Stone giant's "ten years of itching"

Xizhihe, a small village in the southeast of Shilidian Township, Chaoyang District, is crowded in the corner of the southeast of the Fifth Ring Road. It is the largest stone market in northern China, and the “Shuishui Beihe River” in the stone industry. “Beihe” refers to the Xizhi River in North China, where the scale of the stone industry is the same as that of the Fujian Province. All of Beijing's architectural stone, 100% from this giant stone market with an annual output value of 3 billion yuan, its influence even radiates the entire area north of the Yangtze River.

At the end of June, some media reported that with the acceleration of the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Beijing's functional positioning, the high-contamination Xizhihe stone industry will be retired at the end of September this year.

As an ordinary member of nearly 4,000 stone dealers in Xizhi River, Fujian Azhi also heard more and more close footsteps. However, he is still uncertain. "It has been more than ten years since Xizhihe. This place has been developed very hard. Now, if you want to move, no one can bear it, and I don't know where to move."

The reporter learned from the Beijing Stone Industry Transfer Coordination Headquarters that at present, there is no specific relocation schedule for Xizhihe. There is no clear direction for such a large-scale stone industry gathering area, where to move, how to plan, etc. .

Beijing construction site

Every piece of stone comes from here

Like all Fujianese who walked south and north, Azhi maintained the habit of tea. In the afternoon, sitting in the stone shop of Xizhihe, he brewed a pot of tea - "Zhengshan Xiaocai". Even in the sweltering summer, a pot of hot tea can make this Fujian stone product refreshing. A Zhi, who was not confused at the beginning of the year, came to Beijing to work hard in his twenties. He did the stone business, but at that time it was at Yuquan Road.

“We Fujian people started doing stone business very long ago. Up to now, more than 80% of China’s stone and tile business is done by Fujian people.” A Zhi said that since the 1980s, market economic reform has just begun, Fujian’s Merchants began to advance their stone business from south to north, starting with the frontier of reform and opening up in Guangdong, followed by Shanghai, which was ushered in by Pudong, and then Beijing.

Beginning in 1992, Fujian merchants concentrated the scattered stone business in Beijing to the Yuquan Road area in the West Fourth Ring Road. At that time, Yuquan Road was far from the city center and even had a large vineyard. In October 1994, the first stone market in Beijing, Yuquan Road, opened its stone market. Its predecessor was an 80-acre vineyard.

In 2000, Azhi’s northern drift life began on Yuquan Road. From the help of other shop assistants to the owner of the small storefront, Azhi’s career developed rapidly in Yuquan Road. But in 2003, A Zhi had to move because the Yuquan Road market had to be demolished.

“In the beginning, the place in Yuquan Road was mostly remote. However, in 2001, the Olympic bid was successful. Yuquan Road was going to start demolition, road repair and treatment. Our stone market should also be removed.” At the end of 2003, Azhi’s store was from Yuquan. The road retire, almost no hesitation and hesitation, he moved from the West Fourth Ring to the southeast five rings.

At that time, A Zhi was only a junior who entered the rivers and lakes. Before the demolition of the Yuquan Road market, the Fujian-based giants in the stone industry were in the Xizhi River. At the beginning of 2003, a larger stone distribution center was built here. Ah Zhi still remembers that when he first moved to Xizhihe, "the five rings have just been built, and they still charge." Xizhihe, an otherwise insignificant small village, has developed into the largest stone market in the north, covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 mu, with nearly 4,000 operators, tens of thousands of employees, and annual turnover of more than 3 billion yuan.

“The most popular part of the Beijing stone industry is the years from 2003 to 2009, that is, before and after the Olympics, when the real estate market was the hottest, every stone on the Beijing construction site was sold by Xizhi River,” said A Zhi. Because the business is doing well, the fellows have changed their cars, and his own BMW was also changed in 2009. In the Xizhihe several major large-scale stone distribution centers, there is no need to look for them. Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and other luxury cars are parked in the surrounding stone.

11 years later

Another big change is coming soon

Opposite Azhimen City, separated by a Kanghua Road, is his stone plus workshop. Advanced cutting machines use waterjets to minimize the dust of processed stone, but workers still need to wear dust masks, eyelashes, eyebrows, masks that are not covered by masks, or thick white ash.

The high output value brought earth-shaking changes to Xizhi River. According to local villager Xiao Zhong, the village area of ​​Xizhi River is only 2.6 square kilometers, and the resident population is less than 3,000. The most obvious change is that the economy has developed here. There are more people and rents are more expensive. The original 20 yuan is rented for one month, and now the cheapest is 2,000 yuan." After the introduction of the stone industry, the population of Xizhihe Village has increased to 60,000 people. There are more than 30 stone enterprises with over 10 million yuan and more than 100 assets with over one million assets. The developed stone industry is backing Xizhihe Village, and the education, culture and medical conditions in the village have also been improved, including the modern kindergartens, cultural squares, parks and hospitals with an investment of 4.5 million.

However, the high pollution of the stone industry makes it destined to be integrated into Beijing's expanding urban circle.

At the end of 2013, the State Administration of Safety Supervision organized a testing organization to conduct investigations and on-site inspections of 31 cement manufacturing and 20 stone processing enterprises in six provinces. The total dust concentration of stone processing posts exceeded the maximum by 852 times, and the dust concentration exceeded the maximum of 177.61. Times. According to the survey, most stone processing enterprises are in a state of “small, scattered and chaotic” production. The heads of enterprises, occupational health management personnel and laborers generally do not receive occupational health training, and the awareness of occupational disease prevention and control is weak.

In recent years, the smog in Beijing City has made the stone processing industry, which is branded with pollution, always facing the urgency of being freed from Beijing.

According to Beijing's “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the open-air dust processing industry will be cancelled within Beijing's Sixth Ring Road in the next 10 to 20 years. According to the Beijing Clean Air Action Plan 2013-2017, 300 polluting enterprises will be retired by the end of 2014. With the acceleration of the integration process of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, in mid-May 2014, Zhang Boxu, director of the Beijing Economic and Information Commission, told the media that the 300 polluting enterprises that were scheduled to withdraw at the end of 2014 will advance to the end of October. Away from Beijing, there are 12 industrial pollution industries that need to be withdrawn, and the stone industry is impressive.

More than 600 years ago, in 1403, when Ming Yongle began to build the Forbidden City in the first year, a stone workshop was set up in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City, which is now the Da Shi Zuo Hutong near Jingshan Qianjie. At that time, although Beijing was already a world-class metropolis, because of the backward transportation methods, stone workshops must be located near the “construction site”.

Today, more than 600 years later, people do not need stone workshops as close as possible, because the stone industry has been marked with high pollution. It's next big change - continue to move out soon.

Billions of output

Where does the stone market go?

There is a three-story office building in the north section of Xizhihe Village and Kanghua Road. It is the seat of the Beijing Industry and Commerce Union Stone Industry Chamber of Commerce. It is now also the “Beijing Stone Industry Transfer Coordination Work Command”. Ma Zhenping, executive deputy secretary-general of the Stone Chamber of Commerce, told reporters that the current relocation of Xizhihe is gradually unfolding. However, when there is no timetable for moving, the key point is “Where to move specifically? There is no plan”.

Beijing has relocated some low-end businesses to Hebei – which has long been considered an important component of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration. What is a little embarrassing is that Hebei Province is not enthusiastic about accepting high-pollution industries. Hebei once said: "Not all enterprises from Beijing to Hebei, Hebei will have, if it is polluted, Hebei will not want." At present, the only real connection with Xizhihe is the Yixian of Baoding and the Xianghe of Langfang. A few areas such as Baodi in Tianjin.

"In 2003, the stone industry in Yuquan Road, because of urban construction demolition, moved here is completely self-issued by Xizhihe local government and stone merchants. Xizhihe is located at the junction of Chaoyang, Daxing and Tongzhou districts. It is difficult to develop the economy, but it is close to the Five Rings. It is also close to Jingha Expressway and Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. It is suitable for logistics, and the stone is closely related to logistics. So Xizhi River and Stone The business is ready to hit."

Due to the rapid development of urban construction and real estate development in Beijing, Xizhihe's industrial scale has expanded rapidly, and a spontaneously distributed distribution center has supplied all of Beijing's architectural stone. Ma Zhenping said that 100% of Beijing's architectural stone is from Xizhihe, and more than 80% of the entire building stone in North China and Northeast China is also shipped from Xizhihe. For the whole of northern China, Xizhi River is indispensable. "The problem now is that Xizhihe's billion-dollar industry is easy to dismantle. What is the future planning? Where do you go to Beijing, North China, and Northeast? How do you deal with customers who have been dealing with Xizhihe for 10 years? What are we talking about?"

In April this year, the Stone Chamber of Commerce submitted a report, hoping that the relevant government departments would use the “sparing method” to treat the stone industry of Xizhihe. "The city needs to develop, the stone industry has to move outside, we understand. But now there is no clear plan. The local governments in Hebei and Tianjin come to negotiate with the merchants here. This is not 2003, after 11 years, West Zhihe has already achieved the largest in the north. If it is relocated and dispersed, it will be a loss for all parties. We hope that the government authorities will work out a professional land in the context of the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to allow the overall migration of the stone industry. In the past, this will not only promote the smooth progress of industrial restructuring, but also ensure the sustainability and stability of the development of the stone industry."

In 2013, Azhi just purchased the property in Yizhuang, south of Xizhihe, with a unit price of nearly 30,000 yuan/square meter. According to the original plan, in 2015, the new house will be delivered, and A Zhi will also move into his new home in Beijing. But the reality is that he is likely to move out of Beijing at the end of 2014, although he still doesn't know where to move, his new house needs to be repositioned.

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