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The Southern Observer | held high the lamp of Xiqiao

Wen | special commentator Long Jiangang

The Seventh Party Congress of Xiqiao Town, Nanhai District, was successfully held on August 6, and the focus of this meeting was to plan the Xiqiao Tactics for the next five years. After reading the report, I found that Xiqiao should do three major things: spatial reconstruction, industrial remodeling, and building Xiqiao into a regional center in the western part of the South China Sea with agglomeration and radiation effects.

Xiqiao people say, "Crossing the Xiqiao Bridge is Xiqiao people." I have walked into Xiqiao countless times, and of course I am excited by Xiqiao's ambitions.

The Southern Observer | held high the lamp of Xiqiao

Xiqiao strives to build a five-year high standard into a regional center in the western part of the South China Sea with agglomeration and radiation effects. Profile picture

Where to start?

In my early years as a journalist, I had this experience: On the train from Guangzhou to Guiyang, I heard two Guiyang people in the cloth business talking passionately about Xiqiao, saying that the place was rich and oily, and that bosses all over the country used sackcloth pockets to carry cash to Xiqiao to buy cloth, and it didn't matter that they couldn't get the goods at all. Back in Guiyang, I learned that Xiqiao is the most important textile distribution center in South China, and is famous in China for its grand situation of "thousands of factories, thousands of stores, 10,000 machines, and 100 million meters of cloth". The mighty Pearl River Delta is a professional town economy, and Xiqiao is the one who holds the bull's ear.

This was the first time I had heard the name Xiqiao, and I never expected that I would settle down not far from Xiqiao in the future, and I would frequently enter and leave Xiqiao.

When I first came to Foshan 20 years ago, I knew nothing about this land that was about to become my second hometown. One day I happened to read an essay from a newspaper about a cultural celebrity in Beijing. He visited the famous writer Qin Mu in Guangzhou, talking about Lingnan culture and famous mountains and rivers, and Qin Mu first promoted Xiqiao Mountain. Qin Mu is the prose I admire, and since Mr. Qin Mu said so, of course I must go happily.

Nishiki was overjoyed! Flying streams of thousands of feet, bright moon and three lakes; Qingfeng green field, a flat domain. No wonder a generation of literary heroes Guo Moruo visited here, stayed for two nights, and wrote 6 poems.

The Southern Observer | held high the lamp of Xiqiao

Xiqiao Mountain. Profile picture

On the territory of Foshan, Xiqiao has a very heavy weight: Xiqiao Mountain is the most famous mountain in Foshan, and Xiqiao Town is a national characteristic town. More importantly, Xiqiao Mountain is the cultural context of Foshan, and the famous artists of the Ming and Qing dynasties gathered together, which achieved the reputation of "Guanshan Mountain" and the status of "Famous Mountain of Science". Chen Baisha, Zhan Ruoshui, Fang Xianfu, Huo Tao, Kang Youwei... These starry names, looking at China, there are few mountains that can compete with Xiqiao Mountain. Before the Ming Dynasty, Foshan had little movement in Chinese historical texts, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it suddenly became a "humanistic state with two broad standards". Tracing back to the roots, Xiqiao Mountain has made great contributions. If you ignore Xiqiao, it is a betrayal of history.

Looking at the end of the poor north and south, the east and west, the water embraces the sun and the moon float. This is the Xiqiao Mountain written by the Qing Dynasty scholar Chen Tang.

A few years ago, he accompanied Long Yongtu on a tour of Xiqiao Mountain, climbing high and looking far away, and this economic diplomat who had traveled all over the world sighed: How come such a beautiful place has not been heard of before? I said that Xiqiao Mountain has a long history and great reputation, and is known as "the beacon of pearl river civilization". Long Yongtu said: This lighthouse should be raised a little higher so that the whole world can see it.

In fact, the Xiqiao people have been forging ahead, they have been stubble after stubble, generation after generation to hold high this lamp, and strive to let the world see the light of Xiqiao.

It is necessary to recall this scene: during the Dragon Boat Festival in 1980, a grand dragon boat activity was held in Tianhu Lake, Xiqiao Mountain, and the whole South China Sea was excited. This is the first time after the reform and opening up that the Pearl River Delta has held such a golden dragon event, many Hong Kong and Macao villagers have returned home after hearing the news, and the South China Sea has also taken the opportunity to recommend investment projects to them... The reason why I chose to hold it in Tianhu Lake is not because of the beautiful scenery of Xiqiao Mountain, but because the Tianhu Lake on Xiqiao Mountain is remote and easy to avoid people's eyes and ears, so as not to say this and that and talk about it from the outside world. At that time, after all, the door of the country was just opened, and this kind of traditional activity would be labeled as a "feudal activity" if it was not paid attention to. This history is recalled because this dragon boat event not only announced that the South China Sea has opened the door to investment promotion, but also means that a model of investment promotion that affects the whole country was born in the South China Sea - cultural stage, economic singing.

The Southern Observer | held high the lamp of Xiqiao

Listen to the sound of the lake. Photo by Au Hyun Sung

The passion of dragon boat racing and striving to be the first spread from Tianhu Lake to the entire Xiqiao, the textile industry is thriving, the ceramics industry is rising strongly, and the hygiene products industry is getting stronger and stronger every day... Such industrial advantages have made Xiqiao full of merchants, people boiling, and everywhere. In Nanhai Town Street, in addition to Guicheng, where the district government is located, the most prosperous place in the night market is undoubtedly Xiqiao. There is a high-level photography army here, and the equipment in their hands is also the best in Foshan - this point, even Shunde Ronggui, who has a large photography team, is ashamed of himself. One year in the distant Xinjiang Cocoto Sea, I and a group of Shunde photographers walked scene by scene, opposite a group of photography enthusiasts who were also armed to home, seeing the posture, Shunde people concluded: Xiqiao's. If you ask closely, yes! Behind the photographer and their equipment is a wealthy Xiqiao, a historical and cultural town with a very moist life.

There is both Xiqiao Mountain and Tingyin Lake. The lake and mountains reflect each other, constituting an enviable ecological advantage of Xiqiao; the rise of the Nanhai Museum, QiaoShan Cultural Center, Youwei Museum, Feihong Museum, and the stationing of the Songcheng Foshan Ancient Love Project have further strengthened the cultural advantages of Xiqiao in the "Most Lingnan of WenhanQiao Mountain".

The Southern Observer | held high the lamp of Xiqiao

The urban core area of the Tingyin Lake area. Profile picture

Xiqiao will achieve a regional GDP of 18.8 billion yuan in 2020, which is larger than the economic scale of many counties, and it is not too much to say that Xiqiao is rich and rivals counties. Xiqiao people are very proud, and Xiqiao people are more introspective: longitudinal examination, Xiqiao's achievements are remarkable, singable and weeping; horizontal comparison, today's Xiqiao, the pursuit of soldiers is approaching, the pacesetters are getting farther and farther away, and the situation is not optimistic. The general impression of the outside world is that in the three towns in the west of the South China Sea, Danzao is full of wind and water, the momentum is like a rainbow, the Jiujiang Jedi counterattack, and Nirvana is reborn. Comparatively speaking, Xiqiao's movement is not very large, and the light is not so dazzling...

What's the problem? Xiqiao himself made a diagnosis: regional competitiveness has declined, innovation support capacity is not obvious, the task of converting new and old kinetic energy is arduous, and the constraints on land resources continue to intensify...

Xiqiao has been developing, but today's Xiqiao wants high-quality development.

The Southern Observer | held high the lamp of Xiqiao

On August 6, the 7th Party Congress of Xiqiao Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City, was held. Photo by Li Junliang

Xiqiao's baton now passed to Li Yijia. Li Yijia soon came to Xiqiao, but he was no stranger to Xiqiao. In the conference report, Li Yijia gave such a "prescription" -

First, focus on solving the problem of land space constraints, and strive to reconstruct the ecological space of production and life. Xiqiao's focus is on the transformation of village-level industrial parks, and the specific method is to take "industrial reform" and "industrial reform" as the direction of transformation, highlight the centralized contiguous development, explore innovative and flexible land development models, build five thousand mu contiguous industrial areas, and accelerate the formation of a number of professional parks carrying large projects, large industries, and large clusters.

Second, reshape the core competitiveness of traditional industries. The specific path is to support the iterative upgrading of the ceramic industry, improve the ceramic industry chain, innovation chain, value chain, and supply chain, and develop the headquarters economy; guide the textile printing and dyeing industry to bravely transform and upgrade, promote textile enterprises to move towards a new textile manufacturing industry of R&D, marketing, and design; and build the hygiene products industry into the third 10 billion industrial cluster in Xiqiao.

Third, strengthen emerging industries and detonate the cultural tourism industry. Xiqiao solemnly stated: to strengthen the industrial chain of accurate investment, come up with the best quality land resources, the most efficient service facilities, first-class business environment, to introduce enterprises with strong competitiveness and industry leadership, at the same time, also focus on building a pan-home enterprise headquarters.

It should be said that Li Yijia's predecessors in such a Xiqiao combat method are all exploring and struggling. However, in order to make further breakthroughs and solve the problems that restrict development, Li Yijia and his team need to show greater determination, pay more efforts, have more responsibilities, and win greater victories.

There is such a "Xiqiao judgment" in the report of the conference: Xiqiao is now in a time when the boat to the middle of the river is more urgent, and the road to the middle of the mountain is steeper, and it is a time when it is getting more and more difficult, more and more dangerous, and if it does not advance, it is necessary to retreat, and it is necessary to enter, and it is coming to a new "crossroads".

What to do? Li Yijia's answer was: face the difficulties, accurately exert force, dare to be the first, dare to try, and release the majestic Xiqiao power.

What makes Xiqiao full of confidence is that when the Xiqiao people are refreshed, various forces are also gathering in Xiqiao, such as the planning and construction of Foshan Metro Line 2 and the accelerated implementation of the first ring of Xiqiao, which will fundamentally change the location and pattern of Xiqiao. Knowing that Xiqiao intends to build a pan-home enterprise headquarters, many companies have been eager to try and show their fists, and the response is very strong. Don't forget: behind Xiqiao is a Foshan with a trillion-dollar pan-home industry.

In front of the xiqiao town government is the mountaineering avenue, and xiqiao's task is to climb the mountain. Xiqiao will surely be a lighthouse that is getting higher and higher, and the world will smell the taste of Xiqiao flatbread...

(The author is a well-known scholar and senior media person)

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