In recent days, there has been a wide range of rain and snow in the Central Plains and other places in China, especially the freezing rain that swept through Hubei, a major transportation hub. When it comes to the Spring Festival, there are large-scale traffic jams on major highways, and the freezing rain has caused high-speed rail bullet trains to be unable to draw electricity from the transmission line normally, and many trains are forced to reduce their speed or even stop in places where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back.
In the face of the high-performance Fuxing and EMUs, the "big brothers" of the republic, the diesel locomotives that were once the pillars of China's railways have stood up.
On the major ***, the internal combustion engine is like an old generation of martial arts masters who live in seclusion, it looks at the new generation of high-tech juniors due to weather problems caused by the "regression of skills" cramped and stagnant, and does not say a word, holding the hands of the juniors and happily bringing it back to the right track.
Unlike the popular perception that these "classic cars" have been eliminated, many of them are still in service on major railway lines, and the rest are kept in the warehouses of provincial stations as the most important strategic reserves. At the end of last year, the freezing rain in Henan caused part of the railway network to be paralyzed, and even at the end of 20 years, the heavy snow in Northeast China caused part of the railway network to be unable to supply electricity, and the internal combustion engine was at the forefront.
On September 9, 1958, the first diesel electric locomotive in New China was successfully trial-produced at Beijing Changxindian Locomotive Factory. On September 24, 1958, Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Factory made the first domestic freight diesel locomotive for railway trunk line - Julong double-section DC electric drive diesel locomotive, and held a grand factory ceremony on September 26 of the same year.
Not only the internal combustion engine, but also before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Northeast China has made great contributions to China's industrial development.
On July 13, 1956, Changchun No. 1 Automobile Factory produced the first "Jiefang" brand car.
On May 12, 1958, Changchun FAW produced China's first domestically produced car, the "Dongfeng" brand car.
In 1952, the coal output of the three northeastern provinces accounted for 39% of the country, of which Liaoning accounted for 19%, Jilin accounted for 7%, and Heilongjiang accounted for 13%; Cement production accounts for 52% of the country, including: Liaoning accounts for 43%, Heilongjiang accounts for 9%; Power generation accounts for 48% of the country, of which: Liaoning accounts for 26%, Jilin accounts for 17%, and Heilongjiang accounts for 5%; Steel production accounts for 81% of the country, with an absolute advantage, mainly from Liaoning; Fertilizer production accounts for 80% of the country's total, mainly from Liaoning. [1]
From the 50s of the last century to the beginning of reform and opening up, the GDP of Northeast China was in the forefront of the country).
In the last century, factories in Northeast China contracted workers' housing, medical treatment, old-age care, children's schooling, and even workers' washing and entertainment. Jia Xingjia, a writer from Northeast China, once shared such a picture, "The workers stood on this newly assigned balcony (workers' dormitory) and looked down, and saw that the provincial ** building was at their feet." ”
In the fifties and sixties, workers in the Northeast rode bicycles to and from factories and workers' villages).
And all this glory belongs to yesterday.
Ten years ago, in the summer, I followed the parents of my classmates to the Northeast for team building.
The first impression I had in the Northeast was that the infrastructure was very perfect, but there were really few people, and the first street in Harbin and other scenic spots were still a bit crowded with tourists during the summer vacation, but the style of painting was different as soon as they left the relevant tourist gathering places.
Cantonese people like to go to a place to find a fly restaurant to try the taste, when our group of people out of the scenic spot to find food, the time is only a little after the afternoon, there is no pedestrian on the street, and what is more strange is that the street restaurants have closed their shops to rest.
Finally found a shopkeeper willing to receive us, as soon as I asked the boss to learn that they are all like this, after the meal will not accept customers. (Of course, it may be that there is a difference between the north and the south, and generally the south still serves customers after a meal).
In the hotel bathhouse, I was rubbed by an elderly grandfather, and his skillful approach to the priority of the strength made me, a Nanban, still think about the good of the Northeast bathhouse. After inquiry, I learned that the old man and his wife used to work in a local machinery factory in Harbin, and later became scrubbing workers in the general environment.
Later, he and his wife relied on the savings saved by the machinery factory for many years to send their children to Beijing to study, and helped them pay the down payment for the house in Beijing. "That's what my grandfather told me at the time.
The uncle they met in Harbin before the return visit sent by the Moon Thief Club at the beginning of this year, a few years apart, this native of the Northeast Uncle was still afraid to let go of the camera at first. After talking about his uncle's occupation back then, the Northeast uncle became more and more in a state, and his eyes began to shine (praise).
He talked about how energetic he was in the factory machine tool back then, and showed the jack he made back then, and the yield rate of the parts produced by his uncle for so many years has always been excellent, and there has been no waste record in the past 30 years.
So why thirty years have passed, and the once excellent worker uncle has become like this? I'm sure you all have an answer in mind.
In the past, Northeast China not only undertook most of the country's coal and steel resource output, but also continuously sent talents to the whole country as one of the first batch of urbanization. Nowadays, many people in Northeast China do move to other provinces every year, but this phenomenon is no longer called talent transfer, on the contrary, they are called "brain drain".
Of the more than 100,000 graduates from Northeast universities, more than half (6180,000 graduates) left Northeast China to work in other regions, and most of the lost graduates went to South China, East China and North China provinces and cities for employment. According to the source of students, among the graduates of the class of 2019, the number of students from the Northeast region is about 5560,000 people, only the number of graduates employed in the Northeast region is not below this critical value, in order to avoid brain drain. [2]Fei Xiao, a well-known sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist, used the term "rural China" to describe traditional Chinese society.
He believes that in China's rural society, our relationship is centered on "self", like a wave stirred up by a pebble thrown into water, pushed out in circles, pushed farther and thinner. Just like your parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and grandparents close to you, and then the ones who order outside are your uncles, aunts, and cousins.
Mr. Fei called this the "differential order pattern".
In the "differential order pattern", all rules depend on who the object is, what the status is, and the intimacy with oneself, and it has a more well-known name: acquaintance society.
Once the northeast relied on the factories to realize the "workers' society" that the southern clan society did not have, and the famous "Angang Constitution" was produced here.
In the 21st century, the Northeast, which can still produce fighter jets, aircraft carriers, high-speed railways and Three Gorges generator sets under various causal effects, is gradually losing to the southern brothers who play finance and the Internet.
In today's era when the big environment talks about city work and the small environment talks about city walk, with low prices, dishes like no money, and enthusiastic Northeast aunts and uncles, the Northeast has once again returned to people's sight.
They are hotly discussing the exchange rate of the "Northeast currency" with other provincial and municipal currencies on the Internet.
They lingered in the past of the two-dimensional holy land, Shenyang Street.
They were fascinated by the hospitality of the northeastern countryside.
They were amazed at the street food that could be eaten for a few dollars, and in the big city, buying a cup of coffee requires careful calculation of the stacking of various coupons, and a cup of coffee here is half a day's meal.
Since the end of 23 years, more and more tourists from the south have come to the north to enjoy the scenery of this old industrial area, and the northeast still relies on its strong family background to entertain them with full hospitality.
However, now the Northeast, which has taken off its metal coat, seems to be about to integrate into the "trendy" social system that we are familiar with.
There is a small episode in the aforementioned Moon Thief Society's visit to Uncle Halbing**.
After this uncle agreed to the members of the Moon Thief Club and recorded an advertisement together, this uncle was surprised:
Yes? So I can get money by talking in front of the camera?
Yes, this uncle has been diligently producing parts and components on the machine for 30 years, and maybe your car or a gadget has parts that someone else's uncle has handled. As a result, in the end, I found that you young people in the south played a new concept that was quite flowery, standing in front of the camera to sell and talk, you can easily get money, so does this really have the value equal to or even surpassing his labor?
The answer to this question is remarkably simple. Everyone can find 10,000 standard answers for him who doesn't understand new things. But, forget it, there is no but.
References:1] Wang Hongzhang Wang Hongzhang: Northeast China's Economic Development and Contribution to the Whole Country after the Founding of the People's Republic of China Sina Column 2020-11-05
2] Qian Cheng, Sun Fei, National Research Center, Looking at the Problem of Brain Drain in Northeast China from the Employment Destination of Graduates of Colleges and Universities in Northeast China, The Paper, 2022-01-13