The saying that "five provinces and three cities feed the whole country" has been particularly popular in recent years, because statistics show that among the 34 administrative regions in the country, only five provinces, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian, Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin, pay positive taxes, and the other provinces are negative.
These provinces with negative tax revenues are dependent on five provinces and three cities to support them, which is the so-called transfer payment. The indigenous people in some developed areas often have a sense of superiority and even look down on outsiders and repeatedly criticize the state's transfer payment policy, believing that they have suffered a great loss.
Is this true? I don't think so, because the economy of developed regions is not a tree without roots and a source of water, and it is with the support of the whole country that can have such an excellent economy and tax revenue.
Let's think about what economic development depends on? Relying on talents, energy, water resources, raw materials, and markets, which one can be produced by developed regions?
Let's talk about talents first, there is a traffic jam every Spring Festival every year, why the traffic jam? Because everyone wants to go back to their hometowns, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Capital Economic Zone are all places where migrant workers gather, and gold-collar, white-collar, blue-collar, and migrant workers are basically outsiders, so the talents in the developed areas are all sent by other provinces.
In addition, energy and raw materials, there are west-to-east gas transmission, west-to-east power transmission, north-south coal transportation, and countless various resources are continuously transported to developed areas, Xinjiang's paint, Sichuan-Chongqing hydropower, Shanxi's coal mines are extremely low in the supply of developed areas, but also to ensure stability, under the coordination of the national chess game, there will never be a situation where resources are stuck because of human factors.
Moving on to water resources, in addition to the service industry, there are a large number of manufacturing industries in developed areas, and you must know that the manufacturing industry is a large water user, far exceeding the amount of domestic water and agricultural irrigation water. As the so-called big rivers flow eastward, whether it is the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huai River or the headwaters of the Pearl River, they flow through underdeveloped areas. If these areas directly build a sluice gate to stop the water and then charge for the release of water, or intercept all the water for agricultural irrigation, can there be such a low price of industrial water in the developed areas?
Finally, let's talk about the market, products in developed areas, whether they are industrial products or virtual economy, such as movies, mobile applications, etc., must eventually have a market, but they can't be consumed by relying on five provinces and three cities, some of them are sold overseas, and most of them still rely on the domestic market.
To sum up, the core of China's economy is the overall planning of the whole country, so that different regions can give full play to their own advantages, and some people will produce people, energy sources, and raw materials, and concentrate them on the central and eastern coastal areas, and these developed regions will cook a big meal, and then the whole country will eat together.
When the meal is cooked, if someone thinks crookedly and wants to eat alone, then this person is either stupid or bad, so there is no question of "who raises whom" in our socialist country.
In short, under the macro policy of a game of chess in the country, the people of the whole country are of one mind, and coordinated development can achieve common prosperity.