Following the hot search a few days ago for "college students failed to start a business and the loan was compensated by the government", cities in Zhejiang Province, which have been in the state of net outflow of population for more than a decade, have also issued and implemented population programmatic documents and officially joined the "war of robbing people".
In the context of high-quality development and construction of common prosperity demonstration area in Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang, which has been quite strong in talent attraction as a whole, is trying to make up for its shortcomings.
Zeng Gang, President of the Urban Development Research Institute of East China Normal University, told China business that with the aging and the intensification of the structural shortage of talents, talents have become the most important scarce resources, "not only ecological factors, but also an indicator of confidence in economic development", This has changed the focus and thinking of local competition - from attracting more and more investment to attracting talents. Competing for talents has become the main theme of today's urban competition.
it is difficult to reverse the net outflow of population
The "14th five year plan" for population development of Lishui City (hereinafter referred to as the "plan") recently issued and implemented by Lishui development and Reform Commission is a programmatic document to guide the population development of Lishui City in a long period of time.
The plan puts forward the overall strategy of "134" population development in Lishui during the 14th Five Year Plan period. Among them, "1" is to clarify a goal, expand the population scale, take expanding the total population of Lishui as the overall goal, aim at the four attracting directions of "Lishui people in the world", family relocaters, young talents and high-level leading talents, build three attracting spaces of policy, industry and life, do everything possible to attract and retain the population and expand the total population scale.
According to the plan, one of the goals of Lishui's "14th Five-Year" period is that by 2025, the population of Lishui's permanent residents has reached 2 million 600 thousand, and the population of registered residence has been maintained at around 2 million 710 thousand. This means that Lishui, which has been in the state of net population outflow for more than a decade, will reduce the scale of net population outflow to about 100000 while expanding the population scale.
Source: compiled by first finance according to Lishui statistical yearbook
City's city's registered population of 40 cities in the Yangtze River Delta has 17 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, which are the city with a net population inflow (the resident population and registered residence population ratio is more than 1) according to the recent achievements of the Shanghai Academy of social sciences. They are Suzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Wuxi, Jinhua, Changzhou, Nanjing, Huzhou, Hefei, Zhoushan, Zhenjiang, Shaoxing, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Nantong and Yangzhou.
Of the 11 cities in Zhejiang Province, only Lishui and Quzhou are not included in the above-mentioned list of net population inflows.
In addition to Lishui, Quzhou has also issued a series of policies on talent, industry and business environment in recent years. By October 2020, the registered floating population in Zhejiang Province had increased by 0.6% year-on-year. Among them, the registered floating population in Quzhou reached 292600, a year-on-year increase of 68000, an increase of 30.3%, ranking first in all cities of Zhejiang Province.
Zhou Haiwang, deputy director of the Institute of cities and population, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told China business that not only cities such as Lishui and Quzhou, but also many parts of the country are facing the problem of population loss. The main reason is that China was in the low fertility stage in the 1990s, which slowed down the current increase in the supply of young labor force. Coupled with the increasing trend of aging, many places faced the challenge of reducing the total population, especially the young population. With the introduction of a series of talent policies in big cities in recent years, it is difficult for small and medium-sized cities to reverse the net outflow of population.
how does the population pattern of the Yangtze River Delta change?
Big challenges don't mean no opportunities.
"It is a good idea for these cities to shift their focus to talents. Compared with capital, talents have a longer-term stimulating effect on urban economic development." Zeng Gang believed that Lishui and Quzhou's accelerated promotion of talent policies is to follow the trend, and it is also a key move to make up for the long-standing shortcomings in the past, so as to better undertake the industrial and economic benefits spilled from the central city to the surrounding cities.
In his opinion, under the "double carbon" goal, the development intensity of big cities will be reduced, and people have higher demand for the living environment, which will increase the advantages of peripheral cities and bring opportunities to cities with better ecological environment such as Lishui and Quzhou.
Zhou Haiwang believes that from the national level, under the new pattern dominated by China's circulation, it is necessary to let big cities drive the growth of surrounding cities more. With the development of large cities in the Yangtze River Delta, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises have gathered in large cities, and now many of them have better transportation advantages in the Yangtze River Delta
He said that compared with big cities, third and fourth tier cities also have their own advantages, such as low business costs and good ecological environment. At the same time, industrial agglomeration was emphasized in the past, but now and in the future, there will be more scenes of decentralized and home office, "especially the areas around big cities will become hot areas of population agglomeration in the future".
Zhou Haiwang said that with the acceleration of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the obstacles existing in public services such as education, health and elderly care between the central city and surrounding cities will be eliminated one after another, which will promote the better flow of talents and labor force to give full play to the advantages of all regions. "Like the flow of water from high to low, talents will also tend to be balanced".
