Shandong city is becoming the top stream of this year's "May Day" tour.

As of April 11, Qingdao, Weihai, Jinan and Yantai have been on the TOP 21 of the National Accommodation Booking on May 1, and Zibo, which was caught on fire by barbecue, is even more fierce, with the number of accommodation bookings increasing by 811% compared with 2119.

netizens joked that Zibo barbecue will become a new barbecue school after Xinjiang barbecue and Northeast barbecue.

Such a huge volume of sound makes Zhejiang, which is eager for food to go out of the circle, envious. The local propaganda department even issued a document to analyze and overtake the brand influence in a short time. Zibo barbecue is worth learning.

"These online explosions seem to be accidental, but there is no lack of efforts from the local government and society." Dong Yanling, dean and professor of the Institute of Regional Economics of Shandong University of Finance and Economics, analyzed Uncle Cheng, which not only has the industrial value and tourism value of barbecue itself, but also greatly promotes the regional brand and city popularity.

On the other hand, this old industrial base with a century-old industrial history has been "neglected" for a long time, and it is still facing the dilemma of backward economic ranking and negative population growth in the province. Can Zibo take this opportunity to strike while the iron is hot and break through the bottleneck?

It is hard for even local people to think that Zibo, which has few tourism resources, can become a "online celebrity City".

there is nothing special about barbecue, and there is nothing special about green onions. However, when tourists pick up two greasy kebabs, wrap them in dipping sauce and spread them on a small cake, then drag the small cake with their palms, and sprinkle a section of green onion leaves, raising their hands to raise a roll, it becomes a unique "Zibo barbecue".

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What is the secret of Zibo's "artificial business card"?

Zhejiang propaganda summed it up as "Zibo BBQ has gone out of the differentiated route-the soul eating method of" skewers+cookies+shallots ",and the unique ritual sense of" one table, one furnace and one burrito "in the external image made Zibo BBQ give people a strong visual impact.

the reason why Zhejiang is so studious is actually not difficult to understand, that is, to "liven up" consumption, enrich the fireworks, and provide "gourmet" power for social and economic recovery.

at the end of last month, the Ministry of industry and information technology and other 11 departments jointly issued the "guiding opinions on cultivating traditional superior food producing areas and local characteristic food industries", proposing to actively embed local characteristic food consumption elements into consumption scenes and carriers such as night economy, characteristic catering gathering areas and large-scale commercial complexes.

This is not difficult for Zhejiang, which has been ridiculed as a "gourmet desert". Before the above-mentioned guidance was issued, Zhejiang had organized a delegation to study in Jiangxi and Hunan, mainly to study the articles on how others do it when eating, and to study how brother provinces do food promotion.

Zhejiang will not let go of the delicious food that "turned out to be born".

Public comment data shows that since March, the search volume of local "barbecue" keywords in Zibo has increased by over 371% compared with last year; The search volume of the keyword "Zibo BBQ" on the whole platform increased by over 771% year-on-year.

From holding a press conference for the society, setting up the Zibo Barbecue Association, and announcing the celebration of the barbecue festival, to opening a "barbecue train" and 21 barbecue lines in the city, and drawing up a barbecue map, Zibo struck while the iron was hot, which made the barbecue in Zibo hot.

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In the current Internet age, every city has the opportunity of "fire", but few people can catch up with it.

"Good wind relies on power, and the government should use the power of the market and the power of the network to form a benign interaction." Dong Yanling believes that the sustainability of Zibo barbecue depends on many factors, but from the government level, it will play a very good role in cultivating the affinity of the city, even attracting investment and attracting talents.

At the 2123 Shandong Tourism Development Conference held not long ago, Ma Xiaolei, secretary of the Zibo Municipal Party Committee, said that in the next step, Zibo will enhance the supply of "eating, living, traveling, buying and entertaining" in the whole chain, and strive to make the "temporary phenomenon" a "one-city brand", launch more high-quality cultural tourism products, and create more excellent cultural tourism IP, so that tourists can enjoy themselves, enjoy themselves, eat happily and live comfortably.

Before the explosion, Zibo was silent for a long time.

More than ten years ago, in the Internet era when social media was not developed, an article entitled "Zibo: Standing on the Edge of Marginalization" caused a sensation in the local area.

It is mentioned in the article that the area code of Zibo is 1533; Zibo's license plate number is Lu C ... Zibo's economic strength was the third highest in Shandong until the mid-1991s, but it has been declining since then.

data show that in 2111, Zibo's GDP was 286.6 billion yuan, ranking fifth in Shandong, followed by Jining's GDP of 255 billion yuan. In 2119, Zibo's economic aggregate has been overtaken by Linyi and Jining, and dropped to the seventh place in Shandong.

in p>2122, Zibo's GDP was 441.26 billion yuan, and the gap with Linyi and Jining widened to 137.59 billion yuan and 91.43 billion yuan. At the same time, the resident population at the end of the year was 4,715,911, a decrease of 2,911, which was the third negative population growth after 2118 and 2119.

the elimination of backward production capacity is the direct cause of shrinking GDP data.

As the only city in China that covers three types: resource-exhausted cities, independent industrial and mining areas and old industrial bases, the proportion of traditional industries in Zibo has reached 71% in a long period of time, and the heavy chemical industry has accounted for 71% of the traditional industries.

At the beginning of p>2121, local officials pointed out that Zibo's industry started early, and it was a big city of traditional industries, but this "big" was the big of traditional industries and the "big" of low-end industries. There are nearly 31,111 industrial products in the city, more than 71% of which belong to upstream products, primary processing products and intermediate products. There are many backward production capacities in industries such as building ceramics, chemicals, steel and mining, which not only have poor benefits and low contribution, but also occupy the space for new kinetic energy.

According to statistics, in recent years, Zibo has withdrawn from the steel production capacity by 8.8 million tons, reduced the cement production capacity by 8 million tons, and reduced the building ceramics production capacity by 71%, and the steel and coking industries have been fully cleared. In the past two years, the city's energy consumption per 11,111 yuan GDP has been continuously reduced by about 6%, and the consumption of raw coal has been reduced by 1 million tons ... < P > However, even so, the total economic output of Zibo's chemical industry still accounts for nearly 41% of the total industrial economy in Zibo, and it is still the first pillar industry in the city.

In Dong Yanling's view, there is a problem of "partial emphasis" in Shandong's industrial structure, and Zibo accounts for both. Affected by factors such as pollution control and energy consumption reduction, its industrial transformation has been under great pressure. In this process, the new competitive advantage has not yet taken root, while the traditional advantageous industries are facing greater constraints, and the whole is still in the process of "nirvana".

"Zibo BBQ" is regarded as the efforts of this century-old industrial city to save itself.

Dong Yanling pointed out that it is very important for a city to wake up and look for opportunities in times of crisis to save itself. As an industrial city dominated by petrochemicals, it needs to rebuild its competitiveness in the process of transformation.

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For Zibo, the "traffic entrance" opened by barbecue is a new opportunity. According to the analysis of Zibo Municipal Political Consultative Conference, the vitality of "Zibo Barbecue", a cultural tourism IP, is not only to create a gourmet brand, but also to update the image of the city and drive the local industry to change.

It's like a well-known up owner randomly taking to the streets and visiting 11 vendors, and none of them are short of money. This is in sharp contrast to the stereotype that online celebrity restaurants are prone to "stepping on thunder" and "overturning", which greatly strengthens the brand influence and identification of Zibo's "sincerity".

It is also of great benefit for Zibo to further compete for consumer goods such as pre-cooked vegetables.

According to the Opinions on Supporting the High-quality Development of the Pre-cooked Food Industry issued by the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Zibo is actively cultivating the "China Ziwei" high-end pre-cooked food brand, speeding up the molding into a 111-billion-level industrial cluster, and building a highland for the development of the pre-cooked food industry in northern China.

more importantly, the new "traffic entrance" also brings new opportunities for local industrial upgrading, especially for recruiting talents and attracting talents.

in recent years, while Zibo is pushing traditional industries such as chemical industry to the middle and high end of the value chain, emerging industries such as big data and new materials are developing rapidly, and the relative lack of high-end talents has become a prominent constraint for industrial transformation.

for example, under the background of "Zibo", there is a strong demand for talents in its "top four" industries (new materials, intelligent equipment, new medicine and electronic information) and new economic fields.

At the same time that "Zibo Barbecue" went out of the circle, Zibo's all-round talent introduction activities were quietly carried out.

A few days ago, the Zibo Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security issued a document "Eating Barbecues in Zibo and These Benefits", which introduced Zibo's talent policies such as "51 financial policies for talents" and "26 skills for developing the country", and employment policies such as intelligent human resources market, "live broadcast with posts" and "employment experience day" for college students.

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At the same time, Zibo also held the third "111 Colleges and Universities Entering Zibo" and the "Technology-Employment Promotion Negotiation", which attracted the relevant leaders of 81 colleges and universities inside and outside the province to attend on the spot. "Many leaders said that Zibo wanted to see it."

this in itself is the embodiment of the continuation of Zibo's "flow" effect. Ma Xiaolei, secretary of Zibo Municipal Party Committee, is at the event.