After economic development has entered a new stage of transformation and upgrading, building a strong provincial capital is crucial to the development of many provinces.

　　Recently, the five-year action oath meeting for the "Strong Provincial Capital" of Guiyang and Gui'an was held, and multiple departments signed the responsibility letter on the spot.

Not only Guiyang, but also many provincial capitals, especially second-tier provincial capitals, are making efforts to expand and strengthen the platform, highlighting the provincial capital's responsibility.

Guiyang is going to become a mega city

　　The above-mentioned swearing conference issued the "Five-year Action Plan for Guiyang City to Implement a "Strong Provincial Capital"", and proposed that by 2025, Guiyang, Gui'an will become the first provincial capital city with a higher level of production, with a total production value of more than 700 billion yuan and a total economic output The ranking of provincial capital cities across the country has moved forward, with the primacy rate reaching more than 27%; the urban permanent population has reached 7 million, and the urban permanent population has reached 5 million megacities.

　　Statistics show that in 2020, the GDP of Guiyang City is 431.165 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.0%; the total GDP ranks 52nd among cities in the country, followed by third-tier cities such as Xiangyang and Jining before Guiyang.

Among the provincial capital cities, Guiyang ranks 19th, between Nanning and Taiyuan.

　　At present, there are 17 provincial capital cities with GDP exceeding 500 billion yuan, and 11 provincial capital cities with GDP exceeding 1 trillion yuan.

On the whole, Guiyang is far from new first-tier cities such as Chengdu and Xi'an, and is also far away from cities such as Kunming and Nanchang.

　　In recent years, major provincial capital cities have been striving to increase their centrality and primacy (the proportion of total economic output in their province).

According to statistics from a reporter from China Business News, Guiyang's top ranking rate is 24.19% in 2020, and this proportion ranks 17th among 27 provincial capitals.

　　However, some of the provincial capital cities with a lower ranking than Guiyang are due to the fact that there are other central cities and major economic cities in the province, such as the provinces where Jinan, Nanjing, and Fuzhou are located.

Relatively speaking, Guizhou Province, where Guiyang is located, has an underdeveloped economy and needs a strong provincial capital to drive it. Therefore, there is still a lot of room for improvement in Guiyang's primacy in Guizhou in the future.

　　Hu Gang, the president of the South China Urban Research Association and a professor at Jinan University, believes that Guiyang will become a megacity and it will be more likely to take over the resource elements from all parts of the country to Guizhou.

Concentrating on making Guiyang bigger and building urban agglomerations and metropolitan circles together with surrounding small and medium-sized cities is also in line with the law of development of underdeveloped areas.

　　Increasing the degree of primacy means that it is necessary to step up and strengthen the central city platform to accelerate its development into a megacity.

According to the Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in 2019, the urban population of Guiyang is 2,967,200, which is a type II large city (the urban permanent population is above 1 million and below 3 million).

In the future, Guiyang will still accelerate industrial development and population agglomeration, and enhance its ability to drive and radiate the development of surrounding areas.

　　Hu Gang said that in a certain stage, the larger the city, the higher the benefit of the city.

Because the larger the scale, the finer the division of industrial specialization in the city, and the more specialized, the more competitive.

In addition, the stronger the visibility, industry, scientific research capacity and the ability of agglomerated consumption of a big city, the stronger the driving ability.

Building a megacity with an urban population of more than 5 million is achievable for many central and western provinces.

Which provincial capitals need to increase their primacy

　　According to statistics from China Business News, in 2020, the top ten provincial capitals will be Jinan, Nanjing, Hohhot, Shijiazhuang, Nanning, Zhengzhou, Nanchang, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and Taiyuan.

　　Among these cities, the provinces of Guangzhou, Jinan, Nanjing, and Fuzhou are all developed provinces along the eastern coast, all of which are in a "double star" or "multi-star" model. In addition to the capital cities, there are other economic developments in the provinces. Prominent central city or economic city.

　　For example, Guangdong is the largest economic province where Guangzhou is located. Shenzhen is the largest economic city in the planned economy. Foshan, a major manufacturing city, has a GDP exceeding one trillion yuan, and Dongguan is also approaching one trillion yuan. Shandong Province, where Jinan is located, has the largest GDP in planning A separate city Qingdao; Jiangsu Province where Nanjing is located, Suzhou is the largest economic city, with GDP exceeding two trillion yuan, and Wuxi and Nantong both exceed one trillion yuan; Fujian Province, where Fuzhou is located, is the largest private economic city Quanzhou In addition, there is Xiamen, the only sub-provincial city in Fujian.

　　Henan Province, where Zhengzhou is located, is the fifth largest economic province, with a registered population of over 100 million and a large number of prefectures and cities, with a total of 18.

Henan's terrain is dominated by plains, and its population and economic distribution are relatively balanced. Therefore, although Zhengzhou's GDP exceeds 1.2 trillion yuan, its relative proportion is not high.

　　In contrast, the provincial capitals of Nanning, Nanchang, Shijiazhuang, Hohhot, and Taiyuan have low GDP and low primacy.

For example, Shijiazhuang, as the capital of Hebei, a populous province, has a total population of more than 10 million, but GDP is less than 600 billion yuan; Nanchang is less than 600 billion yuan, but the capital cities of several neighboring provinces have exceeded one trillion yuan.

In addition, the GDPs of the cities of Nanning, Hohhot, and Taiyuan are all less than 500 billion yuan.

　　In recent years, not only Guiyang, but also a number of second-tier capital cities have also made efforts to strengthen the provincial capital.

　　According to local media reports, Sun Daguang, deputy secretary of the Nanning Municipal Party Committee and Acting Mayor, emphasized when investigating the work of the strong capital on April 7 that departments at all levels must continue to work hard, work for a long time, and continue to work hard, with firm confidence, high morale, The struggling posture and strong measures fully implement the strategy of strengthening the capital and promote the high-quality economic development of the city.

　　Statistics from the Nanning Bureau of Statistics show that in 2020, the city will achieve a GDP of 472.634 billion yuan, ranking first among all cities in the district, accounting for 21.3% of the district’s share, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the previous year, and continuing to rise in the district’s first position. .

　　In order to ensure the "full implementation of the strategy of strong capital," Nanning has also set up a special strong capital command and dispatch center and a "cloud command and dispatch system" to coordinate the forces of all parties.

　　Jiangxi’s "14th Five-Year Plan" proposes to strengthen and optimize Nanchang Metropolitan Area.

Promote Nanchang to highlight the role of the provincial capital, enhance the functions of the provincial capital, build the metropolitan economic center, financial center, science and technology center, quality consumption center and high-end service industry development center, and enhance core leading functions and radiate driving energy levels.

　　Hu Gang said that several provincial capitals, including Guiyang, Nanning, and Nanchang, are not well-developed. By making the capital cities bigger, they can feed back the development of the surrounding areas.

Nowadays, high-tech industries, emerging industries, and modern service industries are developing rapidly, and they have a strong driving effect on economic development. These industrial resources are mainly concentrated in central cities. The central and western regions are mainly provincial capitals. Therefore, only the first degree of provincial capitals can be improved. Only by making the city platform bigger and stronger can it drive the economic development of the province where it is located.

　　A strong central city can gain more population, technology, and policies, and the development space will be even higher.

Niu Fengrui, a researcher at the Urban Development and Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, analyzed that high-tech industries need certain conditions, including talents, equipment, and business environment. What kind of city has such conditions?

In the central and western regions, the first choice is the provincial capital.

Like Guangxi and Jiangxi, without a strong center, it will be difficult to compete with other provinces.

Therefore, Guangxi and Jiangxi need to focus on the construction and development of provincial capital cities in the future.

　　Author: Lin Xiaozhao