According to the new york Times website 65438+February 1, on a crisp morning in 65438+1October, Han Youjun, an online retailer in China, left Liangduo Town in eastern China in his silver van. A few minutes later, his van full of express parcels of various sizes and shapes passed through rice fields, narrow village alleys and simple farmhouses. In the past, a delivery driver like Han Youjun didn't have to drive so far. Over the past 40 years, China's economic prosperity has made the crowded metropolis rich, but there are still many places, especially the rural areas around Liangduo Town in eastern Jiangsu, which are still relatively poor.
However, the benefits of China's economic miracle have increasingly penetrated into smaller towns and villages, the report said. Han Youjun knew very well that there were 70 packages in his truck that day, twice as many as usual 65,438+08 months ago.
He said, "The working hours are getting longer and longer."
According to the report, these places in China need someone to spend money, and the government is trying to make the country's economic growth engine get rid of its previous dependence on factories and manufacturing. In Yancheng City, including Liangduo Town, the local people's wallets are bulging faster than that of the whole country, and their household expenses-8% per capita growth in 2016-exceed the growth rates of Beijing and Shanghai.
This new sign of prosperity can also be seen here in Motown, where almost all famous brands such as Toyota and Ford are competing for customers.
Zhou Zhengguo is the owner of 4S, a store that sells China automobile brand Geely. He expects to sell 2,000 cars this year, three times as many as two years ago. He said: "In the past, most people bought cars by private entrepreneurs, but now working-class people are also buying cars."
According to the report, people living in underdeveloped areas in China may be crucial to the next stage of China's development. Xing, an economist at Morgan Stanley, believes that the growth rate of consumer spending in Yancheng and other places will continue to exceed that of big cities. Therefore, by 2030, two-thirds of the new private consumption growth will come from these underdeveloped areas.
Xing Qiangzi said: "We really hope that these areas can catch up and narrow the income gap with big cities."
According to the report, the business community has also changed its views on these areas. New highways and high-speed railways make it easier for enterprises to transfer their business activities to small cities, thus enabling companies to take advantage of the low costs there. Last year, the growth rate of Yancheng's industrial output value exceeded the national speed.
Luo Jianhai, 37, is a typical representative of a new generation of peasant entrepreneurs in Xinling Village near Yancheng City. By leasing his neighbor's land, he constantly expanded his farm and planted rice and wheat. He also invested in two new tractors, and he will rent them to other farmers who need to use them to cultivate their own larger plots. In the past three years, his annual income has increased sixfold, reaching 654.38 million dollars. His expenditure quadrupled, mainly used to buy clothes for three children and a new car worth $654.38+07,000 produced by a joint venture of General Motors.
Not far away, 47-year-old Cheng Zhiguo also expanded his farm this year, which increased his net income to about $23,000, five times that of three years ago, so he bought his first car, Hyundai Korea, in August.
According to this report, this change is very attractive to urban entrepreneurs like Zhou Jian. Zhou Jian, 33, found that large-scale agriculture also needed more funds. 20 13 set up an agricultural staging e-commerce company to help farmers' families get loans from banks and other lending institutions. Since then, the Agricultural Staging Company has helped farmers obtain loans of about US$ 65.438+0.5 billion, opened more than 65.438+000 offices in rural areas of China, and employed 800 employees.
Zhou Jian said: "The upgrading of the market enables enterprises like us to serve these large farmers."
We can't catch up, otherwise there will be no metropolis.