The 1,158-square-kilometer territory has finally returned to the embrace of the motherland, and this land that has been adrift for more than 100 years has finally found its true owner. However, in addition to the size of these territories, the area is also extremely rich in rare resources beneath the ground. This makes some Western countries also mock openly and secretly, and there is a feeling of "saying that grapes are sour if you can't eat them".
However, the reason why this land has been wandering for so long has to start from Tsarist Russia in the 19th century.
In the historical changes of China's territory, the Tang Dynasty in its heyday had a territory area of more than 30 million square kilometers, including the vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, such as Tiele, Huifu, Turkic, etc., as many as 36, known as the Tang Dynasty.
Later, Genghis Khan of the Yuan Dynasty conquered the European battlefield in the west, once again bringing the continental territory to its peak. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the first industrial revolution in the West was also in full swing, but the incompetent Qing government was still in a corrupt and chaotic environment, missing the wave of the industrial revolution, so those countries that developed rapidly with this revolution began to prepare for China.
As the Qing government signed one unequal treaty after another, our territory was also divested little by little. In 1867, Tsarist Russia in the north wanted to get its hands on China's Xinjiang, and Britain also set its sights on Tibet. Therefore, Tsarist Russia first sent a so-called "expedition" into the mainland territory, that is, the Pamir Plateau, to conduct topographic reconnaissance, and then through diplomatic channels to get the Qing government to compromise and encroach on this land step by step.
Six years later, Britain and Tsarist Russia reached a shameless agreement on the division of the Pamirs. It was blatant and did not even involve the Qing government. The agreement stated that the Wakhan Pamir (also known as the Wakhan Corridor and the Afghanistan Corridor) in the Pamir region would be under the British sphere of influence, and the western side of the Pamir region would be designated as the sphere of influence of Tsarist Russia, but the matter was far from over.
In 1883, Tsarist Russia forcibly seized 70,000 square kilometers of land in Xinjiang, and then sent troops to occupy 20,000 square kilometers on the west side of the Sarekole Ridge.
The banditry of Russia and Britain brought heavy disasters to the Tajik people, and at the same time divided the westernmost part of China. Despite its corruption, the Qing government was still very indignant at the loss of its own territory, and they issued solemn protests to Britain and Russia, but repeated negotiations were fruitless. Tsarist Russia simply ignored the Qing government's voices, and still recklessly increased its troops to guard it. It is an indisputable fact that weak countries have no diplomacy.
In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, the country's various undertakings were in ruins, and years of war made New China not have enough strength to recover these lands that belonged to it. With the reform and opening up in the 80s, the economic form of the mainland has improved, and then there have been earth-shaking changes, Hong Kong and Macao have been recovered by us one by one, but the Pamir region is still in the hands of other countries.
The Pamirs are located in the southeast of Tajikistan, which was annexed to Tajikistan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, at the end of the 20th century, China was no longer the country that was to be slaughtered by others, and the mainland continued to negotiate with Tajikistan in the attitude of peacefully resolving the dispute in the Pamir region.
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A year later, the top leader of Tajikistan visited China for the first time, and China and Tajikistan signed a joint statement expressing their willingness to resolve the territorial dispute by peaceful means.
In 2008, the exploration of the Sino-Tajikistan boundary was completed. Three years later, 1,158 square kilometers of land have finally returned to their homeland. However, behind the smooth return of this land is that the mainland has repeatedly shown its sincerity to Tajikistan.
Among them, we have provided Tajikistan with nearly 250 million yuan worth of materials free of charge, including daily necessities, food, clothing and so on. China has also set up friendly economic agreements with Tajikistan for import and export trade, and we have also provided technical support for their national construction on many occasions. However, for the mainland, the significance of the return of the territory is far more than that, and the rare mineral resources buried deep underground have brought convenience to all walks of life on the mainland.
After we reclaimed the Pamir region, explorers discovered large quantities of scarce resources such as lithium and uranium, and hundreds of thousands of tons of gold were also detected. The Tajiks said it was a gift from the sun god to China. (Tajiks worship the sun very much)
Needless to say, the gold mine is an eternal hard currency, and the discovery of uranium ore has provided great convenience for the mainland's national defense, and this material is one of the necessary raw materials for the hydrogen bomb nuclear bomb, and as a non-renewable energy source, with a little, there will be a little less in the world, it is no exaggeration.
In addition to these rare resources, the Pamir region also has iron ore and zinc ore. Since the reform and opening up of the mainland, the engineering construction and industrial system are inseparable from iron ore, and the demand is increasingly huge, so we have to import these iron ores to Australia every year. If the ore from the Pamir region is utilized, it will have a positive impact on all walks of life in China.
In addition to these resources, the Pamir region was also a major transportation route along the Silk Road in ancient times. The unique culture of the region has nourished such a simple, bold and brave people as the Tajiks, who are one of the 56 ethnic groups on the mainland. Since it has not been overexploited over the years, the Pamir region has remained untouched and has been made fascinating by nature.
epilogue
History is not up to us, and the Pamirs are still of far-reaching significance to the mainland's economic diplomacy in the new era. At 1,158 square kilometers, this number represents China's growing strength. At the same time, the author also firmly believes that with the unremitting efforts of the country and the people, more and more such regions will return to their hometowns in the future.