Great Wuhan is not the proposition of Wuhan people, but the generalization of Zhongshan people in Guangdong. Dr. Sun Yat-sen said in the General Plan for the Founding of the People's Republic of China that "Wuhan should be built as big as new york and London, with Chicago in the east". The first meaning of Xinhai was successful, which Dr. Sun Yat-sen called "Wuhan's call, and the four sides responded". The great influence of Wuhan can be seen.
When it comes to Wuhan, we can't help but mention Zhang Zhidong. As an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a pioneer in China's early modernization, and one of the leaders of the new trend of reform and opening up in modern times, he started school, set up factories, repaired railways and built dikes in Wuhan during his 18 years as governor of Huguang, which made Wuhan attract worldwide attention and become a "metropolis second only to Shanghai".
During the Great Revolution, Wuhan once became the center of the revolution. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Wuhan once again became the center of the national "Anti-Japanese War". At that time, there was a song that resounded throughout the country. This song is called "Defending Great Wuhan". Sang Song: "Wuhan is the biggest city today, and we must resolutely defend it, just as Spain defends Madrid" and "defend the great Wuhan with our infinite strength".
1954, Wuhan suffered a major flood in history. The slogan "Defend Great Wuhan" resounded along the Yangtze River and even across the country, inspiring hundreds of millions of people in China and the Yangtze River levee to survive. 1998 during the flood fighting, the central leadership paid close attention to Wuhan and once again put forward "unite as one, unite as one to defend Wuhan". ? The spirit of fighting floods was thus forged.
Wuhan is really big. When you board the Yellow Crane Tower, you can have a panoramic view of Wuhan's atmosphere: the two rivers meet, the tortoise and the snake are opposite, the three towns stand upright, and one river does not return. Wuhan has a vast territory and great momentum, which cannot be ignored.
The land area of Wuhan is 8494.4 1 km2, which is eight times that of Hong Kong and three times that of Singapore. The total urban population is 83 1 10,000, which is one or two million more than that of Austria, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Among them, the urban population accounts for 60% of the total population, and the floating population is10.2 million-10.5 million. In terms of urban area and population size, it is second only to Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, and Wuhan cannot be said to be large.
Wuhan has a vast water area, accounting for 25% of the city's area, and there are more than 370 lakes, the water area and the rate of leaving lakes rank first in the country. The water surface of East Lake is six times that of West Lake. Wu Hanyou has six lakes as big as East Lake. As far as lakes in urban waters are concerned, Wuhan cannot be said to be large.
Wuhan is the leader of Hubei Province, accounting for 30% of GDP, 35.3% of local fiscal revenue, 33.6% of fixed assets investment, 52% of total exports and 70% of foreign investment. In Hubei and even the central and western regions, Wuhan can be described as "standing out from the crowd" and "playing an important role". On the proportion of city size in the whole province, Wuhan can't be said to be large.
Known as "the thoroughfare of nine provinces", Wuhan enjoys a unique geographical position, a vast hinterland market, and a cargo throughput all over the world, ranking second among the top ten shopping centers in China, Wu Hanyou. Wuhan is also located in the land of "only Chu is talented", with many scientific research institutes and various talents. "Wuhan China Optical Valley" is booming in China, and the output of optical fiber and cable ranks first in the country. On the urban market and talents, Wuhan is indispensable.
Wu Hanyou is big, but it is also small: according to statistics in 2002, Wuhan's GDP was1493.09 billion yuan, ranking11among the nine cities above the provincial level in China; The local fiscal revenue was 8.583 billion yuan, ranking14; Urban per capita disposable income is 7820 yuan, ranking14; Wuhan used to be the fourth largest industrial base in the history of China, and now its industrial output value ranks 13 among the nine cities above the sub-provincial level in China. As for foreign trade export, it has been second only to Shanghai for more than 20 years in history, and now it has fallen far behind. If compared with sister cities, a lot of data will make "Greater Wuhan" even more shameful.
Wu Hanyou is very big, but it will also have great difficulties. As an old industrial base, the adjustment of economic structure, reemployment of laid-off workers and the establishment of social security system are under great pressure. The floating population is large, the infrastructure is in debt, and urban management is difficult.
Times have changed. Nowadays, Wuhan's "big" is facing severe challenges: some "big" names are actually hard to reach; Some "big" in the past are becoming "small" today. It can be seen that "things have size."
Big is an advantage, but also contains shortcomings; Strong vitality is not necessarily a burden. The key is how to treat it and how to deal with it. We can't sit still, look out at the sky, be pretentious and arrogant, and we can't be lazy, sleepy and tired of being big.
The greatness of Wuhan should still be our goal. We should further emancipate our minds, develop social economy, change the appearance of the city, enhance its functions, improve the quality of citizens, and strive to build Wuhan into an international metropolis.
Wuhan is a big city, so it should be tolerant, open-minded and tolerant to create a good investment environment, so that investors from all over the world can show their grand plans on the big stage of Wuhan. We should focus on shaping the spirit of the city and Wuhan people, and cultivate a new image of Wuhan people that is credible, amiable and lovely. If you have a big tone, a bad reputation, a big temper, poor compatibility, a big shelf and poor skills, it is definitely not desirable.
The greatness of Wuhan cannot be superficial, but only exists in name only. It should be "great" in quality and level, and "great" in "good". Quality is competitiveness, and famous brands are "destiny" cards. We should aim at national first-class and international first-class, set high standards, build brands in all work, and constantly improve the quality of economic growth and the level of urban development, instead of being satisfied with a large space, a large region and a large total. Wuhan is big, which should be "big" in terms of urban functions. The function is to attract and radiate. International and regional central cities are often called "big" in the world because of their strong economic radiation and perfect service functions. Such as Greater new york, Greater Los Angeles, Greater Manchester City and Greater Tokyo. The "big" here refers to a regional central city with the central city as the core and jumping out of administrative divisions. The municipal party committee and municipal government proposed to build Wuhan into five functional centers and five industrial bases, and to establish Wuhan economic circle. The core is to enhance the radiation function and service function of Wuhan, so that Wuhan can truly become a mega-center city in Central China, form a regional economic center with Wuhan as the core, and make "Great Wuhan" truly worthy of its name.
As the saying goes, elephants are invisible, as smart as fools, as smart as fools, with loud cries and jubilant faces. To seek the greatness of Wuhan, we must also work hard on the connotation, quality, characteristics and level of urban development. In order to seek leap-forward development, build a well-off society in an all-round way and take the lead in basically realizing modernization, Wuhan must correctly handle the relationship between becoming bigger and stronger: being bigger means scale, trend and total amount; Being strong is the essence, the core and the key. Big is the appearance, strong is the core, only big appearance is inevitable, and strong core will have the comprehensive competitiveness of the city. We should base ourselves on being stronger and better, and make it bigger through being stronger and better. According to the requirements of "Theory of Three Represents" and the goal of "strengthening the city and enriching the people", we should promote the transformation of Wuhan from an industrial city to an industrial city, a cultural city to a cultural city, an educational city to an educational city, and an open city to an open city.
The ancients said: "A gentleman can be safe without forgetting danger, raise without forgetting death, and cure without forgetting chaos, that is, the country can protect itself." "The greater the saint, the more afraid he is." In the new century, Wuhan is facing unprecedented new opportunities and extremely severe new challenges. If we want to "let our thoughts break out of the cage", we should have a great liberation of our thoughts: we should resolutely liberate ourselves from the ideological shackles of "Great Wuhan", from the blind optimism of "Great Wuhan" and from the complacency of "Great Wuhan", and constantly enhance our sense of urgency and crisis. This is an important problem that must be solved to accelerate the development of Wuhan under the new situation.