The history of the subsidence area in southeastern Henan

"The steamed stuffed buns are short of meat, so I'll wrap them with pigs for you."

Ten years ago, a short story about a hotel waiter circulated in Zhoukou, which illustrates the backwardness of commercial services at that time.

Ten years ago, there was such a little story about a hotel waiter circulating in Zhoukou.

A foreign businessman was dining at a star-rated hotel in Zhoukou. He found that the meat buns on the table had thick skin and little filling, so he casually asked the waiter: "Why do your buns have so little meat?" The waiter said: "How about I wrap a pig for you?" "Little girl, how can you talk like this?" The merchant felt very strange. "What should I do? I can't call you daddy, can I?" The waiter almost choked the merchant who was eating steamed buns to death.

The commercial service industry is a window to the local economy. A place with “inadequate” commercial services shows that competition is obviously insufficient. In a region lacking competition, one can imagine the economic vitality.

"Business work is an important part of economic work. The 'troika' of investment, consumption, and exports that drive economic growth are closely related to business work." As a concrete practice of the province's business development Li Qingshu, director of the Provincial Department of Commerce, said that since the reform and opening up, business work has achieved rapid development, but due to various reasons, the level of opening up to the outside world is relatively low.

“We are a city with a large population, a small industrial city, and a poor financial city.” After the signing ceremony yesterday, Xu Guang, mayor of Zhoukou City, said frankly.