People who have been to Zhuhai will be surprised by the beautiful environment in Zhuhai, and they will also be surprised that such a good environment cannot develop. Zhuhai is one of the four special economic zones established in the early days of 1980 reform and opening up.
No matter what preferential policies, they can't offset the high transportation costs. Traffic problem is the lifeblood of a local development and the biggest bottleneck of Zhuhai's development.
Zhuhai is keen on attracting investment, ignoring the supporting services of living conditions and development conditions. The decisive factor of development lies in people, and it is not enough for people to have a good natural environment. People must have a good living environment, and the development environment can be peaceful and healthy. The real magic weapon of development may be people-oriented!
If you want to buy some daily necessities in Zhuhai High-tech Zone or West District, you have to take a bus of 1 hour or more to get to the urban area. How uncomfortable! The degree in Zhuhai has been very tight, and there are too few high-quality degrees. Every year, foreign talents spend a lot of time and energy running around for their children's education. Running can't be solved. There are too few good hospitals in Zhuhai. If you need to see a doctor, you have to come to the city or even go to Guangzhou.
Zhuhai, which is close to Macao, is always compared with Shenzhen, which is adjacent to Hong Kong in the south. From the perspective of export trade and attracting overseas investment, the two cities have similar resources and geographical advantages. However, more than 30 years later, Shenzhen broke the pattern of "going north to Guangzhou" and became a first-tier city, while Zhuhai still belongs to a second-tier city sequence, with a lower economic aggregate than neighboring cities such as Foshan, Dongguan and Zhongshan, and only located in the middle reaches of prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province.
This difference is largely related to the differences between Hong Kong and Macao. As a financial and trade center, Hong Kong has transferred a large part of its industries to the cities on the east bank of the Pearl River, represented by Shenzhen and Dongguan, and continuously promoted the economic vitality of these cities. In the past few decades, Macao has become a tourist city mainly for entertainment and gambling, which makes it difficult for Zhuhai to obtain unique development opportunities because of its proximity to Macao.
The city railway is convenient, and the Guangzhou-Zhuhai city railway is open to traffic-starting from Guangzhou South Railway Station, you can reach Zhuhai in 59 minutes at the earliest. Now, if you travel between Guangzhou and Zhuhai during the summer vacation, you will find that high-speed rail tickets are quite tight-a large number of tourists use high-speed rail to transfer to Zhuhai via Guangzhou, and their destination may be Macau or Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Hengqin Zhuhai.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which is about to open to traffic, is the most anticipated excitement in this city.
This is a bridge that was proposed to be built more than 30 years ago. 1983, Hong Kong businessman Hu took the lead in proposing to build a cross-border bridge to connect Hong Kong and Zhuhai. Zhuhai then made a feasibility assessment of this idea.
1997, the State Council approved the Lingdingyang Bridge project. However, due to the fact that the bridge spans Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and involves multi-interest games, the project was put on hold until it was re-established in 2003 and renamed as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
According to the design, after the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the journey from Zhuhai to Hong Kong will be greatly shortened from the current three hours to about half an hour. Goods from the west bank of the Pearl River and even some inland southwest provinces can go directly to Hong Kong without going through Shenzhen. It is considered to be a great driving force for the economy of Zhuhai and the whole west bank of the Pearl River.
Zhuhai has really attracted five-star hotels such as Sheraton and Pullman in the last two years. In the past, high-end hotel brands did not value Zhuhai as a single market, because the hotel industry in Macau was quite mature. However, with the rise of local theme parks and amusement facilities such as Chimelong and Gaoyue, Zhuhai's image as a tourist city has gradually become independent, and these luxury brands have gradually realized Zhuhai's development opportunities-it is no longer just to undertake the spillover tourism demand from Macao, but is becoming an important holiday destination.