's GDP mainly depends on real estate, which is even more ignorant. Xiamen's real estate accounts for less than 20% in the country. Some people even say that most of the rich people in Xiamen are from Quanzhou, but they all abandoned Quanzhou hukou. In fact, it is understandable that Xiamen's urban construction facilities, educational resources and civilized quality are much higher than Quanzhou's, and people are too cold at heights. Of course, I chose Xiamen. Even if you don't go to Xiamen, you will choose to go to Beijing, Shanghai and other places. They should thank Fujian province, and at least one Xiamen has kept them.
Last but not least, Xiamen has indeed moved too many enterprises to protect the environment in recent years. Every year, more than 80 billion GDP PX is driven away, and even Luxiang Petrochemical is driven away. The petrochemical industry has basically stopped production. The only city along the Yangtze River without a pillar petrochemical industry began to close stone factories and mines the year before last. Even the pigs and bullfrogs were shut down last year. It is correct not to sacrifice the environment in pursuit of high GDP and take the road of sustainable development. !
Come on in Xiamen! Create a high-value, high-quality ecological garden city in Xiamen.
Note: (The picture below shows the evaluation by China Academy of Social Sciences and national institutions, and facts speak louder than words).
I lived in Xiamen for some time. Speaking of Xiamen, many people's impression of Xiamen is definitely a small and fresh city. Most of the tourists who come to Xiamen are also dressed in fresh literature and art, just to leave a good-looking photo in line with Xiamen's fresh literature and art.
Indeed, literary freshness is the best adjective in Xiamen. Unlike other tourist cities, it takes a historical and cultural route, but takes a different approach. Except for Xiamen, there is probably no other tourist city in China that has such modern literary freshness.
Everyone who has been to Xiamen knows that Xiamen is a small coastal island with good environment, clean roads and lush trees. Walking around the island, you can see the sea, blue sky and green trees, which is simply a natural and very livable city in the city. Many lovely and fresh gadgets can be found in Zhongshan Road, Zeng Cuo An Village Village and Gulangyu Island in Xiamen. Every landscape, even the roadside shops, is full of literary atmosphere. Which girl doesn't like this city?
I have to admit that Xiamen is indeed a very romantic and beautiful city, but it is also a very serious city, and tourism is commercialized. Although this may be an unavoidable problem for every tourist city, it will inevitably be annoying.
I have been in Xiamen for so long and I like the city very much, but almost half the roads in Xiamen are tourists. The locals are crowded with tourists every day, which makes Xiamen very lifeless, because there are too many tourists, and all you see on the road are pairs of exploratory and novel eyes. If you ask the way, that person will probably answer you "Sorry, I'm here for a tour". Because there are more and more tourists, many shops have become very pitted and can earn money from tourists. Sometimes you will think that this thing is ordinary, not worth so much money at all, but it will be expensive, so sometimes you really think that Xiamen always has an irresistible smell of money under its beautiful appearance.
I feel very invited, "How to evaluate the city of Xiamen?" First of all, it is human nature that people love their hometown. "... this is not as good as their hometown! ..... "Hereby, it is normal to have different views on Xiamen. Because, with the gradual prosperity of the country, all parts of the motherland have made great progress, and each place has its own unique charm.
For example, Xiamen (the island) has its unique geographical location: tiny land, surrounded by the sea, pleasant climate, beautiful scenery, warm hospitality of local people, increasingly frequent international trade exchanges, unlimited business opportunities, frequent material exchanges and prosperous market. The local government attaches great importance to people's livelihood, invests heavily in infrastructure, has convenient transportation, and has developed steadily in all aspects ... More and more people at home and abroad are attracted to Xiamen to travel, work, buy houses and settle down. ...
From this simple example, the rise in real estate prices makes many people optimistic about Xiamen. ...
A bird's eye view of Siming Huang Xinyou/photo
Regarding the city of Xiamen, I have heard a particularly interesting evaluation-the little daughter that the mainland especially loves?
Why is there such an evaluation? Come with me and see what this evaluator has to say.
There are many coastal cities and peninsular cities in China, but not many island cities. The two most famous cities are Hong Kong and Xiamen. There are not many island cities, because many islands are not suitable for building cities. For example, the four major islands in Fujian-Haitan, Dongshan, Kinmen and Xiamen-all have an area of more than 100 square kilometers, but the first three islands are offshore islands, hanging off the coastline and facing typhoons and huge waves in the open sea alone. The natural conditions are bad, and it only develops into a county-level city. Xiamen Island, the smallest island in the bay, retreats to the coastline and is surrounded by the mainland on three sides-resisting the wind and waves, enjoying the benefits of the ocean and avoiding the harm of the ocean.
Xiamen Island is peacefully anchored in the embrace of Xiamen Bay. When the weather is clear, overlooking the whole arc bay from the top of the mountain, you will feel that the mountains coming from the mainland just hold their breath, dive into the bottom of the sea for a while, and then stick their heads out in the sea not far away-not heroic, but like naughty children playing in the water.
Charming Wuyuan Bay Li Chuquan/photo
Xiamen Island is like a little girl that the mainland especially loves. She couldn't bear to marry far away, so she stayed nearby and took good care of her. The bay between her and her family is narrow and shallow, and wooden sailboats come in waves; With the connection of Xiamen Bridge, Haicang Bridge, Xinglin Bridge, Jimei Bridge and Xiang 'an Cross-Harbour Tunnel, more umbilical cords tightened her and her mother, and Xiamen became more and more peninsular. The cultural mentality brought by this geographical feature is that Xiamen has never had an island consciousness.
She used to be only Jiahe Li in Suide Township, Tongan County, Quanzhou (equivalent to today's township). After modernization, she turned Tonga into one of her districts. At present, the administrative map of Xiamen is more than ten times that of Xiamen Island, including the mainland part of Xiamen Bay.
Old Xiamen You Xiaoyun/photo
Because you are at arm's length from your mother, you can't expect how open Xiamen is, and the "family education" is very strict; Of course, it is not very conservative. After all, we live separately. In the late Qing Dynasty, Xiamen did not hate foreigners like Guangzhou and Fuzhou, but launched a vigorous "anti-advancement" movement. Unlike Shanghai, Xiamen is completely open and good at following the trend. As a result, it did not slip away.
After the reform and opening up, Xiamen, as a pioneering special economic zone, lags far behind Shenzhen in its development and ranks even worse. Looking at the fashion on the streets of Xiamen, it is always half a beat behind Shanghai; Cultural atmosphere, even in Fuzhou; None of the media in Xiamen has influence outside the local area. Compared with the media industry in Guangzhou, it is a mess.
Xiamen developed very late. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, she was still an isolated island. The Ming dynasty was the coastal defense outpost of the Ming dynasty to crack down on smuggling; In the early Qing Dynasty, Zheng successfully managed Xiamen and became an important port. After the Opium War, it was listed as one of the five earliest trading ports in China.
Light makeup is always appropriate. Wang/photo
Xiamen is a springboard for Chinese civilization to reach the ocean: Zheng Chenggong's army crossed the sea from here to collect Taiwan, and overseas Chinese who went south to Southeast Asia looked back at their homeland for the last time. Fujian people take the sea as the field, and Xiamen people take the sea as the road. Where the sea rushes, her sense of touch extends. She is used to stormy waves, where will you go, leaving your hometown, and you are familiar with all kinds of stories of fleeing the world and returning home with clothes on.
Her vision and mind are as deep and broad as the ocean. In Chinese mainland, Minnan is only a small place. Through Xiamen Port, Minnan people have traveled all over the world, and the South China Sea has become the inner sea of Minnan cultural circle. The relationship between Xiamen and Quanzhou and Zhangzhou is very interesting.
Panorama/pictures of Xiamen forest
Quanzhou, the eldest son of Minnan culture, has an early mind, a strong will and is good at doing business. It enjoyed prosperity as the largest port in the Far East in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but declined in the Ming and Qing Dynasties due to port siltation. But with a good foundation, after the reform and opening up, a large factory was set up and made a fortune. The second son, Zhangzhou, has fertile land, and the tradition is mainly farming. His family is poor, and the people are simple and tenacious. By the Ming Dynasty, he relied on Guangdong and Hong Kong at the mouth of Jiulong River to engage in smuggling and piracy activities, which pushed the civilian maritime forces in southern Fujian to the peak. In the early Qing Dynasty, Guangdong and Hong Kong were silted up, and it was Xiamen Port's turn to become the main seaport in southern Fujian. Therefore, there are three changes in the estuary of southern Fujian, first Houzhu Port in Quanzhou, then Guangdong-Hong Kong Port in Zhangzhou and finally Xiamen Port.
Xiamen was brought up in Quanzhou. It turned out that a thin young girl built her own home because of an excellent harbor. Hundreds of years of trade interests have nourished her into a graceful and mature young woman, who is well known and will always speak for Minnan. As a result, Quanzhou was somewhat unconvinced. He always remembers the girl's face when she has a runny nose. He doesn't like her proud publicity. He always thought he was the boss. As for Zhangzhou, he lacks ambition and has no intention of being a leader. However, Quanzhou's arrogance has long made him dissatisfied, and he is more willing to support this promising young lady around him. The relationship between Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in the South Fujian Golden Triangle is quite subtle.
Jimei New City Wu/photo
We say that Xiamen does not feel like an island, and Xiamen is connected with the mainland and the ocean. Finally, we have to go back and recognize a basic fact: Xiamen is indeed an island.
Xiamen in history refers to the area of Xiamen on the Lujiang River opposite Gulangyu Island, which extends to the seaside like a nail. Xiamen was originally a military castle in the Ming Dynasty, but it was expanded in the Qing Dynasty, with a circumference of about1450m. Draw an arc with a radius of 1500m around the Fujian Navy prefect's office (which was changed to the Navy Command in the Republic of China and is now the Municipal Public Security Bureau) in Xiamen, which is what the old Xiamen people called Xiamen.
Sitting on the bunker overlooking Jinmen, as the front line of coastal defense, there are many Ming bunkers in Xiamen.
In this way, more than 95% of the land in Xiamen Island is not owned by Xiamen, and Ren Mei Palace in the north, Wenzao in the east and Shapowei in the south all belong to rural areas or fishing villages outside Xiamen. Nowadays, the concept of Xiamen has been greatly expanded, but in the minds of Xiamen people, Xiamen is still an island city. Outside the island are those villages called Haicang, Jimei, Tongan and Xiang 'an, and when they leave the island, they leave Xiamen. The difference between Xiamen and the countryside is reflected in the house price: the house price on the island is 40,000 per square meter, while that outside the island is only half.
The only remaining wall of Xiamen ancient city
Away from the beach of Puyu Island, Xiamen Gao Qi is on the horizon in the distance.
Mountains and seas meet, and the seasons are like spring. Xiamen is really beautiful. Foreigners often joke about Xiamen people, saying that they have traveled all over the world and come back to tell stories, and finally they all come to the same conclusion: Hey, Xiamen is better! They don't admit that there is a better place in the world than this island. They naively think that everyone envies their city. In this way, Xiamen people not only did not increase their knowledge when traveling, but also strengthened their love for their hometown.
A guest from Fuzhou. Without further ado, friends in Xiamen drove him around, including Huandao Road, Zhongshan Road, Lujiang Road, Haibin Park and Gulangyu Island. They also said that they would take him to see the night view of Bailuzhou. How poetic. The guest couldn't help it. Give me a break. I've seen it many times.
This article is selected from Xiao Chunlei's China Palmprint series Huaxia Border Town.
When I was admitted to the university, I knew that Xiamen University was super beautiful. Many students filled in Xiamen University when they filled in their volunteers. Later, I traveled to Xiamen after work and made a special trip to Xiamen University for sightseeing. It's really beautiful. The geographical location and environment of the real Xiamen are all wrong, not to mention the scenery. This is a famous tourist city. However, I feel that Xiamen has been a bit "low-key" in the past two years, and its development speed is relatively slow, and the income brought by high housing prices is relatively small. I hope Xiamen will be bolder and faster, enhance the strength of the city and let beauty and strength coexist.
Xiamen Twin Towers
Xiamen University with extremely high value
People who say that Xiamen is not good are basically people who have not bought a house.
Xiamen (Amoy), also known as Ludao, is located at the southeast end of Fujian Province, bordering Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone in the west, Nan 'an in the north and Jinmen and Dadan Island across the sea in the southeast. It is one of the major cities in southern Fujian. It is also called "Xiamen-Zhangzhou Spring" with Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and it is the economic zone of the Golden Triangle in southern Fujian.
Xiamen, a coastal city in China, is one of the first four special economic zones in China to implement the policy of opening to the outside world, one of the five national experimental zones for comprehensive reform of development and opening up (namely "new special zones") and one of the three zones of "China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone". It is also a cross-strait cooperation demonstration zone for emerging industries and modern service industries, a southeast international shipping center, a cross-strait regional financial service center and a cross-strait trade center.
Xiamen consists of Xiamen Island, Gulangyu Island, Haicang Peninsula on the west coast, Jimei Peninsula on the north coast, Xiang 'an Peninsula on the east coast, Dalong Island, Tongan Island and Jiulong River inland, with a land area of 1699.39 square kilometers and a sea area of more than 390 square kilometers. Xiamen Island is the main body of Xiamen, with a length of 13.7km from north to south, a width of 12.5km from east to west and an area of about 132.5km. It is the birthplace of Xiamen Special Economic Zone and the earliest commercial and political center on the island.
Xiamen is also a modern international port scenic tourist city, with the first batch of national 5A-level tourist attractions-Gulangyu Island. Former US President Nixon once praised Xiamen as "Hawaii of the East". As of 20 14, Xiamen's built-up area is 30 1 km2, and the population of the main city is 38 10000. Pass the Minnan language.