Mongolia has a vast land and a hopeless future
Have you ever wondered how a "small country and a small people" can live well? Let's take Mongolia as an example, although the land area is huge, the population carrying capacity is very small, and the population is comparable to that of the ** autonomous region.
To better illustrate this point, let's take a simple example, do you know Shuanghu County?
In this piece 11With 60,000 square kilometers of land, you can easily identify the area of this county at a glance, in fact, it is even larger than the entire Zhejiang province.
Despite the fact that the county has a population of only 11,000, it is almost insignificant and little known. A similar situation is seen in Mongolia, which is a "small country and a widow", to be exact.
1.I've traveled to many places that are like paradises, and the scenery is truly beautiful. However, they are more poor than you think, and you can't help but wonder: what are these people here for?
In fact, during the period of agrarian civilization, the standard of living in these places far exceeded that of the plains. 2.I have walked through many places that are like a paradise, with green mountains and green waters, and picturesque scenery.
However, the level of poverty here is always beyond your imagination, and you can't help but wonder: why did these people choose to come here? In fact, during the period of agrarian civilization, the standard of living in these places was much higher than in the plains.
3.I've been to a lot of places like a paradise, where the mountains and rivers are intertwined, and the scenery is pleasant. But the level of poverty here is often beyond your imagination, and you can't help but wonder: why are these people here?
In fact, during the period of agrarian civilization, the standard of living in these places was much higher than in the plains. 4.I have traveled to many places like paradise, with beautiful mountains and rivers and poetic scenery.
However, the level of poverty here is always beyond your imagination, and it makes you wonder: why do these people choose to come here? In fact, during the period of agrarian civilization, the standard of living in these places far exceeded that of the plains.
In ancient times, "paradise" was undoubtedly a paradise that everyone longed for, where the living environment was relatively closed, the per capita resources were abundant, almost undisturbed by war, and self-sufficiency.
I still remember burning firewood as a child, because before industrialization, firewood burning was a very troublesome problem, you had to keep anything that could be burned, and you had to walk long distances to collect firewood, sometimes even running for hours without picking up a basket of firewood.
However, some of my classmates from the mountains never had to worry about firewood at home, and they could get fuel from the mountains at any time, which made me very envious of their lives.
An important reason why the paradise looks so beautiful is that the per capita resources are abundant, as long as it is within the scope of human development, it must have the most abundant resources, but these resources are limited, outside the threshold of industrialization, such as burning lime kilns, smelting pig iron, etc.
This is an abandoned lime kiln located in Heilin Village, Qiliping Town, Hongya County, Sichuan Province, a "paradise" surrounded by mountains. This mountain village has tens of thousands of acres of mountain basins, flat terrain and abundant water sources, but the population has never exceeded 1,000 people.
In the surrounding mountains, the abundant mountain goods resources are enviable. In ancient times, such living conditions were paradise on earth, where people lived a free and casual life, without the threat of famine or exploitation, with little to no communication with the outside world, and were completely self-sufficient and self-satisfied.
Outside the mountain, however, it was a different story. Life there is fraught with uncertainty, with the prospect of famine, brutal exploitation, and the ubiquitous annexation of land and various forms of domination, such as taxation, punishment, cruelty, and forced labor.
At that time, the people who lived in this "paradise" were undoubtedly lucky.
The need and understanding of resources in the agrarian and industrial ages were very different. In the era of farming, resources mainly relied on the excavation and utilization of manpower; In the industrial age, the development and utilization of resources relied on machines, social division of labor and professionalism.
Therefore, if an area is rich in resources but sparsely populated, if it cannot meet the threshold of industrial development, it will be difficult to use even more resources. For example, Heilin Village, Qiliping Township, Hongya County, Sichuan Province, is rich in coal and medicinal resources, but it is not possible to carry out large-scale industrial development due to its sparse population, remote location, and dangerous geographical location, which does not have access to real roads.
Therefore, for the utilization and development of resources, it is necessary to take into account the comprehensive impact of various factors such as population, geography, and technology.
Because of the dangerous mountain roads, all resources have lost their value and are difficult to transport. With only 1,000 people, it is difficult to achieve effective industrial development, and resources become ineffective resources in the industrial age.
Only by investing in the specialized industrial sector can resources give full play to their value, and processing is indispensable. In the case of a small population, only raw materials can be exported, deep processing is not possible, and this "resource" practically has no practical use.
For example, the coal in Heilin Village can only be turned into dirt after natural weathering, and cannot be used to build a coal chemical system or build a road to the outside of the mountain. In this group of 1,000 people, it is not possible to build a coal chemical system or build a road to the outside of the mountains.
In this small village in the Himalayas, there is an abundance of products, but it can only meet the rich life of the era of agricultural civilization. In order to reach the threshold of large-scale development in the industrial age, there are still some difficulties to overcome.
First, we need to build roads and power grids and bring in external resources. Second, ensure effective communication and get rid of the shackles of the "mountain attitude". This "mountain attitude" is a difficult problem in social psychology to solve, involving the contradiction between collective self-esteem, the sense of belonging to hometown resources, and outsiders.
While we may sometimes think that they "don't know the good people's hearts", it is only by understanding their lives that we can understand their concerns and concerns: their concerns about the dominance of resource development, cultural deconstruction, unfair distribution of benefits, and the obligation to take on resource development.
At the beginning of the 21st century, you can also exchange various local products for unexpected ** in the pastoral area. However, this changed with the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
They began to realize the true value of industrial goods, and their distrust of the Han Chinese grew. But with the increase in exchanges, more and more herders are able to visit the interior and learn about the real industrial civilization and commercial society, so that they can let go of their emotions and strive to improve their lives.
With the advancement of industrialization and poverty alleviation, the former "paradise" has disappeared and has been replaced by an attitude of public buying and selling. Within a country, to complete this process, it is first necessary to unify government decrees and ideologies, which is a national ideology that transcends the concept of nativeness and is the first step towards modern civilization.
Then there is the construction of infrastructure, which is a practical step on the basis of ideological development, bringing the material conditions for communication and exchange to remote areas. Then there is patient communication, conflict resolution and dismantling.
Finally, it is to deal with things in a modern civilized way, so that the resources can truly serve humanity and at the same time allow the local people to enjoy the benefits. This process is indispensable and can only be done within a country.
I despair about the future of Mongolia because they have abandoned their communist ideology, have no common ideology and system of decrees with their neighbors, have nothing beyond their homeland, and at the same time have strong hostility and close the door to communication.
In fact, the dominant ideology in Mongolia is Lamaism, which is one reason for their poor economy.