Let's start with a few seemingly unrelated things to answer this question: First, why did the once brilliant Shanxi merchants recover after a rapid decline? Second, why the development of Zhejiang businessmen has been on the rise, which is directly shown as follows: Hangzhou has replaced Guangzhou as a first-tier city; Third, why is the proportion of GDP distributed along the southeast coast of China more? On the surface, this is an economic problem, but the problem is by no means so simple. Let's take a look at it! Since 2006, I have spent more than ten years tracking the growth of my classmates, friends and colleagues around me. The main concerns are: the environment in which they grew up, the state when they met, the prediction based on my understanding of them, and the accuracy of the prediction. Among them, I found two laws (no personal attack on geographical division):
1, a city endowed with resources, decline is a high probability. Shanxi merchants occupied an important position in the commercial edition of China and reached its peak in the late Qing Dynasty. In the development of China in the past ten years, Shanxi has risen rapidly relying on a large number of coal resources. However, there is an important problem: resources are limited, and after the energy structure changes, coal will be replaced by cleaner energy. In recent years, with the increase of smog, it really happened. The follow-up story is that the GDP here is stagnant every year, and there is no more industrial support. Resources give this region an advantage, but they also cut off all their innovations and future. Indulge in the comfort and conservatism in the depths of your own thoughts, and lose the motivation and ability to flourish. This may be the key issue that resource-endowed cities should pay attention to in the future.
2. The rise of open cities is inevitable. Yiwu, Wenzhou and Hangzhou, once less famous cities, have found a well-known development path by relying on the collective wisdom of business groups. Zheshang has occupied an important position in the economic map of China and even the world. When I saw all kinds of online complaints about administrative inefficiency, I didn't know that Shenzhen had opened online approval; When we were still waiting in line at the bank, we didn't know that China Merchants Bank had realized self-service on a large scale. The education they received from childhood is to look to the future and go out to see the outside world more. Be a broad-minded person, don't fish with all your resources. As a result, in the journey from small to large, they have completed the transformation again and again in the win-win cooperation. This is the influence of consciousness or concept on people, from regional countries to family individuals, from workplace to life, which is almost universally established.
Jingjing and Hui Hui are my best friends. The difference is that Jingjing is a rich second generation with a family business and famous entrepreneurs. Hui Hui was born in a small county. Her father is a retired employee of a small company with poor welfare, and her mother is a housewife. The three of us shared a dormitory in college for four years, which cultivated a deep friendship among classmates. Hui Hui is very kind and sensible. I clearly remember that on the first day of freshmen's registration, we were still looking around in the dormitory. When we didn't know how to pack our luggage, Hui Hui had helped us to stick on a convenient non-stick hook. This towel hanging and that bag hanging are very small things, but they touched the girls in our dormitory. On Saturday and Sunday, we all like to go to the movies and go to the opera. You know, this is Beijing, and Beijing's drama industry is really booming, and it is very beneficial to our screenwriter career. However, Hui Hui always stays in the dormitory and reads books, or downloads the original movies from Movie Paradise on the computer. She thinks that the newly released movie is expensive and can be seen on the computer in a few days, so why spend this money?
Quiet is different. She is willing to try everything new, and she can keep track of many hot issues in time. At that time, an exquisite rich second generation waited for 1 1 in a hotel outside the scriptwriter's dinner in order to catch up with a famous screenwriter and understand her creative process and the story behind it, just to ask a few substantive questions in the scriptwriter's limited free time. Hui Hui doesn't work so hard. On the one hand, she is limited by money, on the other hand, she is simple: girls don't have to work so hard in their careers. Just find a suitable job and live a good life. Now, five years after our university graduation, Hui Hui has returned to work in the Cultural Bureau of his hometown, married a civil servant in a county town and had children. Every month, she earns a pitiful salary of only 3000 yuan. It takes a long time to change a new mobile phone, but she has signed a contract with a major film and television company, and one of her works was immediately put on the screen. This is the fate of two girls from different backgrounds. Sometimes, I get angry with Hui Hui and feel sad for Hui Hui's misfortune. I was born in a small county. By the way, Hui Hui could have tried to stay in Beijing when she graduated, but she didn't have a hukou or a fixed income. She has to pay a large rent every month. If she can't support it, she can go back to the civil service exam and take care of her sick mother. This is life, but it can't be simply said that people from the bottom don't work hard, but after all, the first task they face is to support their families and survive first.
Poor people have poor thinking, they have no thoughts, no desires, no goals, no ideals, no outlook on life and no strong desire for money! They want to play mahjong today, or drink, chat with people, do farm work in the fields, and waste today's days. They are simple-minded and know nothing about starting a business. They work in the factory all day, go home for dinner after work, watch TV, cry because of the story inside, and then go to sleep. In this way, people are getting older day after day and year after year. When life needs a lot of money, they cry when they open their mouths to others and give reasons. But their relatives are very rich real estate developers, and their cousins don't borrow a line to open a hotel. He also said that my uncle borrowed hundreds of dollars from her mother when he was poor, but now he disowns my mother when he is rich. Why? People think you are poor and can't afford to borrow money. My friend told me that even ten square meters of land would not be borrowed.
People are divided into three grades, so there are bottom, middle and high levels. People in the lower classes rush about for three meals a day all day, and after today, they don't know where the next meal is tomorrow. Survival is to put people at the bottom of Mount Tai, so they are crushed by Mount Tai all day. People born at the bottom did not inherit the property, contacts and business wisdom of their ancestors. They start like a child who has just finished the first grade, and the rich second generation has everything as if they had just finished college. As the saying goes, life is difficult for decades, and life is difficult for decades. By then, people will be old and don't know what to do. People's lives are very important, and luck is good! Only in this way can a person's life and fortune constitute a perfect destiny! It is said that the poor are content with the status quo, while I used to be poor but worked hard to start a business all the way. Finally, if you achieve something small, you will never be poor, so that the poor have a chance to make a difference! Three points are destined, and seven points depend on hard work! Li Ka-shing, Huang Guangyu, and so on were born in poverty! However, there are several children in the cold!