(2) How chaotic was Guangdong in the 1990s? Guangzhou station chaos, go to Dongguan was "sold piglets"
Walking Youth (3)
Border guards, do anyone remember?
Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, because it is called a special economic zone means that it cannot be entered casually. Shenzhen is separated from Hong Kong by a river, and at that time Hong Kong had not yet returned to the motherland, it belonged to the border area, so it was necessary to apply for a border defense permit to go to Shenzhen.
Border guard
In the public security bureau where the household registration is located, it is the police station and the public security bureau to run several times to do it, the validity period seems to be one year, I can't remember clearly.
There are multiple checkpoints to enter the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, called customs clearance. There are three checkpoints with more people entering and leaving, namely Nantou, Buji and Shawan.
After the passenger car arrives at the checkpoint, all passengers get off the bus and show their border passes in the inspection hall. Social vehicles take the vehicle passage, and the driver will be inspected in the vehicle passageway.
South Head Checkpoint Verification Gate
After passing the customs, the passenger rushed all the way to the square inside the checkpoint, looked left and right, asked you to have a good look, a good memory, and you had to find the car you had just sat in. The legs and feet are not good, the movement is slow, the car you are sitting in drove away, sorry, you can only buy a new ticket to take another car.
People looking for a car in the south checkpoint square
There are some snake heads active outside the customs all year round, and when they see you wandering outside the checkpoint, they will come up and ask if you want to enter the customs without a border guard permit, and spend one hundred and eighty yuan on snake heads to take you in.
How many people sighed only because of this piece of paper.
From Dongguan to Shenzhen is from the South Head Checkpoint. I was sold once in the middle of the "piglet", because I had previous experiences, so this time I was not so nervous and could face it calmly.
South Head Checkpoint
After entering the customs to take shennan avenue, I got off the car in Cai Wuwei, Luohu District, as soon as I got off the car, I was stupid, at that time, there were many high-rise buildings in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, but because the place was large, the high-rise buildings were scattered, and I didn't feel anything. Shenzhen projectile land, and the high-rise buildings at that time were concentrated in the Luohu area of Shennan Avenue, Cai Wuwei here is more concentrated, at a glance one after another, are dozens of floors of buildings. The streets are neat and tree-lined.
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Across the road is the Shenzhen Grand Theatre,
On the left is a huge portrait of Deng Xiaoping,
At that time, the Imperial Building on the right had just reached the third floor.
The Imperial Mansion after completion
We often say that Shenzhen speed refers to the construction of Shenzhen International Trade Building, when the construction of the country was the speed of one floor in three days, so there was Shenzhen speed. The Imperial Building once again reproduced the speed of Shenzhen at a three-day construction speed of one floor.
Looking at the rows of tall buildings in front of you, it is difficult to imagine that Choi Woo Wai was a small village before, all of which was unimaginable in the mainland in 1993.
"Sir, what do you need?"
"Boss, what do you want to eat?"
Everything is so polite and humble.
Shenzhen attracted me deeply, and I decided that I wanted to stay in Shenzhen and I didn't want to go back to Dongguan.
Then the seemingly glamorous city gave me a few surprise slaps.
At that time, although there were buses in Shenzhen, there were few trains and stopped at the station, so the main trip was to take a private minibus, and the minibus beckoned to stop, shouting "there is a drop" can get off anywhere.
The day after I arrived in Shenzhen, I wanted to take a good look at the youngest city in China.
I decided to go see the mysterious Luohu Bridge first.
Luohu Port is next to the Shenzhen Railway Station, a red and white Chinese-style building, built in January 1984, the ground two floors are non-Hong Kong and Macao personnel out of the hall, the hall is surrounded by shop aids, and then there is an inspection channel, can not go, look inside, what the Luohu Bridge inside is like I did not see, (this in the later Hong Kong chapter I will introduce to you).
Luohu Port
Out of The Luohu Port on the right hand side is the Luohu Commercial City, mainly for Hong Kong consumers, when the Hong Kong dollar is more expensive than the renminbi, Shenzhen and Hong Kong compared with the price of goods is low, so Hong Kong low-income people will come through Shenzhen to shop, Luohu Commercial City out of customs is, so here has become the first choice for Hong Kong people to shop. In the 1990s, the average price of shops here reached 60,000 yuan per square meter, making it the most expensive shop in China at that time. After 2004, it declined due to the rampant counterfeiting.
Luohu Commercial City in front of Luohu Port
Luohu Commercial City is opposite Shenzhen Railway Station.
Shenzhen Railway Station
The Shenzhen Railway Station is being built in the center of the city, and the railway in the urban area is an elevated railway bridge that crosses in the air, so it has no impact on the traffic in the city.
The train enters the city
North of the train station is the Shangri-La Hotel, at this time the internal emergency, I went to Shangri-La to find a toilet, from the hotel gate out, a man followed me, whispered to me if I want miss, I waved my hand and said no, he was not willing, all the way to introduce me, and then came to see me indifferent, had to leave. I smiled in my heart, he saw me going in and out of Shangri-La must have treated me as a big money, so he came up to pull business, even if he knew that I was just a toilet. The man doesn't seem to be professional enough, and I don't look like a big money.
North along Renmin South Road is the Shenzhen International Trade Building, the symbol of Shenzhen, the top floor is a revolving restaurant, deng Xiaoping's southern tour speech in 1992 is here, it is a witness to history.
When I was almost done shopping, I took the minibus back to my place of residence, and when I got out of the minibus, I had a pocket and the money was gone.
I remembered that when I was about to get out of the car, a man stood next to me, with a coat on his arm, clutching the barricade of the car, and the clothes were blocking me, and it turned out that he was blocking his hand reaching into my pocket. I didn't expect that Shenzhen, which seemed orderly, was not as safe as I thought. It was very frustrating, fortunately, the money was not much, dozens of dollars, and the big ticket was in my other pocket.
On the third day, I went to visit the East Gate, which was called the Old East Gate by the locals, and it existed during the Ming Dynasty. This is the only place in Shenzhen where you can feel the history. After the reform and opening up, a commercial pedestrian street was formed here, with more than a dozen streets and an average daily flow of 500,000 people. There are many restaurants in the mall, very lively, it is a good place for shopping and food, and it is a must-visit place to come to Shenzhen.
I'm not immune, and I have to come and visit. It also proves that I have come to Shenzhen. I was just wandering around and couldn't afford anything.
In a relatively secluded street around several people, walking around the high tide of interest to let down their vigilance, to go to see the liveliness, a person on the ground three bowls, bowls in the bowl, bowl buckles on the ground upside down, onlookers to bet on which bowl has a ball.
This kind of low-level trick is fooled now, but I have seen this before. A few onlookers shouted and bet, all bets were correct, I looked at it twice, did not bet, and guessed correctly. At this time, a woman next to me said to me that the young man was about to bet 100 yuan, and I did not take out 100 yuan without delaying.
The result was lost.
After that, I reacted that the woman and the onlookers were mostly in the same group, in today's parlance, it was tou, all of them were leading donkeys. At that time, I somehow got into the water, and she told me to bet on me so obediently that I didn't even think about it, and the result was that I was on the set, and I could only think that I was unlucky.
In just two days, I was given two dismounts.
But this matter was not over, a few days later I sat alone on the roadside steps, a guy about the same age as me sat next to me and talked to me, and mysteriously took out a small golden Buddha from his arms, saying that he had gotten it from the tomb, and looked around while talking, as if it were the real thing. Asked me if I wanted to buy, after his vernacular, I was a little moved again, hesitant, he saw that I was a little shaken, he stepped up the offensive and kept convincing me, for 20 minutes, and finally I finally stayed awake, lifted my ass and left.
Thinking about what happened in the past few days, I felt that this place was too terrible, I was completely confused by its glamorous appearance, I mistakenly thought that this was not Guangzhou, this was not Dongguan, this was shenzhen where everything was orderly and spotless.
I finally understood, like a well-dressed gentleman, who, after taking off his clothes, revealed the black mud in the seams of his feet.
One day I went downstairs to eat in the small restaurant, the boss asked me what to eat, I pointed to the table and said to bowl this noodle, the boss looked at me white and said, "This is not noodles, this is powder." "Okay, let's have a bowl."
A few days later, in another small restaurant, I said to the boss to bring me a bowl of this powder, and the boss gave me a blank look and said, "This is not powder, this is noodles."
A thousand grass and mud horses are running in my heart, which is the noodle and which is the powder? I looked at the boss and thought, do you think I'm stupid B?
The huge difference between the north and the south makes me a clever and clever northeast guy, but here I have repeatedly become a stupid B.
I need to transform.
to be continued......
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