In China, after the reform and opening up, countless businessmen, business owners and financiers earned the first bucket of gold in their lives and tasted the joy of quality life and the joy of boundless future. Although the process is bumpy and secret, the myth of getting rich from generation to generation is endless and mouth-watering.
In the developed and affluent Pearl River Delta region, Shenzhen Huaqiang North used to be a place where the myth of making wealth was produced on a large scale: examples of getting rich overnight, starting from scratch, worth over 100 million yuan, and wage earners turning over to become big bosses were constantly born.
1979, the military factory in northern Guangdong, which produces military radio semiconductors, felt that it was imperative to relocate, so it wrote to the leaders for instructions, and the result was quickly approved. With a wave of the provincial leader's hand, three factories of the Arsenal moved from Qingyuan in northern Guangdong to Futian District in Shenzhen.
At that time, the border of the arsenal was still a wasteland with overgrown weeds and abandoned factories, and the houses were basically sparsely populated. Walking on the spacious dirt road, looking around, there are no buildings that block the line of sight. You can see the mountains here and the water there. Of course, glory and take-off always start from a flat land. History tells us that poverty means infinite possibilities.
After the relocation of the Arsenal, the work of converting from military to civilian began, and it was changed to household appliances and renamed Huaqiang, which means "China is powerful".
The following year, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was established, and a large area of barren and ordinary land was full of ambition. The government specially named a road near Huaqiang Company "Huaqiang Road". In the north of Huaqiang, a large number of factories began to be built. This area was named "Shangbu Light Industrial Zone", mainly engaged in electronic processing business.
Because the industrial zone is located in the north of Huaqiang Company, it is called "Huaqiang North".
198 1, the "Soul Building" in Huaqiang North started construction. After completion, this 20-story building stands out from the crowd, some lonely, but particularly eye-catching.
Shenzhen Electronic Building, like the first bamboo shoot after the rain, rises from this fertile land of future economy, followed by the growing Huaqiang North. In less than two years, Huaqiang North has built more than 50 new factories.
1984, when the chairman inspected Huaqiang North, he said that "computers should be started from dolls", and Huaqiang North became more and more famous.
In a blink of an eye, in the mid-1980s, considering that merging many small enterprises into large enterprises can create scale advantages and transform internal competition into internal organic cooperation, the Ministry of Electronics Industry decided to integrate 100 scattered small electronic enterprises and set up Shenzhen Electronics Group, which was later Shenzhen SEG Group Company.
1988, Shenzhen Electronics Group opened an electronic component trading market in the previously established Shenzhen Electronic Building. As a result, the original building of 1996 had to be razed to the ground and a skyscraper, SEG Plaza Building, had to be built.
From 65438 to 0998, the municipal government seized the opportunity of transformation in time and began to transform Huaqiang North Commercial Street, making it one of the most traditional and popular commercial places in Shenzhen.
It was the best time and the craziest time. At that time, Huaqiang North had a story of "one meter counter" sucking gold. Witnesses kept telling what they had witnessed: "The shops that rented 60,000 square meters were robbed in three hours", "A berth application registration form can be resold for 50,000 yuan by going downstairs and taking it to the street" and "At that time, as long as they were not fools, everyone could make money when they entered Huaqiang North."
As long as you get it to the counter, no matter how much it costs, you can get it back in a very short time. People gradually have no cost, and the transfer fee of 20,000 to 30,000 shops can be fired to hundreds of thousands.
After all, a meter 2 counter+a calculator+a mobile phone = creating millions of wealth, which was the wealth password that Huaqiang North people believed in at that time.
For a time, Huaqiang North flooded into more than 40,000 electronic enterprises and hundreds of thousands of electronic practitioners. The myth of creating wealth attracts groups of young people to come here. Some of them are factory women and earn commissions by selling mobile phone microphones. Someone came here penniless and made a mess by assembling computers.
The most typical example is the "shanzhai mobile phone prince". /kloc-a 0/6-year-old Jin Chen volleyball player, accompanied by relatives, went to Huaqiang North to fight hard. Seeing that the cottage mobile phone market is booming, he gradually has the idea of integrating the market and becoming a big agent.
With this goal in mind, Chen Jinling works with his uncle, while constantly learning the experience accumulated in the market. After several years, he finally saved enough contacts and capital to get the qualification of agent. Because of his honesty and abundant supply, Chen Jinling's business grew bigger and bigger, and finally his net worth exceeded 1 100 million. At the most brilliant moment, his daily flow exceeded one million.
Many business leaders have made their fortune here, such as an old building in Huaqiang North SEG Science and Technology Pioneer Park, where Ma and Tencent's dream began.
Behind Huaqiang North's economic take-off is the general trend in the early 1990s: the Pearl River Delta manufacturing industry began to gradually expand overseas markets, selling electronic products to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and even Europe and the United States. It can be said that the 1980s and 1990s were a golden age, and everything in China was growing wildly.
As the first shopping street in China, Huaqiang North Commercial Street was awarded the license by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce in 2000, and won the honorary title of "China Electronic First Street" at the opening ceremony of the 10th High-tech Fair Huaqiang North Branch in 2008, which indicates that Huaqiang North Commercial Street has confirmed its leading position in the national e-commerce industry.
Today, Huaqiang North occupies a position in many people's memory, that is, "the first electronic street in China". However, there is a trace of irony behind the name of "First Street", which starts with the cottage trend at the beginning of the century.
Before 2003, Huaqiang North could make anything except mobile phones, because mobile phones are high-tech products and high-barrier products that integrate many sophisticated technologies.
However, in 2003, this barrier was leveled by the technological innovation in MediaTek, Taiwan Province-a chip can have multiple modules needed by mobile phones, and from then on, manufacturers in Huaqiang North can produce products only by adding a few components. The moment we have a complete industrial chain, it is the beginning of Huaqiang North going to the cottage.
The origin of the "cottage mobile phone prince" began at this stage. At that time, Huaqiang North Shanzhai had an overwhelming advantage in price. The genuine product sells for 1000 yuan, and can only be sold in 300 yuan, which is already a lucrative price. Super capacity battery, super capacity, four cards and four standby ......
Huaqiang North Magic Change has added many unique and practical functions to mobile phones. Gradually, Huaqiang North, which is already the largest electronic component trading center in Asia, has become the largest mobile phone trading center in Asia.
There is more and more speculation in street stalls, and the rent of shops ranges from 20 thousand to 30 thousand, but the transfer fee is sometimes fired to nearly one million. The variety of shanzhai machines began to dazzle people. There are hundreds of shanzhai brands in China, but all of them have changed their medicines, and the homogenization problem is serious.
You know, a market with serious homogenization and sufficient supply always faces the risk of over-saturation. Your product is the same as mine, so what is the competition? Only the cost.
As a result, this over-saturated, non-standard market gradually breeds the behavior of bad money expelling good money: packaging, labeling, packaging and testing, and a complete fake chain gradually breeds from the gap.
Huaqiang North gradually accumulated a wide range of bad comments inside and outside the community. Under the pressure of public opinion, the government conducted a high-intensity inventory, and even the deputy mayor of Shenzhen personally led a team to go out. 20 1 1 year, Huaqiang north came again for a thorough "sweeping".
After high-pressure centralized rectification, there has been a wave of "closing, stopping, merging and turning" in Huaqiang business circle, and some merchants who rely on illegal means have lost their living soil. 3575 merchants in Huaqiang North mobile phone professional market left voluntarily. On June 438+02,65,438+00, 2065, due to the construction of Metro Line 7, the main road was closed for three years, and Huaqiang North became increasingly unpopular.
Of course, Mr. Buffett once said, "You never know who is not wearing swimming trunks until the tide recedes." Some Beijingers in Huaqiang earned money, and some were smashed to pieces by the dumped wealth building. For example, the "cottage little prince", after the low tide, his wife left him, his partner quit, a large number of goods were hoarded in his hands, and he was also urged to pay debts every day. Finally, he lost his mind and wandered in the streets of Huaqiang North in rags.
Huaqiang North at the turn of the century always reminds people of new york in the18th century and London in the19th century: barbaric growth, chaos and disorder everywhere, opportunities and potentials everywhere.
However, this chaotic life can't last long. Some practitioners in Huaqiang North foresaw this day early and put their energy into the transformation after completing the accumulation of wealth. However, more people are burying all their wealth and Huaqiang North Shanzhai Empire.
From disorder to order, from entropy increase to entropy decrease, this is the law of the development of human society, and a small Huaqiang North is no exception. After the wave of dividend period faded, did Huaqiang North really decline? Not exactly.
Some people go, some people go in. Nowadays, the practitioners in the iron industry and flowing water really lack the myth of getting rich overnight, but the army of practitioners is still there. The business content of Huaqiang Beiren has only changed from a cottage machine to a genuine machine, cosmetics and blockchain mining machine.
Relevant data show that the area of Huaqiang North Business Circle is only 1.45 square kilometers, but there are about 25,000 enterprises, more than 20,000 individual industrial and commercial households and nearly 230,000 employees.
Huaqiang North is also a place where "the national electronics industry will shake three times when sneezing". Most TWS headsets and mining machines in China Blockchain still come from here. Moreover, in recent years, the group of backpackers who buy mobile phones for others and improve after-sales service has gradually grown, and good money has driven out bad money. Backpackers who rely on word of mouth, service and efficiency to accumulate contacts have gradually earned a lot of income.
A few days ago, the third Huaqiang North Science and Technology Art Festival and the 22nd Hi-Tech Fair were just held here, and technology+fashion+art became the new label of Huaqiang North.
It can be said that Huaqiang North, washed and precipitated by the times, has indeed shed the aura of "getting rich overnight", but its glory has never been far away from here, but it is still wandering in this place full of vitality and vitality, waiting for the return of glory one day.