"No one likes to have a very strong neighbor, let alone two neighbors who are stronger than themselves."
This sentence came from a history professor at the National University of Mongolia, and when I asked "why Mongolians don't like Chinese", he replied with a little embarrassment and grace: "China and Russia are both neighbors of Mongolia, and although there have been wars in history, they will definitely become more and more harmonious in the future." ”
The saying that Mongolians are anti-China" has actually been around for a long time, and at least among the current Mongolian people, there are still a considerable number of negative sentiments towards China and the Chinese. A Russian blogger went to Mongolia to visit the streets and came to the conclusion that at least more than half of Mongolians do not like Chinese, mainly in the middle-aged and elderly groups; Most teenagers, on the other hand, are neutral to Russia and yearn for China.
A Mongolian brother said that his relatives and friends over 30 years old generally have anti-China sentiments, but Mongolians under the age of 30 basically do not feel such feelings. When the blogger asked "why is this", the little brother hesitated for a moment before answering: because of a certain stage of history.
The "certain stage" here is actually the "broken bones" transformation carried out during the Soviet Union's control of Mongolia, which not only changed the Uighur orthodox Mongolian script to the Slavic (Cyrillic) Mongolian script, weakened the sense of national identity of the various tribes in Outer Mongolia, and then wrote China into the Outer Mongolian textbook in the name of "invader", artificially creating antagonism and forcing Mongolia to fully depend on the Soviet Union.
Another Mongolian lady explained more clearly, she believes that the Mongolian ** is deliberately tampering with history, not talking about the invasion and looting of Chinese dynasties by the Mongolian army, but only unilaterally emphasizing the Qing Dynasty's control over Mongolia, encouraging Mongolian films to establish the stereotype that "China is the enemy", and even distorting the historical truth in various books, resulting in Mongolians generally holding negative feelings towards Chinese.
The blogger then asked: The Qing Dynasty controlled Mongolia? That's not Han, that's Manchu. The young lady replied helplessly: Believe me, the young Mongolian knows that he has been fooled.
However, the anti-China sentiment of most middle-aged and elderly Mongolians is not only because of these, but also because it is difficult to acceptHuge drops。Outer Mongolia has fallen from the "pearl of the Soviet Union" to the current "penultimate in East Asia", and its per capita GDP has slipped from the level of Europe during the Soviet Union to the 120th place in the world in 2023.
The poverty rate struggled from 1993 to 30% to 28% in 202246 trillion yuan, which is 131 times that of Outer Mongolia, and the per capita disposable income is more than 380,000 yuan, which is 55 times more (don't talk about the Han people more, you just say whether the Mongolians in Inner Mongolia enjoy affordable and better quality of life).
If that's all, the people of Outer Mongolia are not so difficult to accept, and the more important thing is that the price and quality of life, the gap is huge, I believe that people who have been to Outer Mongolia know it.
One kilogram of eggs, Inner Mongolia ** is generally within 12 yuan, and one egg in Outer Mongolia is 15 yuan (small eggs from Russia);
One kilogram of white sugar, Inner Mongolia ** is stable within 9 yuan, and Outer Mongolia is maintained at more than 12 yuan all year round (minimum quality);
One kilogram of flour, Inner Mongolia ** is within 9 yuan all year round, and Outer Mongolia fluctuates between 14-17 yuan all year round (the lowest quality in Russia).
As for other vegetables, fruits and daily necessities, you can understand with your toes that Outer Mongolia does not have a light industrial base and large-scale agricultural planting conditions, nor does it have such developed logistics and e-commerce channels as China, so the actual price will only be higher. So the local guide laughed at me and didn't dare to use the shopping cart when shopping in a Mongolian supermarket.
To put it simply: compared with the Inner Mongolian people, the Outer Mongolian people earn less, spend more, and live worse.
Obviously it is of the same origin and the same race, and Outer Mongolia has a higher starting point, but in less than 50 years, the high-rise buildings in Inner Mongolia have not been completed, and the highways are even more expensive one after another, and the high-speed rail is one after another.
In the era when the Mongolian army swept through Europe and Asia, the Outer Mongolians could not bear it anymore, but now China is not only economically unbeatable, but the military equipment is dizzying year after year.