In the 1980s, Shandong's economy has been lagging behind that of Jiangsu. Jinan, the provincial capital, seems to be more like a medium-sized city in Jiangsu; Jiaodong Peninsula is not as lively as the Yangtze River Delta-six of the top ten counties in the country are in southern Jiangsu; Lunan always gives the impression that red dates in Yimeng Mountain can't sell anything else. In the early 1990s, starting from Jiang Chunyun, Shandong aimed to catch up with Jiangsu. Since then, successive leaders in Shandong have not slacked off, one after another, trying their best to catch up with Jiangsu. I can't remember who was appointed as the secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, a figure that Shandong people should always remember. He set a very specific goal of catching up with Jiangsu: cities in Shandong and cities in Jiangsu will fight one by one and catch up one by one. Jinan-Nanjing, Qingdao-Suzhou, Weihai-Wuxi, Jining-Xuzhou, Rizhao-Lianyungang, Linyi-Huaiyin. . . . And so on. The pacesetter is in front, and the pursuer is behind. At that time, Mr. Chen, the secretary of jiangsu provincial party committee, had no education, but he needed political achievements very much, so he kept giving southern Jiangsu a small stove, because southern Jiangsu was the facade of Jiangsu. Invest 6.5438+0 million yuan in southern Jiangsu, and Sunan people will pay you back 6.5438+0 million yuan; You invested 6,543.8+million yuan in northern Jiangsu, and Su Beiren paid you back 6,543.8+million yuan in debt. Who doesn't want to make the good better? So Subei is a third-class citizen of Jiangsu. Anyway, the reported figure is the total amount of Jiangsu Province, not a certain region. When Jiangsu holds high the "banner of township enterprises" and promotes the southern Jiangsu model-when the boat comes to the bridge, the mega-enterprises in Shandong are surging-Haier, Hisense, Tsingtao, Linyi's small commodity market, Jining's largest enterprise "nameless beer" is sold to Yanjing, and the cities in Shandong are becoming stronger one by one. In the process of urbanization, Shandong people didn't say anything, but they were doing it in a down-to-earth manner. When Hui Liangyu, secretary of Anhui Provincial Party Committee, was transferred to Jiangsu, both Shandong in the north and Zhejiang in the south were seeking a breakthrough in institutional mechanisms and vigorously developing the private economy. All the municipal industries in Zhucheng (county-level cities) in Shandong Province are sold out, and the secretary of the municipal party committee is called "Chen sold out". Not to mention Zhejiang. Obviously, the road taken by Jiangsu in recent years lacks long-term strategy and obviously has no confidence in the development process. Hui Liangyu said: The sustainable development of Jiangsu lies in the process of urbanization, and the future of Jiangsu lies in the rise of northern Jiangsu. Without the well-off society in northern Jiangsu, there will be no well-off society in the whole province, and without the modernization in northern Jiangsu, there will be no modernization in the whole province. He called people of insight from all over the country to discuss Jiangsu's development plan. A researcher from the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences told Hui Liangyu: We once reported a proposal about urbanization to the provincial party committee, but Mr. Chen was not interested. Great, this is the same suggestion. We'll give it all to you. Hui Liangyu divided the development of urbanization in Jiangsu into three metropolitan areas (Nanjing Metropolitan Area, Suzhou Metropolitan Area and Xuzhou Metropolitan Area) and four mega cities (Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi and Xuzhou), completely abandoning the original development idea of "countryside surrounding cities" and adopting the strategy that cities drive rural areas and metropolitan areas radiate the surrounding areas. The whole province is United, and the whole country is United. Hui Liangyu was transferred to the Central Committee, and the new party secretary is Li Yuanchao. This man originally came down from the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League to Nanjing as the party secretary. His hometown is Lianshui, the poorest county in Jiangsu Province. I can't tell whether it's Subei complex or foresight. In a word, Li Yuanchao, a young league cadre, knows Jiangsu like the back of his hand. His strategy is to divide Jiangsu into three economic zones: southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu. When Sunan grows up, it can fend for itself; Suzhong is close to southern Jiangsu and has made continuous progress in recent years; Only northern Jiangsu is the most pitiful. Many places in northern Jiangsu have left Li Yuanchao's footprints. If someone makes statistics, they will find that the number of trips to northern Jiangsu in one year is more than that of Mr. Chen in five years. Xinyi is a county-level city in Xuzhou. When Li Yuanchao came to Xinyi, he first listened to the report of Xinyi's party secretary. Besides Xinyi's position and role in the development of northern Jiangsu and even the whole province, everything in industry, agriculture, commerce and service industry was reported (in fact, it is difficult for the party secretary, so how can you observe Secretary Li's mind? Li said that with the development of northern Jiangsu, Donglonghai is a natural economic belt connecting Lianyungang, an international port in the east, and Xuzhou, a metropolis in the west. There is a Xinyi in the middle, and the three cities are connected together, and the whole northern Jiangsu will live. To develop the East Longhai Industrial Belt, we must do a good job! Back in Nanjing, Li went to the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee and asked Xinyi not to distribute cadres from Xuzhou, but to directly select cadres from county-level cadres in southern Jiangsu. "It doesn't matter if the cadres in southern Jiangsu don't want to go, give him a standing committee member of Xuzhou Municipal Committee". Soon, a district party secretary from Suzhou came to Xinyi. According to Li's thinking, Xinyi should be the third largest city and the third largest industrial city in East Longhai. This poses a problem for Pizhou, Xinyi's western neighbor (a county-level city under Xuzhou), because Pizhou's economy has developed rapidly in recent years and it is desperately catching up (the plate processing is famous all over the country, and Pizhou's plate factory sneezes, and the national home improvement market will catch a cold), which has surpassed Xinyi. Is it true that the third largest city in East Longhai must be Xinyi? Let's have a fight, too We'll see! This is only a small example in the development of northern Jiangsu, but people can see that northern Jiangsu is catching up! Jiangsu has not forgotten her most bitter child! Up to now, the comparison between Shandong and Jiangsu cities: Jinan lags behind Nanjing and seems to be unable to catch up in a short time; The total amount of Qingdao is not as good as that of Suzhou, but Suzhou relies almost entirely on foreign capital; Wuxi surpasses Weihai; Rizhao has left Lianyungang behind; Compared with Xuzhou, although the economic aggregate of Xuzhou is a little more than that of Jining, the disposable part of fiscal revenue is 700 million more than that of Xuzhou. As the boss of Huaihai Economic Zone, Xuzhou is in a weak position. It has long been heard that Rizhao competed with Lianyungang several years ago for who is the east bridgehead of the Eurasian Continental Bridge. I recently heard that Jining is organizing experts to demonstrate that Jining is the central city of Huaihai Economic Zone. It can be seen that Shandong people pay less and less attention to Jiangsu. The pacesetter is in front, and the pursuer is behind.