There is no huge central financial circle, elegant green mountains and green waters, and various consumer shops, but it is called "the heart of the Internet in China".
It is this suburb outside the Fifth Ring Road, which is 25 kilometers away from Beijing, but it attracts elites from all over the society to flee, giving up the enjoyment of urban life and relatively relaxed and reasonable work, preferring to burn the best decade of life here, Houchang Village.
As a leading enterprise in the information age, Internet companies must have their own work areas. There are Silicon Valley in the United States, Bangalore in India and "back factory village" in China.
Houchang Village is located in the northwest corner of Haidian District, Beijing. This was a real village twenty years ago. It is 6 to 9 kilometers northwest of Wudaokou where Peking University and Tsinghua are located.
With the rapid development of Internet economy, the wave of informatization has swept the world. In this context, the second phase of Zhongguancun Software Park (Houchang Village) officially opened, successfully transforming from a leading agricultural economy area to a famous high-tech park.
According to relevant data, the Science Park has gathered leading enterprises in important fields of national economy such as energy, transportation, communication, finance and national defense. , representing the top domestic level in the application of emerging technologies.
In 20 15, the science park ushered in the peak of enterprise growth. This year, Netease moved from Wudaokou and Sina moved from Haidian Huang Zhuang, and the number of enterprises doubled in just two years.
At present, there are more than 80,000 on-the-job software engineers and 28 "100,000 Project" enterprises in the park. Leading domestic Internet companies such as Didi, Baidu, Tencent and Lenovo have successively settled in.
The output value of the park per square kilometer exceeds 80 billion yuan, while Shenzhen, the city with the largest output value in the same area in China, has only 976 million yuan.
According to the results of TGI big data analysis, we can accurately understand that the ratio of men to women in Houchang Village is equivalent to the overall level of society, and there is no stereotype of the public on the imbalance of gender ratio in the electronics industry.
In terms of age composition, the proportion of people under 35 is 83%, and the proportion of people aged 25-30 is close to 40%.
72% of the villagers in Houchang Village have bachelor degree or above, and most of them have the aura of "985" and "2 1 1", but they are only the most common members of the big factories here.
Obviously, Houchang Village Science Park is a dense gathering place for high-quality Internet talents. This innovative urban area supports and promotes the gathering of urban human resources, industrial transformation and urban renewal, with high output value and high natural income.
Here, the starting salary of newcomers is 10 thousand, and then they can climb higher returns by their own efforts.
In this land, young people use their youth and dreams in exchange for hukou in first-tier cities, a stable and comfortable life for their families and a place for a smart life in the future.
People who work in Houchang Village have mixed feelings about this. There is only work here, which is also suitable for work, and even it is convenient to change jobs.
Internet Big Four stood at the crossroads of Houchangcun Road. In the eyes of young people, there are many job opportunities and strong mobility of human capital. After accumulating experience in this enterprise, they turned to big factories to find better opportunities and earn more money.
However, it is such an internet hub comparable to the heart of American science and technology, but it has an extremely mismatched traffic environment. In an interview with the media, the residents here said that "the most blocked road in the whole universe-Houchangcun Road".
Houchangcun Road is the only main road to enter the park. However, the nearest subway stations, Northwest King Station and Erqi Station, are several kilometers away from the Software Park, and the average number of people in Houchang Village on weekdays is about 280,000.
Take 13 line as an example: the average daily passenger flow of this line in 20 16 years is close to 800,000 passengers; According to the morning peak data of 20 18, the outbound volume of Xierqi Station is as high as 25,000 passengers per hour, and the morning and evening peak load rate from Huilongguan to Xierqi exceeds 129%!
So there is a joke: If one day 13 line is temporarily shut down, it must be a big event that shocked the internet community in China.
Since public transportation is so crowded, why don't "villagers" choose to live on the spot? Houchang village is not without residential quarters.
The "Tian Hui Community" in the northwest corner is "the largest community in Asia", with a permanent population of nearly 900,000, but the house price here is generally above 70,000 per square meter.
Even if you rent a house, the monthly rent of a decorated one-bedroom and one-living room is as high as 5000-6000 yuan.
Therefore, if you are not a senior employee, you can only settle for the second best and live in a cheaper community a few kilometers away. After all, for most people who work here, the current income can't be spent on temporary residence unnecessarily.
Twenty years ago, the dawn of the domestic economy took off, but at that time, no one could imagine that the software information industry in China could develop so fast and attract so many enterprises and employees, so it is foreseeable that the supporting construction is relatively backward.
At present, the supporting traffic route of the software park has only been repaired by 50%, and the working road of an enterprise is as muddy as a vegetable field.
Considering such difficult commuting conditions, for those employees who seek to go to work on time, they can only shorten their rest time at home and finish commuting before the morning rush hour.
Fortunately, the poor supporting facilities in the park have finally attracted the attention of the science and technology department. At present, the park is planning to cultivate a scientific and technological humanistic atmosphere conducive to enjoying entrepreneurship to meet the needs of high-tech talents for a happy life after work.
In view of traffic problems, the park will build new underground parking garages and upgrade existing irregular roads.
The marriage problems of many young people can also be solved by establishing convenience services such as convenience stores and kindergartens, building cultural landscapes such as parks and sculptures, and organizing activities to increase exchange opportunities in science and technology museums.
After all, software park is the core area of scientific and technological development. Improving the happiness index of young people through environmental transformation will meet the needs of these high-end talents in terms of belonging and self-realization.
Generally speaking, the income level of most employees in the city must match their consumption level.
However, in Houchang village, there is an abnormal phenomenon of high income and low consumption. In addition to the reason why "villagers" intend to earn money for other purposes, the more important reason is the serious lack of supporting living facilities.
Because the park was built for a long time, the planning at that time did not have the current concept of integration of production and city, so commercial, entertainment and catering facilities were not planned, and most companies were forced to set up living functional areas independently.
Employees can complete most life projects such as catering, fitness, beauty salons, shopping, games and entertainment in the company building, just like large state-owned enterprises in earlier years.
Without rich consumption items, consumption expenditure is naturally limited, so there is a famous saying that "50,000 yuan a month consumes 5,000 yuan"
A middle-aged man who looks ordinary holds an important position in a big factory; A little girl wearing cheap clothes or cheap and exquisite earrings is probably an executive of a company.
It's not that these experienced "Houlang" don't want to dress themselves up, but the double pressure of work and dreams always affects them.
The average daily working hours exceed 14 hours, so you should always worry about whether the project is defective after you go home.
Many fresh graduates come here and can't adapt to the factory life completely different from the comfortable campus. After a period of time, they will exude a kind of fatigue from the inside out, with no life on their faces and only endless work.
Although villagers are called "high salary and low consumption", this does not mean that they are not good at consumption.
According to TGI data, more than 80% of the villagers' consumption has reached a medium level, and tea restaurants, cafes and golf courses are the favorite places for consumption. Obviously, these situations have fully met the standards of the middle class and petty bourgeoisie.
At the same time, these young people also love to travel, and working at the computer in the studio all the year round has destroyed their health. Tourism is the best way to relieve them, and eastern neighbors such as Japan and South Korea are the most popular tourist destinations.
Therefore, we can realize that the so-called "living with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan" is only because the facilities and consumption resources in the park are seriously insufficient, and employees have "martial arts" but no place to live.
They can freely play in the internet world and transform this virtual world, but once they return to the real world, they find that the choices they can make are really inconsistent with their imaginative imagination.
There are two kinds of people in Houchang village. One is to come from an ordinary family and seek a high-paying job through hard work.
They are always passionate about their work, even though Internet work is so tedious and torturous, because they never want to go back to their previous environment and be content with mediocrity.
Another kind of people are born with food and clothing. They come here to pursue a higher quality of life, experience a higher class environment and pursue a higher life ideal.
Even if the huge gap between work and life makes them lose their health at a young age, they hope to exchange their youth and freedom for a leap in class, strive to follow the trend of the times and pursue different life dreams.
Old people often say that the post-90s generation is a beat generation, and the circle of young people is full of arrogance, decadence, ignorance and laziness.
After that, the elite represented by the employees of the factory and village science park perfectly explained what morning is. The form of life pressure is constantly changing, but the spirit of hard struggle is still circulating.
Not only the internet, but also young people are constantly enriching the development context of all walks of life and making more efforts to build the future than their ancestors.
People in Houchang Village may be lucky. Compared with commercial companies that engage in exploitation, enterprises here never force overtime or deduct wages. Instead, they use high subsidies as compensation for the harsh environment.
Enterprises and employees have reached a delicate balance. Those who are willing to stay have no complaints, and those who are unwilling to stay have a good life.
For the mainland where class transition is becoming more and more difficult, Houchang Village has become a door for this group of special young people to climb. Whether it is the hardships of blood and tears or the positive face of life, Houchang Village has undoubtedly set up a beacon of hope for the future of young people.