Zhang Yanming kept putting off the idea of ​​going back to the ID address to check, until he and Li Wulan boarded the train to the Ruhr but failed to make the trip.

I don’t know where the factory is yet.

I have to wait until I get back to talk about it. I can't afford to delay it here. Although I'm not sure that the things in my memory will still work that well, I still have to give it a try.

To be honest, until this moment, he still regarded this world as another dream in his heart, so he didn't take it so seriously. Who knows when he would wake up one day after reaching the unknown conditions?

Nothing wrong either.

There is a direct train from Xiezigou to the Ruhr, which is very convenient for traveling. However, if you want to enter the customs and go south, you have to start from the Ruhr.

In the past few days, Zhang Yanming took a traffic atlas from Brother Mou and studied it. The geography of China is similar to what he remembered. Except for the slightly different locations of some borders, they are almost the same.

He hasn't had time to go through the specific developments yet, but Zhang Yanming has already thought about it. After returning, he will make up for this aspect and increase his understanding of the world.

The railway station was moving forward on the railway, letting out a loud roar from time to time.

Zhang Yanming sat outside, and Li Wulan held her canvas bag next to the window, leaning on Zhang Yanming and taking a nap.

In 1996, steam locomotives were basically no longer seen on long-distance trains. The steel behemoths that roared and puffed out white smoke had completely withdrawn from the stage. Only some short-distance transportation still retained some.

The heavy investment in diesel locomotives has brought about a leap forward in railway transportation. The speed has increased, the traction force has improved, and it is cleaner.

Motorcycles already existed at this time and had been running for many years. However, due to the problem of traction, they were mostly only used for short-distance transportation.

At this time, no one would have thought that in a few years, electric-driven locomotives would become the mainstream of railway transportation, even reaching a speed of 2300 kilometers per hour.

After sleeping for a while, maybe because of discomfort, Li Wulan changed positions several times.

Zhang Yanming stretched out his hand to take the canvas bag and moved it out so that Li Wulan could curl up on the seat. I never expected that such a big person like her could curl up into a ball and sleep with the canvas bag in Zhang Yanming's arms. It’s on.

The train started to speed up after passing through Steel City. There were fewer stops on this side than on the other side.

In fact, the total distance is only about 90 kilometers. In this era, the train takes more than three hours. Originally, the bus was faster and there was a highway, but it was not convenient and you had to transfer in Gangcheng City.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, the car was quiet, most people were resting with their eyes closed, and some were playing poker, but it was not as noisy as the workers on the commuter train. Mainly because there were few young people.

When young people come to the Ruhr, they usually take the bus, which is quick.

The late 1990s were the last years of great changes in the times and the last years of the overall collapse of the Northeast. Population mobility was still very low.

It was at this time that the overall economy of Northeast China began to collapse, moving from the richest place in the country to falling behind.

Starting from the early 1980s, the country's policy orientation began to focus on Yanhai. At that time, the fiscal and tax revenue of the three northeastern provinces was almost the same as that of the southern provinces. Then various resources and funds were allocated to the south, which meant blood transfusion began.

Or a blood transfusion that has stagnated development.

In 1980, the output value of the Ruhr province was several times that of Lingnan. It even opened a securities trading center a few years before Shanghai. Later, it was stopped by the state because it wanted to make way for Shanghai. Why did it give way?

From 1980 to 1984, Lingnan paid one billion in national taxes every year, and retained the rest. Starting from 1985, it dropped to 778 million per year. In 1988, incremental contracting was implemented, with a base of 1.413 billion, and an annual increase of 9%. By 1992, it was

Only 2.3 billion.

As for the Ruhr province, from 1980 to 1993, it turned over a total of 165.02 billion to the finance. This does not include the leveling of various resources, including 63 million tons of steel, about 400,000 tons of aluminum, 1.3 million tons of zinc, and 600,000 tons of caustic soda.

Soda ash 5.8 million tons...

In addition to important raw materials being transferred out in large quantities at low prices, major technical equipment, metallurgical and mining equipment, lifting equipment, metal cutting machine tools, transformers, high-voltage switches, etc. were also transferred out of the province in large quantities at low prices to support the country.

Not counting too much, 3 billion a year is close to 50 billion. This does not include the overall relocation of factories.

In 2004, in Yangcheng, the monthly tax for a 500-square-meter restaurant was 200 yuan, and during the same period, a roadside cigarette stall of several square meters in Ruhr paid more than 1,200 yuan.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, development was taking place everywhere and everyone was enjoying national policies and supply subsidies, while the Northeast was regressing and losing blood.

Why did a large number of industries in the Northeast go bankrupt and closed in the late 1990s? There was no recuperation and no development, because it had no opportunities. Technology could not be upgraded, and there was a lack of funds for equipment renovation! Lack of funds!

A large number of companies are still using equipment from the 1930s and 1940s and insisting on completing the country's tax instructions.

When the tax-sharing system was introduced in 1993, Lingnan raised a series of questions to the country. The bottom line was that if it could not be paid, "no big things could be done."

Under such conditions, the GDP of Yangcheng in Lingnan in 1990 was 31.96 billion, while that of Ruhr City was 39.21 billion.

At that time, the mayor of the Ruhr city pounded the table and said to the National Assembly: Even if you leave half of it to me, I can double or triple his development. However, it was no use. This mayor became the shortest-serving mayor in the history of the Ruhr.

mayor.

Why did the boss of Liao become the last of Liao?

After twenty years of retrogression and stagnation, other regions are developing at full strength. If we reverse the trend, we will lose forty years. We have to spend money, materials and people to meet the development needs of other regions, and we have to face a large amount of brain drain.

The Black Province was suppressed from a major industrial province second only to the Ruhr to an agricultural and animal husbandry province.

The 1990s was a leapfrog era and milestone in the country's development, but it was also an era when the Northeast was choked and had its blood drawn.

…

Ruhr is at the crossroads at this time and is still in its final stages of prosperity.

It has wide roads, developed transportation, prosperous commerce, and leading industry, medicine, arts and sports.

People and cars are coming and going on the street. Standing in the square, no matter where you look, you can see the crowds of people and the constant flow of traffic.

"Where are we going?"

Li Wulan was a little confused. She had never been out much, and she held Zhang Yanming's hand tightly with the timidity and uneasiness of someone from a small place who came to a big city.

Facing this ancient city, Zhang Yanming had a feeling that was both familiar and strange, and some things in his memory were slowly overlapping.

"Let's go to the station. Let's stay here first and then go out for a walk." He turned to look at Li Wulan and said, "I'll buy you two sets of clothes."

"Isn't this the train station?"

Li Wulan turned to look at the exotic station behind her.

"It's not this. There are several stations here. The buses going south to the customs are not here. The buses here are all going north and from within the province." Zhang Yanming looked around and wanted to take a taxi.
Chapter completed!