Hello everyone, does the number 404 sound familiar? If you see 404 on the Internet, it means that this website cannot be found, and there is such a city in China, whether it is on paper or electronic maps, or even the license plate number area code and the area where online shopping can be delivered, it is 404 City. I am Bunnano.
City 404 is the code name of a prefecture-level city, only the code name has no name. The city began construction in the 1950s, it is located in the desert, like a stone abandoned in modern civilization, but also like a sharp blade, quietly opened on the Gobi in northwest China, the city represents the mystery itself, until later more people know the existence of this city, and scramble to explore the city's historical traces.
To get here, you can even take the oldest green-skinned train, and then get off at a small station called Low Nest Shop, which is the hidden entrance of the 404 city, which is only 4 square kilometers from the outermost point, while the living area of people does not exceed 2 square kilometers, the core living area is only 1 square kilometer, and the most prosperous time accommodates about 50,000 people.
There is no windy day here, the car glass is hairy by the wind and sand, the wind and sand here people can only wear hard hats to go out, because the diameter of three or four centimeters of stone can blow up the sky, like the guns and bullets, the environment is very bad, 404 small city is small but complete, there are banks, post offices, television stations, newspapers, and even drug rehabilitation centers, detention centers, in this isolated desert, so that people here are accustomed to their own things to solve, 404 the most prosperous period even vinegar factories, In the yellow sand, people in the city can drink their own vinegar and eat their own popsicles and ice cream.
It is such an inconspicuous small town, but it is China's greatest scientific research base, here, China built the first nuclear reactor, which is an important institution for China to build atomic bombs, since 1959, China has sent the country's top talents here, with only one purpose: to use the strength of the whole country to create atomic bombs.
In this city, a total of three generations have lived, and the most widely known sentence here is "Dedicate your youth to your life, dedicate your life to your children and grandchildren." Until October 16, 1964, China's first self-developed atomic bomb was successfully exploded in Lop Nur in Xinjiang, which not only represented a new level of Chinese science and technology, breaking the nuclear monopoly and nuclear blackmail of the superpower, but also improved China's international status.
In July 1996, when China's nuclear technology had reached a height, the country began to suspend a series of nuclear tests, this code name "404", semi-closed semi-militarized small city completely withdrew from the stage of history, when the people who grew up in this city and made significant contributions to the country gradually left the region, but what awaited it was not the supreme glory, but could only maintain a high degree of order, slowly silent. This is also why, to this day, many people are unaware of its existence.
Of course, it is not only the city that is incognito, but also the talent elites of various industries in the city, and now it seems to be frozen in time, fading full of glory and slowly sinking into the river of time.