Where is Huangshi in Wuhan City Circle?

In 2004, at the beginning of the construction of Wuhan city circle, some people had different views on the formulation of Wuhan as the center and Huangshi as the "sub-center" of the city circle. Last month, in the master plan of Wuhan city circle approved by the provincial government, Huangshi was officially listed as a "sub-center" city, and affirmed Huangshi's radiation and driving role in the surrounding areas. For Huangshi, this recognition is both positive and puts forward higher development goals. The strength of Huangshi Whether Huangshi City has the strength of a "sub-center", the figures provide persuasiveness. According to the statistical data of nine cities in the circle in 2006, the main economic indicators of Huangshi, such as industrial added value above designated size, foreign trade export, actual utilization of foreign capital and per capita disposable income of urban residents, are second only to Wuhan. Both GDP and local general budget revenue rank third; Investment in fixed assets and total retail sales of social consumer goods ranked fourth. Secondly, Huangshi's industrial added value, foreign trade export and actual utilization of foreign capital accounted for more than 30%. The proportion of GDP and local general budget revenue is 20.2% and 23. 1% respectively, which is much higher than other cities except Wuhan. In the first half of this year, the industrial added value of enterprises above designated size in Huangshi reached 9.577 billion yuan, still ranking second in the province; In the first half of the year, the import and export of foreign trade exceeded 600 million US dollars, ranking second in the province and 1.58 times that of Yichang, which ranked third. People from the Development and Reform Commission of Huangshi believe that Huangshi, as the economic center of southeastern Hubei, has the ability to radiate to surrounding counties (cities). For example, in Ezhou 1997, Huahu Development Zone was established, and the 11th Five-Year Plan proposed to build Huahu into the eastern city of Ezhou. Xishui County established Sanhua Industrial Park in 2004, and proposed to build Sanhua Town into a county sub-center. The planning and strategy of the two places are based on the proximity to Huangshi. There is a long way to go. However, in the upsurge of integration into the city circle, Huangshi is also facing challenges, and the pressure of competition with other small and medium-sized cities is great. According to the data provided by Huangshi Municipal Bureau of Statistics, in 2006, Huangshi completed the total investment and growth of fixed assets in the whole society, and achieved the total retail sales and growth of social consumer goods, ranking fourth among the nine cities in Wuhan metropolitan area, respectively, lower than the surrounding cities Ezhou, Xianning, Qianjiang and small and medium-sized cities such as Ezhou, Tianmen and Qianjiang. The problem of insufficient stamina for the development of export-oriented economy is equally prominent. In 2006, Huangshi's foreign trade export increased by 33.5%, and Wuhan, Ezhou, Xiantao and Qianjiang increased by more than 50%. In 2006, the actual utilization of foreign capital in Huangshi increased by 7. 1%, ranking the bottom among the nine cities. The actual utilization of foreign capital in Ezhou and Xianning has doubled, and the growth rate of Huanggang, Tianmen and Xiantao is also above 20%. In terms of industrial structure, last year's "Wuhan City Circle Town Layout Plan" positioned Huangshi as a metallurgical, building materials and high-tech industrial base; But in 2006, the proportion of the tertiary industry in Huangshi was 39.9%, 9.5 percentage points lower than that in Wuhan. Regarding how to be a sub-central city in the city circle, Wang Zhenyou, secretary of Huangshi Municipal Party Committee, once said: The key point is to promote the strategy of strengthening the city through industry, adhere to the new road of industrialization, extend the industrial chain and expand industrial clusters; At the same time, around connecting and serving Wuhan, we should actively accept the radiation of Wuhan's economic development to the surrounding areas, make full use of Wuhan's urban functions and international influence, realize industrial complementarity, and seek our own development and growth in serving Wuhan. Gravity is increasing. Huang, a 32-year-old native of Huangmei, works in a well-developed software company in Nanhu, Wuhan, and bought a house in Huangshi last year. Why choose to buy a house in Huangshi? Mr. Huang said that the average house price in Wuhan last year was nearly 4,000 yuan/square meter. Although his wife also works in Wuhan, she has two old people to support and an adopted son to drive from Huangshi to Nanhu in Wuhan. "It takes less than an hour to get on the expressway, which is similar to the time when Wuhan is crowded with buses." Mr. Huang now goes to work in Wuhan by the private car of Mr. Liu, a fellow villager, every day, and he shares part of the gasoline cost; His wife found a job in Huangshi, and Mr. Huang plans to buy his own car this year. In recent years, people who work in Wuhan like Mr. Huang and buy houses in Huangshi have gradually increased. According to a real estate developer near Huang Wu Expressway, among the more than 300 owners, more than a dozen are from Wuhan, Ezhou and Huanggang. Last year, a survey by the provincial transportation management department showed that the logistics and people flow of Huang Wu and Wuyi Expressway were the largest in our province, and Huangshi became the centralized and decentralized place of logistics and people flow in southeastern Hubei. Last month, Kong Jingyuan, director of the Department of Economic Restructuring of the National Development and Reform Commission, visited Huangshi and said, "There is no doubt that Huangshi is the sub-center of Wuhan city circle. In the future development, Huangshi should focus on the goal of building an advanced manufacturing base in the central region, a livable city with landscape gardens in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a transportation hub in southeastern Hubei and a logistics center city, and seriously explore new urbanization and industrialization development paths. " Looking forward to working harder. In recent years, the transportation facilities in Huangshi City have become more and more perfect, and it has tasted the sweetness of economic linkage with the cities in southeastern Hubei. However, there is still a long way to go to exert influence on the cities west of Wuhan. "There is only one large-scale high-tech industrial enterprise in the real sense of our city, which is really embarrassing for the' sub-center'." An industry insider in Huangshi said. Last year's Wuhan City Circle (8+ 1) Tourism Development Conference held in Huangshi revealed that Huangshi's tourism indicators also ranked lower in the circle. At present, Huangshi National Mine Park has been established and industrial tourism routes have been opened. It will also develop the international tour of "the first mine in the world", the cultural tour of Cihu scenic city, the cultural tour of the red revolution in eastern Hubei, and the historical and cultural tour of the ancient battlefield in the Yangtze River waterway. Huangshi agriculture is also in a weak position in the circle. The city needs to purchase about130,000 tons of grain, 0/80,000 pigs, 40,000 tons of aquatic products and 60,000 tons of vegetables every year. Wang Zulu, director of the Municipal Agriculture Bureau, believes that "Huangshi, as a sub-central city, should have basically the same function as Wuhan." It is necessary to make use of the agricultural resources of sister cities in the circle, build more leading enterprises and build agricultural products processing bases in the circle, which will not only promote the development of existing local agricultural products processing enterprises, but also promote the emergence of more leading agricultural products processing enterprises. Opportunities and challenges coexist. We look forward to seizing the rare opportunity in front of us to make the sub-center of Wuhan city circle more brilliant.