Speaking of Xinyang, many people from other provinces may not have heard of the name of such a city. But Xinyang is also famous for two things, namely a piece of tea and a song.

"One tea" refers to Xinyang Maojian tea, one of the top ten famous teas in China. According to a boss in Xinyang, when he was training in Beijing, he made a bet on the wine table. Someone said something about Xinyang, so he drank a glass of wine. As a result, he only drank a cup of Xinyang Maojian tea. Xinyang's superior climate and soil conditions are the ideal environment for green tea production. The unique flavor of Xinyang Maojian tea is unparalleled because of the hand-made tea technology that has been in the same strain for thousands of years. Cha Sheng Lu Yu listed Gwangju tea (Xinyang Maojian tea) as the top quality tea in his Tea Classic.

And "One Song" is a revolutionary historical song "Osmanthus fragrans Blooming in August" which is popular in China. It was the national anthem to celebrate the establishment of the first county-level Soviet regime of workers and peasants in Henan Province when the Red Army/KLOC-0 captured Shangcheng County in February, 929, and was later sung all over China.

Xinyang is certainly more than these two. Cao Minggui, Dean of School of Economics and Management of Xinyang Normal University, introduced the advantages of Xinyang to the reporter. He said: "Xinyang actually has great room for development and many advantages in location, nature and humanities. However, Xinyang people feel inferior, do not seek development, and strive for the bottom. "

Cao Minggui believes that Xinyang could have done many articles, such as "red" articles. Xinyang is an old revolutionary base area, and there are 23 generals in Xinxian County. For example, in the article Water, the natural precipitation is four times more than that in Zhengzhou, and there have been few floods in the past 58 years. There is also Nanwan Lake, which is known as the pearl of southern Henan. For example, in the article "Mountain", Xinyang is located in the Dabie Mountains, and Jigong Mountain is known as one of the four Dabie Mountains in China, with more than 200 villas left over from the last century. For example, in the article People, of Xinyang's total population of 7.8 million, 65.438+0.5 million people work at home and abroad, and the labor economy brings Xinyang more than 4 billion yuan in direct income every year. ......

Although it has various advantages, Xinyang has not made good use of it. In the ranking of the competitiveness of more than 600 provincial cities in China made by Dr. Ni Pengfei from China Academy of Social Sciences, Xinyang ranked 400.

This ranking is not surprising. Look at its economic situation and you will know why: in 2003, the GDP of Xinyang City with a population of 7.8 million was 344 1 100 million yuan, while that of Shunde District with a population of only 1. 1 10000 was 43.689 billion yuan. This shows that Xinyang has a big gap. This achievement makes Xinyang ranked second from the bottom in Henan. Xinyang people have mixed feelings in this respect. In 200 1 year, Xinyang's tax revenue exceeded 100 million for the first time, and it began to be publicized with great fanfare. Cao Minggui laughed and cried: "In such a big place, the tax revenue is only a little bigger. How can you be so embarrassed to publicize it in a big way? " ? "I don't know what outsiders will think of Xinyang?"

Reporter A fellow villager who works in Xinyang tobacco department told the reporter: "When I first came to Xinyang, I often walked around the city at first, but I didn't want to leave after walking for a few days. Why? Because it is not worth it. " How is it not worth it? Because Xinyang's streets are dirty and messy, there is no place to stay, and even there is no decent place in the park. "The taste of urban planning is terrible!"

In Xinyang City, reporters can hardly see a landmark building, with poor traffic order and poor sanitary conditions. Motorcycles, tricycles and taxis stop at will, but what makes people laugh and cry is that the slogan of dilapidated tricycles running all over the street is "to establish the image of a civilized city". In the provincial cities that Henan reporters have been to, the city where tricycles run on the streets so unscrupulously is only Xinyang in the reporter's impression. According to local people, Xinyang is the only provincial capital city that has not passed the evaluation of civilized and hygienic city. "Even Gushi is not as good as it is." This kind of evaluation shows that Xinyang people themselves are very lost.

The sadness of Jigongshan

Jigongshan, a national scenic spot and nature reserve mentioned by Xinyang Federation of Literary and Art Circles. It belongs to the branch of Dabie Mountain, and its main peak, Jigong Head, is also called Baoxing Peak, like a rooster with a high crow, hence the name Jigongshan. It is said that before liberation, Jigongshan was a place for foreigners, warlords, bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen to have fun. Different from other famous mountains in China, most of the famous mountains in China were developed earlier and became famous in ancient times. Many of them are also holy places of Buddhism or Taoism, while Jigong Mountain was developed only at the beginning of this century.

Jigongshan is located at the junction of Henan and Hubei provinces, only180km south of Wuhan. 1903, American missionary Li Heshi climbed this mountain to explore the wonders. After they climbed Jigong Mountain, they proudly sent a happy report to the American Consulate in Hankou, boasting about their achievements. When the American consul went to that mountain, he found that it had beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. Compared with Wuhan, which is known as the "big stove", it is simply a paradise. After the consul came back, he wrote many articles and praised the forests of Jigong Mountain in western newspapers for being clear, cool and pleasant. Outsiders from Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places heard the news and built a lot of buildings. With the support of foreigners, Jigongshan became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, and together with Lushan Mountain, Moganshan Mountain and Beidaihe, it became the four major summer resorts in China. According to statistics, priests, missionaries, wealthy businessmen, bureaucrats and warlords from more than 20 countries have built more than 300 villas with their own characteristics here. Despite several wars and destruction, there are still 265,438+02 villas, which are distributed between Evergreen Forest and Xiufeng. It is said that at the peak of summer vacation, there were as many as two or three thousand Chinese and foreign people living on the mountain, and it became a prosperous mountain city for a while.

But it is not as good as it used to be, with few tourists and more and more desolate. Shen Feng, the office of Xinyang Commerce and Trade Bureau, said that the development of Jigongshan is not enough at present. Not only the management is chaotic, but also the service can't keep up. Fewer and fewer people come, and even Xinyang locals are too lazy to go. At the same time, Jigongshan has now become the back garden of Wuhan and even Hubei, and people come to Hubei in an endless stream. So that there is such a saying: Hubei has always asked to hand over Jigongshan to them for management! "It's sad to think about the prosperous history in the past!"

Cao Minggui said that this is a strange circle. Unfortunately, there are so many tourist resources in Xinyang, and I don't know how to integrate and develop them. No one has ever stopped Xinyang from developing, and no one has ever stopped Xinyang people from getting rich and pursuing happiness. But why is Xinyang developing so slowly? The contrast between Xinyang and the developed areas makes people suddenly find that Xinyang seems to have a knot that is difficult to untie. This knot suppressed and stifled Xinyang people's passion, ideal, pursuit and creativity, leaving behind loss, helplessness, frustration, sadness and even anger. Sadness is more terrible than death! This statement is chilling.

The Lost City

Zhang Chunming, a correspondent who works in Xinyang, said that after living in Xinyang for more than three years, I feel more and more that Xinyang seems to be a lost city. In fact, when interviewed by reporters, many Xinyang people expressed this backward confusion. They will feel this way when they eat Regan Noodles in the morning and eat food stalls all over the street at night. When they can use 3 yuan money to visit tricycles all over the city, they will feel this way; They live on time and feel the same way when they get a fixed salary every day.

This disorientation is also reflected in the government's urban development planning of Xinyang, swinging between the "landscape garden city" and the regional central city in southern Henan.

In government decision-making and service, it also reflects the vacillation of government departments. A Xinyang entrepreneur criticized the government for its dishonesty and compared the government's investment promotion behavior to "promise you half a day before investing, and then beat the dog behind closed doors." Really, Xinyang people are already poor and crazy. "

Cao Minggui believes that the local government also lacks continuity in policy decision-making, and its commitment to attracting investment cannot be fulfilled, which has caused great troubles and obstacles to foreign investors. He said: "The direct result of the government's low reputation and lack of integrity is that the 12 tea festival has been held continuously, but there are few imported projects, and no well-known enterprises and large projects have settled in Xinyang." A very convincing example is that the foundation stone laying ceremony was held in Hudong Development Zone of Nanwan Reservoir, but there is no sound now because no one has invested. Now that the Yangshan New District has been planned, it is doubtful whether investors can be recruited.

An entrepreneur who returned to his hometown to start a business published such a feeling on the BBS of Xinyang Information Port: "I have been a foreign company for 10 years, and I pay 200,000 tax every year. I thought a lot, so I moved the enterprise back to Xinyang and contributed the tax revenue to my hometown. But what I met was not concern, but too much finger-pointing. They don't know that naive enterprises are not mature yet, and they need the care of all walks of life. I moved my business to Xinyang on 200 1 and have paid nearly 200,000 yuan in taxes so far. But I lost nearly 300 thousand, so I have to pay corporate income tax. Can I still do it? I have no choice but to leave my hometown again. "

Cao Minggui's words may tell the crux of Xinyang: "From the hardware point of view, Xinyang has the basic conditions for developing into a moderately developed city, but in the soft environment, it is the achilles heel of Xinyang's backwardness. For example, the functional transformation of Xinyang government, the population quality and structure of Xinyang, and even the overall economic consciousness of Xinyang people may become the driving force or resistance of a local development. "