With the approach of the Spring Festival in 97, the weather in Hainan has gradually cooled.

With a temperature of 25 or 6 degrees, coupled with this year's typhoon, the cloudless, clear sky, clear water, and delicate sandy beaches make Hainan Island a resort.

Such beautiful scenery and pleasant climate are very attractive to Chinese living in temperate zones, let alone Russians from places like Siberia.

With the improvement of Wenchang Aerospace City day by day, the living conditions here have also been completely improved. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and after the conditions improve, the progress of the entire manned cabin project has also begun to speed up. More and more people and equipment, buildings and projects have begun to be put into production and started, and the construction of the Wenchang launch center has entered the fast lane.

After all, it is China's first manned space project, and although everything is ready-made, it is still not easy. In order to be able to catch up with the schedule, the staff in Wenchang Aerospace City are still too short of time.

In Hu Wenhai's eyes, such a situation is of course very gratifying. The success of manned space flight will not only affect his personal honor, but also be closely related to the national and international situation.

However, after all, people are not machines, and it is impossible to work without rest, and a proper combination of work and rest is more beneficial to the progress of the project.

1997 was an early year, and February 7 was spring. However, in Wenchang Aerospace City, just after the 26th, that is, on the 3rd, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival was already very strong.

There are not only Chinese in Wenchang Space City today, but also many Russians. These white-skinned foreigners who have never experienced the Spring Festival are inevitably infected by this festive atmosphere from top to bottom.

It's not that the Soviet experts and workers working in the space city are greedy for pleasure, but that as the Chinese New Year approaches, one of their benefits is also being implemented.

On the Chinese side of the Chinese side of the country, a group of Russians have just passed the customs border inspection and officially set foot on Chinese soil. These groups are mainly elderly, women and children, and sometimes some elderly men, who are also curious about their surroundings.

Since the nineties, Manchuria has ushered in rapid development. If pigs can take off when standing on the tuyere, then Manchuria is standing on the tuyere of the solar storm.

The trade between the East Soviet Union and China has increased year by year, and the exchanges between China and Russia have become more and more frequent, and a steady stream of Sino-Soviet trade materials has entered and exited from the Manchuria port, and the scale is several orders of magnitude larger than in history.

Timber from the Far East, Makha, whitefish and sturgeon from Lake Baikal, furs from Yakutsk, oil from Yakutia and Sakhalin, copper mines, coal mines, and, of course, Russian machinery and equipment from the East Soviet Union, and occasionally some special cargo covered in camouflage cloth.

The population of the East Soviet Union is only more than 10 million, but the area under its actual control is almost the same as China's land area! Since the 90s, as a result of opening up the channels for Chinese investment, the number of human resources exported from the northeast region to the Far East alone has at least tens of millions.

Dongsu just sells resources, and he can completely make himself live very comfortably. At the same time, the economic situation of the Far East as a whole is even more different from the history of the past. The special geopolitics of the East Soviet Union does not have to worry about what China wants to do with it, and there is no concern at all about Russia about changing the Far East.

It must be said that maintaining the existence and relative vitality of the East Soviet Union is a matter of interest to China. First of all, the existence of the East Soviet Union can pull hatred more than Russia in history, because the East Soviet Union is still under the banner of the orthodoxy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and it is also the first force after World War II to dare to throw cannons, and this "evil" index is simply unparalleled.

Secondly, the vitality of the East Soviet Union is also good for China to absorb the Soviet legacy, and if it were not for the signboard of the East Soviet Union, it would have been difficult for China to suck blood on Western Russia so easily with its own resources.

In addition, the Eastern Soviet Union greatly reduced the military pressure on China's northern border, which greatly alleviated the deterioration of the external environment faced by the northwest. The existence of the East Soviet regime can be said to be of no harm to China.

These resources of the East Soviet Union continued to flow south from Manchuria, and then China's export goods continued to go north, and the prosperity of the Manzhouli port could almost be called a small Jiangnan.

In the crowd of Russians who had just crossed the border, a small red triangle was held alof, and the tour guide holding a megaphone waved his hand again and again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the territory of China. From here, we will take a train to Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, and then follow the Beijing-Harbin Railway and Beijing-Guangzhou Railway all the way south, and take a panoramic view of China's railway scenery from north to south. ”

"The 4,000-kilometre-long railway line will traverse the cold, temperate and tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere and will take 48 hours. You can buy a little souvenir in Manchuria, but I would recommend that you save your budget because there are more opportunities to spend in southern China, where you can buy everything you want. ”

These Russians are not much interested in the scenery of Manchuria, because there are more Chinese here in Manchuria, so the style of souvenirs and buildings is more popular in Russian style!

But the flow of people on the streets of Manzhouli at this time left a deep impression on them.

"There are so many people in China, and the streets are so lively. It's so cold, but their business looks good. ”

"I've heard that China has been doing well in recent years, so maybe we should consider the opinions of men......"

"Sisters, it's about time, it's time for us to get on the train!"

Young Mao Mei will always become a landscape of her own wherever she is, and such a group of Russian women-dominated teams have attracted the frequent attention of passers-by. In the waiting hall of the railway station, a reserved ticket gate opened, and the hairy girls passed through the turnstile in the attention of the crowd, and began to prepare for the ticket inspection and boarding.

This is a double-decker bus body modified from East Germany, and now many domestic passenger lines have adopted this design. The reason is actually simple, because in the face of the increase in railway capacity, the increase in demand for capacity at China's Spring Festival nodes is too terrifying.

Unlike in the past, when Chinese railways could "calmly" increase their capacity, due to the overheated development of China's economy, the pressure of the Spring Festival transportation has increased by at least five years compared with the historical level. However, the rapid acceleration of the index also has the advantage, that is, the passenger railway can introduce some improvements that are difficult to carry out in the later stage at the stage when the foundation is weak.

Standards such as double-decker undercarriages, which were introduced at a time when the number of railway tunnels in China was still small, had an almost immediate impact on capacity and were also acceptable in terms of cost. If there are more tunnels, culverts and other mileage, it is almost impossible to be compatible with a large number of double-decker buses on the passenger line.

This double-layer underbody with the technology introduced from East Germany has now begun to generally replace a large number of old-fashioned green cars in China. This may cause a pity, and it will be difficult for students born in the seventies and eighties to retain the memory of the green car.

It is not surprising that the electrified railway network has surprised these East Soviet people, and now the domestic railways are at least at the level of the 80s in East Germany, and they are all picked up when the two Germany were merged. Since the 90s, the corporate bonds issued by railways in China have not been sold at all, and the line reconstruction projects in Shenyang, Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, and Guangzhou have not stopped.

What did Mao Zi do to bring the Soviet Union to disintegration? Didn't he just want to live a life on the level of East Germany? Therefore, this double-decker car with original German flavor was obviously the appetite of these East Soviet people. Not long after the train left, these Mao Zi and Mao Mei, who had a certain superiority over China before, had been completely conquered.

After a few hours of driving, the plains along the railway line gradually became more and more built. A group of hairy girls leaned on the car window and looked out, and a completely different scenery from Russia flashed in front of their eyes one by one.

"Oh my God, there are so many people in China!"

"In Russia, even Moscow doesn't have so many people, right?"

"Have we arrived at the imperial capital of China? This must be the most prosperous city in China!"

"I've just heard a Chinese translator say that this is not the imperial capital. ”

"How is that possible? Look at the crowd and the city here!"

"No, it's true, we've only been driving for a long time, and when we think of the imperial capital, it will take at least ten hours!"

"And where would this be?"

"This is Harbin, the capital of China's Heilongjiang province, and there are at least four such cities in Northeast China!"

It has to be said that on the eve of the Spring Festival, Chinese cities are full of prosperity and festivity everywhere from south to north. Such a unique scenery does have a lot of attraction to this group of blonde and blue-eyed hairy girls.

However, the sheer flow of people and buildings was not enough to make them so excited.

As the train rolled into the city of Harbin, a huge complex of buildings appeared around the entire railway line.

Huge steel warehouses, parking lots full of trains and heavy trucks, open-air freight yards full of bulk cargo, roads and railways in all directions, tall gantry cranes and busy loading and unloading machines......

"What is this? It looks like a logistics center, but it's too big, isn't it?"

There is really no such scene in Russia, and in fact, it is estimated that only China has a land logistics center of this size in the world. It looks like you've moved New York Harbor to the heart of the city.

At this time, a Russian voice with a Chinese accent answered these Mao Mei's questions: "That is our Harbin Logistics Center No. 1 in Asia, which is the material transit and distribution center of the entire Heilongjiang." ”