The author Xu Zhiyong has read it 33 times.
Feel Xiamen
Xiamen, a changeable city, always gives people a lot of dreams, so that people who yearn for it can fly infinitely freely; Blue sky makes people who love it emotionally happy and mature. The most exciting thing is that I can bathe in the spring breeze of reform and realize some of my dreams here. I failed in the college entrance examination, secretly carrying my bag and the tuition fee my mother gave me to repeat. I boarded the train in Xiamen. When I came to Xiamen, I immediately fell in love with this place. August 2, 2008, I will always remember this day. My first job in Xiamen was as an assembler in an electronics company. How excited I am to think that I can work in a company to earn money in such a good environment!
A spring has come, bright flowers and thick green make me stretch my heart! I'm early. Come to the library calmly, sit by the window, light the lamp and take out a book at will. I came across the book Struggle for a Well-off Society. Fortunately, I opened its title page in a quiet atmosphere. What kind of attraction does it have? It opens a magical window for a person who longs to embrace eternity with limited life, just like a window opened by a spring breeze, penetrating a bunch of pure truth. I bathe in the spring breeze and listen to it tell my heart. Because I found myself in this book-my role, my position. What else did I find?
Through the black and white vertical and horizontal lines, the photos of spring come to my face. Relevant financial data, convincing drawings and vigorous actions. At that moment, I saw poetry, I saw painting, I saw the miracle of interpreting poetry and painting ... I held this book in my chest. What day is it today? Why do I see life so tall and wonderful? Wandering in the streets of Gulangyu Island, it is clean and quiet, with fresh air. Rows of small red tile houses are hidden in lush forests, and all kinds of flowers are colorful. The peaks of Sunlight Rock pierce the sky, and flocks of seagulls fly from time to time, forming a beautiful and charming picture.
The breeze blew, the lake rippled like scales, and flocks of egrets leisurely foraged in the sun. People have the urge to touch. Do you remember that a few days ago, the comprehensive renovation project of Yaodang Lake officially passed the acceptance, and the third comprehensive renovation of Yaodang Lake was also the largest and most thorough renovation of Yaodang Lake in Xiamen history. It is estimated that the renovation will consume a lot of financial resources, which will benefit not only the surrounding residents, but also Xiamen as a whole. Yaodang Lake in Xiamen is comparable to West Lake in Hangzhou. Here is the iconic sculpture of Xiamen, the goddess of egrets, which symbolizes Xiamen soaring like an egret. There is a music fountain square with an area of 1.200 square meters, and the spray column is more than 30 meters high. There are three kinds of performances: fixed modeling, real-time voice control and music programming. What's even more amazing is that there is a garden gate named "Sword Gate", which is composed of marble sculptures and divided into two groups: the southern group is marked by the phoenix totem, which embodies female beauty, and the basic prototypes are the facial makeup of Phoenix, Phoenix Wings, Bao Gong, Go, Bamboo Tube, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Compass and other northern groups are marked by the dragon totem, which embodies masculinity. The basic prototypes are facial makeup of Dragon, Longlin and Guan Gong, swords, bamboo tubes, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze mirrors. These two groups contain a large number of national symbols, showing the complementarity of yin and yang, both civil and military. The meaning of "Sword Gate" comes from Wei Zhi's advice to Emperor Taizong, "Take copper as a mirror, dress properly, learn from history, learn from rise and fall, learn from others and learn from gains and losses". A good "sword gate" can often make tourists think deeply.
Moonlit Night is even more colorful, with Bailuzhou as the main body, the People's Hall as the center, cultural relics and natural history as the background, high-rise buildings on both sides of the lake as the lining, Xianyue Mountain as the obstacle, countless banded and blocky parks and forest belts around it as the paintings, sculptures, flowers, tides and egrets as the embellishment, and the trend of the times and fashion as the trend. When the lights are on, if you walk on the grass by the lake and look around, neon lights flash, lights flow, and the shadows of buildings and lakes shine, making you feel like you are in a fairyland; When the night is getting deeper and deeper, if you walk along the path by the lake, there are many people in the dark places, whispering in the waves, which makes people feel nostalgic; If you are still sitting by the lake when the moon buds are setting in the west, and the lake is shining with fire trees and silver flowers, colorful exercises and sunshine, so that you can enjoy the fruits of modern civilization, everyone will think that the night is really beautiful! Don't forget the financial support for the night scene optimization and adjustment project around Yundang Lake.
Looking at the fishing fire, I thought: the sunshine of public finance is sprinkled on Yaodang Lake, and the people of Xiamen are so happy. One day, the sunshine of public finance will be sprinkled in every corner of Xiamen; Your value lies in continuity, your contribution lies in the present, and your income lies in the future; To feel Xiamen is to feel beauty. To feel Xiamen is to feel the fruitful results of finance. To feel Xiamen is to feel a bright future.
Xiamen is an island. Where people want to live.
Because of the seaside, it is so natural that "a city is like a flower, half leaning on a stone, and thousands of green leaves embrace the sea". Compared with the youth when I first met more than ten years ago, I revisited my old place at the end of 201/and the 30-year-old Xiamen Special Zone has grown into a slim woman: a flowery face, a mature figure, exquisite costumes, elegant demeanor and romantic mood. The most rare thing is that her thoughts are maturing. This makes her worthy of a beautiful vocabulary. The local people describe this change as follows: Since the establishment of the Special Zone, Xiamen has changed from the frontier of cross-strait confrontation to the frontier platform of cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, from a small island town in the southeast to a central city on the west side of the Taiwan Strait, and from a tiny place of backwardness to a civilized and harmonious beautiful homeland.
Being a journalist for nearly 20 years, I have been to many cities all over the world. Few cities let me praise them so unreservedly, and only a few have the desire to settle down. What is the charm of Xiamen? During the week of interview here, I often stood in front of the collapsed Lujiang Hotel and looked at the traffic downstairs or Gulangyu Island opposite, thinking about the answer to this question. At night, just like ordinary tourists or local citizens, walk in the shade of Binhai Avenue, smell the fragrance of bauhinia or bougainvillea floating in the air, blow the humid sea breeze and enjoy the warmth and leisure of winter without ice and snow. Occasionally, you can look up and see colorful ferries and Gulangyu Island, and there is a beautiful sleeping position opposite. This legendary island full of exotic customs, wealth and cultural characteristics has even surpassed Xiamen Island in its reputation.
Happy are those who can live here poetically.
Does her beautiful appearance appeal to me? From the outside, Xiamen is indeed a garden city. Her greening is comparable to that of the best city in the world. Urban architectural planning is far-sighted, with distinctive personality and strong local style, which is different from those places with thousands of cities in China. The street is clean and there is grass everywhere. It is not surprising when she has the title of "the most beautiful" such as the most beautiful coastal avenue and the most beautiful university campus in China (Xiamen University).
Is her citizen mature, enthusiastic and not exclusive? Xiamen citizens dress neatly and fashionably, and behave calmly and courteously. It is difficult to see the difference between migrant workers and locals in streets and commercial pedestrian streets. This makes everyone feel comfortable, whether tourists or citizens. Walking on the streets of Xiamen, I often have the illusion that I am in Singapore.
The most amazing thing is that her civic spirit is thriving, which is one of the most important signs of her maturity. The PX project originally scheduled to start in 2006 failed to settle in Xiamen, which is the best embodiment of the civic spirit. Xiamen citizens love their homes, actively participate in public affairs, can choose a rational way, express their wishes clearly and firmly, and the project will eventually go abroad. Xiamen local government and citizens from the game to compromise, and then to full cooperation, has become a classic example of interaction between the government and the people.
These are the reasons why people are willing to settle down, but not all of them.
After the interview, I continued to look for answers in a large number of interview materials, trying to find some clues from her various honors. Over the past 30 years, Xiamen has successively won the honorary titles of National Civilized City, UN Habitat Award, International Garden City, National Sanitary City, China Excellent Tourist City, National Model City for Environmental Protection and National Excellent City for Comprehensive Management of Social Security. A recent honor is that in the recently published Comprehensive Evaluation Report on Urban Development of China (20 1 1), Xiamen ranks first among the 20 "Scientific Development Demonstration Cities".
Through the different aspects reflected by these honors, the source of Xiamen's charm should be that Xiamen Special Economic Zone has made positive contributions to exploring the scientific development model of stable production, rich and healthy life and beautiful ecology in the past 30 years, and has been at the forefront of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's practice. Compared with other special economic zones, the most striking feature of Xiamen's 30-year development is the coordination of development: the coordination of development speed and quality and benefit, the coordination of economic construction and social development, the coordination of urban development and all-round development of people, and the coordination of economic construction and ecological protection.
Among these causes of charm, Xiamen attaches great importance to people's all-round development. In the words of Yu Weiguo, secretary of Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, the free and all-round development of human beings is the highest value orientation of social progress, and efforts should be made to improve the quality of citizens and the degree of urban civilization closely around human development. In terms of people-oriented, Xiamen has many remarkable places: it took the lead in establishing social security systems such as minimum wage, minimum living security line and basic medical insurance for rural residents, and took the lead in implementing industrial injury, medical care and old-age insurance for migrant workers. The first "love supermarket" became "let the recipients get decent and good governance". Emphasizing ecological construction, after obtaining local legislative power, we first formulated environmental protection regulations, successively issued nearly 20 local laws and regulations related to ecology, and formulated the first "ecological civilization index system" in China, which made Xiamen's environmental quality not decline despite the sharp increase of industrial projects.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the politicians in Xiamen know that reform and development are for the people, rely on the people, and strive to realize, safeguard and develop the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, so that reform and development have always been supported and supported by the people and gained a broad and profound mass base. They insist on reform measures involving the vital interests of the masses, from administrative division adjustment to bus fare adjustment, and solicit opinions from the masses extensively. At the same time, take the lead in opening to the public to attend the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress and the Standing Committee of the Municipal Government, and constantly expand citizens' orderly political participation. Under this concept, Xiamen won the title of "National Civilized City" for three consecutive years, and was called "the warmest city" in China. In China, I'm afraid it's only in such a city that people don't agree that investment projects can't land.
"Let the residents have a decent home in a healthy environment"-the comment given to Xiamen by the UN Habitat Award is indeed the most accurate annotation of Xiamen's charm. And this is precisely the pursuit of happiness that everyone will have. Xiamen, 30, is standing at a new starting point, taking the opportunity of the expansion of the special zone to the whole city last year, and vigorously promoting the integration inside and outside the island in accordance with the requirements of "planning, infrastructure construction, basic public services" and "three integrations". The measures of island promotion, cross-island development, global integration and prosperity in the same city will expand the urban pattern from the "fist" within an island to the "palm" of the whole city, truly build a global special zone, and then promote the integration of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou into the same city, and finally realize the strategic goal of "five Xiamen", that is, to build innovative Xiamen, livable Xiamen, safe Xiamen, civilized Xiamen and happy Xiamen.
A "Greater Xiamen" of the global special zone has taken shape, and the happiness that permeates the air on the island is spreading to the outside of the island.