The first article "Can Gansu be reborn in collapse and corruption? After going online, it was strongly forwarded in the WeChat circle of friends, and the reading volume exceeded 1 10,000 in a short time. For a serious or even slightly sad political and economic commentary, it can be regarded as a phenomenal concern. Why didn't Gansu enter the top 500 after that? Tianshui: Why has the hometown of Huang Xi become a fifth-tier city? "Pingliang: Why has the dry dock under the Kongtong Mountain become the most desperate city?" The reading volume quickly broke through 100000+, which caused a big discussion in Gansu and the city I wrote. These days, I have been recognized and praised by many respected readers, and I have also received criticisms and corrections from some friends. It is normal that literature has no first place, martial arts has no second place, and there are praises and denials. I don't care, but I feel a little scared.
Before these articles, I also wrote a series of articles criticizing Gansu on the official WeChat account, which caused widespread concern. If I add the articles I have written in Weibo and other new media in recent years, as well as the critical articles about Gansu, I may publish more than 100,000 words, and most of them are critical or even abusive. This forms the right to speak to a certain extent. Say a word that may be narcissistic, and some words written have influenced some readers' cognition and emotion about Gansu.
This is what scares me, because as long as it is a review article, will there be some non-objective and unfair places? If the reader's cognition deviates from the truth because of my personal cognitive limitations, I will be deeply disturbed. Answer some readers' questions first.
Who are you? This is a question that a user asked me in the background. I think the subtext is: Who are you, and on what basis do you judge Gansu? What qualifications do you have to sing bad Gansu? In fact, I don't know how to answer this question, because I don't know how to position myself. As a Gansu native, a freelancer and a teenager, nothing seems to give me an accurate position. I can only briefly talk about some of my life and work paths.
I studied chemistry in college, but due to my mistakes, after graduating from college, I became a financial worker and went to work in Shenzhen, the forefront of China's opening to the outside world. At that time, I often thought about some big and unreasonable problems on Shennan Avenue. It sounds good now, but there was no economy and big data at that time. People generally don't fully understand this thing, and they didn't expect it to have such magic as it is today. I enjoyed my youth very much. I first lived in Guanwai, Shenzhen, and then moved to Futian. I have been writing during this period, mainly writing articles on finance and economics. During this period, I wrote most articles about financial technology.
On my first business trip to Guizhou, my cognition was completely subverted. This once backward province has become the fastest growing province in China overnight. I remember teaching in Longnan when I was in college, and I saw a poor family and desperate eyes in Longnan, Gansu. I know that Gansu has fallen far behind. From then on, I began to write articles criticizing Gansu. The original intention is actually to make Gansu develop faster. I'm scared to think about it now. I am a teenager. How can He De criticize a province with a history of 8000 years? How can he criticize a country with a population of 26 million?
It can be said that college and work experience are not directly related to writing articles and doing research. Until now, only by opening the official WeChat account, can I be directly fascinated by writing. If you ask me, who am I to criticize Gansu? I can only say that I am from Gansu, and I love this land. I have real life experience, a little theoretical basis for analysis and research, and a little love for Gansu. Is this enough? I don't know, I said this in the official reply: I can't guarantee that the criticism is objective and fair, but I can guarantee that it is reasonable. I love this land and the people who live here.
Tell me about my feelings in Gansu. I grew up in a small city in Gansu. I remember the first time I went to Lanzhou, the provincial capital. I came here in a green leather car from my hometown, wobbling. Bumping and tired all the way, it is still difficult to hide the inner excitement. In my imagination at that time, it was a sentimental city with readers, a province representing Gansu, a big city far from home, and a capital of the Yellow River near the western regions. I will study here, and it feels quite special.
Because I haven't been to any big cities when I was a child, I have always felt that Gansu's cities are the most beautiful. It was not until I kept going out that I found that Gansu was very backward. The essence of modern cities is gathering. By reducing the space distance, we can get the greatest convenience in life and promote the circulation of knowledge and the improvement of production efficiency. However, an important embodiment of urban civilization is distance. Without proper distance, there will be no privacy, respect and beauty, and even no integrity. I grew up in an acquaintance society in the countryside, and I know how uncomfortable interpersonal relationships without distance are.
But distance is not indifference and nothingness. Living here for a long time, you will find that people here are not silent. They know what is worth caring about. Therefore, when Beijingers indulge in the revolutionary passion of liberating all mankind, Lanzhou people, the provincial capital, have been swimming silently on both sides of the Yellow River for construction. They know that eating is more important than anything else. While Shanghainese are still looking forward to the exquisite life of capitalism in the small era, Gansu people have witnessed the rise and fall of cities on the Silk Road. They are not addicted to any doctrine and passion, but only stick to their own pragmatism.
To put it mildly, when taxi drivers in Shenzhen talk about innovation with you, Gansu people are still struggling in the quagmire of brain drain because they don't respect talents; When Beijing newspapers tell you about the politics of G-20 summit, Gansu newspapers may still be chasing after something irrelevant. When some cities are addicted to the competition of skyscrapers, the residents of Lanzhou, the provincial capital, are still lamenting that there is no real CBD in Lanzhou. When representatives from other cities work with officials from all walks of life, representatives from Gansu are still there.
I often wonder, what has created the distinctive local characteristics of Gansu Province? I am used to thinking from the perspective of "geographical determinism". Gansu is located in the frontier and prospers because of the Silk Road, which determines that its most basic function is trade and foreign trade. Trade needs to communicate with strangers, especially with Central Asia and West Asia. In ancient times, when the traffic was underdeveloped, a strong spirit of adventure was needed, so it was pioneering and enterprising. Businessmen also pay attention to practical interests, so they will not blindly follow any doctrine. It is normal that pragmatism and hard work are respected here.
Times have changed, the economic center of gravity in the Southern Song Dynasty moved south, the Qing Dynasty closed its doors to the outside world, and after the rise of modern maritime trade, these distinctive local characteristics seem to be fading. Today's Gansu, no matter from which data, is a province with no sense of existence, but it goes without saying that it is losing something and becoming mediocre and step by step. Others sell land to build a city, and it also sells it. If others build a motor city, it will also do it. When others are keen on building wanda plaza, they have not fallen behind at all. Even if others curb newspaper comments, they can't avoid customs ... When people mention Guizhou, they will think of big data. When Shaanxi is mentioned, they will think of IT services. When they mention Gansu, they can only think of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base, not a certain industry.
Where is Gansu in my mind, the richest place in the world and nowhere to go?
I don't know if what I said is fair. I can only use my personal life experience as evidence. Take the Internet, service outsourcing and big data industries that I am familiar with as examples. In recent years, I have indeed seen many friends leave Gansu for better development. The most visited places are Beijing and Shenzhen, and some have been to Hangzhou and Shanghai. As far as their feelings are concerned, Gansu is the desert of these industries. I have never stood on the forefront, and it is meaningless to stay, and there is no development at all. In this year, several friends around me also chose to leave Lanzhou, Gansu, a city full of feelings, and went to the north full of dreams.
Of course, I must reiterate that this is only my personal experience and cannot represent the whole picture of the above three industries. I'm even less clear about other industries, and I can't make any judgment. Take the provincial capital Lanzhou as an example. For a big city, it is normal for someone to come and someone to go. It doesn't mean anything by itself. In fact, you are walking on the streets of Lanzhou today, and it is still a sea of people and bustling. Without comparison, we can't see any signs related to "decline". What the truth is, the reader judges for himself.
There is an old saying that "young people don't go to Sichuan and old people don't go to Gansu", which means that Sichuan is rich in products and beautiful women are like clouds. When young people get there, it is inevitable to play with things and get discouraged. Gansu is a wild place, waiting for people to break through difficulties and start businesses. It is a hard-working and inspiring place, where the old people can't enjoy peace. Today, this old saying may no longer be accurate, but it always implies that openness, hard work and enterprising were once the soul of Long Yuan. Don't lose anything, but .....
Without that province, which city can last forever, and without that province, which city can always stand in the forefront. Of course, Gansu can choose not to reform and make progress, and it is not bad to be a mediocre province with blue sky and white clouds and no smog in the air. In an era of free migration, people vote for their cities with their feet. Perhaps in the end, mediocre people will go to mediocre cities, and hardworking people will go to hardworking cities. There is nothing wrong with everyone respecting and praising each other.
But can we really lie here without development? Of course not. At the 19th National Congress, the General Secretary once again explicitly proposed to comprehensively solve the poverty problem in 2020. However, there are still millions of poor people in Gansu today. Without reform and development, how can so many problems be solved?
In the new cycle of China's national development, it is still an opportunity for Gansu's development. Don't give up on yourself, don't sell yourself short, be confident. We should regain our own cultural characteristics, encourage innovation, and strive for the rejuvenation of Long Yuan.
Guizhou has worked hard for five years, and its economy has undergone earth-shaking changes. As long as Gansu can intensify its reform, thoroughly eliminate the cancer of corruption, mobilize the enthusiasm of the broad masses of the people, and work hard for ten years, the great rejuvenation of Longyuan will be just around the corner, and a more sustainable urban development system will be mature and perfect, thus laying a material and long-term foundation for Gansu's development. In this decade, Gansu should concentrate on developing economy, laying out advantageous industries and improving people's lives. As long as the energy is not transferred and the mind is not clear, there is no reason and reason for Gansu not to develop.
At this moment, our initial intention of returning to our hometown construction is that all our harshness and dissatisfaction with this province are in the hope that this province will be better, urban construction will be better, education will be better, medical care will be better, housing prices will be lower, and economic development will be closer to our expectations. Finally, I borrowed a poem from the poet Ai Qing: Why do I often have tears in my eyes? Because I love Gansu deeply. ...
Reformers are not afraid, and those who know are not confused. For Gansu, development is the greatest truth. Only by developing can we retain talents and build a better Gansu.
The last sentence is a message to all those who stay in Gansu, live in Gansu and build this province: We should make further progress, and Wan Li should start from scratch.