Since the opening of the port for trade, especially the large-scale development of industry and commerce, Songjiang Prefecture's economy has experienced explosive growth.
In the early years, the Shanghai Special County, the core of Songjiang Prefecture, developed rapidly, and then became the only special county in the entire empire. The county magistrates were all of the fourth grade.
The rapid development of Shanghai's special counties in the early years also led to the development of several nearby counties, which in turn stimulated the economic explosion of the entire Songjiang Prefecture!
In particular, during the ten years when Chen Lifu served as the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai and then the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, not only did the economy grow at a great rate, but he also formulated a complete industrial and commercial layout for the entire Songjiang Prefecture through comprehensive planning.
When Chen Lifu served as the magistrate of Shanghai's ad hoc county, he presided over the development of the North Bank Industrial Zone and the Second Industrial Zone of Shanghai's ad hoc county. When he served as the magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, he helped Huating County develop the Huating Industrial Zone through the transfer of some industries, making Huating the focus of
It developed various light industries and built a large number of key textile enterprises. For example, Jiangnan Textile Factory built the world's largest super textile factory in Huating, employing more than 13,000 people.
At the same time, Jiading County was promoted to develop heavy industries with shipbuilding, steel, machinery, and chemicals as the core. A large number of shipyards were settled. At the same time, heavy industries such as steel, machinery, and chemicals were also developing rapidly.
Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company has built the world's second largest steel plant in Jiading, and Zhaoqing Machinery Company has established the world's largest machinery production base here to produce various types of machine tools and other mechanical equipment.
These are still the top very large companies, and there are also more medium and large companies, which are small companies that may seem small in scale but are powerful.
Then in suburban areas, especially in remote counties such as Qingpu, Nanhui, Baoshan, Chuansha, and Fengxian, in addition to developing some industries, more efforts are made to promote the local development of breeding and planting industries.
Although these industries may seem low-end, they are actually backed by a huge consumer city with millions of urban residents. There is no particularly good fresh-keeping technology these days, and the transportation speed is not very fast, so the breeding industry around the city
Industry and planting are actually very profitable.
The Qingpu Food Company, founded by the Qingpu Yamen Local Finance Bureau, is the largest enterprise in the imperial food industry, with a market value of tens of millions. And the main market of this food company is actually the Songjiang Fucheng District. At most, there is a next door
Some markets in Suzhou.
The market in Songjiang Fucheng District alone supports a food company with a market value of millions. And more importantly, Qingpu Food Company is only the largest one, not the only one. In fact, it surrounds Songjiang Fucheng District.
, and there are countless companies in the food industry.
Because of the existence of millions of urban residents, the several counties surrounding Songjiang City are able to live a very prosperous life even as a logistics supply base.
Qingpu, Nanhui, Chuansha and other counties have benefited greatly from this, allowing these newly established counties to find relatively important industrial development directions in a short period of time.
When Chen Lifu promoted the integrated development of Songjiang Prefecture, he split Songjiang Prefecture, which had only three counties, and established Qingpu County in the northwest, Baoshan County in the east, and Chuansha County on the east bank of the lower reaches of the Huangpu River.
Nanhui County, Fengxian County and Jinsha County were established on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Huangpu River.
This established the current layout of nine counties in Songjiang Prefecture. This move is to weaken the presence of Shanghai's ad hoc counties, thereby improving the presence of Songjiang Prefecture, and then better develop the entire Songjiang Prefecture.
It can be said that the integration of Songjiang Prefecture has been realized. At that time, many people supported the expansion of Shanghai's ad hoc counties, annexing Huating and Jiading, and then establishing a super large ad hoc county.
However, some people supported it while others opposed it. Later, Chen Lifu simply took a curveball path to save the country. He did not engage in mergers but split them up. At the same time, many of the powers of Shanghai's ad hoc counties were returned to the Songjiang Prefecture Magistrate's Office.
To put it bluntly, it is to let the Songjiang Prefecture Yamen replace the ad hoc county Yamen in Shanghai.
Although the methods were different, in the end, the unified development of the Songjiang Prefecture area was achieved. The super-city aspirations of Shanghai's ad hoc county were also realized, and the urban area expanded rapidly to surrounding areas.
At present, the urbanization of the entire Songjiang Prefecture has reached a terrifying 90%. Among its millions of people, only a few hundred thousand people live in the surrounding rural areas. However, even these rural areas are actually
It is not considered a village, but belongs to the suburbs of the city. In addition to the people whose ancestors have lived here, the people who live in these places are the powerful and wealthy people as well as the employees who provide services to these powerful and wealthy people.
, and a considerable number of them are agricultural workers in various breeding farms and planting farms.
Well, this is the characteristic of the current urbanization process of Datang!
Except for cities without industry such as Jinling, in other industrial cities, no one with ability is willing to live in the city. The more industrially developed a city, the fewer powerful people there are, and the middle class live in heavily polluted urban areas.
For the sake of their own lives, most of them live in suburban areas.
At the same time, farmers in suburban areas live a much better life than workers in urban areas. Backed by millions of urban residents, agricultural products are very affordable and easy to sell. Making a fortune by raising chickens and vegetables is a bit of a problem.
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In order to connect the development of various counties, Songjiang Prefecture has built countless bridges over the years. The dense rivers in Jiangnan Water Town have not hindered the development of Songjiang Prefecture at all, because Songjiang Prefecture has built countless bridges in the past few decades, just in Suzhou.
There are more than twenty bridges on the river, large and small!
Then extensive investment was made in the construction of roads, which changed from dirt roads at the beginning to cinder roads, and now to cement roads and asphalt roads.
The most famous Songjiang Riverside Highway starts from Wusong Naval Base and extends along the Huangpu River, passing through Jiading's Yanjiang Heavy Industrial Zone, the North Bank Development Zone, the Trade Zone, the Old Town, the First Development Zone, and the Second Development Zone of Shanghai Special County.
The development zone, Huating Industrial Zone, Third Development Zone, and Fourth Development Zone in Huating County, stretches for more than 100 kilometers.
These more than 100 kilometers of roads along the river are mainly wide, multi-lane cement roads, enough for more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages to drive side by side. Some sections, mainly in the bustling central area of the trade area, are even more
Expensive and the best asphalt pavement is used.
At the same time, this road along the river is also laid with rails for running public carriages.
The evolution of Yanjiang Road in Songjiang Prefecture can generally be regarded as witnessing the rapid development of Songjiang Prefecture over the years. From a small dirt road at the beginning, it turned into a cinder road, then became a cement road, and even some sections of the road became asphalt roads. These are all witnesses.