Author: Han Yanming Source: "Bund"
In the first half of 2004, the statistics were announced. Suzhou economic indicators have taken a big step forward: the total GDP increased by 18%, reaching 1630,36 billion yuan, exceeding Shenzhen (151.9 billion yuan), ranked nationwide The total amount of GDP in China is the fourth place, and followed by Beijing (19.1 billion yuan), Guangzhou (1865.54 billion yuan), two traditional hypermarkets. For a prefecture-level city with only 5.83 million people, Suzhou's economic scale is a miracle. "This kind of development speed also can't see the momentum of slowing." Xu Gang, director of the Suzhou Municipal Government Policy Research Office, said that due to the production investment of 100 billion yuan in the past two years, these funds will be transformed into GDP numbers in the next few years. Therefore, Suzhou GDP's high-speed momentum will continue, and it may be transcended in Beijing, Guangzhou, becomes the economy "giant" city that is second only to Shanghai. However, in the process of high-speed development of Suzhou GDP, the development model of foreign investment is also gradually exposing some problems, and the shadow is cast on the dazzling of Suzhou economy. GDP growth and per capita income asymmetry 2003 The champion. But the actual income level of Suzhou residents is not so optimistic. According to the per capita income, Suzhou can only be in the seventh place in 16 large and medium-sized cities in the Yangtze River Triangle, and after Ningbo, Shaoxing. The salary income of Suzhou employment group is generally low, and the university's undergraduate graduates are about 2,000 yuan. The college students, the technical school students are about 1,000 yuan, and the foreign workers' income from rural areas from the provinces and cities is only a few hundred yuan. As the housing prices in recent years have risen, the survival pressure of ordinary employment groups is increasing. After graduating from Nanjing University, Zhang Bin, who worked in a foreign-funded enterprise in Suzhou, complained that he had a hard a month's salary, and he didn't even exaggerate, he was "lived in heaven (referring to Suzhou), live In hell. Gong Jian, Southwest Jiaotong University, compared the statistical annual report of the two East and Western China in Suzhou and Chengdu, in addition to the digital Suzhou, such as GDP, import and export, etc., in many economic indicators about the living standards of residents, Suzhou in the eastern-developed region of the eastern region, is more slow to grow in the western continent.
For example, the total retail sales of ordinary people's consumption, Chengdu is 771.5 billion yuan, Suzhou is 526 billion yuan, Chengdu is 245.4 billion yuan in Suzhou; there is a savings balance of urban and rural residents reflecting the richness of local residents. Chengdu is 1494.4 billion yuan, Suzhou is 14.70.5 billion yuan, Chengdu is 23.9 billion yuan in Suzhou. The per capita housing area and private car have a large number of times compared to Chengdu. Chengdu's per capita housing area is 27. 1 square meter, Suzhou is 18.6 square meters, Chengdu is 8.5 square meters; 2003 Chengdu private has 34,000 cars, Suzhou is 16.80,000, Chengdu is 2. 18 times the Suzhou. After the above contrast, Gong Jian concluded that although Suzhou's GDP was growing rapidly, the living standards of Suzhou citizens were not high. The local brand is familiar, the Shu Lake is familiar. "Suzhou has always been a place for the national tax heroes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, Suzhou also had some national brands in front of the industry, such as Xiangxue Sea refrigerator, peacock TV, spring flower cleaner, Great Wall electric fan, etc. Suzhou "four famous name", in addition, there is a tiger brand camera, moon Supreme products such as watches, as well as very well-developed silkwind, but these companies have been endless. The whole army of Suzhou local brands is covered, it is worth reflect on the road of Suzhou people in the development of the economy. Xiangxue Sea has won more than 70 various forms of honors and medals, which is the leader of the domestic refrigerator industry. However, after the joint venture with the South Korea Samsung Group, Samsung put forward the Samsung's brand to withdraw from the market for three years, such provisions For a fierce competition market, it is a kind of chronic suicide, and the Suzhou people reacts? When things, it is too late, the refrigerator market has been replaced by the new brand headed by Haier. After that, Xiang Xuemei introduced advanced equipment and production lines from abroad, but this brand has been forgotten by the market. The original technical team and skilled workers also join and join Samsung joint ventures. Since then, Xuehai has embarked on the road of debt. In 2002, due to a 4 million yuan lawsuit, the trademark of the three words of "Xiangxue Sea" was also forced to take out auction, and finally took away 1040,000 yuan by a silent company in Anhui. The destiny of peacock TV is roughly the same as Xiangxue Sea. After joint venture with the Netherlands Philips Group, the brand name is not available. The result of the joint venture is a short-term income, but the possibility of long-term development is lost. Although afterwards from the rise of Shanghai, Suzhou has attracted foreign-funded military projections, covering many shortcomings in economic development, but the lack of local economy is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger of Suzhou's long-term development. Editor-in-Chief of "China Reform" magazine, economist Jiao Xu Wang said Suzhou economy is "replacing the reform in reform".
Is it a world factory or a processing workshop? At the end of 2003, Suzhou annual contract introduced foreign investment of 124.96 billion US dollars, actually introduced foreign capital of 68.05 billion US dollars, ranking first in the country, accounting for one tenth of the national introduction of foreign investment. In Suzhou economy, foreign investment has become a development main force. Driven by the demonstration of Suzhou Singapore Development Park, Suzhou has set off a park with a park: 16 national, provincial development zones, as well as Xingluo, county, town level, and village-level development in Suzhou Area. There is a very wide joke in Suzhou, saying in Shenzhen, a coconut will fall to 4 general manager; in Suzhou, you refer to each other, each is the development zone. Wang Xiaodong, official Wang Xiaodong, officials of the foreign trade committee of the Kunshan City, said that he has been living here, and the rice fields in Kunshan have become a factory building of Mitsubishi, Toyota, Alcate, Acer, and Electric Tong. Some media reports that Suzhou has become the most concentrated area of global IT manufacturing, and is a famous world factory. But in the world's name, it is hidden by the Suzhou Economic Dongguanhua Trend. The so-called Dongguan-style economy, is a cheap land, cheap labor, and more preferential tax policies, and foreign-funded enterprises will be the low-end part of the production process - mainly in the processing and assembly links, these low-end The biggest feature of the link is: the labor power is much, the labor intensity is large, and the added value is low. The price of a Barbie in the US market is $ 10, but her offshore price (FOB) in China is only 2 US dollars. This $ 2 is not the final profit - one of the $ 1 is a management fee and transportation fee; in the remaining $ 1, 0. 65 US dollar is used to pay the incoming cost, and the last left is 0.35, is China. The income of the business owner and workers. Logitechinternationalsa is a Switzerland-US joint venture company in California, which carries 20 million mice with "China Manufacturing" label every year. These mice are manufactured in a six-storey building in Suzhou. Logitech mouse is about $ 40 in the US. In this price, Logitech took $ $ 8, distributors and retailers to take $ 15, another $ 14 into parts supplier's pockets, China can only get 3 dollars from each mouse, and workers salary, electricity, Traffic and other frequent expenses are included in the $ 3. Dongguan has thousands of people want to increase the local manufacturing industry to the high-end output value chain, but finally reassemble, because the initiative to enhance the industry chain is in foreign investment. Foreign business is to see Middle East or Suzhou, which is a low-cost labor force in the local low-cost land and the mainland, and Dongguan, Suzhou is adjacent to Hong Kong, Shanghai's location advantage. At present, Suzhou's annual foreign trade import and export is as high as 656.63 billion US dollars, and the annual average 80% high-speed increase, but it is necessary to call such a low-end industry chain area as the world factory is wrong, called the world factory processing workshop. Still almost. Moreover, such a workshop is as "step-by-water grass" - where the policy is more favorable, where the land, labor is less expensive, and go to move.
In the foreign capital introduced in Suzhou, there is no lack of people after the expiration of the Pearl River Delta "Free Second Minute" policy. After they transferred to Suzhou, they can continue to enjoy the tax reduction offer from Suzhou. An official in Suzhou said that after the expiration of the reduction in Suzhou, these "Mongolian" enterprises transfer to other places, "will be inevitable." Role misplaced: The government has become a market main "to do things in Suzhou, find the factory long, the manager is useless, to find the Director, find secretary." A Taihang in Suzhou investment. At present, the main force of Suzhou economy is foreign investment. A multinational company to Suzhou to set up a factory. The output value is billions, billions, and economic indicators can be improved. Therefore, the governments at all levels will be willing to get political achievements through investment. The political achievement of investment promotion is to spell numbers, fight preferential policies, these ways to operate, easy to master, indicators can quantify, is the strength of government work models. In 1994, the Singapore government looked at Suzhou's superior geographic location and humanistic conditions, and he has worked in Suzhou Singapore Industrial Park in Suzhou. With the gradual maturity of the investment conditions in the park, Suzhou has opened up new industrial development zones in the new industrial development zone, providing more cheap land, more favorable tax policies. Singapore is proposed to protest for this regard, the Suzhou Municipal Government is the corner of the rejuvenation of the Singapore Development Park. The reason why the Suzhou Municipal Government answered is also very real: the market competition, if Suzhou does not open up new district, the neighboring Wujiang, Kunshan, and even Wuxi, Changzhou will definitely use more preferential investment to attract foreign investment. The final result is that Singapore has only acknowledged the lack of understanding of China's national conditions. Along several major road trips through Suzhou, both sides are construction sites and have been built. It is rare to see a farmland. The familiar river in our memory is vertical and horizontal. In the emergency army of industrialization in the South, it has been far away from us. According to a statistical report, Suzhou's GDP will increase the cultivated land of more than 4,000 acres per increase. At 18% of 18% a year, Suzhou's cultivated land disappeared at nearly 100,000 mu. In 2003, Suzhou GDP increased by 18%, while food production fell by 23%, and the oil crops fell by 20%, and the silkworm cocoon fell by 40%. Suzhou City, counties, all townships have completed more indicators in investment promotion, and they will take blood in terms of land prices. An acre "Seven Tongtian Ping" (refers to the industrial land after industrial land after land development, energization, communication, communication, water, water, gas, thermal force, and land in the land, land costs at least 150,000 / mu, but in many counties and cities in Suzhou, the foreign business can take 50,000 yuan. Some foreign companies say they often don't understand where some preferential policies come. The Suzhou economy under the leadership of the government, although the miracle of GDP high-speed growth, but its operation is from the inherent law of the market economy. In the market in the protagonist of the government, investment promoters become the most labor-saving, most easy-to-effect shortcuts, and developing local innovative companies have become a cost-effective thing when they are expensive.
