A new starting point for Chengdemian

The center of the Wenchuan earthquake was the waist of the "Chengde-Mian Economic Belt", a prominent regional economy in the west, causing direct economic losses of more than 600 billion yuan. However, senior party and government officials in Chengdu said: "Chengdu's fundamentals as a 'Land of Abundance' and a city that you don't want to leave have not changed."

After experiencing a once-in-50-year drought in 2004 and a once-in-a-century drought in 2005, Floods in eastern Sichuan and a once-in-a-century drought in 2006. Sichuan, China’s “Land of Abundance” for more than 2,000 years, was deprived of tens of billions of wealth by consecutive years of floods and droughts in May 2008. At 14:28 on the 12th, a magnitude 8 Wenchuan earthquake roared.

The earth-shattering earthquake power spread out in a huge fan shape to the east, south, and north, tearing apart Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang, Aba, Guangyuan, Ya'an and other five cities with violent force, causing The Sichuan Basin earthquake affected an area of ??nearly 100,000 square kilometers, affecting more than 20 million people.

As of yesterday, 68,487 people have been killed in Sichuan Province, 18,627 people are missing, and more than 354,000 people have been injured. More than 7.5 million houses or buildings collapsed, and more than 7 million houses became dangerous buildings.

The earthquake changed the face of Sichuan's beautiful mountains and rivers, severely damaging "Chengde-Mian" (Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang), the bridgehead of the western development, located near 105 degrees east longitude. It also tested the local area people's determination and confidence to rebuild their homes.

"Chengde Mian": Sichuan's economic center

In 2007, with its economic growth rate of 14.2%, Sichuan Province took the lead in becoming the first GDP in the central and western regions to exceed 1 trillion. The province of Ozeki. The combined GDP of Sichuan Province and Chongqing City exceeds 1.5 trillion yuan.

In this region with an area of ??less than 40,000 square kilometers and a total population of nearly 20 million, the GDP of Chengdu, Deyang, and Mianyang last year reached 332.4 billion, 64.8 billion, and 67.3 billion yuan respectively. The total GDP of this region exceeds 464 billion yuan, accounting for about 46% of Sichuan Province’s GDP of 1,050.5 billion yuan last year.

In terms of urban characteristics and functional layout, Chengdu has long been the economic center, business center, financial center, tourist destination, communication and transportation hub in western China, and Deyang is the largest heavy machinery manufacturing company in China. One of the bases, it is also an important production base for phosphorus chemicals and other chemical industries as well as food and beverages. Mianyang has become the most important military industry and science and technology city in the west with the ratio of "one scientific and technological personnel for every four urban residents". Last year, Mianyang Science City contributed as much as 46 billion yuan of Mianyang’s total GDP of 67.3 billion yuan.

The most dazzling industrial representative of this dense economic belt is the "No. 1 Project" that the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have worked hard to build since 2001 - the electronic information industry belt. Currently, there are at least 20,000 IT companies engaged in electronic information, software and other service outsourcing industries in this economic zone.

Last year, against the background of the westward migration of domestic industries and investments, Sichuan's total social fixed asset investment exceeded 500 billion yuan, reaching 584.2 billion yuan, an increase of 29.1%.

At this year's People's Congress of Sichuan Province, Governor Jiang Jufeng also stated in his government work report that it is necessary to "ensure the added value and net profit growth of industries above designated size on Double 13" and "strengthen the "Expand the seven pillar industries of electronic information industry, equipment manufacturing industry, hydropower industry, steel, vanadium and titanium industry, natural gas, petrochemical and salt chemical industry, food industry, and pharmaceutical industry" and "continue to promote Chengdu High-tech Zone, Mianyang Science and Technology City, "Construction of a modern science and technology industry base for traditional Chinese medicine" and "Accelerating the construction of Deyang's major equipment manufacturing base".

Jiang Jufeng said at the time that he would continue to promote the "three tens of billions of projects", accelerate the development of Panzhihua Iron and Steel, Wuliangye, Changhong, Dongfang, Erzhong and other enterprises, grasp 115 key industrial projects, and strive to cultivate the Large enterprises and large groups with an output value of 10 billion.

However, the magnitude 8 earthquake caused Sichuan's important industries, which were densely distributed within the earthquake's attack range, to suffer unexpected heavy losses.

Direct losses in the three cities may exceed 620 billion

On May 22, a reporter from China Business News saw a picture by the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Surveying and Mapping at the Sichuan Provincial Earthquake Relief Headquarters. The damage map drawn by the Wenchuan earthquake clearly shows that within a 100-kilometer radius centered on Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, the epicenter of the earthquake, it includes the urban area of ??Chengdu and its two hardest-hit county-level cities, Dujiangyan City and Pengzhou City. , the two county-level cities of Mianzhu and Shifang in Deyang, Jiangyou City in Mianyang, and the three counties of Beichuan and Anxian and Hepingwu.

You must know that the county-level cities of Dujiangyan, Pengzhou, Mianzhu, Shifang and Jiangyou have long been among the top 10 or 20 of the 181 counties and districts in Sichuan's 21 cities and prefectures in terms of economic strength and population density. It plays an important benchmarking role in the county economy of Sichuan Province.

Earlier, experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences estimated that the direct economic losses caused by the earthquake in Sichuan were "less than the impact of the previous snowstorm, which was about 150 billion yuan." But now it looks like the situation is much worse.

So far, relevant parties in Sichuan Province have not released specific data on economic losses in the entire disaster area.

However, in the past 20 days, various departments and bureaus in Sichuan Province and various regions have continuously issued preliminary loss reports for relevant industries or regions. From these data, the public can still get a glimpse of the economic losses caused by this huge earthquake.

Some buildings of the Jiannanchun Winery located in Mianzhu City, Deyang, were severely damaged in the earthquake. The company's basic wine and aged wine suffered serious losses, with preliminary estimates of losses as high as 2.4 billion yuan; the local chemical industry Four branches of Lomon Group, a leading enterprise, were destroyed in one blow, with preliminary economic losses exceeding 1 billion yuan. In addition, Lomon Titanium, a subsidiary of Lomon Group, is a company planning to be listed, and its current losses are unknown.

Li Chengyun, Vice Governor of Sichuan Province, revealed earlier that as of May 25, 22,428 companies in Sichuan Province had been affected to varying degrees, with economic losses exceeding 200 billion yuan, 4,414 company employees killed, and 12,545 injured. .

According to data obtained by China Business News from the Sichuan Provincial Earthquake Relief Headquarters, the initial losses in Sichuan’s three core economic cities—Chengdu, Deyang, and Mianyang—are: 490,000 houses collapsed in Chengdu During the disaster, 729 industrial and mining enterprises were affected, 54 reservoirs and 36 hydropower stations were damaged, and some natural and cultural landscapes and important cultural relics were damaged in Dujiangyan City and other places. The disaster-stricken population in Chengdu was 2.904 million, and direct economic losses were 95.84 billion yuan.

In Deyang, nearly 10 million houses were damaged and 2.7 million collapsed. More than 1,400 industrial enterprises were affected. More than 1 million pieces of machinery were lost. Industrial and mining enterprises suffered direct losses of 54 billion yuan, of which Mianzhu's Industry was almost completely paralyzed. Preliminary estimates of direct economic losses in Deyang amounted to 280 billion yuan, which was 4.3 times the city's GDP last year. In addition, direct losses to urban and rural infrastructure reached 102.25 billion yuan.

The losses in Mianyang were also heavy. According to data provided by the Mianyang Municipal Government, 27 million square meters of houses collapsed in the city, resulting in 35.59 million square meters of dangerous buildings. 1,170 enterprises were affected, and 8 hydropower stations were damaged. Mianyang's direct economic losses reached 234.15 billion yuan, 3.5 times the city's GDP last year. In addition, urban and rural infrastructure suffered a direct loss of 78.85 billion yuan.

It can be estimated from the above data that the direct economic losses in the "Chengde-Mian" area alone have exceeded 620 billion yuan. The combined direct economic losses of the other two hardest-hit cities and prefectures, Guangyuan and Aba, have exceeded 170 billion yuan.

In terms of industry, the latest data from the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Bureau shows that in the Wenchuan earthquake, 568 of more than 4,000 tourist attractions in Sichuan Province were damaged, with preliminary losses exceeding 60 billion; transportation infrastructure losses On the other hand, the data from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Transportation is temporarily 58 billion yuan; in the agricultural field, the earthquake caused damage to 3.396 million acres of crops in Sichuan Province, including 1.7418 million acres of food crops, and 40,000 acres of rice seed production bases could not be planted on time due to lack of water. Due to the damage of some cultivated land and irrigation and water conservancy facilities, about 1 million acres of rice fields in the province will be converted to dry farming. Earlier news from Sichuan's water conservancy, animal husbandry and forestry departments also showed that the losses in these fields were also in the tens of billions.

A "whirlwind meeting" with senior party and government officials in Chengdu

The strong earthquake may have an impact on Chengdu, the "National Coordination of Urban and Rural Comprehensive Supporting Reform Experimental Zone" in the short term.

Previously, Chengdu’s plan was to use the concept of “Whole Chengdu” to improve the integrated urban and rural planning before 2017, and gradually form “one district (Chengdu urban area) and two belts (Longmen Mountains and Longquan). The overall development pattern of "Mountain Ecological Tourism Development Belt" will build Chengdu into an important high-tech industrial base, modern manufacturing base, modern service industry base and modern agricultural base in China, while "ensuring that Chengdu will become the best entrepreneurial environment in the central and western regions , a modern mega-central city with the best living environment and the strongest comprehensive strength.”

Sun Ping, member of the Standing Committee of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor, said when releasing the above news in September last year that Chengdu strives to exceed one trillion yuan in regional GDP by 2017 and double the level in 2006. twice; the per capita regional output value reached 82,000 yuan; and the full-scale fiscal revenue exceeded 300 billion yuan.

After this earthquake disaster, the Counselor’s Office of the Chengdu Municipal Government bluntly stated in a document: “We should re-understand the provincial and municipal conditions, strengthen the awareness of danger, and readjust the development of our city on this basis. Strategy, urban and rural construction planning and industrial structure", "Our city should look for new opportunities from this earthquake disaster, and use this as an opportunity to re-examine relevant development plans, focus on urban and rural coordination and urban characteristics, and comprehensively rebuild from a higher starting point ".

Chengdu understands this. Starting last week, the official website of the city government has swept away the huge haze caused by the earthquake disaster in recent days, faded away the tragic background of white gray, and began to publish news and government information with a "normal" face.

As early as May 25, Mao Zhixiong, assistant to the mayor of Chengdu, secretary-general of the municipal government, and spokesman, gave a nationwide live broadcast on the earthquake relief situation in Chengdu. He said that currently, except for Dujiangyan, the city Outside the hardest-hit areas of Pengzhou City and Pengzhou City, production and living order are normal, and citizens' emotions are stable. "The fundamentals of the healthy and rapid economic and social development of Chengdu have not changed. The fundamentals of Chengdu's living environment, entrepreneurial environment, and comprehensive competitiveness have not changed. Chengdu's fundamentals of healthy and rapid economic and social development have not changed. The fundamentals of being a 'Land of Abundance', a city that you don't want to leave once you come here, have not changed."

This statement was initially confirmed by a series of actions in which Chengdu party and government leaders intensively met with executives of domestic and foreign companies and consortiums:

On the 22nd, Tencent and Chengdu High-tech The district signed an investment cooperation agreement and will invest 550 million yuan to establish a research and development center, data processing center and customer service center in Chengdu. Chengdu Mayor Ge Honglin met with Chen Yidan, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Tencent;

On the 27th, Li Chuncheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, met with Guo Kongcheng, Chairman of Kerry Holdings Limited, and his delegation;

On the 28th, the Ministry of Railways and the Chengdu Municipal Government formally signed an agreement in Chengdu on accelerating the construction of railways in Chengdu. They will jointly build the Chengdu-Dujiangyan express passenger railway, the Chengdu new passenger station, and the Chengdu freight train station. Winding and other related supporting facilities. Sichuan Provincial Party Committee Secretary Liu Qibao attended the signing ceremony, and Chengdu Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Chuncheng attended the meeting and delivered a speech at the ceremony;

On the afternoon of the same day, IBM Greater China Chairman Zhou Weikun met with Chengdu Mayor Ge Honglin;

On the afternoon of the same day, the Chengdu Municipal Government convened a symposium with the heads of 20 well-known real estate companies, including Blu-ray, Zhixin, Holida, Vanke, China Overseas, China Resources, Fantasia, Qili, Evergrande, and China Real Estate. Ge Honglin attended and Speech;

On the same day, Tang Chuanping, deputy secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, went to the Qingbaijiang Industrial Concentrated Development Zone to investigate the post-disaster production and development of foreign-funded enterprises, and met with Zhang Fafa, Chairman of HSC, a large Lebanese multinational company, and Radwan, President of HSC. Casa talks;

On the evening of the same day, China National Building Materials Corporation decided to invest 4 billion yuan in Chengdu to build a lightweight housing industry base and a new dry-process cement project, and invested an additional 3 billion yuan to build China's largest fiberglass production base. Li Chuncheng and Ge Honglin both met with Song Zhiping, chairman of China National Building Materials Group, and his delegation;

On the evening of the 29th, Li Chuncheng met with Cui Taiyuan, chairman of South Korea's SK Group, and his delegation;

On the 30th, Li Chuncheng and Ge Honglin appeared on the same occasion at the same time - at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Chengdu International Trade City with a total investment of 8 billion yuan, the first major commercial project launched after the disaster in Chengdu;

That night, Ge Honglin was busy in the midst of his busy schedule Met with Zhang Xuewu, Chairman of Hong Kong China Travel Service Group, and his delegation...

Li Chuncheng and Ge Honglin both made a sound on the above-mentioned occasions: "The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the true love is revealed in need." Chengdu will face after the disaster With the opportunity of large-scale construction and development, the Chengdu Plain will be safer after the earthquake, and the livable brand will be more prominent. Consumer demand, including real estate, will be greatly stimulated. Chengdu, as a central and western region business and trade The position of the center will also be further consolidated.

On May 27, Chengdu held a working conference on "focusing on earthquake relief with one hand and economic development with the other". Tang Chuanping, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, said at the meeting that the next step for Chengdu is to fully grasp major projects and do a good job in project promotion, project introduction and project reserve. This is the top priority in rebuilding Chengdu.

The gradual resumption of production of Chengdu enterprises is inseparable from the efforts of Chengdu’s party and government leaders to organize economic reconstruction. Chengdu’s 20 districts and counties, including Dujiangyan City and Pengzhou City, are ushering in a new era after the earthquake. order.

According to information learned from the Chengdu Earthquake Relief Headquarters as of yesterday by China Business News, all major primary and secondary schools in Chengdu have resumed classes normally, and government agencies, enterprises and institutions have fully resumed their classes. After work, the operating rate of enterprises above designated size in Chengdu has exceeded 95%, and enterprises in lightly affected areas that have passed safety consultation assessments have all resumed production. The headquarters stated: "Strive to achieve an operating rate of over 70% in the hardest-hit areas within one month, over 90% within two months, and to basically resume production within three months."

In the hardest-hit area of ??Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Municipal Government has targeted In response to the collapse of houses in the earthquake, the Chengdu Municipal People's Government issued the "Opinions of the Chengdu Municipal People's Government on Doing a Good Job in the Disaster Relief and Resettlement of Urban Residential Housing in Dujiangyan City" (Chengfufa [2008] No. 38).

The document states: “House owners or their legal heirs and directly managed public housing tenants whose houses collapsed or were seriously damaged during the earthquake and are determined by the housing safety management department to be unable to continue to use them may apply for physical housing. After review and approval, the government will provide relief and resettlement housing with a construction area of ??70 square meters to each disaster-stricken household. If the per capita housing area of ??the household is less than 16 square meters after the government provides assistance and resettlement housing with a construction area of ??70 square meters, the government can provide relief and resettlement housing with a construction area of ??70 square meters. If the per capita assistance is 16 square meters, Party B can also be provided with monetary assistance of 2,000 yuan per square meter to make up for the shortfall. "

If the victims without housing apply for monetary assistance, "after review and approval, the government will provide assistance according to the amount. The construction area of ??the resettlement house is 70 square meters, and the price is 2,000 yuan per square meter. A total of 140,000 yuan will be given as monetary assistance. If the per capita housing area is less than 16 square meters after the rescue, monetary assistance will be given based on 16 square meters per person and 2,000 yuan per square meter." .

In addition, Dujiangyan and Pengzhou City have also determined the resettlement, housing and employment methods for the rural population in accordance with the relevant spirit of the State Council: In Qingcheng Mountain in Dujiangyan, Chengdu's largest area covers an area of ??600 acres and can accommodate 15,000 to 22,000 people. A centralized resettlement community housing 10,000 people has been selected to begin construction; the Pengzhou Municipal Employment Bureau has also collected more than 12,000 jobs to provide employment assistance.

Using post-disaster urban marketing to promote investment

The Chengdu Investment Promotion Committee stated yesterday that although the city’s investment promotion work was affected to a certain extent by the earthquake, the fundamentals of Chengdu’s investment environment If there is no fundamental impact, we will fully complete the annual investment target in accordance with the requirement of “unreduced targets and strive to exceed targets”.

The committee stated that starting this week, the Municipal Investment Promotion Committee has been sent to key areas such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Bohai Rim to follow up and promote projects under discussion and vigorously publicize the Chengdu Post-Disaster Reconstruction Institute It will bring investment opportunities, and at the same time draw on the successful experience of urban marketing after major disasters at home and abroad, and strive to transform Chengdu's "high awareness" after the earthquake disaster into a new positive image.

On May 14th and 26th, the Chengdu Municipal Government had signed loan and financing cooperation agreements related to post-disaster reconstruction in Chengdu with the China Development Bank, the Provincial Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Industrial Bank respectively, involving an amount of up to 46.2 billion yuan. Chengdu stated that these loans will be mainly used for the construction of houses, roads, bridges and other infrastructure in the city's disaster areas, "which will lay a solid financial foundation for Chengdu's post-disaster reconstruction."