From April 1984 to October 1989, a long-term border war was waged in the Laoshan area on the border of Yunnan. The Chinese and Vietnamese Communists invested more than 500,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of civilian forces, repeatedly competing for more than 100 key points on the border, and the combat process was fierce and tortuous. Finally, due to changes in the international situation, the two sides shook hands and made peace, leaving this tropical jungle war spectacle in history.
In this border operation, both sides rotated the troops of various military regions in China to train on the front line, so the history is called the Lao Shan Round Battle (the Vietnamese side called the River River Round War). As a result, in addition to military losses, the economies of the border provinces of the two countries have been severely damaged and have lagged behind the interior for a long time. Vietnam, which is weaker overall, is even worse, and the northern border area is in ruins.
It should be said that the Laoshan battlefield is basically limited to more than ten kilometers on both sides of the border, mainly mountainous and rural, and there are no large cities and commercial centers, and the direct losses caused by the war are not large. However, the large amount of resources invested in support of the war, coupled with the inability of industry, agriculture, commerce and mass life in the border areas caused by long-term hostilities, and the need for huge subsidies from the state, have caused a wide range of negative economic impacts.
In the case of Vietnam, which has long been under French rule, the more economically developed areas are mainly in the southern coastal areas, such as Saigon City (now Ho Chi Minh City), which was once known as the "Little Paris of the East". The northern economy was originally backward, mainly agriculture, less industry, plus during the two Indo-Todochina Wars, the north was used as a large rear, mainly played the role of storing and transshiping materials aided By all countries, insufficient investment in construction, and the implementation of a planned economy, the development speed is very slow.
After the 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the six provinces of Gaoping, Langshan, Huanglianshan, Ha Xuan, Quang Ninh and LaiZhou on the northern border of Vietnam were affected by the war, and a large number of people fled to the interior, the cultivated land was deserted, the livestock died, the industrial and mining enterprises were seriously damaged, and it was difficult to recover in the short term. Since then, the two sides have continued to be hostile on the border, and the Lao Shan Round War has broken out for more than 5 years, resulting in Vietnam's inability to carry out normal production and construction in the north, not only can not restore the trauma of war, but further aggravate economic difficulties.
Vietnam was able to fight on both sides of the Sino-Vietnamese border in the north and Cambodia in the south for 10 years, and its own economy could not support it at all, mainly relying on the support of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union itself and the Eastern European countries transported a large number of military and civilian supplies to Vietnam, and contracted nearly $3 million a day in aid for 10 years, so that a large amount of blood transfusion sustained Vietnam's war. However, at the end of the 1980s, the international situation underwent major changes, the Soviet Union cut off its assistance to Vietnam, Vietnam could not continue the war, so it had to shake hands with China and make peace, withdraw all its troops from Cambodia, and restore peace in the Indochina region.
However, 10 years of precious time were wasted in the flames of war and cannot be recovered. After the war, while the development of neighboring countries was booming, Vietnam's economy was in decline, even worse than in the South Vietnamese period. The northern border, in particular, is more than 20 years behind China. For example, Laojie City, the capital of Huanglianshan Province, was crippled in the 1979 war and had to move the provincial capital to its office. Coupled with the continued confrontation between the two sides after the war, the old street market could not be built normally, and even the residents did not dare to return, so that for more than ten years it became a ruin, with broken bricks and tiles and barren grass everywhere.
It was not until after 1993, when China and Vietnam truced peace and Vietnam was renovated and opened up, that the construction of the old street market began again. Nowadays, LaoJie Market has become the capital of LaoJie Province, and the cityscape is well built, quite like Chinese mainland city, and the life of the masses is also stable and peaceful. This is the gospel of peace and the happiness of the people.
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