In 2020, the six cities of Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Hefei, Nantong, Xi’an and Jinan will have a GDP exceeding one trillion yuan, and will be among the trillion-dollar city clubs. Among them, Fuzhou’s regional GDP reached 1002.02 billion yuan. This “three-line life” city broke through the trillion mark for the first time.

YOUNG Finance specially planned “Observation of Youth in Cities with a GDP Breaking Trillions”, interviewing post-95s in these cities. In the first issue, let’s take a look at the young people living in Fuzhou, and talk about why they stay in Fuzhou, and their current living and working conditions.

This article is from WeChat official account:YOUNG Finance & Finance (ID: youngcaijing) , author: Wang white X. editor: Wang Wei, the original title: “GDP trillion club special plan | Fuzhou broke trillion GDP for the first time, after 95 here what do you think? The “Ten Thousand Years Old Third” finally looks like a provincial capital”, picture provided by the interviewee

As the capital city of Fujian, Fuzhou’s identity is a bit embarrassing. In terms of fame, it is not as good as Xiamen, and in terms of economy, it is not as good as Quanzhou. Some magazines once called Fuzhou “the life of the third in ten thousand years”, reflecting the current status of public perception, and it also means making trouble for Fuzhou.

So, what about now?

In 2020, Fuzhou will be among the trillion yuan city club for the first time. After more than a decade of “expanding eastward and advancing westward”, Fuzhou’s city scale has gradually expanded. A series of policies have been introduced in recent yearsFor example, on January 1, 2021, Fuzhou relaxes its population settlement policy, and proposes a “zero threshold” settlement; plus actively promotes urban infrastructure construction, Fuzhou’s inland rivers, parks, and trails are repaired and renovated. The livable Fuzhou has become more comfortable and pleasant.

Various measures have made people see Fuzhou’s ambitions for urban upgrading.

“Young people with ideas are more and more willing to return to Fuzhou”

Oral: Jiang Nan, a native of Fuzhou

Born in 1999, female, senior year, part-time in a children’s aesthetic education institution

Jiangnan’s rooftop landscape

I am from Fuzhou. I have been in Fuzhou for 21 years. I am a senior in English major at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. In fact, I never thought about going to university in my hometown or going to a first-tier city, especially after I decided to make a documentary when I was fourteen. The development of film and television in Fuzhou is really a bit single and thin.

I have great preconceptions about my hometown. Even for the college entrance examination, it was because of the tears of my grandparents that I filled in a local school in the last grade. Whoever thinks, good luck makes others. In the national exam that year, Fujian had the lowest exam in history, and the various schools were divided and confusing. Because of this, I was tightly entangled by the banyan tree in my hometown, and I couldn’t breathe for the whole year of freshman year.

My generation was born at the turn of the century, and everything in the new century is full of science fiction and the unknown. It’s not so much that I don’t like my hometown. It’s better to say that I hate the life that is hard and fast.

For an English major, I don’t have to worry about finding a job. As a provincial capital city, Fuzhou has advantages. Fuzhou has many foreign trade companies. There are many schools, let alone the Belt and Road Initiative, cross-strait conferences and other large and small conferences that require translators.

When choosing a career, I most value whether it is appropriate-whether the ability is matched, whether the frequency is similar, and whether the personality is similar. I am good at drawing, imaginative, and good at communicating with children, so I choose children’s aesthetic education as a part-time job.

Jiang Nan’s Secret Corner

On Halloween 2020, local Taoist parade

People in Fuzhou know how to get enough. People guard their little days, swaying and leisurely, and life is stress-free. In spring, I went to Laoyaozhou Street to eat Chinese New Year goods; in summer, I went to Jasmine Garden to find fragrance; in autumn, when the local persimmons were green, I dyed my clothes; on the twenty-eighth Chinese New Year, when I went home in the evening breeze, there was grandma’s heat Soup, piping hot.

There is always a sense of suffocation in life in Fuzhou. The city is not big and the circle is smaller. The familiar network of people brings a sense of comfort, but also brings laziness and laziness. This is the lovely and terrifying part of Fuzhou, a sweet and slow city, boiled frogs in warm water.

My main part-time job now is on weekends. It is common to return home at midnight, but I live and work in the urban area. Commuting is very convenient, but electric vehicles are too fierce. Since my sophomore year, I have not had to pay for living expenses with my family, even the tuition fees have to be paid by myself, The annual New Year’s Day money and part of the monthly salary are used for financial management.

Compared with friends who study in a different place, studying locally costs more because they are more willing to go out to play and eat. Online shopping is also crazier because they can be sent to home without waiting in line.

Besides Beijing, I may live in Chengdu for a period of time in the future. Maybe I will return to live in Fuzhou someday in the coming years. After all, the mountains, the water and the air are good. Summer cakes, playing in the water in Da Zhangxi in early autumn, and rubbing rice at home in the winter solstice are delicious.

In 2020, Fuzhou’s GDP can exceed the trillion mark. I think it’s probably the epidemic that has suffocated everyone. After the unblocking, Fuzhou’s surrounding tourism has surged. Of course, the favorable policies of the municipal government cannot be ignored. Another point is that young people with ideas are more and more willing to return to Fuzhou, drive Fuzhou, and take root in Fuzhou. After the epidemic, shops have changed their lives, and many interesting shops have opened. After the epidemic, people are more willing to live in the present and choose more thoughtful and high-quality shops.

“Fuzhou has high prices and is about to catch up with first-tier cities”

Oral: Huang Sinan, from the county seat of Fuzhou

Born in 1997, female, magazine editor

Fuzhou’s old community

Jingmiao hidden in the city of Fuzhou

I was born in a county under Fuzhou, and my primary school moved to Fuzhou to live. I filled out my application for the college entrance examination, and I had no choice in my grades, so I went to a local university that ranked last in the list of volunteers.

In the past few years studying in Fuzhou, I haven’t had many new feelings. The school is in the urban area, so it is convenient to go anywhere. But like an old man, I almost only move around in the classroom, dormitory, and home. I don’t seem to care about the new, popular and interesting things in the city, and my life is very monotonous.

After graduation, most of my classmates still returned to their hometown to work. No matter the past and present, I often think of living in other cities.The biggest reason for staying in Fuzhou is my family. My grandparents, grandparents and grandparents are all very old, I I don’t want to leave regrets for myself. My grandfather was ill before. I tried my best to go home after class in the evening and accompany him to dinner before going back to school. I occasionally go to the hospital to accompany him. If I were not in Fuzhou, I would be very worried and disturbed.

My major is business administration, and my students of the same major choose to go to banks, real estate, property companies, and civil servants the most. Jobs are mostly related to marketing and marketing. But I have never thought about finding a job with a professional counterpart. I don’t care much about salary status and industry prospects. I just want to find a job that I am interested in and can sink into. I am currently working as an editor for a local city magazine, and I have not compared the pros and cons with other cities. Stay in Fuzhou, have an interesting job, and be able to meet people who know a lot of fields, it’s all for me. Besides, my parents don’t have much control over me and let me live my own way. I don’t have the concept of stabilization. I rarely think of things like marriage and stability.

The pace of Fuzhou is not fast. I am also slow, and the surrounding environment does not give me a sense of rush. But I am really a low desire person. The biggest relaxation item on the rest day is to lie flat and want to stick to my crib for 24 hours. When I go out, I like to go to the park. A swath of water and a single tree make me very healed. There are many trees in Fuzhou, and there are more and more parks, so happy.

Now I live with my parents, eating and lodging at home. In addition, I’m an old man, I don’t eat out, buy clothes and I don’t see friends. The biggest expense is on food.(It’s a pig), The cost of living is not high, but I feel that Fuzhou’s prices are a bit high, and I am about to catch up to the first-tier cities. My salary is slightly higher than that of my classmates, but it fluctuates according to the workload, but it is enough to make a living.

The Jinshan area where I live is a new area that has only been developed for more than 20 years. The place of work is close to the city center. Because there is no need to take a work, there are not many days to go to the company. Usually it takes about 40 minutes to ride an electric bicycle . Because it avoids rush hours, commuting is quite pleasant most of the time.

Maybe because my family is by my side, I don’t have so much emotional dependence on Fuzhou, and maybe I have never left here, so it’s hard for me to look back at my relationship with Fuzhou. Maybe only by leaving can I know that Fuzhou is for me. What kind of existence.

As for the GDP of Fuzhou, it has entered the trillions of dollars. In my impression, the consumption power of Fuzhou people has always been very strong! I also found that after the epidemic, there were new cafes everywhere, maybe it was because everyone’s spending power contributed to GDP.

“French people studying luxury goods can’t find a job when they come back”

Dictation: A Guo, Fuan from Ningde is in Fuzhou

Born in 1997, female, business unit designer, part-time furniture studio designer

A corner of the home

Big tree at the intersection of Baima Road and Yangqiao Road

I am from Fu’an. Fu’an is subordinate to Ningde City and is located in the northeast of Fujian Province, surrounded by mountains. My university studied at Fujian Institute of Technology, and I majored in visual communication design. At that time, the college entrance examination scores just happened to be able to enter the first A batch of this school, because my dad graduated from this school with a major in civil engineering, and I am more interested in graphic design. This school has the opportunity to exchange this major in Taiwan for a year. I chose here.

I actually want to go to Xiamen or Qinghai when I apply for the college entrance examination. Because Xiamen has liked the sea since childhood, there is a plot factor to the sea. When I was young, my family always boasted that I wanted to take the Xiamen University entrance examination. Qinghai wanted to enter Qinghai University because it was formerly by my friend Amway.

The main scope of activities for the four-year university is Minhou University Town. After graduation, I basically rely on eDonkeys to travel, but the traffic in Fuzhou is really very “bad” to describe it. Fuzhou’s electric car group is very large, and they are all racing on the road.

In addition to the urban development of Fuzhou in recent years, subways and roads are being built everywhere. From time to time, there are large fences and bumps on the road. It is obvious that you have to detour from a short distance. For the distance of 3~4 kilometers from home to work, I often have to get up more than an hour in advance to catch up on the road to work.

There is an interesting fact. My friends came to Fuzhou five or six years ago. At night, I would like to take my friends to the Dongjiekou of the city center. When I arrived at Dongjiekou, the only thing that caught my eye was the large-scale drilling machine at the construction site. Moving back and forth, a few dim street lights, the once prosperous shopping mall is now dim, and the most central part of Fuzhou is completely a construction site.

The cost of living in Fuzhou is relatively high, but the salary is not high. I used to go to university and my living expenses were basically six to seven thousand a month. Most of my living expenses were spent on buying clothes and shoes and gatherings. In addition, I spent traveling, seeing exhibitions, going to museums, music festivals, and various performances. Now I get a monthly salary of about 4,000 after work, and more than 1,000 rent is deducted, and I can use less than 3,000. Every month, I will rely on my previous savings or earn some extra money to make up for it.

I now live in an old community near the second ring road. I work in a hospital in the city center under the arrangement of my family, and work 7 hours a day at 5:30 in the evening. Because it’s not a job I like, one more minute at work feels like a waste.Do your own thing well and make no mistakes. But fortunately, Fuzhou has good greening, so every time I go home from get off work, I ride to the white horse road with big trees on both sides, and the setting sun is scattered on the shade of the trees, and I feel that everything is okay. On days off, I usually choose to work overtime, or go out and watch a movie. Occasionally make a delicious meal to reward yourself.

I am envious of my friends who go to other places, and go to Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xiamen, Beijing, Nanjing, Changsha and other places. There are not many opportunities in Fuzhou, and there is no way to give them a good platform. I have a friend who studies international trade. Fujian does not have a good international trading company, so he went to Hangzhou. There is also a friend who studied luxury brand management in France. He couldn’t find a job in Fujian and went to Shanghai to develop.

When I was in college, I also wanted to live in other cities such as Xiamen or Chengdu after graduation, but I stayed in Fuzhou because of an internship at my favorite magazine, and later my family arranged a job, so I stayed there. In fact, Fuzhou has become more interesting in recent years: There are more and more interesting local cultural community shops, exhibitions, and occasionally music festivals.

But for young people, they also feel that Fuzhou lacks freshness. Maybe I will go to Hangzhou or Xiamen in the future, but when I think of the higher living costs, higher prices, and higher housing prices, I will hesitate and worry that it will be difficult to settle there.

Fuzhou’s rapid economic development may be related to the government’s land sales and the frantic development of developers. Deformed housing prices, there will always be people who want to buy a house. If there are other reasons, it may be that fisheries and agriculture are developing vigorously.

“There are more livehouses, and the cultural desert has blossomed”

Oral: Jade, a native of Xiamen in Fuzhou

Born in 1996, female, marketing planner for online game company

Livehouse in Fuzhou has more and more good performances

A coffee shop in Fuzhou

A corner of the home

I am from Xiamen, and Xiamen’s recognition in China is fairly high. Some people often compare Fuzhou with Xiamen, and some people ask me why I came to Fuzhou instead of staying in Xiamen.

In college, I studied advertising at Fujian Normal University, and I recognized this major in high school. However, the advertising industry in Fuzhou can only be said to be poorly developed. When the university’s first professional class teacher met us, he asked, “Who was transferred to the advertising major”, and two-thirds of them raised their hands. Later, all the students who love advertising chose to go to Shanghai for internships, and those who stayed in Fuzhou went to real estate to make promotion plans.

After graduation, I want to go to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, but because the school schedule is very tight during the autumn recruitment, I can’t be distracted to go to other cities for interviews, so I have to stay in Fuzhou. It seems like I didn’t work hard enough, but at that time, the offer from the Fuzhou company met all my needs. The city is not so important. After all, work and growth are the first.

Select the current game publicThe reason for the work of the company is the comprehensive consideration of personal interest and professionalism. The current pace of work is quite slow. To be honest, I am already in an Internet company that needs high-speed advancement and still feel slow. Often there is no satisfactory output for two or three months, and the project has not made any progress. It makes me very anxious, but other colleagues will not, which makes me even more anxious!

After graduation, my classmates went to various places. Some stayed in Xiamen, some took root in Beijing, and some were not sure where they should go. For me, being able to live in Xiamen, my hometown, is free and happy.

Fuzhou is a reassuring and comfortable city. You don’t have to squeeze into canned sardines to work here, and go back tired late at night. It’s really good to go home and take a bath and play games, read books and watch movies comfortably. The downside is that it is a bit monotonous.

In Fuzhou, my salary level is relatively high compared with my peers, and my life is relatively rich, so I am more satisfied with my current life. The absolute advantage of Fuzhou should come from the low rent and low cost of living. Think about 90 yuan for an afternoon, and the environment is super good KTV can be found in Shanghai?

Fuzhou became a trillion new city last year. I think it may come from the cultural industry! I am still very confident about the cultural industry in Fuzhou. Even some of the prompt slogans are very beautiful, so I am inexplicably confident! In addition, Fuzhou live house has gradually got a lot of good bands, which surprised me and felt that the cultural desert has blossomed.

“Fuzhou is slow and crowded, it’s blurry and uncharacteristic”

Oral: Feng Yijie, from Ningde Fuan in Fuzhou

Born in 1996, male, architect

I come from Fu’an, Ningde, Fujian. It is a small county surrounded by mountains. It is not too big nor too small. It is a very warm city.

My university is in Fuzhou, and my major is architecture. At the beginning, I was willing to go north, as long as I was in the north of Fujian, but after communicating with my family, I chose to stay in Fuzhou. Most of my classmates are also Fujianese.

Fuzhou is a relatively slow city, but it’s not like it. It’s crowded and sweltering, its face is rather vague, and it has no special features. Most of the time I stay on campus. After graduation, I went to work in Xiamen for a while, and returned to Fuzhou to find that although it is not as young and energetic as the coastal city of Xiamen, I found that Fuzhou’s unique historical heritage can give people a sense of slowing down.

The construction industry in Fuzhou, although not comparable to first-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but many Fujian-based real estate companies, such as Shimao, Xuhui, C&D, and Tefa, are all from Going out here, the development of the industry will not be worrying.

My monthly salary is about 7000 yuan, which just meets the status quo. Monthly rent, water and electricity, food, communication expenses and other fixed expenses account for most of it. It is still struggling on the line of life, can’t make money, and can’t die of starvation. , Is one of many hard-working people.

I don’t have any special feelings about living in Fuzhou. Where I stayed for six years, there is no freshness, more a sense of moderation. Occasionally browsing the circle of friends who go to live in other places, I will be curious about the excitement and freshness of their city, the prosperity and excitement from the big Shanghai, and the quietness of the small city, but I am contented and happy to be content with the status quo. People, occasionally admire, but still satisfied with the present. Moreover, there are quite a lot of friends in Fuzhou. In addition to busy work, having a drink for a meal, comfort from friends, can always soothe impetuosity.

The current work, in summary, is “busy”. As the second party in the construction industry, projects one after another. So the most rest day is sleep. When the weather is fine, go to the surrounding stadiums to sweat out. In the evening, I will meet friends to drink, dine, chat, and then go to the next busy working day.

In my opinion, the economy of Fujian is about to rise sooner or later. Compared with other coastal provinces, Fujian is indeed in an awkward position. So far, Fuzhou is only a second-tier city, but I believe that Fujian will definitely be able to accumulate and develop in the future. .

The cost of living in Fuzhou isThe sea can only be in the middle, compared to other coastal provinces, I can accept it. However, compared with inland cities such as Changsha and Chengdu, the cost of living in Fuzhou is still very high. I have also asked some friends in the first-tier cities that Fuzhou is in a position where it is more inadequate than inferior.

“Fuzhou is excellent, and it is inevitable for GDP to break one trillion yuan”

Oral: Hong Xiaowan, from Yongtai, a subordinate county of Fuzhou

Born in 1995, female, florist, currently resigning and resting

I come from Yongtai in the back garden of Fuzhou. I chose to study in the city of Fuzhou due to family reasons. I majored in computerized accounting. At that time, girls were very popular in accounting.

The most preferred city for the college entrance examination is Hangzhou. Since I was a child, my parents have been out of town. I saw it once or twice a year. In the year of my college entrance examination, because my grandparents were getting older and their bodies needed more care, they returned I live in Fuzhou, so I also choose to stay in Fuzhou, so I can spend more time with them.

When I just graduated, I worked in the county seat of Yongtai. The internship unit introduced by my family, I continued to work. The cost of living was relatively low at that time. I had food and accommodation at home, and the unit also had a canteen. Salary The level is average, relatively stable and comfortable. Compared with other cities, the salary standard is relatively low, which is naturally unsatisfactory. However, the cost of victory in all aspects is relatively low, and it is relatively good.

But in my hometown, working in a unit that works from 9 to 5, step by step, for me who just graduated, I saw retirement at a glance. My family is doing gardening and landscape engineering. I have loved plants and nature since I was a kid. When I was confused, I saw a Hangzhou flower art course on Weibo and decided to go to learn flower art. After studying and returning to Fuzhou, I found that the city itself has good landscape greening, and there are also many wild and special elements in undeveloped areas.When making floral landscaping, I often go to the wild to gather some natural leaf materials to make the work more interesting.

Working in Fuzhou makes me feel familiar with my family and friends. But the familiar network is also pressure for me. After all, everyone grows up individually, and everyone’s time difference is different. Some people have entered the next stage of life or developed better.

Most of my friends have gone to Xiamen, and I think there is better room for development there. I should be able to continue working and living in Fuzhou for a long time. I like the environment and humanities here. There is no excessive rush in the first-tier cities, and the old buildings have not been developed too much for commercialization. The market development space is relatively large. The city is constantly upgraded, renewed and changed, giving people a sense of moving forward together.

Fuzhou has many parks, and there are mountains and waters in the city. My favorite is the large and small parks in Fuzhou, each with different scenery. Because it is very close to Zuohai Park, I often enter from Zuohai Park, pass through West Lake Park, and then walk around Sanfang Qixiang. There are also many delicious and fun things in the surrounding area. From the back of Sanfang Qixiang, pass through Yushan to reach Wuyi Square. In Fuzhou, walking can connect these park landmarks in series, and walking slowly can discover more different scenery. With the subway in Fuzhou these years, public transportation has become more convenient.

The pace of life and work in Fuzhou is slow, and workdays are not too busy. I usually do my favorite handicrafts or check in some special shops with my friends. In Fuzhou, in addition to the basic cost of living, I also spend part of my life to enjoy my life. Good food and fun are also an indispensable part of my life. I am very happy that there have also been many distinctive coffee shops and some more interesting shops in Fuzhou.

Fuzhou itself has a strong cultural heritage and a relatively large population base. It is also the capital city of Fujian. Although it is sometimes mentioned that many foreign friends in Fujian only know Xiamen, relatively speaking, I think Fuzhou is excellent in all aspects. Like a sleeping lion, it is inevitable that GDP can exceed one trillion.

“The No. 1 dessert shop in Fuzhou is far behind Shanghai”

Oral: Ruthless, from Fuzhou and Fuqing

Born in 1995, female, dessert chef, operating a Japanese canteen

A corner of Ruoqing Family

I am from Fuqing(county-level city in Fuzhou). But in fact, I don’t know this place very well, but I am a bit repellent, because every year I go back to my hometown and hear my hometown dialect (Fuqing people are used to speaking very loudly) All feel very noisy.

I went to Japan to learn desserts after I finished secondary school. Some regrets after returning to China, Fuzhou lacks knowledge of desserts, or I don’t understand the industry here. After returning to China, I experienced a job search period of more than one month, which made me regret the choice of returning to China.

But Xiamen is different. After all, it is a tourist city. The dessert market is slightly better than Fuzhou, so I went to Xiamen to work soon after returning to China.

Because of looking for a job, I understand the salary, market preference, and product standards of the Fuzhou dessert market. The salary of the practitioners is very low, and the product standard is very different from what I think-I studied the sweet in Tokyo, but the mainstream dessert in Fuzhou is butter cake. Tokyo people develop the habit of eating desserts after meals very early, and there are very few people in Fuzhou who eat desserts. The standards for desserts in the two places are bound to be different.

Over the years, the Fuzhou dessert market has still been unsatisfactory. Compared with its counterparts in Shanghai, the number one dessert shop in Fuzhou is still far from being innovative. And now many cafesDessert shops have a bad habit of freezing the cakes in advance and thaw them when needed. When we made it before sweet, we wouldn’t let it freeze for a long time. We cooked it on the same day.

Fuzhou men playing with children

I have compared the cost of living in Fuzhou.The consumption level is not lower than that of Beijing and Shanghai, and the prices are quite high. On the contrary, it is Kunming and Chongqing. I think things are so cheap. Over the years, I have subtly noticed that the consumption level in Fuzhou has become higher.

It was not my intention to stay in Fuzhou. But Fuzhou is home. My family and most of my friends are here. It is a very familiar place. You don’t need to explore cognition. It makes me feel very comfortable here, and I don’t need to work very hard. But sometimes I feel that this state is not very good, and I still need to struggle at my age.

Now there is no entertainment in Fuzhou, and there is no shop that attracts me. I seldom go out to shop. After being in a city for a long time, I will yearn for the outside city.

I want to develop in a city like Shanghai. I don’t know what way I will go to work in a brand new city in the future.

This article is from WeChat official account:YOUNG Finance & Finance (ID: youngcaijing) , author: Wang white ten