I know that yingtan is now a prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, but it has been a prefecture-level city for a short time, less than 40 years now. After liberation, yingtan was a town, which belonged to today's guixi city and was then called Guixi County. Later, in the late 1950s, it was upgraded to a county-level town, belonging to Shangrao area. Then 1979 was upgraded to county-level city, and 1983 was upgraded to prefecture-level city.
Yingtan has a small land area (more than 3,500 square kilometers, only equivalent to a county) and a small population (about 1.2 million), which can only be regarded as the bottom in Jiangxi Province. But he has two unique advantages. It is also the reason why he can become a prefecture-level city.
One is its traffic advantage. Yingtan is the starting point of yingtan-xiamen railway. This railway may not be very famous now, but before the reform and opening up, it was an important channel connecting the frontier positions of Fujian and Jiangxi, and it was also the most important channel.
The second is its industrial status. Although yingtan's GDP today is less than 654.38+000 billion yuan, it is the only smelter of Jiangxi Jiangtong Group, a fortune 500 enterprise in the world. Guixi Smelter is located in Yingtan City today.
As for his future development potential, objectively speaking, I don't think there is much great potential. A very important factor is the small area. A prefecture-level city is only 3500 square kilometers. Even compared with many developed cities in the Yangtze River Delta, this area is quite small. Besides, he is not on the plain.
In fact, this problem is not only common, but also exists in Pingxiang and Xinyu. The latter two cities have also become prefecture-level cities for economic reasons and industrial development. Pingxiang is because of coal mine, Xinyu is because of steel. To tell the truth, these heavy industries have no development potential in the future.
Like these prefecture-level cities, they are very small and very dependent on one industry. There are only two ways to go in the future. One is industrial upgrading and transformation, and the other is being merged.
Yingtan is a small city in Jiangxi Province, with a land area of about 3556.7 square kilometers and a permanent population of about1170,000. It is a prefecture-level city with the smallest area and the least population in Jiangxi Province. Yingtan is famous for its "rippling water waves and eagles dancing on them". It is famous at home and abroad for its beautiful Danxia, sacred Taoism, wonderful ancient Yue and wonderful Yin and Yang. Jiao Shan's ancient pottery kiln culture, Guiguzi, Taoism, psychology, ancient Yue and red culture complement each other here.
Although yingtan is a small city, it is a relatively rich prefecture-level city in Jiangxi. In 20 18, yingtan's GDP was 81900 million yuan, ranking first in the province, but its per capita GDP reached 7140 thousand yuan, ranking third in the province after Nanchang and Xinyu, and also higher than the national average.
Yingtan is the throat of Jiangxi in and out of Fujian. Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, Xiaying line, Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, Anhui-Jiangxi line, Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, Jinan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, National Highway 320 and National Highway 206 are kilometers long, and railways and high-speed railways are intertwined, with relatively developed transportation infrastructure. It is an important transportation hub city in Jiangxi.
Yingtan's economy is dominated by metal smelting and processing, chemical raw materials and chemical products, and it is one of the important copper processing and production bases in China. Tourism is also one of the important pillar industries in yingtan. In the future, yingtan will fully rely on Jiangtong Group to carry out "innovation" and "multiplication" to build the world copper capital, and at the same time create a new pattern of global tourism focusing on Taoist health preservation and cultural tourism, with great development potential.
The development potential is not constant forever. The so-called potential is potential energy, which has its particularity and times.
Although yingtan is one of the "four small cities" in Jiangxi, its population and jurisdiction area are also the smallest in Jiangxi. In today's era when urbanization still depends on the dividend of population and land area, and yingtan's transportation advantage is gradually leveled or even surpassed, in a sense, yingtan's stamina is really insufficient. However, everything is not everything. To analyze whether a city has development potential, we need to integrate various factors, including urban pattern, regional pattern and its own advantages in the province. So, what opportunities and potentials does yingtan have?
First, make full use of the opportunity that yingtan is listed as an experimental zone for the development of urban-rural integration, and build urban-rural integration in yingtan.
With the support of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, yingtan is listed as an experimental area of urban-rural integration development by the state, which is the only city in Jiangxi. As a small city, yingtan has its unique advantages. With yujiang county County being divided into districts, yingtan became the first prefecture-level city in guixi city, which is not under the jurisdiction of the county. The National Urban-Rural Integration Development Experimental Zone is to use the advantageous platform endowed by the state to integrate various resource elements in the region, create urban-rural integration, and embark on a road different from other big cities.
Second, implement a global integration development model.
Global integration, that is, the integrated development and integrated planning and construction of counties and cities within their jurisdiction, is also difficult for big cities to achieve. The advantage of small cities is flexibility, and the lower levels of government management are more efficient.
The current goal and task of yingtan is to integrate the whole region, from tourism, ecological management to social management, and finally realize the regionalization of the whole region.
Third, do big industry.
Industry is an important symbol of urbanization and the blood of national economy. Yingtan's industry is not at a disadvantage in the province, but at an advantage. Yingtan High-tech Zone and Guixi Economic Development Zone are the top ten industrial zones in the province. This is incomparable in some big cities. Yingtan makes full use of the cooperation framework agreement between Jiangtong and yingtan, and takes advantage of the leading role of Guixi Smelter and other important factories to make the industry bigger and stronger.
In our traditional understanding of the potential, we often think of how to make the city bigger, how to increase the population, how to increase GDP, and how to rank the national X-ray cities. It is true that these data are "hard indicators" of regional central cities in Nanchang, Jiujiang, Ganzhou and other provinces, but it is impossible for every province to let all cities take the road of "big and comprehensive". If GDP cannot be superimposed, it will be removed and merged into the big city next door. This is an extensive and rough understanding mode. If a region removes tens of thousands of square kilometers of land and retains the center of a big city, it is impossible to take care of all regional development. Jiangxi's urbanization level is not high or even backward, and prefecture-level cities are relatively conducive to driving the development of surrounding areas.
What is the development potential of yingtan, Jiangxi? On this issue, Jiangxi yingtan still has great development potential. Yingtan is still in the upper and middle reaches of Jiangxi Province, ranking the third, and yingtan has a strong industrial level. Guixi city ranks third among the county-level cities in the province, and Guixi Copper Smelter is also the largest enterprise in the province. Yingtan's economic development is still very advantageous, with excellent tourist conditions, including Longhu Mountain, Shangqing Palace, yingtan Special Station and high-speed rail, the birthplace of Taoism in China.
Geographically, yingtan faces the Yangtze River, the Pearl River and the Minnan Delta, and is the common hinterland of the Haixi Economic Zone and the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, which are the largest and closest in central China. In addition, yingtan is also the first city in northeast Jiangxi to undertake industrial transfer in the southeast coast. The geographical position is very superior, and it is one of the important passages connecting the mainland and the southeast coast, with great potential for future development. Some people may care, which county under the jurisdiction of yingtan has the greatest development potential? I think it's yujiang county County. Why are you so optimistic about the future development of yujiang county County? Let's take a look at the current development of yujiang county County. Yujiang District, located in the northeast of Jiangxi Province, covers an area of 936 square kilometers and has a permanent population of about 400,000. It governs 7 towns, 5 townships and 7 farms, and the government office is located at Yingnan Avenue 1 in Dengbu Town.
It is necessary to play the role of logistics transit and undertake the logistics transit role in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Fujian economy and other regions.
If more counties are added, yingtan will have great development!
Yingtan's development orientation can't be explained clearly in one or two sentences. We should consider the present situation, history, industry, region, transportation, humanities, science and education, comprehensive competitiveness of cities, development orientation of provinces and cities, and so on.
This development depends on what it is. If it's tourism, it's basically nothing, but it's still the railway era, and yingtan is a city pulled by trains, so it will still develop, but it will develop quickly.
Besides, yingtan today is very different from yingtan a few years ago. I am studying outside now, and I feel that yingtan has changed when I come home.
How strong my eagle empire is!
Yingtan, a city brought by the railway, has always been an important transportation center leading to the south from the central part of northern China. However, since the opening of the Beijing-Kowloon Line, yingtan's traffic status has greatly declined. Therefore, if yingtan wants to develop, it must find another way to tap other economic potentials.