In the years since the emergence of science and technology innovation in the biotechnology industry, Suzhou has embarked on a journey of rapid economic development.
Even describing it as rapid development seems to underestimate the speed of Suzhou's development over the past decade.
In 2019, Suzhou's GDP was less than half that of Shanghai.
By 2031, Suzhou's GDP had reached 80% of Shanghai's.
It's important to understand that economic development isn't something that happens when others stand still and wait for you to do nothing; they will also develop.
The gap between Suzhou and Nanjing around 2020 was 25%, with Suzhou exceeding Nanjing by 25%.
By 2030, the GDP gap will be 100%.
Despite having the best business environment and policy advantages in the entire country, Shanghai is being caught up by Suzhou at such a rapid pace.
As a result, many master's and doctoral students in regional economics often use Suzhou as an example to illustrate how a sufficiently excellent company can bring about tremendous changes to a region.
Administrative resources at the policy level may sound abstract, but they are actually very real.
Taking Sichuan and Chongqing in the southwest region of China as examples, Sichuan and Chongqing were separated in the past, and in recent years, the housing prices in Sichuan have been much higher than those in Chongqing.
However, in the financial industry, Yudu is much stronger than Shudu in terms of both asset quality and industry scale.
Why? Because Chongqing is a municipality directly under the central government, which gives it policy advantages.
It should be understood that even if Shudu were supported by the entire Sichuan province, it would not be as effective as a mere policy advantage.
Suzhou's rapid economic development has made local officials particularly enthusiastic about introducing scientific and technological innovations.
Even if it's just about bringing in a branch office.
Rumors are circulating that Kechuang Bio will subsequently select sites for its bio-factories within China.
Local governments have already begun to show their skills in trying to get a piece of this pie.
Life is tough without land revenue.
It was precisely because of its rapid economic development that Suzhou previously thought of integrating into the urban circle of Shanghai and not playing with Nanjing.
Now they're thinking, "Jinling will be integrated into my group, and we'll work together to seize resources from Shanghai."
Of course, this is difficult.
There have been calls from the public for either Suzhou to become the capital of Jiangsu Province, or for Suzhou to be designated as a separate municipality.
There's no reason why the GDP of a provincial capital city should only be half that of a prefecture-level city below it.
However, Suzhou has already reached the same administrative level as Nanjing.
Even so, the people of Suzhou did not believe that they could be on par with Beijing and Shanghai.
Suzhou's GDP has surpassed that of Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
In China, regional discrimination is a common phenomenon on the internet, and attacks between different regions are commonplace.
After Li Miaomiao finished speaking, the debate in the bullet comments quickly escalated, and gradually spread from the bullet comments to social media.
Why does Suzhou have internet access while Shanghai doesn't?
"Even Yanjing (Beijing) is not convinced."
I express my serious dissatisfaction with the fact that Kechuang Bio is giving Suzhou preferential treatment because it is located in Suzhou.
Even according to rank, Jinling should come first.
"Don't worry, don't panic. The biological communication tree has already been planted in Suzhou. There's one right at the entrance of my neighborhood."
Regional antagonism, like gender antagonism, is a form of rhetoric deliberately hyped up.
In fact, there are good people and bad people everywhere; it's just that the proportions affected by objective factors may differ.
And the negative impressions you get from people from a certain place can create regional prejudices.
"I just want to ask why Suzhou won this level of project? What are the officials in Nanjing doing?"
When Kechuang Bio was established in Suzhou, you probably didn't know it would grow into the behemoth it is today. After all, very few people had that strategic vision back then.
After Kechuang Bio went public, it unveiled its brain-computer interface technology and became the undisputed leader in the entire Science and Technology Innovation Board in terms of valuation, revenue and profit. At that time, President Jinling should have been able to see the value of Kechuang Bio, right?
I know that it won't be easy to get the headquarters of Kechuang Bio to relocate to Nanjing, since Kechuang Bio doesn't require administrative resources like Longfor does.
But at least try to get one of our branch offices to come here, right?
I believe Jinling could have found a way to achieve this, but Jinling only has one R&D center, and it's ranked extremely low within Kechuang Biotechnology.
From what I understand, it is far less important than Jiangcheng, let alone Singapore.
Even though the two 985 universities in Nanjing are stronger than the two universities in Jiangcheng in terms of both academic ability and ranking.
Southeast University might be similar to Jiangnan University and Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology, but Nanjing University is definitely stronger than those two.
I can tolerate this, after all, Jiangcheng is Zheng Li's second hometown and the location of his alma mater.
As a result, Nanjing was not included in this virtual world network area.
I saw online that it was taken over by the three major telecom operators. So what? Do you think the three major telecom operators in Suzhou can disobey the provincial companies? Aren't the provincial companies of the three major telecom operators located in Nanjing?
At least get some soup to drink, right?
"Qiuqiu, do something."
The rants from well-known Weibo influencers in Nanjing are much sharper than the one-line rants in bullet comments.
The Longfor he mentioned refers to Longfor Properties, headquartered in Chongqing. They claim to have two headquarters, one in Chongqing and one in Beijing.
In reality, the leaders spend most of their time in Yanjing.
The phrase "running to the ministries to raise money," which has been popular in the past and remains popular today, illustrates the importance of administrative resources in China.
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