What is the southern Jiangsu model?

The Southern Jiangsu Model was first put forward by China sociologist Mr. Fei Xiaotong in the early 1980s. It usually refers to the way that Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Nantong in Jiangsu Province realize non-agricultural development by developing township enterprises. Its main characteristics are: farmers rely on their own strength to develop township enterprises; The ownership structure of township enterprises is mainly collective economy; Township government leads the development of township enterprises; Market regulation is the main means. It is one of the main empirical models of county economic development in China.

1983 Professor Fei first put forward the concept of "Southern Jiangsu Model" in Re-exploration of Small Towns. Jiangsu, Wuxi, Changzhou and Nantong have similar origins and development opportunities. "By the early 1980s, when the household contract responsibility system was implemented in rural areas of Jiangsu, farmers in southern Jiangsu did not separate the shedui enterprises. In the process of restructuring, the township people's government replaced the former people's commune and production team to manage the collective economy, preserved the collective economic entity through industry, and continued to develop in the name of township enterprises with the help of the radiation and diffusion of Shanghai's economy and technology. The development models of township enterprises in Jiangsu, Wuxi, Changzhou and Nantong are basically the same, which I call the Sunan model. " "Southern Jiangsu Model" means that the economic development background and realistic development path of Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Nantong are almost the same.

The meaning of "Sunan model" has been enriched and evolved with the changes of the times, and its coverage has greatly exceeded the original naming place. In the traditional sense, "southern Jiangsu" refers to the three cities of Changzhou, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, leading 2 1 district,1county (city) and 3 14 town; Professor Fei's "Southern Jiangsu Model" has a wider scope, including Nantong and Jiaxing and Huzhou in northern Zhejiang. At present, the "southern Jiangsu model" involved in theoretical circles has been extended to Yangzhou in central Jiangsu and Hangzhou in Zhejiang. It is basically close to "Jiangnan" in China's humanistic concept. Professor Fei listed Nantong as an important member of the "Southern Jiangsu Model". He visited Nantong many times and found that its economic development level and social development level were similar to those of southern Jiangsu, so he included Nantong in the "Southern Jiangsu Model". In his speeches and articles, he often referred to Nantong as "Su Xichang".

Southern Jiangsu is located on the bank of Taihu Lake and in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, with a large population and few land, but the agricultural production conditions are unique. Southern Jiangsu is adjacent to Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and other developed large and medium-sized industrial cities and markets, with convenient land and water transportation. Farmers in southern Jiangsu have close ties with industrial workers in these large and medium-sized cities and have strong ability to accept economic and technological radiation. At the same time, southern Jiangsu is also the birthplace of modern Chinese national capitalist industry and commerce. As early as the planned economy period, southern Jiangsu had the tradition and foundation of collective economy, which accumulated valuable economy and necessary funds for the development of township enterprises.

By developing township enterprises, southern Jiangsu has taken a development road of industrialization first and then marketization; Wenzhou model promotes industrialization through the development of individual and private enterprises and marketization. The formation of these two paths has its subjective and objective reasons.