About Qingdao, about its prosperity and quietness, reason and sensibility; about its glory and dreams, pain points and constraints; about its micro and macro, present and future.

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This is my first attempt to write an urban article, a large paragraph in a long 4D text The data quoted, a large section of local policies, a large section of text description, trying to restore a city’s dilemma, layout and break. as I wrote in the postscript, as a business trip back to China The most frequent and most in-depth communication city, the more I touch it, the more prosperous and quiet, rational and emotional it is; the more I understand it, the more its glory and dreams, pain points and constraints; the more I am Thinking about it, the more you think about its micro and macro, present and future. Many people say that Qingdao is the most open and intuitive mirror in Shandong, Qingdao Shandong has some problems, but Qingdao has more problems than Shandong. As a Shandong native, I dedicate my heartfelt wishes and sincere wishes no matter where I am: I hope the motherland will prosper and the hometown will be prosperous and strong. Now, I will give you my feelings and experience of communicating with many benevolent people in Qingdao , As my opening work for the past six months, I hope you will like it .

Dilemma: Thousands of mountains and rivers, uneasy feelings

If you compare the lens with the desire of Qingdao GDP to surpass Dalian and Shenyang in 2000, and the embarrassing situation that the strategic position of the “Northern Third City” is almost insecure in 2020, no one may think of this economic center in North China The real challenge came: GDP was overtaken by Ningbo and Wuxi in succession.

The one who is chasing behind Qingdao and worrying his strategic position in the north is Zhengzhou, which is in full swing. In 2019, Zhengzhou’s GDP is 1.159 trillion yuan, which is only 15.1 billion yuan less than that of Qingdao. Behind Zhengzhou are Changsha, Foshan, and Jinan who are vigorously focusing on the rising stars of economic development.

The National Finance Weekly wrote, “In 2017, compared with the top-ranked Nanjing, Qingdao’s GDP was more than 70 billion yuan. By 2019, this gap has widened to more than 220 billion yuan, and the entire difference is out of Qingdao. The sum of GDP of the two districts of Shibei District of Southern District. “

The weak GDP growth cannot sustain even the prices that are often punished. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of September 2019, Qingdao second-hand housing prices have fallen for 14 consecutive months. “House prices are back to 2016” has become the consensus of many people in Qingdao.

In addition to the embarrassment of GDP, Qingdao ’s predicament is still talented. Evergrande Research Institute and Zhilian Recruitment jointly launched the “China City Talent Attraction Ranking” report, Qingdao ranked 16th. And Jinan, Qingdao, which is inferior for thousands of years, ranked eighth.

Proportion of Qingdao ’s net inflow of talents (inflow of urban talents-outflow of urban talents) / total national mobile talent, 0%

As for talents, Qingdao ’s relevant policies can be said to be long overdue. Comparison and main cities of Qingdao GDP benchmarking: In 2017, Changsha issued the “New Talent Policy 22”, proposing to attract 1 million young talents to Changsha for employment and entrepreneurship in the next five years; in 2017, Zhengzhou proposed to implement the “Zhuhui Zhengzhou” talent project Waiting for a series of quite real “robbing people” policies; in 2019, Ningbo has always introduced a generous new policy for talents. It is simple and rude and directly gives money. Starting from the five-figure subsidies for undergraduates and masters, high-end talents can receive up to 8 million.

What about Qingdao?

Only if the framework of the 2018 policy has not been implemented, will there be real sincerity in 2019. After the talent policy is in place, Qingdao has missed the golden development period of three years under the background of the fourth industrial revolution.

Qingdao ’s attractiveness to talents has been opened outside 15 people

The slow development of GDP and the lack of attractiveness of talent are reflected in the lack of urban industrial upgrading. Even the second industry in Qingdao, represented by the “Made in Qingdao”, which was famous for its immense popularity at home and abroad 30 years ago, also experienced weak growth in 2019.

Hu Jinyan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Qingdao University, wrote in the “” Northern Third City “Controversy, How does Qingdao” Turn Defense into Attack “”, “Who took the lead in seizing the major opportunities of the technological revolution and realized the transformation and upgrading of the industry Who can stand in the new round of development and gain lasting and continuous development momentum. Qingdao, as a traditional manufacturing center in China, has a secondary industry added value of only 418.276 billion yuan in 2019, which is basically the same as 2016. In contrast, Ningbo From 2016, the new kinetic energy industry will be the main attack, focusing on the development of three strategic leading industries such as new materials, high-end equipment, and a new generation of information technology. In 2019, the added value of Ningbo ’s secondary industry is 578.29 billion yuan, in the top 15 The city has the highest proportion of industrial output value. “

The weakness of the secondary industry is not only reflected in the quantity, but also in the quality of the high-tech industry. Shenzhen, which strives to catch up with learning, achieved an industrial added value of 910.95 billion yuan in 2018, an increase of 9.5%. It is the only city in the country where industrial added value exceeded 900 billion yuan. The added value of advanced manufacturing reached 656.484 billion yuan, an increase of 12%; the added value of high-tech manufacturing industry was 613.120 billion yuan, an increase of 13.3%. In addition to the total amount, the comparison of other high-tech industry data is even more shocking:

The number of high-tech enterprises in Shenzhen is five times that of Qingdao. As of 2017, Shenzhen has 10988 state-level high-tech enterprises, while Qingdao has a total of 2039 state-level high-tech enterprises.

The total import and export volume of high-tech products is 15 times that of Qingdao. In 2017, the total import and export volume of Qingdao’s high-tech products was 49.97 billion yuan. In the same period, the total import and export volume of Shenzhen’s high-tech products was 771.318 billion yuan.

The output value of high-tech industry, Shenzhen is three times that of Qingdao. In 2017, Qingdao achieved a high-tech industrial output value of 753.137 billion yuan, accounting for 42.51% of the industrial enterprises above designated size. In 2017, the output value of the entire Shenzhen high-tech industry exceeded 2 trillion yuan, accounting for 65% of the total industrial output value of 3070.27 billion yuan.

Shenzhen has three times as much investment in R & D as Qingdao. As of 2016, Qingdao ’s R & D investment was 28.637 billion yuan, accounting for 2.86% of GDP. During the same period, Shenzhen ’s R & D expenditure was 84.297 billion yuan, accounting for 4.1% of GDP.

Aside from Shenzhen, Qingdao ’s high-tech output value grew by 3.3% in 2018, compared with Ningbo ’s 12%, Chengdu ’s 15.3%, and Hefei ’s 20.3%.

Behind the insufficient quantity and quality of the manufacturing industry, there is also the lack of top-level technology projects.

Qing Jijun, a self-media focused on Qingdao ’s development, wrote, “At present, almost all high-precision industries in Qingdao have not yet formed a scale. Whether it is the artificial intelligence industry or the industrial Internet, it is very successful to measure its ultimate success. An important sign is how many high-level talents such as engineers and programmers have been attracted to work in Qingdao. Instead of all the core links of R & D and design still in other cities, Qingdao has become a simple sales center. “

The comparison with competitors is more obvious. “The Battle of” The Third City in the North “, Qingdao How to” Turn the Defense into Attack “” wrote, “From the perspective of the integration of informatization and the real economy, Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone has gathered nearly 30 well-known companies such as Xiaomi and HKUST. Internet companies; 26,000 mobile Internet companies in Changsha, with an output value of over 90 billion yuan in the Internet industry; Wuxi is more than 2,000 aggregating and interconnected companies. In 2019, the Internet of Things industry revenue exceeded 280 billion yuan, accounting for about half of Jiangsu Province and the country. One quarter of the total; the output value of integrated circuits exceeds 110 billion yuan, and the industry scale ranks second in the country.

According to the “Internet Plus Index Report (2018)” published by Tencent Research Institute, Wuhan ranked 6th, Changsha ranked 10th, and Qingdao ranked only 20th. “

Layout: deliberate, vigorous and trendy

In fact, Qingdao is anxious. Qingdao ’s high housing prices and low wages have always been the focus of the people in the North and even the whole country. The fundamental reason for the official media ’s adjustment is that the industrial structure is solidified and the conversion of old and new kinetic energy is insufficient:

“Information and artificial intelligence must be used to upgrade and transform traditional industries, increase labor productivity, and profit margins will naturally increase. At the same time, we must increase the intensity of double strokes and double introduction, and introduce new and innovative new Industries, enterprises, and products make new technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models increase rapidly in the city ’s economy. The higher the company ’s profit margin, the higher the wages, the more taxes, the financial resources, and the people ’s livelihood. The improvement is even greater. “

Qingdao is anxious, and the country is also anxious.

Not to mention that the General Secretary made an exception and visited Qingdao twice and sent a congratulatory letter twice a year. In the national policy of Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone alone, Qingdao accounted for 43.3% of the province, and the institutional innovation pilot task accounted for 95%. At the sixth meeting of the Central Committee of Finance and Economics in January 2020 chaired by the General Secretary, the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration was also required to play a leading role in the national strategy for the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, which had just been upgraded to be inferior to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, the Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta effect.

The country has a national strategic plan, and Qingdao also has a strategic layout of Qingdao