At the end of June 1997, the people of SZ were making final preparations for Hong Kong's return to the motherland. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAll units, departments and enterprises in the city are busy with meetings and rehearsals. People see: before the return of Hong Kong, SZ was jubilant, and the street lights were extraordinarily grand, especially the lanterns on Shennan Road were hung on the trees regularly, and thousands of lights were put on every night, and the whole city exuded joyful brilliance. When people saw this, they all said in their hearts: "How nice it would be if this Hong Kong returned to the embrace of the motherland once a year!"

This festive atmosphere has also spread at the Citizens Bank. In the afternoon of this day, the conference room of the Hubei sub-branch gathered the third-level managers and department directors, and the president of the sub-branch, Wang Xianyao, was preparing to arrange the work to be done in accordance with the requirements of the superiors in cooperation with the activities of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.

Wang Xianyao is a man from Northeast China, who originally worked in the LN Provincial Government Secretariat, and was transferred to SZ in the late 80s. President Wang is very handsome, and by the standards of northerners, he is very small: 1.68 meters tall, speaks slowly and softly, and is very easy-going, so he is very popular. Among his delicate, but not very pretty, features are his eyes and mouth: a pair of well-proportioned eyes with a clear blue glow. He often closes his lips and watches people order food when he wants to speak, trying to avoid the embarrassment of not speculating. Of course, this can't be said to be a shortcoming, even a man who is a bit of an introvert usually closes his lips, and generally doesn't take the initiative to greet people with more mouths. The eyes and mouth on his face seem to tell people: "My breed shows firmness and fortitude under the premise of easy-going, or easy-going under the guidance of self-control, don't underestimate me, I am a person in charge." ”

Since Genghis Khan, who bent the bow and shot the eagle in our country, many Chinese, regardless of nationality, have a soft spot for the tall and burly northern man. Of course, this is mainly about women, especially twenty-eight girls who are just beginning to fall in love (women of a certain age who want to live and men who run the household don't necessarily think so.) ）。 Although Wang Xianyao is a northerner, from the outside, people will never associate him with a tall and burly northerner, but like an authentic village committee director in the GD countryside. Perhaps it is in response to the words of the fortune teller: "It is unspeakably expensive for a northerner to grow into a southerner." "The places where Wang Xianyao has worked are all famous and famous, and the reputation is excellent. In the autumn of 1995, the municipal government arranged for the Citizens Bank to take over the financial service cooperatives, and later, he took the lead in taking over the Hubei branch of the Citizens Bank, which was the Hubei Financial Services Society at that time. At that time, he arrived alone, and within a year, he had Chen Jiao, Xia Xia, Xu Donghai, Wang Yang, Li Guolan, Han Xiaoniu, Wu Dongmei and other subordinates who were willing to contribute. This cannot but be said to be the success of his life.

Before the meeting that afternoon, President Wang Xianyao first spoke off-topic in order to harmonize the atmosphere of the meeting: "We welcomed the return of Hong Kong in Shenzhen, and the whole SZ was full of lights and joy, but in my hometown, the atmosphere seemed to be more tense than in Shenzhen, and even my friends who worked in government agencies thought that southern China was going to war with the British. Recently, several relatives and friends in my hometown called me to persuade me to send my child back to my hometown, saying: 'Adults have lost their lives by fighting in SZ, and it is reasonable to say that children should not be!'

Everyone thought it was very interesting, and Xu Aiqun, the director of the branch office, was a fast-talking mother-in-law, and immediately interjected: "What kind of battle are you fighting? Seeing the lanterns in Shenzhen, we Shenzhen people can't wait for Hong Kong to return every day!"

Chen Jiao, the young vice president of the bank, said with a smile: "If there was really a war, we young people who had not been tested by war would have hid a long time ago!"

After taking over Chen's homework, Wang Hua, the third-level manager of the personnel department, took the opportunity to quip: "At that time, maybe there will be a lot of traitors here!"

Then, she turned her head to Qin Xianhong, the former deputy general manager of the financial services agency who was sitting next to her, and now the deputy section chief in charge of the security department of the branch, and joked: "Mr. Qin, looking at your appearance and smooth speech, you are most likely to be a traitor and traitor when the time comes." What do you say?"

Qin Xianhong is a SH person, and he is a master who is not willing to suffer immediate losses. Hearing this, he blushed and replied to Wang Hua jokingly: "I think that if there is really that day, you are most likely to be a comfort woman for foreigners." When the time comes, our comrades engaged in security work may still have to rely on you to use your 'position as a convenience' to engage in intelligence. ”

Everyone was laughing, and Xu Donghai, the person in charge of the Sungang Office of the Hubei Branch, said very seriously: "I think the top priority is to ask President Wang to get Section Chief Qin's gun and take his military power from the branch." Otherwise, when the time comes, he will be planted in the arms of a foreigner with a shell gun in the other, and we ordinary people will die without a place to bury!

"I raised my hands in favor of Manager Xu's opinion. - The head of the credit planning section also joined the joke in the summer.

Everyone was flushed with laughter.

At this time, Wang Xianyao smiled and said, "The meeting has officially begun! The main content of the meeting was to study matters related to sending the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to Hong Kong and carrying out its mission. It is estimated that many citizens in the city will spontaneously take to the streets to see off the troops stationed in Hong Kong, worried that the situation and order will not be managed. Therefore, the personnel of each district and the main unit are roughly divided, and it is hoped that there will be a response between colleagues. ……”

The branch meeting lasted until more than five o'clock in the afternoon.

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On the evening of June 30, when I returned home for a hasty dinner, I looked at the wall clock in the living room, and it was already seven o'clock in the evening. He easily grabbed a bag, went downstairs, went to the garage and drove straight to the head office of the Citizens Bank. When I arrived at the head office, I waited in the multi-functional conference hall of the head office while watching the big screen TV program hanging on the wall. As soon as I sat down in the summer, I saw a few big words flashing on the TV, "A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes of Hong Kong".

While watching TV programs in the summer, I recalled the first party founding day in SZ when I first came to Shenzhen in 1992. At that time, in the summer, as a middle and senior manager of the SZ Special Economic Zone Corporation, he and the general manager took the same car to Nanao Town and the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant under construction to live an organizational life. On the way through Dameisha and Xiaomeisha, the boss looked at the sea water under the highway and said: "Lao Xia, do you know how our border with the British was divided in the past? ”

Later, in the summer, he obtained a special pass to Sha Tau Kok from the Sixth Detachment of the Armed Police Force, and went to Chung Ying Street with Xie Wu, the detachment's training staff officer. At the copper nail marked on Zhongying Street that divides the boundary between China and Britain, the training staff officer told him: "Once, when our president arrived here, he stepped on this copper nail and refused to leave for a long time. ”

According to the agreement reached between the Chinese and British governments, at 9 p.m. on June 30, 1997, a vanguard force of 509 men marched into Hong Kong from the Huanggang Port on time to carry out the defense handover with the British troops stationed in Hong Kong.

When the Hong Kong Garrison passed over the bridge deck of the Lok Ma Chau Bridge, which was guarded by the Public Security Frontier Guards, everyone could not help but salute the rumbling armored troops almost at the same time, and watched the armored vehicles slowly drive into Hong Kong.

What a sacred moment this is! Searching for him in a dream a thousand times, witnessed in our generation!

"It's hard for anyone who hasn't experienced this scene to understand the excitement of that time. The police officers who were present later told the people.

At that time, people's tears rolled in their eyes: "It is my honor and pride in this life to be able to experience Hong Kong's return and to be able to do my part for Hong Kong's return."

Images of the cheering crowd were broadcast on television in real time to all corners of the motherland and to the world.

The time soon arrived at more than ten o'clock, and the office of the head office of the Citizens Bank asked everyone to take the minibus in the bank to the entrance of the SZ Grand Theater to gather. In the summer, people have always waited for the fish to go down, sit on the bus, and arrive at the south gate of the SZ Grand Theater. When you get off the bus, you can wait on the north side of the intersection of Shennan Road and Hongling Road, that is, on the street in front of the south gate of the Grand Theater.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the staff of the branch waited at the entrance of the Grand Theater for the chariot of the people's army to drive by. At this time, a public security command car drove from west to east, and a short commander jumped from the car, who seemed to be a police officer of no low rank. Maybe because he had a pistol pinned to his waist, he walked quickly to the police at the scene with his butt cocked, and loudly lost his temper with the public security officers who maintained order at the scene, and then hurriedly got into the car and continued to hurry.

Looking at this posture, the Hong Kong Garrison is about to drive over.

As if to baptize the motherland and Hong Kong, at this time, it began to rain in the sky, and people covered their heads with colorful newspapers and colored flags.

With the live broadcast of cameras in the sky, sea and ground, the footage of the Chinese people reclaiming Hong Kong is being broadcast in real time to the people of the motherland and to the world. It is not difficult for people to imagine the excitement of the 1.3 billion Chinese descendants at this moment.

In BJ, hundreds of thousands of citizens spontaneously came to Tiananmen Square, and people stood next to the Monument to the People's Heroes, as if to comfort the martyrs: the descendants are completing the unfinished business of thousands of heroic martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the cause of the independence and liberation of the motherland, while many more people watched the time passed minute by minute in front of the countdown card to Hong Kong's return to the motherland. When there were 60 seconds left, "60, 59, 58...... sounded in the square. 10、9、8、…… 1" of the counting waves.

Is this counting? No! This is the cry of an ancient civilization to history! It is the denunciation of the aggressors by a former powerful country! It is an echo of the solemn declaration of the founders of the republic that "the Chinese people have stood up from now on."

In SZ, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered on both sides of the newly decorated Shennan Road, waiting for the People's Army to move from their sights to Hong Kong. After a while, the roar of helicopter gunships could be heard from the sky west of SZ; armored personnel carriers, tanks, and transport vehicles drove from west to east on Shennan Road, escorted by the motorcycle team of the people's public security. The people's soldiers who were standing neatly on the military vehicles advancing at a uniform speed also greeted their fathers and fellow villagers with a solemn military salute with a standardized movement, holding a steel gun in one hand and a solemn military salute in the other.

Television footage shows the Chinese People's Liberation Army constantly approaching the Wenjindu and Huanggang ports, the People's Air Force helicopter gunships taking off from the SZ base, and the People's Navy warships preparing to enter the port. This is the Chinese government's real-time announcement to the world that the Chinese people are counting in minutes and seconds and will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong at 0:00 on July 1, 1997. This is also a feat that only after the Chinese people stood up, and it is no wonder that tears of excitement flowed from time to time on the faces of the citizens who welcomed the soldiers.

In Hong Kong, at the British barracks near midnight, the commander of the vanguard of the Chinese People's Liberation Army solemnly and majesticly, confidently and appropriately saluted the last batch of British troops guarding Hong Kong, and then said: "On behalf of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, I have come to take over the barracks." You can be laid off, and we will be laid off. Good luck all the way!"

As the national flag of the People's Republic of China was slowly raised to the solemn national anthem, these places where the guns of the invaders were once stacked finally returned to the hands of the defenders of the Republic.

In order to effectively ensure the smooth return of Hong Kong, the Chinese Government and the armed forces, in consideration of possible circumstances, organized surface warships of the public security and border defense forces to sail into the vicinity of the waterfront junction between China and Hong Kong several months ago.

That night, the officers and men of the public security border guard boat, which had already sailed to the waters of Dapeng Bay in June to anchor and fortify, were also very excited, and they were looking forward to the arrival of zero hour. It was dark at night, the sea was very calm, and they could not see the land of Hong Kong or the land of SZ.

As a matter of fact, the officers on duty on the water in China and Hong Kong have feelings that blood is thicker than water. At 11 p.m. on June 30, 1997, officers and men of boats 44101 and 4406 on the public side of the motherland dropped anchor at the junction of Shenzhen and Hong Kong in the waters of Dapeng Bay, SZ. The marine police on the command boat of the eastern district of Hong Kong, which was close to the 4406 boat, came to the 4406 boat on the public side one after another to watch the grand occasion of the return with the officers and men of our public security border guards.

At 0:00 a.m. on 1 July, the Hong Kong Eastern District Command Boat held a flag-raising ceremony. The water police in Shenzhen and Hong Kong stood solemnly, and the five-star red flag and the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were raised to the sound of the majestic national anthem of the People's Republic of China.

At 0:03, the Shenzhen and Hong Kong police officers present cheered: "Go home!" and "Go home!" Everyone hugged each other excitedly. On the 4406 boat, everyone set off a salute together, and with the sound of "bang" and "bang", gorgeous fireworks shone in the sky, decorating the night of Dapeng Bay with extraordinary beauty.

After midnight, when they saw the flowers rising in the direction of the motherland, the officers and men became more and more excited, cheering loudly, singing and dancing. He shouted to Shenzhen and Hong Kong: "O motherland! I love you!"

"Hong Kong, I bless you, motherland, I bless you. May the bauhinia bloom brighter and more beautiful day by day!" Amid the loud whistle, the police of Shenzhen and Hong Kong drove their ships to patrol their respective sea areas.

At this moment, in the vast land of China, whether it is soldiers or ordinary people, whether it is officials or cloth clothes, their eyes are full of tears.

Let the tears of the people flow down their faces—these are tears of excitement, these are tears of glory.