A piece of surveillance footage from a barbecue restaurant put the city in the world's spotlight, and that night, violence, bullies, luxury cars and the underworld all took place in the black city of steel. After the beating, more triad-related cases were awakened by everyone. Seeing so many triad reports, we can't help but wonder why there are so many black big brothers in this city. What kind of money do the big brothers transfer? Why is Tangshan the way it is?
Tangshan is the city that produces the most steel in the world, and no country's steel production can be compared with Tangshan's. Even India, which has the second-highest steel production, produced only 80% of Tangshan's steel last year. So today's Tangshan is truly the world's steel capital. To be able to become the capital of steel is not without reason, Tangshan this place has a unique endowment of resources, Tangshan's geographic location just fell in the throat between North China and Northeast China, south of Bohai.
The sea is adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin, and just in a seismic zone, where geological activity brought the unfortunate Tangshan earthquake, but also brought a particularly shallow coal and iron ore. The development of the iron and steel industry that can be said to be the only one. In the past, the steel industry is the force of the brush GDP, said the steel industry stupid black thick is really no injustice, he does not need too much technical content, does not need high-quality talent and capital, only need to sacrifice the environment and a large number of cheap labor, you can achieve large-scale growth in economic data, so that the city on the surface of the scenery is infinite.
On the surface, Tangshan seems to have a promising future and is the economic leader of Hebei, but people are generally down on him, believing that his destiny is like that of Detroit in the United States, because the glory days of steel and heavy industry are over, and it is difficult to get rid of the dependence on steel. How serious is Tangshan's dependence on steel? This year, affected by the epidemic, Tangshan, a number of industries suffered negative growth, but as a pillar of the iron and steel industry, not down but up. In the first quarter of this year, Tangshan GDP growth of more than ninety percent from the steel industry, which is behind the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, inflation accelerated steel prices accelerated, so that Tangshan's iron and steel industry back to the light. But back to the light is always a moment, Tangshan's steel industry perennial surplus, with the arrival of carbon neutral and carbon peak policy, the decline of the steel industry is only a matter of time.
Tangshan is also trying a difficult transition, but to say that the steel and port business, Tangshan can be exchanged for high-tech industries, such as energy saving and environmental protection, life and health of the industry, because of the lack of technology and talent, so far accounted for less than 6% of GDP. Tangshan's economic structure is extremely unbalanced, industry accounts for up to 55% of the economy, which has always been the old industrial base of the three eastern provinces have been shaking their heads. The highest among the three eastern provinces is Liaoning, where industry accounts for less than 40 percent.
What's wrong with a high industrial ratio? The problem is very big, because Tangshan's industry is not what high-precision special new, but the most traditional energy and heavy industry, naturally monopoly industry, this kind of industrial prosperity turn is actually the money of resources, monopoly and profiteering is the biggest secret behind the GDP, and such a monopoly industry is naturally transported with the hotbed of corruption and tycoon. Years of sloppy development, so that Tangshan's scientific and technological innovation is not respected, ordinary workers do not get a high income, young people do not have a background, but also can not find the meaning of staying.
The resource-based industries have a short industrial chain, and the people can earn very little. As the development of traditional industries is hindered, Tangshan's population has experienced a massive exodus, especially the departure of young people, and aging has continued to intensify. 2021, Tangshan's resident population was 7.697 million, a decrease of 21,000 people from the previous year, which is the first time in recent years that a decrease has occurred. What about the population structure, there is aging and less children. In the seventh census, Tangshan's population aged 60 years and over has exceeded 22% than the six parks a substantial increase of eight percentage points. Although Tangshan is the pioneer of industrial economy, but missed the development wave of industrial transformation. Needless to say, for a weak economic growth, the resident population began to decline in the traditional heavy industrial city, such a fierce impact of public opinion on.
The impact on the local economy and the damage to the city's image and investment attraction are particularly great. The reasoning is simple: who would want to invest in a city with frequent reports of black-related crimes these days? Speaking of investment, how is Tangshan's property market now? Once, Tangshan because of the proximity of Beijing, the land king frequently, the new area was fried, one eight years of the rate of increase more than Shenzhen, in 2017, Tangshan's housing prices are only 6,000 more than the next year jumped up more than 10,000, the people's purchasing power was seriously invested. And now, the implementation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration, Tangshan was abandoned, and Superfonk drew back. Last August, Tangshan organization China Resources, Vanke and other developers to prevent further decline in housing prices. However, the limit fall order does not work, the property market has been most consecutive half a year of negative, and the depreciation cycle as high as nearly six years. And these years cost the people a lot of money to invest in Caofeidian and Tangshan Bay, also left a large piece of rotten projects. Iron and steel alone also let Tangshan paid the price of the environment. Ten years ago, Tangshan people feel most y with dozens of steel companies living next to each other.
As spit white smoke, perennial air visibility is not high, freight trucks in and out, dusty. One or three years, Tangshan organized a powerful shutdown action, demolition equipment, blowing chimneys, forced the removal of a number of steel backward production capacity has been included in the elimination list. The logic behind this is also clear: If the environment does not improve, it will not be able to attract high-quality talent and will not be able to quickly promote the development of new industries, without which it will be even more impossible to make up for the economic losses caused by the elimination of excess capacity.
After the environmental issue has become more and more of a public **** issue, even if there is no supervision from the provincial or national environmental improvement departments, the awakening of local citizens' awareness of the environmental issues will also be more and more direct to ask the government to strengthen environmental governance. This administrative oversight comes faster, is more unavoidable, and can even lead to square protests or street politics. In the past, local development in quantity and light quality to GDP growth is incredibly important, Tangshan GDP of more than 800 billion, not only more than Shenyang, Dalian, but also more than their own provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, in the eyes of outsiders thought the city of Tangshan.
Economically developed modern civilized city, but in fact the Tangshan economy is the most typical antithesis of the only GDP theory. High-speed growth of GDP did not bring Tangshan financial high income, but also did not bring social consumption, urban construction and young vitality. The low-tech industries of steel, cement and minerals have been used to brush up GDP and pollution, but not profits and income.
Young people come to Tangshan to choose the best professional, after graduation can only be a large number of batch into the steel mills, the results found that not only need to be inside the three-shift work and rest, day and night, the environment noise pollution is extremely high, but the wages are not high, go to the 100 people, three months after the more than 90 will go. Tangshan people's main jobs or in the mines, ironworks, cement factories, almost all of the colorful state-owned enterprises, enterprises within the unsurprisingly are all kinds of relations. The market economy is backward, in turn, let the coal bosses and just bosses have to use money to open the way, unscrupulous, and become a benchmark of success in the eyes of the local ordinary people. The more developed the market economy, the more people's income comes from technology and education.
The rule of law and morality will only be more perfect, and the behavior of the coal bosses and just bosses will be disdained by the mainstream of society. Yet it is precisely because Tangshan's economy has been kidnapped by the backward Meiyu Gang that it appears more and more powerless in the face of darkness. How to transform resource-oriented cities, which is a headache in every country in the world, and one of the most successful cases is Dubai. Speaking of Dubai, everyone will feel that that people and Tangshan is not a level.
While the two cities have millions of differences, but Dubai's transformation of the vision and thinking is really a textbook to break the curse of resources and all resource-based cities, in that key resource was lit before Dubai is only a small village of 20,000 people, equivalent to a town here. Dubai discovered oil in 1966 and instantly became the richest region in the Arab world.
Lastly, we summarize that the beating incident in Tangshan reflects not only the problem of nine bullies, but also the problem of urban transformation that every former heavy industrial city needs to face, and Tangshan is just one of the typical cases. Some people say that nine people are not equal to Tangshan's 7 million people, indeed, Tangshan people have my favorite director Jiang Wen, favorite sketch actress Zhao Lirong teacher. Tangshan was once known as the city of heroes, and today, in the face of problems and criticism, what is missing is not the ability to solve the problem, but the lack of courage to recognize the problem.