Can Hunchun develop into a "coastal" open city like Qingdao and Xiamen?

Does Hunchun want to be like Qingdao and Xiamen? Coastal? It is obviously impossible to open the city.

Many people may not be familiar with the name of Hunchun City. As a county-level city with a population of only over 2,, Hunchun has little influence in economic and administrative status.

However, the geographical location of Hunchun City is extremely special. It is the easternmost city in Jilin Province, the only border window city in China at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea, and the only channel for China to directly enter the Sea of Japan. It is an important geographical center in Northeast Asia and has close geographical ties with Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and other countries.

It should be said that the location advantage is quite obvious. If this historical opportunity is grasped, it may become an important hub city in Northeast Asia in the future.

In recent years, taking the opportunity of revitalizing the old industrial base in Northeast China and some preferential policies for export processing zones, the Jilin government has great expectations for Hunchun City, and has continuously increased investment, and successively established Tumen River regional international cooperation demonstration zone, border economic cooperation zone and other projects.

However, even so, it is obviously impossible to expect Hunchun to become an open coastal city like Qingdao and Xiamen.

in terms of trade history, Qingdao and Xiamen, as port cities open to the outside world, started as early as the late Qing dynasty. Xiamen was opened when five ports were trading after the First Opium War, while Qingdao was occupied by Germany in 1897 and established a concession, which has a long history of foreign trade, while Hunchun City began to develop after the continuous development of Northeast Asia in recent years, with insufficient historical precipitation.

as far as port conditions are concerned, although Hunchun is also a high-quality natural ice-free port, the water level is shallow, and it is impossible to navigate large cargo ships in a short time, especially in the lower reaches of Tumen River, which is itself a sandy and muddy area. To navigate large cargo ships, it is necessary to dig channels, and the cost is quite large. In the coastal cities such as Qingdao and Xiamen, the nearby waters are very deep, and ships of 1, tons can enter the port, and the port conditions are far more advantageous than Hunchun.

From the economic hinterland, Hunchun is just a county-level city with a population of only 2,. Although it is the only coastal city in Jilin, its radiation range is limited because it is located in the easternmost part of Jilin, far away from the political and economic center of Jilin. Normally, the central and western parts of Jilin rely on the Harbin-Dalian railway line for transportation, while the agricultural products in the east are exported through Zunhua. The transportation cost from dandong port in Liaodong to Hunchun in northeast Jilin is far lower than that from Yanbian.

in terms of foreign cooperation, although its influence has declined in recent years, Xiamen Port is also an important port city in the southeast coast of China. Especially with the strengthening of cross-strait exchanges, Xiamen has many foreign routes, while Qingdao Port faces South Korea and Japanese economic zones across the sea, making it convenient to communicate.

Although Hunchun has close geographical ties with North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia, it is far away in economic ties, because South Korea's economic zone is in the southwest and Japan's economic zone is in the southeast, so it is impossible to directly contact Hunchun. The cities that contact Hunchun are also underdeveloped areas in Japan and South Korea, and the economic foundation of North Korea is even weaker, and Russia is underdeveloped in the Far East. The external environment of Hunchun's foreign partners is far less good than that of Xiamen and Qingdao.

To sum up, Hunchun still has opportunities for development in the current period of rapid economic development in Northeast Asia, but if you want to be on a par with those big port cities in China, not to mention Qingdao and Xiamen, even several port cities in the Bohai Sea in Liaoning, such as Dalian, Yingkou and Panjin, can't compete, and the location and size are there!