Shanxi merchants are businessmen who walk around the world, and their business culture will inevitably absorb and integrate the cultural customs and values wherever they go. Therefore, the spirit of Shanxi merchants originated not only in Shanxi, but in the vast land that Shanxi merchants walked through and on the tea and silk road they pioneered.

The road of grain, rice and medicinal materials, the road of fur and horses, and the road of salt, cloth and silk department stores. Shanxi merchants grew up on the Loess Plateau near the Yellow River, but in the long-term business exploration, they gradually formed a clear and strong sense of open development, keen business insight, great business courage and the spirit of keeping promises.

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Shanxi shoulders the great mission of building a comprehensive reform experimental zone for national resource-based economic transformation. To promote the transformation and development, it is not enough to only use the existing resources, which will greatly limit the development path and space, but need to introduce new development factors, such as new technology, talents, ideas, markets, capital and other resource factors.

Every new combination of resource elements is a new development path choice and a new development possibility. Therefore, it is impossible for Shanxi today to promote transformation and development behind closed doors and build a comprehensive reform pilot zone for national resource-based economic transformation.

It is necessary to carry forward the spirit of openness and honesty, turn around as a whole, look outward, climb high and look far, form a big atmosphere and pattern of open development, and create a new highland for opening up inland areas. Only in this way can we successfully achieve the goal of transformation and development.

People's Daily: Exploring the Modern Value of Shanxi Merchants' Spirit