Yulin is richer in coal resources than Erdos. Why is the growth trajectory in the development process completely different from that in Ordos, even far behind the latter today?

Yulin City, located on the high loess slope in northern Shaanxi, is known as "Kuwait of China" because of its rich mineral resources and good combination and configuration. Here, every square kilometer of land contains huge wealth as high as 654.38+0 billion. In the 600-mile-long "energy corridor" across Shaanxi and Mongolia provinces, Yulin is the starting point of this economic corridor with the fastest wealth flow in China.

With the arrival of the heat wave of energy development, Yulin City once gave people full expectations. However, after a good start, the development pace of Yulin City gradually slowed down. This city, which once tried to build a "new energy capital", has a seemingly gorgeous appearance. Since 2002, Yulin's GDP has maintained an annual growth rate of more than 20% for seven consecutive years, ranking first in Shaanxi Province. The city's GDP ranks second in Shaanxi province, second only to xi' an; The local government once claimed that the development prospect of Yulin attracted a number of large domestic and foreign companies to enter Yulin, including Dow, PetroChina, Sinopec, Shell and Zheng Da, five Fortune 500 companies.

In September 2009, Li Jinzhu, secretary of Yulin Municipal Party Committee, revealed that in the coming 10 year, Shenhua Group will invest 280 billion yuan in Yulin, Huadian14 billion yuan, Huaneng 72 billion yuan, Zhongneng Group10/0 billion yuan, and several major groups in Shaanxi Province will invest 3500 billion yuan. Only central enterprises will lock Yulin.

However, there are still questions. Can these large-scale projects that can hold up a sky really be launched?

In fact, this rhetorical question is not unreasonable.

Five or six years later, just as Yulin was preparing to develop vigorously because of its rich underground mineral resources, once inspiring signing projects followed. On the morning of April 8, 2006, at the 10th China East-West Cooperation, Investment and Trade Fair, the delegation led by Zhang Wei, then vice governor of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, Shi Xueyou, vice chairman of Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Zhou Yibo, secretary of Yulin Municipal Committee became the focus of the spotlight.

At the meeting, Li Jinzhu, then acting mayor of Yulin Municipal Government, and Xie Bing, chairman of Zheng Da Energy and Chemical Industry Group, signed an agreement on the 2.4 million tons coal-to-methanol and methanol-to-olefins (MTO) project of Zheng Da Energy and Chemical Industry Group in Yulin, with a total investment of 654.38+0.6 billion yuan; Signed an agreement with Zhang, deputy general manager of Yankuang Group Co., Ltd. on the indirect liquefaction project of 65.438+0 million tons of coal in Yankuang, with a total investment of 65.438+0 billion yuan.

This series of dazzling investment promotion seems to let the outside world see the increasingly soaring future of Yulin. However, with the passage of time, the exciting moment did not come after all, and the big hands that once shouted loudly aborted. People sighed and chewed the mottled past after dinner.

Speaking of Yulin, I have to choose Erdos as the reference. These two prefecture-level cities, which are connected end to end on the map, have completely different growth trajectories because energy development started almost at the same time. To be exact, compared with Ordos, Yulin has more obvious resource advantages, but now, "Yulin has fallen behind Ordos 10 years." Li Zhiqing, former secretary of Yulin Shenfu Economic Development Zone, said with emotion when interviewed by this reporter.

So, what is the reason for all this?

With this question, the reporter of Energy explored Yulin, and in interviews with people from all walks of life, the answer surfaced. One reason that can't be ignored is that the administrative intervention of Yulin local government and even Shaanxi provincial government has become the chief culprit to suppress its development.

"Compared with the development of Ordos, there are many reasons for the current situation in Yulin, mainly the leadership." Li Zhiqing said, "At that time, some leaders were directly transferred from Beijing. Without practical experience in economic construction, they could not fundamentally promote the overall development of Yulin."

Now, Li Zhiqing has retired. In his memory, the most brilliant stage stayed five years ago. At that time, Shenfu Economic Development Zone, where he served as party secretary, attracted much attention because of the vigorous development of economic construction. In 2005, Su Wen, then vice chairman of Ordos CPPCC, led a team to Shenfu Economic Development Zone to inspect the development model. However, five years later, the whole Yulin City was gradually left behind by Erdos.

According to unpublished data, in 2009, Yulin's GDP was 654.38+02 billion yuan, while Ordos's GDP exceeded 200 billion yuan. From the perspective of per capita GDP, at the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the per capita GDP of Yulin and Erdos was 9,000 yuan and 42,000 yuan respectively. In the past two years, the per capita GDP gap has further widened. In 2008, the per capita GDP of the two cities was 30,200 yuan and10,200 yuan respectively.

Many witnesses and participants are still secretive about this ups and downs. A retired official who did not want to be named told reporters that both the economic development ideas and the local government's economic policies are the primary reasons that hinder Yulin's development. And this situation still has serious sequelae until today. "In fact, Yulin has not been ready for large-scale development for a long time," the official said bluntly.

In sharp contrast to the attitude of today's politicians, a group of * * * people who had ideas and opinions left the scene sadly. In the interview, Wang Bin, former vice mayor of Yulin City, was the most mentioned name.

The reporter contacted Wang Bin many times, and Wang Bin, who had been "not talking about state affairs" for a long time, finally agreed to be interviewed. He reviewed some stories during his tenure and some feelings now.

/kloc-Wang Bin, secretary of Shenmu county party Committee in 0/6 years,199 became vice mayor of Yulin city. Wang Bin, a native of Yulin, knows the whole economic situation of Yulin like the back of his hand.

Around 2004, some big projects under negotiation will soon be settled in Yulin. Just when the outside world thought that Yulin municipal government would plan more investment projects, Wang Bin straightened his back in the meeting room of the municipal government and communicated with other * * *.

"In fact, those so-called big projects are all tricks played by a group of people in order to find housing and defraud local interests." Wang Bin said.

Elm bay coal mine dispute is one of them.

From June 5 to 10, 2006, under the leadership of Yulin Municipal Government, more than 30 representatives of Yanzhou Coal Company and Zheng Da Energy Company moved into the office building of elm bay Coal Mine. Among them, Zheng Da Energy Company is what Wang Bin said.

"elm bay Coal Mine was specially granted to Yulin by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council at that time, and was later granted to others by some leaders in the province. They spent more than 100 thousand to register a company, the brand of Zheng Da, Thailand, and more than 20 billion projects were taken away by more than 100 thousand. " Wang Bin said.

It is understood that Zheng Da Energy Company, which holds 40% of the shares in elm bay Coal Mine, used several different company names such as Zheng Da Group Co., Ltd., Zheng Da Energy Chemical Co., Ltd., Zheng Da Energy Investment Co., Ltd., Zheng Da Holding Group Co., Ltd. and even Zheng Da Group Energy Materials Co., Ltd. during the joint venture negotiation with elm bay Coal Mine.

"At that time, many companies hung the brands of big companies in the world in order to grab projects, but they simply could not afford it." Wang Bin, who retired long ago, was cautious in his words and never mentioned a specific name in his words.

In March, 2006, the General Office of Shaanxi Provincial Government issued a document, agreeing that Sinochem Group and Hong Kong Yeyi Company, as the main developers of the 2.4 million tons methanol-to-olefins (MTO) project, will enter the Boluo mine field in Yuheng mining area. However, this capital marriage is not that simple.

A person familiar with the matter told the reporter that at that time, Hong Kong Yeyi Company claimed to invest 654.38+065 billion yuan to build a 2.4 million tons coal chemical project in Yuheng, northern Shaanxi, which was a "golden cicada". After obtaining the relevant documents from the Development and Reform Commission of Shaanxi Province and the Department of Land and Resources through various channels and relationships, Hong Kong Yeyi Company acquired more than 300 square kilometers of coal resources in Boluo Minefield, Hengshan County.

While "foreign enterprises and state-owned enterprises" are grabbing major projects, local enterprises are blocked from the door. That's why Wang Bin worked so hard.

In Wang Bin's view, the rapid development of Erdos lies in the attitude of the local government towards investment and development.

"Chu Bo spent seven or eight years in Inner Mongolia with a group of talented people. My middle school is in Erdos, so I knew the local situation better before. All * * * people in Inner Mongolia are trying to make the local economy go up, unlike Yulin ... "Wang Bin said awkwardly.

In 2005, Wang Bin was transferred to Xi Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources as deputy director because of different opinions and even violating special interest groups. After leaving Yulin, Wang Bin chose to retire and didn't go to work for a day.

Wang Bin's departure seems to be a representative. As a result, some local officials in Yulin began to sum up, "No matter how well you do it, there will be no good end." More and more people are beginning to shrink back, those who want to do things are afraid, and those who want to tell the truth are afraid. Powerful political forces have created the official culture here and bound the economic lifeline here.

At present, there is no wholly state-owned company in Ordos. Ordos Group, Yitai Group, Huineng Group, Yihua Group, Yili Resources Group, Meng Xi Group and other domestic and foreign listed enterprises and well-known enterprise groups have become the main force to promote the city's economic construction. On the other hand, the reform of state-owned enterprises in Yulin is still not over, and a listed company has not been cultivated.

Hua Wei, chairman of Shaanxi Coal Group, said in an interview with this reporter: "The economic gap between the two cities is mainly due to the different degrees of ideological emancipation of the two governments."

Warwick cherishes words like gold. He concluded that the attitude of the Ordos municipal government is: not seeking everything, just seeking where. Yulin municipal government's attitude is: everything, where to ask.

Huawei finished smiling alone, and the words were meaningful.