Zhengzhou, The "City Of Commerce", Creates Chicago In China

Zhengzhou, as the capital of the early Shang Dynasty was in its territory, was known as the "capital of commerce".

It is considered as one of the birthplaces of Chinese commerce and one of the pilot cities of the commercial center established by the State Council, so "commercial capital" also means "commercial capital".

Give Zhengzhou“ business The new connotation of "Capital of China" is the Central Plains business war in the Erqi Business District in the early 1990s. Now, 20 years have passed, and against the background of the construction of the Central Plains Economic Zone, Zhengzhou's business industry has unprecedented opportunities. It is urgent to expand from the core area to obtain greater development space.

In Longhu, Xinzheng, South China City, known as "China's commercial logistics aircraft carrier", has been settled, which will greatly change the existing business pattern of Zhengzhou.

From Erqi Tower to South China City is not only the upgrading and expansion of Zhengzhou's business industry, but also the continuation and inheritance of Zhengzhou's business spirit.

The Spiritual Totem of Zhengzhou in Commerce and Trade

Just as every nation has its own totem, the prosperity of commerce and trade has always been the feature of Zhengzhou, and the business spirit has long been engraved into the totem of this city.

Due to its location advantage and convenient transportation, Zhengzhou has become the axis of Chinese civilization as early as the Five Emperors, Xia and Shang Dynasties. Prosperity of commerce and trade has always been one of the main characteristics of Zhengzhou.

According to historical records, the Bianluo region where Zhengzhou is located in history is located at the juncture of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Its water system reaches Chang'an in the west (today's Xi'an), and passes through Kaifeng in the east to the Yangtze Huaihe River. It has been the general hub of water transportation in China for more than 1400 years, from the pre Qin, Han and Wei dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties.

When Sheng Xuanhuai, the court minister at the end of the Qing Dynasty, surveyed the Luhan Railway, he turned Zhengzhou Station into a first-class railway station, which directly affected the development process of Zhengzhou in modern times. Now it has the largest train marshalling station in Asia, Zhengzhou North Station, and China's largest less than truckload freight transfer station, Zhengzhou East Station.

The circulation of modern commodities largely depends on the transportation industry, so the premise of expanding circulation and opening up markets is to use advanced means of transportation. With the opening of China's gateway, a new means of transportation, railway, was introduced into China at the end of the 19th century.

The construction of Pinghan Railway and Longhai Railway and their intersection in Zhengzhou have promoted the rise of Zhengzhou's regional transportation. The mechanical railway transportation has gradually replaced the traditional transportation of sailing cars and horses driven by natural forces such as wind power and animal power, and has become the main mode of regional transportation. In 1906 and 1909, after the Pinghan Railway and Bianluo Railway were completed and opened to traffic, Zhengzhou could reach Beijing north through the Pinghan Railway and transfer to Tianjin.

Before the opening of the railway, Zhengzhou was just a small county with a strong rural atmosphere, which had little value in industry, commerce and politics. However. With the construction of the railway, Zhengzhou can contact various trade ports, and the passenger and cargo exchanges soon become frequent, and its economic status is gradually improved.

This has brought great impact on the original Yellow River, Weihe River and canal waterway traffic, overwhelmed the largest market in Henan Province - Zhoujiakou (today's Zhoukou City), seized the prosperity momentum of the provincial capital Kaifeng, and monopolized the Yangtze River and Yellow River, laying an important position as the largest cargo distribution market in the Central Plains.

In 1912, Japanese economist Lin Chongjilang called Zhengzhou "Chicago of China" in his book Zhengzhou Business Information in Henan Province.

What really made Zhengzhou's business famous nationwide was the Central Plains business war in the Erqi Business District in the early 1990s. In a sense, since the beginning of this commercial war, Zhengzhou's commercial talents have been called modern commerce. The commercial war has not only affected the development of modern commerce in China, but also become a milestone in the development of modern commerce in China.

At the end of 1991, the six episode TV feature film "Commercial War" jointly produced by CCTV and Henan TV Station was broadcast, which made Zhengzhou's commercial war famous nationwide and attracted the attention of the whole country.

In June 1996, Jiang Zemin, the former President of the People's Republic of China, wrote an inscription in his own hand when he inspected Zhengzhou: "Build Zhengzhou into a modern socialist commercial city". In 1997, the five ministries and commissions of the state officially approved Zhengzhou as a pilot city for the reform of the national trade center.

It is easy to find that the spirit of commerce and trade has become the totem of the spirit of Zhengzhou city and will continue to promote the prosperity and prosperity of the city's commerce and trade industry.

Core breakthrough in the new business era

Under the background of the construction of Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area, through the urban development pattern of the central urban area and the surrounding clusters, to solve the "big cake" phenomenon of the past urban development, it is inevitable that the commercial logistics industry in the core area breaks out of the city and provides market support for the development of the central urban clusters

Zhengzhou thrives because of commerce and prospers with the development of commerce. For example, the prosperous Erqi Business District was formed on the basis of Dehua Street built in 1905, and promoted the large-scale rise of Zhengzhou city.

Due to the law of urban development, the initial commercial industry is often due to the core location of the city. With the increasing expansion of the urban framework, the urban population continues to increase, and the development of the commercial industry in the core area is more and more constrained, such as traffic congestion, development space congestion, etc.

Taking the railway station business circle as an example, in this "tiny place", there are Yinji Trade City, World Trade City, Jinrong Clothing City, Tianrong Fashion City, Shenghe Knitting Wholesale Market, Qiantang Clothing City, Dunmu Road Clothing Wholesale Center and other clothing wholesale markets, as well as Wanbo Shopping City, Henan Jinlin Market, Zhongtian Market There are more than 10 small commodity markets, large and small, such as Zhongzhou Shopping Mall.

According to incomplete statistics, at present, the total area of various wholesale markets in Zhengzhou Railway Station is 1 million square meters, and the daily trading volume is about 1.5 billion yuan. Despite the incomparable advantages of people flow here, problems such as warehouses, stalls, parking, and fire control have seriously restricted the further development of the city.

In this regard, Zhengzhou last year issued the Guiding Plan for Urban and Rural Spatial Development of Zhengzhou City and the Plan for Urban Commercial Outlets of Zhengzhou City (2009-2020) and other documents, planning the relocation of some wholesale markets.

This is driven by market factors. Because of the rapid increase in land value within the third ring road and the inconvenient transportation of goods in the wholesale market in the central city, the government and the wholesale market itself have the power to move outward.

Industry insiders believe that in the context of the construction of Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area, Zhengzhou has repositioned its urban functional area, planned the urban development pattern of central urban area and peripheral cluster development, to solve the "big pie" phenomenon of urban development in the past. It is inevitable that the core area's commercial logistics industry breaks out of the city and provides market support for the development of central urban cluster.

"It is a new trend of urban development to orient cluster development according to different functions and take the road of compound urban development." Feng Dexian, director of the Institute of Geography, Henan Academy of Sciences, analyzed.

It is understood that among the "ten clusters" planned by Zhengzhou, there are not only livable education city, livable health city, livable vocational education city, new science and education city, but also new shopping city, trade city, etc. This is closely related to the past experience of Zhengzhou's urban development and the expansion of the urban development pattern.

Feng Dexian introduced that in the past urban development of Zhengzhou, from the cities pulled out by trains in the 1950s to the cities moved to Zhengzhou by the provincial government in the 1960s, Zhengzhou's development gradually expanded outward along the way of "spreading big cakes"; From the 1980s to the 1990s, Zhengzhou began to focus on promoting the development of commercial services with the goal of a commercial city; After the 1990s, they began to develop high-tech zones and economic and technological development zones; After 2000, Zhengzhou began to focus on the integrated development of Zhengdong New Area and Zhengbian.

With the improvement of scale and technical conditions, the structural change of urban development must keep up with the convenience needs of industrial development and service trade. In other words, when the multi industry form of urban development and multi regions are concentrated together, industrial integration must require the complex development of urban functions, which is the internal logic of Zhengzhou's proposal of central city cluster development.

　　 "From a nationwide perspective, it has become a trend for the commercial logistics industry in the central urban area to move out selectively, because the transportation of goods in the wholesale market in the central urban area is limited by the inconvenience of transportation, and at the same time, the land appreciation is rapid, which gives the government the power to plan and guide the wholesale market to move out. However, the migration of the wholesale market has objectively brought about the upgrading of the wholesale market Opportunity. " Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce said.

South China City, Revitalizing Zhengzhou's Trade Glory

Zhengzhou is a city with business dreams. From a key business town to "Chicago in China", will the glory of Zhengzhou in business shine again? The South China City of Zhengzhou has high hopes.

It has become an inevitable trend that the business logistics industry in Zhengzhou's core area will develop to the periphery of the city. This is not only an inevitable way for industrial upgrading and development, but also the only way for the construction of Zhengzhou metropolitan area.

A wholesale market operator believes that there are clothing wholesale markets within the Third Ring Road Clothing factory The business cluster is to support it Clothing factory There are also a number of supporting enterprises, including the logistics system, etc., so the relocation of the market is actually an industrial supporting system.

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Therefore, he said, "It is very important for the government to plan the relocation site, because the new market system should also connect the downstream consumption system with the upstream industry supporting system, and even the living supporting system."

On April 9, 2012, the South China City project in Zhengzhou was signed, with a planned construction area of 12 million square meters, making it the largest and most extensive commercial logistics center in Central Plains. People familiar with the matter said that it may undertake the relocation of wholesale markets within the third ring road of Zhengzhou.

"In the future, the major business districts in Zhengzhou's business pattern are Erqi Business District, High speed Railway Business District and South China City Business District, and other business districts will only exist as small regional business districts." A business person in Zhengzhou predicted.

However, many insiders believe that the significance of Zhengzhou South China City is not only to undertake the business market in the core urban area, but also to greatly change the business pattern of Zhengzhou, and it may also revive the glory of Zhengzhou as a business city.

Indeed, Zhengzhou is a city with business dreams. In his book Zhengzhou Business Information in Henan Province, Lin Chongjilang called Zhengzhou "the Chicago of China". The goal of building Zhengzhou into the "Oriental Chicago" was put forward as early as the 1990s.

Relevant leaders of Zhengzhou Municipal Government once said that Zhengzhou is an important railway and highway hub city. Now, we should follow the example of Chicago in the United States and Frankfurt in Germany, build Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport into an international hub airport, and build Zhengzhou into an air hub connecting China to the world.

"Zhengzhou must become a 'world hub city', otherwise it will fall into a historical and irreversible passive situation." The leaders of the National Civil Aviation Administration expressed support for the idea of "Oriental Chicago", and they believed that Xinzheng Airport should become a hub airport for China's foreign countries.

"The 'air hub' of the United States is Chicago, not New York, Washington; the air hub of Germany is Frankfurt, not Berlin, so it is reasonable to believe that China's external hub airport is not in Beijing, but in Zhengzhou“

From an important trade town to "Chicago in China", will the glory of Zhengzhou in trade shine again? How much energy can the President of South China City of Zhengzhou enjoy this glorious revival?

Wealth opportunity under national strategy, South China City helps the rise of the Central Plains

The landing and operation of Zhengzhou South China City will help greatly enhance the competitiveness of Zhengzhou's commercial logistics industry, consolidate and strengthen Zhengzhou's position as a commercial logistics center in the middle of China, help Henan Province and even the whole central region to reduce enterprise logistics costs and transaction costs, and promote urbanization.

According to the data, South China City Holdings Co., Ltd. is a company listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. It was registered in Hong Kong in May 2002. It is a leader in planning, constructing and operating China's large-scale integrated commercial logistics center, and is committed to developing and constructing a modern integrated commercial logistics base and high-end integrated service platform for manufacturing industry integrating multiple industries in China.

Its business spreads all over China. So far, it has developed, constructed and operated projects in Shenzhen, Nanning, Nanchang, Xi'an, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Heyuan and other places. South China City is large in scale, high in grade and complete in categories. The minimum scale of newly developed projects is not less than 4 million square meters, and the maximum scale is about 20 million square meters.

It is understood that South China City of Zhengzhou is located in Longhu Town, Xinzheng City, bordering Chaohe River in the east, Zhengxin Highway in the west, 107 connecting line in the south and Shuanghu Avenue in the north. Zhengzhou South China City, with a total planned building area of 12 million square meters, integrates eight functions, including trade transaction, logistics distribution, exhibition and promotion, information exchange, innovation promotion, industry cultivation, characteristic tourism, and comprehensive supporting facilities for urbanization, making it the modern comprehensive trade and logistics city with the largest scale effect in Central Plains.

It will gather building materials and hardware, lighting, auto parts, mechanical equipment, hardware and electrical equipment, small commodities and non-staple food, outlets, large shopping mall, CBD business office and other types of business to build a national leader in the trade logistics industry.

As Vanke is in the residential industry and Wanda is in the commercial real estate industry, South China City is the "leader" of the commercial logistics industry.

"The Central Plains Economic Zone has become a national strategy. Zhengzhou is entering the historical stage of great opening up and development. The developing Zhengzhou urgently needs an international, modern, super large scale, strong radiation commercial logistics city. As a result, Zhengzhou South China City came into being."

So, how will South China City realize its dream of moving the Central Plains? The South China City of Zhengzhou is located at Xinzheng Longhu Lake, which has obvious advantages in location. The Zhengxin Fast Track is about to open, only 15 minutes' drive from Zhengzhou; The expressway around the city is convenient to all parts of the country; The subway passes through here, which is very convenient. Here you can enjoy the convenience of urban life, but there is no traffic congestion in the urban area, which is convenient for the development of commercial logistics industry.

The landing and operation of Zhengzhou South China City will help to significantly enhance the competitiveness of Zhengzhou's commercial logistics industry, consolidate and strengthen Zhengzhou's position as the central commercial logistics center, optimize the industrial supporting environment for investment attraction and manufacturing development in Henan Province and the central region, and promote the urbanization process of Henan Province; It will help Henan Province and even the whole central region to reduce enterprise logistics costs and transaction costs, and promote urbanization.