The first is the influence of war. Especially during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the main battlefield of Jiahu (Jiaxing, Huzhou) made Huzhou, which was relatively developed in history, greatly weakened. To what extent? Hurt the situation that foreigners need to fill Huzhou. In contrast, although Suzhou was also one of the main battlefields of that year, the losses were far less than Huzhou. Until today, the total population of Huzhou still lags far behind Suzhou.
The second is the change of transportation mode. As we all know, if you want to get rich, you should build roads first. In the past, Huzhou and Suzhou were both developed on the basis of Taihu Lake and the Grand Canal. The abundant water resources in Jiangsu and Zhejiang basins promoted rice production in the two places and gave birth to a developed handicraft industry. Powerful waterway transportation has promoted the development of logistics industry, and it is really impossible to have money. However, with the decline of waterways and the arrival of the era of strong railways, Suzhou continues to walk on the road of prosperity because it is located on the main artery of beijing-shanghai railway. In contrast, Huzhou can only take a back seat with the Grand Canal.
The third is the strong rise of Shanghai. The rise of modern Shanghai has completely changed the economic structure of Jiangnan. Shanghai is the leader of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the coastal economic belt, the economic center of Jiangnan, China and East Asia, and is moving towards the goal of a global economic center. Suzhou, which is seamlessly connected with Shanghai, enjoys the first bite of Shanghai's development dividend relying on its transportation advantages. It can even be said that Suzhou's urban industrial development is integrated with Shanghai.
Huzhou is a little embarrassed. Its location is not as good as Suzhou, and it lies between Hangzhou and Nanjing. The problem is that logistics in Nanjing and Hangzhou used to go around Shanghai. This has caused the development black hole that used to exist in Huzhou. In recent years, with the improvement of traffic, Huzhou can also enjoy the development spillover dividend of Shanghai, which is an example of becoming one of the core cities in Shanghai metropolitan area.
The fourth is the great exchange of the century. A few decades ago, Zhejiang and Jiangsu had a great international exchange, that is, the Shengsi Islands originally belonging to Suzhou Songjiang Special Zone were zoned to Zhoushan Special Zone, Zhejiang Province, and the entire Taihu Lake was only within 70 meters of Huzhou. Now people go back and calculate the benefits of this big exchange. Zhejiang earned, Huzhou lost. Compared with the great exchange between Jiangsu and Anhui in Hongze Lake basin, this exchange has a greater impact.
Fifth, Huzhou's urban functional orientation. This still has to talk about the topography and geographical location of Huzhou. Huzhou, as a traditional rice planting area, needs to make certain development sacrifices to ensure the food supply of Zhejiang, and its industrial development will inevitably be restricted. Moreover, there are mountains in Huzhou, and streams in the mountains are an important source of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. In order to ensure the development of Shanghai, Huzhou has to make great sacrifices in industrial development.
Of course, the development of Huzhou is relatively backward in Suzhou today, and it is only relatively backward. The overall development of Huzhou is relatively developed in the whole country. Moreover, Huzhou has embarked on a unique road of its own on the road of green development, and Anji Yucun is one of the typical representatives. The local people say that raising chickens and ducks is not as good as raising a Shanghainese.
Huzhou can not only support Shanghainese. Huzhou, with rich landscape resources such as Moganshan, Tianmu Mountain and Taihu Lake, can not only be the back garden of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and even Suzhou. On the road to the development of emerging industries, Huzhou, which has little ink, may have greater development energy.