MM Lee: " the pupils outdo
the master"
http://www.szcpost.com/2009/06/acting-mayor-of-shenzhen-shenzhen-to-surpass-singapore.html
Shenzhen Post, 17 Jun 2009
Acting Mayor of Shenzhen: Shenzhen to surpass
Singapore
Since former Party Secretary of Suzhou, Wangrong, was transferred
to Shenzhen as Acting Mayor, the relationship between he and
Singapore had been the topic that got extensive solicitude of
China’s media. Guangzhou
Yangcheng Evening News recently reported in headline, “Wang Rong:
Learn from Singapore, Challenge Singapore and Surpass
Singapore”.
The 51 years old Wang Rong had
assumed Suzhou Party Secretary since 2004 and the Suzhou Industrial
Park presented a trend of accelerated growth during his office
term. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew used to, when
taking part in the 15th Anniversary of Suzhou Industrial Park on
May 26th, concluded with a sentence of “the pupils outdoes the
master. ”
Suzhou Industrial Park was established 15 year ago. The total
output value and fiscal revenue of this Park last year were 100
billion yuan and 20 billion yuan respectively. The Park that
accounted 3.4% of the land and 5.2% of the population of Suzhou
created 16% of the city’s aggregate economic volume.
Yangcheng Evening News reported, Shenzhen had emphasized to learn
from Singapore and challenge Singapore since last year.
Wang Rong used to visit Singapore
and had many contacts with Chinese officials, so he had the voice
in what to learn and how to learn.
In addition, Guangdong Provincial
Party Secretary Wang Yang had always advocated the concept of
challenging Singapore since taking office and Wang Rong’s
background and experience just meet Wang Yang’s
requirements.
Director of Singapore Research Center of Shenzhen University, LV
Yuanli said, “as a scholar studying Singapore, I have the
instinctive excitement when hearing Wang Rong is from Suzhou. His
advocate of learning and challenging Singapore will certainly help
strengthen the ties between Shenzhen and Singapore and also will
help Shenzhen to learn from Singapore’s experience.”
Lv Yuanli pointed out Singapore has a Suzhou Industrial Park in
Suzhou, an Eco City in Tianjin and a Knowledge City maybe in
Guagnzhou, but nothing in Shenzhen. “It’ll be beneficial if
Shenzhen has some projects,” he said.
A Guangzhou official said Guangzhou had recently broke out several
events of senior officials falling. Some began to worry that if it
would impact the confidence of Singapore and ASEAN to Guangzhou.
“Taking Singapore as an example, there were two delegations of
high-level government and business circle visiting Guangdong, one
of which was led by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, and signed
several cooperation agreements including the Guangzhou Knowledge
City that is being researched. We don’t hope those events will
affect Singapore’s investing confidence and Wang Rong’s transfer
will definitely help to stabilize this situation. ”
However, not everybody support the idea of challenging Singapore.
Former Mayor of Shenzhen, Xu Zongheng used to tend to the idea of
“learning from Hong Kong and serve for Hong Kong”, which is
obviously opposite to Wang Yang.
Shenzhen senior scholar Zhu Jianguo said when being interviewed
that although Xu Zongheng had commit corruption, the concept of
“learning from Hong Kong and serve for Hong Kong” had gained public
approval, because most of Shenzhen people were familiar with Hong
Kong and the idea was easily accepted.
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