The resident’s culture-characterized of Shenzhen’s Migration
The resident’s culture-characterized of Shenzhen’s Migration Culture
General speaking, the cultural core is a value system which is formed in the history. Nevertheless, the value system has become a symbol which is different from other cultures. Therefore, culture can be regarded as a social and personal value system embodied in life style and hobbies. That is to say, it describes a life style and value attitude in a society. In the article, the range of Shenzhen’s Culture field is the special life style and value attitude in Shenzhen, which is different from other cultures in different places.
Before the establishment of special economic zone, Shenzhen (Baoan County) had a population of 330,000. But from the population census in 2000, there are more than 7,000,000 people in Shenzhen. The permanent resident population can reach 4,050,000. Therefore, 90% of residents in Shenzhen are migrant, who are playing a dominant role in all kinds of http://www.ukthesis.org/dissertation_sample/ social fields in Shenzhen. Shenzhen has become a typical migration city. At present, because the life style, value attitude and cultural feature of residents in Shenzhen are different form local culture (Lingnan Culture), which is filled with strong migration feature, the Shenzhen’s Culture can be defined as a typical migration culture, which describes the culture feature of migration society including life style and value attitude. The migration society has the following two features: one is that the percentage of migration population can reach over 50 % in total population; the other is that the migration population is playing a dominate role in all kinds of social and life fields. Therefore, Shenzhen culture is a kind of migration culture.
The special background, which can’t be found in other cities, has resulted in the emergence of Shenzhen’s Culture. At the same time, it is also the identity of Shenzhen’s Culture and Character. But on the other hand, there are still some commons of the background if the Shenzhen culture and character is considered into the historical process of modernization. The similarities and differences have a profound significance for China’s modernization construction. Therefore, in order to understand the feature of Shenzhen’s culture and character and discuss China’s modernization construction, it is very necessary to analyze the background of Shenzhen’s culture emergence.
It has been almost for 20 years since the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in 1980. During the period, the reform and opening policy and economic construction is being implemented in China. At the same time, China has been changed from a traditional agricultural country to modern one. From the global version, the process of modernization from a traditional agricultural country is a process of urbanization to some extent. Therefore, the Shenzhen’s development and emergence of Shenzhen’s culture has a modern and urban background.#p#分页标题#e#
Comparing with other areas in China, there is a common background that the working importance of Party and State has been transferred to the economy construction since 1978. The establishment of special economic zone is one of the most important steps in China’s reform and opening policy. That is to say, without the reform and opening policy, the special economic zone didn’t exist and further Shenzhen’s economy would not be developed. In order to understand Shenzhen’s Culture, It is very important to notice that the special economic zone in Shenzhen is an economic zone, which is not a special political or cultural zone.
The emergence and development of Shenzhen’s economy and culture can attribute to Shenzhen’s special location. Because Shenzhen is located in mouth of Zhujiang River with Hong Kong and against Macao, it has been regarded as the bridge between mainland and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas countries. Furthermore, Shenzhen lies in Guangdong, south China’s coastal areas where there is a long history of foreign trade. With the location advantage, Shenzhen has become the oldest expert trade processing zone. The main mode of economy development in early stage is “order in Hong Kong and manufacturing in Shenzhen or Shop in Hong Kong and factory in Shenzhen”.
The population background in Shenzhen’s culture can’t be neglected. In two decades, Shenzhen has been built from a poor rural village to a modern city. The population has been added from 330,000 in 1980 to 4,050,000 in 2000. In the early of establishment of special economic zone, some cadres from Shanghai and Beijing and the soldiers for infrastructure construction were transferred to Shenzhen in order to provide the assistant for Shenzhen’s construction. Besides decruitment soldiers and university graduates, most of population in 4,050,000 comes from free immigration. Therefore, most of people in Shenzhen come from other areas in China. What is more, the average age of Shenzhen permanent residents is 28.68 and that of temporary residents is 26.61, which is far below the average age in other areas.
At present, a clear picture of social background in Shenzhen is showed to us. First of all, the Shenzhen’s emergence and development is built in the background of modernization and urbanization. The phenomenon of urbanization is a kind of migration in some degree. The feature of urban population is that there is a high percentage of migration population in total population. From the version of origin of place, the residents in Shenzhen come from all over the country. At the same time, owing to working requirement, people from overseas countries, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao need live in Shenzhen for a long time. Shenzhen can be defined as a absolute migration society. LE Zheng argues that migration society is a special social community, the main feature of which is a high population flow, social open and multi-culture. The composition of young average age makes the above feature more obvious. From the version of geographic feature of Shenzhen’s culture, it belongs to Lingnan Culture. With only 10% aboriginal people, the influence of Lingnan culture is very weak. In Shenzhen, the popular language isn’t Cantonese but Putonghua. All kinds of food can be found and different customs and culture can be seen in Shenzhen. Some western festivals such as Valentine’s Day and Christmas Day are celebrated there. Shenzhen’s social culture is influenced by the household registered system. During the population of 4,050,000 in Shenzhen, the population with Shenzhen household registration can reach 1,200,000. But the population with temporary resident license is 2, 850,000, who can’t find the sense of identify in Shenzhen. Therefore, Shenzhen is a typical migration society, whose culture has the feature of migration culture. With the special location, some people in Hong Kong have bought the houses in Shenzhen. During the festivals and vacations, many visitors from Hong Kong go shopping and visit in Shenzhen. At the same time, the radio and TV program in Hong Kong can cover Shenzhen. With the frequent bilateral communication, especially in CEPA, Shenzhen’s culture has been influenced by the culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through Hong Kong, the western culture also influences Shenzhen’s culture. Because Shenzhen is located in Guangdong province and surrounded by Lingnan Culture, Shenzhen’s culture is characterized with the feature of Lingnan culture unavoidably, especially Guangfu Culture, Kejia Culture, Chaoshan culture.#p#分页标题#e#
In a word, Shenzhen’s culture is a cultural synthesis with the dominate migration culture, which is mixed with culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan and western culture. The life style and culture feature of Shenzhen’s culture are different form the local culture completely, which is called migration culture with profound migration feature. The character of people in Shenzhen has been influenced by the above culture.
Shenzhen’s culture includes the life style and value attitude of people living in Shenzhen. Although the value attitude is regarded as the foundation and core of ideology, Shenzhen’s culture can be regarded as the spirit of people in Shenzhen. The so-called the spirit of Shenzhen migration culture describes the basic feature of life style and value attitude accepted by most of people in Shenzhen, which can be embodied in the life style and image showed by people living in Shenzhen. In general, the spirit of Shenzhen’s migration culture should include following aspects: profound commercial sense, exploration and innovation, the happiness concept of creativity and enjoyment, tolerant attitude and independence progress and so on.
1. Profound commercial sense. With a trade processing-oriented of Shenzhen special economic zone and a long-term commercial atmosphere of Lingnan area, it is very normal that there is the profound commercial sense in Shenzhen’s culture. The purpose of migrants in Shenzhen is to change the life and improve life standard by seeking the opportunity and earning http://www.ukthesis.org/dissertation_sample/ too much money. The profound commercial sense in Shenzhen’s culture can be showed not only in money, but also in the strong commercial sense of people in Shenzhen, who are good at seeking the commercial opportunity, mastering commercial operation and commercial package and sensationalization such as novel flower season and rain season, cinemas warrior Lanling, finding fun and TV series how the steel was tempered. The above achievements are not only the success of culture, but also the success of commercial sensationalization.
2. The spirit of exploration and innovation and pragmatic competition. The biggest impression of people in Shenzhen is the spirit of positive exploration and continuous innovation. Many examples can demonstrate the above spirit such as land lease system, labor employment system, life expectancy insurance and so on, which are created firstly by people from Shenzhen. Without the above spirit, the current prosperity in Shenzhen would not exist. At the same time, there are some well-known slogans in Shenzhen such as “revitalizing country through hard work, wasting time through empty sayings”. People in Shenzhen realize that the potential and impetus can’t be inspired without competition. In the background of competition, everyone and every enterprise strives to seek the opportunity in order to develop the enterprise.#p#分页标题#e#
3. The happiness concept of creativity and enjoyment. In order to change previous life and improve life standard, many people come to Shenzhen in order to seek the opportunity. They are eager to find the turning point of life and further change the poverty. Therefore, they know how to enjoy the happy life. According to the statistics, 70% of people in Shenzhen have their houses and 20% of people have the personal sedan. People in Shenzhen pay attention to enjoy the rich life. More and more people choose to travel in home and abroad. The number of “DINK family” is increasing continuously. Most of people in Shenzhen argue that the happy life can’t be granted by others, but obtained by painstaking efforts. Therefore, people in Shenzhen attach much importance on not only life enjoyment, but also happiness creativity.
4. Tolerant attitude and independent progress character. In the early stage of Shenzhen development, the bad natural environment and life condition has formed the independent progress character of people in Shenzhen. With bad basic infrastructure, inconvenient transportation, hot weather and bad life environment, they want to change everything with their continuous efforts. Otherwise, they would not live any more. In the process, the special character is formed. Besides, owing to the communication with different people with different places, life style and customers, the tolerant attitude is formed. As long as your behavior can’t violate the interest of society, enterprises and the public, you can pursue money, reputation and career without external interference.
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The emergence of Shenzhen’s culture has the close relation with the establishment of market economy system in Shenzhen, new life style, habit and attitude of people in Shenzhen and the mixture of culture in different areas, which is still a part of China’s culture. Shenzhen’s migrant culture, appeared in China, is influenced deeply by China traditional culture. But it has an obvious difference with China’s traditional culture such as profound commercial sense, the spirit of exploration and innovation and pragmatic competition, fast life and high efficiency and so on, which is the deficiency part of China’s traditional Confucius culture. On the other hand, the happiness concept of creativity and enjoyment and tolerant attitude and independent progress character includes the strong self-principle and individual sense, which is a great challenge for the holism in China’s traditional culture. It is a creative reform for China’s traditional culture, which has brought a great shock for China’s traditional thinking mode. The traditional culture is the spiritual foundation of Chinese. But it was created in farming civilization, which is different form the culture in the background of globalization and economy integration. http://www.ukthesis.org/dissertation_sample/#p#分页标题#e# Shenzhen’s migrant culture is a good example to integrate and transcend traditional culture, which not only includes the good feature of traditional culture, but also meet the needs of market economy system. There are many kinds of new culture emergence such as the renewal of old culture, the invasion of foreign culture and the mixture of local and foreign culture. The 3rd kind of new culture can be regarded as migrant culture. Shenzhen’s culture is a kind of the new culture.
Ten years ago, people in Shenzhen were busy building special economics zone. But at present and in future, people in Shenzhen is creating a kind of city culture. The modern feature and the innovation for traditional culture make Shenzhen’s culture a new culture. The new culture is a national, scientific and common culture with strong life, which is accordance with the development trend of social history. It not only keeps the good feature of traditional culture, but also makes the innovation basing on the world and future.
Shenzhen’s culture is a typical contemporary migrant culture in China, whose background, process, content and development tendency can promote a new culture: citizen culture. But owing to the early stage of establishment of market economy system in Shenzhen and the influence of traditional culture, people in Shenzhen still are lacking in the life foundation to form a stable self-conscious. The culture creativity of people in Shenzhen can’t reach a spontaneous stage. Strict speaking, Shenzhen’s migrant culture is just a prototype of citizen culture.
