In recent years, "low housing prices" have become a focus of attention, and cities such as Hegang and Gejiu have attracted countless people to "lie flat".
But do you dare to believe that there is an old city in the mainland, and a 70-square-meter house is only sold for 2,000 yuan, and only 28 yuan per square meter?!
Such a magical reality is not a fantasy, it happened in the old city of Yumen, Gansu!
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2000 yuan to buy a suite,
But the locals say that "no one wants it for nothing"?
When it comes to Yumen, many people will think of Wang Zhilian's classic sentence "Why should the Qiang flute complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass".
But the Yumen Pass, which is known to the people of the whole country, is not in Yumen, but in Dunhuang.
The old city of Yumen was once the cradle of the famous PetroChina.
It supported half of the petroleum industry in New China, gave birth to China's first oil well, the first petroleum industry base, and is the hometown of the iron man Wang Jinxi......
There are also people who wrote poems praising Yumen: "The Soviet Union has Baku, China has Yumen, and where there is oil, there are Yumen people."
But all resource-based cities can't escape the dilemma of resource depletion, and Yumen is slowly silent in the face of such a reality:
The population of more than 130,000 is now only about 15,000, or even less;
The former department stores and Xinhua bookstores have also closed, and there are dilapidated buildings everywhere, except for a traffic light, which often flickers lonely and often alone.
In order to develop the new city, Yumen moved the entire city to the new city......
The city abandons people and leaves, and the housing prices fall so much that people call it magic.
A 70㎡ house is priced at only 2,000 yuan, and many people can get it without 1 month's salary!
Even if you don't buy a house, renting a house here will only cost 20-50 yuan a month, and some will even be directly abandoned and reduced to a waste picker's residence.
Of course, it is not a "ghost town" as we imagined, although it is a deserted house, but it can be connected to water and electricity, the house structure is intact, and it can be lived normally.
It's just that there are no schools and factories left, and it's too inconvenient to live here, so there is a saying that the locals "no one wants it for nothing!"!
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Now that "the spring breeze has passed the Yumen Pass",
It's an unexpectedly good place to travel?!
Today, you can still hear people use the term "ghost town" to describe Yumen, but this statement is still too exaggerated.
What's more, now that the new city has been built, with the special terrain of two mountains and one valley, it has vigorously developed "wind power", and has become the "new energy capital of China" and the only "top 100 counties and cities in the west" in Gansu.
So if you have the opportunity to come to Gansu, don't just go to Dunhuang, you can also come to see this ill-fated old city and see what the new city looks like.
You'll be surprised to find that it's more delicious and fun than you think, and it's less crowded.
When you walk into the old town of Yumen, you will find that there is a tranquility and "retro" atmosphere where time has stood still.
The bell tower bells in the old downtown area, the bus station in 1990 and the surrounding small shops, there is a sense of time-traveling;
The graffiti left on the walls of the old stadium is trendy but also cute, and the old people sitting in rows basking in the sun are all the "temperature" here.
© Little Red Book: The rest of my life is shallow
In the old town of Yumen, you can also take a tour of the industrial heritage of the oil field.
There is a 104-kilometer-long inland river called the Oil River, where the history of Yumen begins, and the "first well" of Laojunmiao here is the first oil well in China;
Go to the oil workers' cave, the former site of the oil refinery, the Cultural Palace, and the theater to feel the iron man spirit and explore the memory of oil.
In Yumen, you can also enjoy the gorgeous and colorful natural scenery, which is so beautiful that CCTV has praised it.
Yumen Magic Mountain Geopark, also known as Hongliuxia Canyon.
The Danxia here is as colorful as Zhangye, but it is more niche, and the peaks of various colors overlap together, which is amazingly magnificent.
Tianjing Changma, the world is independent of the world in the summer heat.
Here are Changma Sacred Lake, Changma Grottoes, Thousand Eyes Spring, Moon Bay Wetland, Tianshengqiao Miracle, Laohugou Glacier, Xiangmaoshan Grassland, Shule River Canyon...... Brilliant and dazzling.
© Douyin: Gansu Meteorology
Chijin Gorge Water Conservancy Scenic Area, with its majestic reservoir dam.
There is also a 7.5-kilometer rafting river with meandering ups and downs, twists and turns, allowing you to experience the hearty excitement of "the first drift in the northwest".
© Douyin: Gansu Meteorology
When you come to Yumen, you can't miss the special food here.
"Sheep dialing" is a must-eat dish, the mutton is poured on the big iron pot, plus the onion and green pepper are stir-fried with a shovel over high heat, the fragrance is tangy, the meat is fragrant with the steamed bun, it is particularly enjoyable.
The long sunshine and strong sunlight also brought thin skin and thick flesh, crisp, sweet and juicy melons and fruits to Yumen.
Some "picky mouths" also come here to buy ginseng fruit, Yumen black wolfberry, and flower sea melon, just because the taste is good and nutritious.
© Douyin: Love Yumen
The wheels of the times are rolling forward, the old city of Yumen has been prosperous and frustrated, and the new city of Yumen is also breaking the situation in a desperate situation and living to die.
But we believe that after ups and downs, Yumen can always dig out new treasures with the gifts of nature and the struggle of energy people, because every Yumen person has an unfailing "iron man spirit"!
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