Walking In Hanzheng Street, Lost?

Zheng Bin, who is a maternity dress business, hopes to change the business model of the traditional Hanzheng Street, and at the same time intervene in the other end to establish her own sales network.

There are still a lot of old streets and alleys in Hanzheng Street, and residents are drying clothes on the wires.

5 years ago, Zhou Lexi, President of the chamber of Commerce in Ji Ji luggage City, bought his own shop.

The past scenery can not cover the decline of today. Where is the way out for Hanzheng Street?

Hanzheng Street, which is beset by rumors of relocation, has finally come to the time to decide its own destiny.

Reporters learned that Wuhan intends to issue bonds through the way to seek Hanzheng Street's overall pformation funds.

As part of Wuhan's "old city pformation", it has the 500 year history of the first street in the world.

Prior to January 17, 2011, a fire in Hanzheng Street took 14 lives, prompting the Wuhan municipal government to make the decision to move Hanzheng Street out of the city.

In this year's "two sessions" in Wuhan, Wuhan and the government of the Qiaokou District officially announced the relocation of Hanzheng Street within a limited time.

After being rebuilt, the site will be built into a high-end business and tourism area.

Subsequently, undertake

Hanzheng Street has to move.

Through the most prosperous era, Hanzheng Street has come to the need.

Wu Shaowei, a Cantonese, arrived in Hanzheng Street in 1993 and has been doing business for nearly 20 years.

In March 22nd, he was not surprised when he heard that Hanzheng Street would move in a limited time.

The fire took place in Wu.

Looking at the windows, the smoky walls and display boards have not been renovated outside the windowsills that have been completely burnt out. The brick walls on the street have separated the small building from other shops, suggesting the difference here.

In addition, the street, which is only a few meters wide, is still in the old street, curled up in the old house, noisy people, crowded driveway, workers pushing wheeled trucks to and fro, and red banners hanging on the street to "eliminate all fire hazards", all of which show the fall and prosperity in this time.

From time to time, the word "red" will remind tourists of the fact that they are about to move.

Hanzheng Street, which originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, is the golden signboard of Hankou as a commercial city.

In 1979, 103 martial arts people gathered here and opened the curtain of the reform of China's urban commodity circulation system.

This is considered to be a landmark event which is just as important as the reform of Xiaogangcun's joint production contract responsibility system and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises in Shougang.

Relying on cash, spot and spot "three present" mode, Hanzheng Street has created the sign of "the first street in the world".

However, the past scenery of Hanzheng Street has not obscure the decline of today.

Since twenty-first Century, Wuhan's GDP has increased year by year, and has exceeded 551 billion 500 million yuan by 2010.

In Hanzheng Street, the total volume of pactions is still hovering between 400-500 billion.

More importantly, Hanzheng Street has become the center of Wuhan.

In the bustle of high-rise buildings in the surrounding areas, the low and aged buildings are also faced with frequent dangers of fire and traffic accidents, in addition to being excluded from the "village in the city".

To this end, the new Wuhan municipal Party Secretary Ruan Chengfa is very determined: "determined to complete the rectification within a limited time, let Hanzheng Street reborn!"

Swinging merchants

The mission to undertake Hanzheng Street is the "Hankou North" market.

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In the northern part of Wuhan, about 15 kilometers away from the center of the city, it belongs to dozens of planned large scale professional trading markets in Huangpi District of Wuhan. It has been built for more than three years.

According to the plan of Huangpi district government, Hankou north is building ten national first-class wholesale markets, including Hankou North International Commodity Exchange Center, Panlong International Textile City, Xin He International Agricultural Products Exhibition and distribution center, and China furniture CBD.

The Hanzheng Street North International Commodity Exchange Center, which covers the small businesses, shoes, clothing, home textiles, hotel supplies and other specialized markets, is responsible for the pfer of Hanzheng Street.

According to Hankou North construction project Zhuo Er Hankou North group, North Hankou has already launched seven major trading markets, including shoes, leather goods and hotel supplies.

In 2010, Hankou's northern sales volume had reached 4 billion yuan, which initially had the scale of small commodity professional trading market.

Hu Hongchun, head of Huangpi District of Wuhan, believes that the development area of Hankou's northern area is large, and the traffic near Wuhan's third ring road is also very convenient. It has obvious advantages in carrying out logistics, warehousing and distribution.

The relocation of Hanzheng Street to Hankou is the best choice.

However, in the interview, reporters also learned that the North Hankou strict specialization of the division of the site, the various professional markets reflect each other, but a clear pattern, but let some have not relocated, accustomed to the Hanzheng Street hodgepodge market merchants are difficult to accept.

Wu Shaowei is just such a business representative.

After nearly 20 years of food business, he found that most of his customers were small businesses around the school, while buying non-staple food, he also needed to buy toys, stationery and other main selling items around the school.

According to the planning of Huangpi district government, these two specialized markets belong to two different professional markets, separated by one kilometer.

However, even if some are unwilling, as the vice president of the Hanzheng Street non-staple food business association, he still looks at the development prospects of the Han nationality, and has already drawn up more than 500 food merchants in Hanzheng Street, and has signed an agreement with the four seasons beauty farm big market in the north of Hankou, and plans to move the shop there in July.

However, quite a lot of merchants are still swaying in the decision to leave or leave, and Miss Zhang, who is doing wholesale clothing business, is the businessman in the waiting business.

They are not too confident about the popularity of the clothing trade circle in the north of Hankou.

They are very clear that if they move alone, it is very difficult to form industrial scale effect in the new region in a short time.

As a result, the business of Hankou north, which has lost popularity in Hanzheng Street, is bound to be affected.

In order to attract more than 2 million merchants in Hanzheng Street to move to northern Hankou, Huangpi district government has also set up a special working group, and issued a series of specific implementation details.

In a "opinions on preferential policies for the owners of specialized market groups in northern Hankou", Huangpi District indicated that all the operators who entered Hankou's north market group could obtain preferential policies such as three years tax exemption and household registration in accordance with the conditions.

Besides, there are still many problems to be solved in North Hankou.

The lack of infrastructure such as passenger stations, public pport lines, and incomplete service facilities such as restaurants, hotels and so on do not allow large-scale gathering of popularity here.

For businessmen in Hanzheng Street, the most important thing to come to Hankou north is the popularity and effect of Hankou north.

At the recent two sessions of Hubei Province, Yan Zhi, deputy to the Hubei Provincial People's Congress, has been calling on the government to speed up the construction progress of Hankou's northern roads and passenger stations, and to introduce more bus lines to the city in advance, and to make a long-term plan and layout for Hankou's North City.

These will directly affect the final outcome of Hankou's Hanzheng Street relocation.

Small commodity market in pition

In fact, in China's large commodity wholesale market, Hanzheng Street's pformation path has long been precedent.

In the national small commodity market, the Zhejiang Yiwu small commodity market is the most mature, followed by Hanzheng Street and Hebei Baigou commodity market, in a long period of time has the same confusion.

The difference is that Baigou market made an early choice.

In 80s, Baigou market, known as the "pack" world, once surpassed Hanzheng Street and was known as "Southern Yiwu and North Baigou".

However, since the 90s of last century, when the Yiwu market continued to develop rapidly, Baigou, like Hanzheng Street, was caught up in the confusion of business environment and the gathering of fake commodities. Faced with the danger of closing the market, Baigou chose the rebirth of nirvana in pain.

In 2004, Baigou market, which did not retreat, launched the upgrading and pformation of commodity trading cities. According to the idea of "big market driving large industries", Baigou has planned out 11 modern trade cities including clothing, small commodities, bags, hardware and leather products.

After several years of development, Baigou has become the largest commodity wholesale market after Yiwu, and has surpassed its once big brother, Hanzheng Street.

Compared with the past and the past, Hanzheng Street's pformation and upgrading are facing more complicated problems.

"The previous small commodity market is the wholesale and retail mode, which relies on large quantities and low prices to make profits.

But in the face of the market squeeze of large chain stores, we must make innovation and upgrading of formats to develop.

For the north of Hankou, Li Guang, executive director of the Wuhan Development Institute, said.

As a government to undertake the pformation of Hanzheng Street's small commodity market, Huangpi district government has focused its pformation on the emerging e-commerce platform.

Hu Hongchun, head of Huangpi District, said that the market system combining physical paction and network paction will be a major feature of Hankou north.

In the plan of Zhuo Er holdings, the annual turnover of Hankou north international commodity trading center will reach 80 billion, which will exceed the Yiwu small commodity base and become the largest market in China, which includes trading display, logistics and warehousing, passenger pport, e-commerce and so on.

But a reality is that in the absence of Hanzheng Street's relocation, the Hanzheng Street district has spent 5 million to build an e-commerce platform for Hanzheng Street. As of 2010, the platform was somewhat embarrassed compared with the scale of its 50 billion pactions.

Now that these businessmen are still changing their facade, can they abandon the already known "three now" trading mode and move towards e-commerce?

The more serious situation is that the small commodity market, dubbed the "Yiwu model", must also face the impact from the new department store.

In the face of more and more challenges from new professional channel providers, the Yiwu market also needs to explore new ways to expand outwards. In the name of Yiwu's small commodity market, it will go to sub markets across the country.

In this case, the traditional wholesale mode of competition is no longer a large wholesale market in the same region, but a comprehensive business market represented by WAL-MART.

In the face of the rapid development of WAL-MART, Carrefour and many local department stores, specialized small commodity wholesale markets must be able to find new competitive advantages.

Zhu Yanfu, a professor of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law who has long followed the history of Hanzheng Street's development, has a pessimistic view. In his view, Hanzheng Street has completed its historic mission.

The next pformation should focus more on the pursuit of "soul" in Hanzheng Street.

"From a large environment, the wholesale market of small commodities represented by Yiwu is gradually shrinking, which is determined by the trend of commodity trading."

Zhu Yanfu bluntly said.

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The integrity restriction of spot trading, the obsession of fake and inferior products, and the test of mass logistics demand for pportation have become a problem that all small commodity markets need to face.

As a result, there is still a long way to go for Hankou north to reshape the glory of "the first street in the world".

Hanzheng Street

During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Hanzheng Street has formed a town, and there are three ports such as Zong temple, Yang Jiahe and Wu Sheng Temple.

In the four years of Qianlong (1739), Hanzheng Street built a stone pavement.

Tongzhi three years (1844), Zhong Qianjun presided over the construction of Wan An lane and other new terminals, the paction is more prosperous.

In the next hundred years, Hanzheng Street has always been the essence of business in the old Han town.

According to "Hankou little ambition", the most famous people are commonly known as eight major banks, namely, salt industry, tea industry, medicine industry, goods and services, oil, grain, cotton and cattle industry.

After the founding of new China, the state economy dominated, and the Hanzheng Street market stopped for a while.

In 1979, Hanzheng Street's small commodity market resumed its opening up. In those days, more than 100 unemployed young people were doing business here.

Three years later, businesses surged to 458.

At present, there are 13200 merchants in Hanzheng Street, 400 tons of cargo per day and 160 thousand people per day.