"It's not fun to play, but yes, Pengcheng is now all over the city from the port city to build a factory, the factory I went to is just opened this year, and now the mechanical and electrical products are all exported through the port city!" Li Shuangyuan said.

"Is the house built there? Is it as tall as the department store in our county?" asked Zhang Junjie, who was still childish, curiously.

The department store in Hek County has four floors, the first and second floors are shopping malls, and the third and fourth floors are the offices of department stores, supply and marketing cooperatives, commercial bureaus, material bureaus and other county commercial systems.

"It's a lot taller than our department store, and the office building of the factory where I work has seven floors. Some other units, such as hotels, are many in the tenth and twenty floors!" Li Shuangyuan said.

"Wow, that's so high!"

Wang Chao, Chenchen and Zhang Junjie were all surprised.

Li Liang was not surprised, because just a year later, the long-term occupation of Pengcheng's tallest building name of the International Trade Building will start, lasted 37 months, to the end of 85 officially completed, a total area of 20,000 square meters, construction area of 100,000 square meters, is the earliest comprehensive super high-rise building built in China, known as "China's tallest building" reputation, is an important attraction in Shenzhen to receive domestic and foreign tourists, the party and state leaders Deng Grandpa, Jiang Zong, Li Zong, etc. have visited the International Trade Building.

From now on to the next thirty or forty years, Pengcheng is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up, and the people there also enjoy the glory of reform and opening up.

But until then, Pengcheng's history is bitter. Pengcheng was originally a county of GD, because of its proximity to the port city, in the past few years, from Pengcheng this is a thrilling escape history spanning 30 years.

Before the reform and opening up, there was such a folk song in Pengcheng: "Bao'an only has three treasures, flies, mosquitoes, and manhole oysters." Ten houses and nine empty fled to the port city, and only the old and the young were left at home. ”

Behind the ballad is a staggering set of numbers. According to some information disclosed by later generations, in the documents that can be consulted, since the phenomenon of Hong Kong flight began in 1955, there have been four large-scale waves of Hong Kong flight in Pengcheng's history, namely in 1957, 1962, 1972 and 1979, with a total of 560,000 people (times), and the participants came from 12 provinces and 62 cities (counties) across the country, including Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Guangxi.

Most of those who fled Hong Kong were peasants, but also some urban residents, students, young intellectuals, workers, and even military personnel. Judging from the political component, the majority of the people are ordinary people, and there are also league members, party members, and even cadres. According to a data from the city of Shipeng in the later years, by 1978, a total of 557 cadres in the city had fled Hong Kong, and 183 had fled, and 40 cadres at or above the deputy section level had fled from the city's organs.

There are three ways to escape from the port: walking, swimming, and taking a boat. According to the route, there are different routes from the eastern, central, and western routes. Swimming is usually preferred. Stowaways often choose the western route, that is, starting from Shekou and the mangrove forest area, swimming through Pengcheng Bay, and if it goes well, it will take about an hour to swim to Yuen Long in the northwestern part of the New Territories.

The people of Guangdong Province call this kind of waterway smuggling "supervisor", borrowing the term of chess, taking its meaning of "there is no return". In the memories of many locals, the reservoirs and rivers are overcrowded in the summer. Many children have been instilled by their families since they were young that they would "practice swimming well and go to Hong Kong City in the future".

Stowaways usually carry car tires or lifebuoys, styrofoam and other life-saving tools, and some people blow up multiple *** and hang them around their necks. After some stowaways got into the water, they also recited *** quotations while swimming to cheer themselves up: "Make up your mind, not afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory!"

At that time, the above items were strictly controlled in use. Later, even table tennis became one of them. Because the border guards found out that there were even people who strung hundreds of ping pong balls together as a life-saving tool.

After all, swimming is done by young people. Middle-aged and elderly people, children and women usually choose to smuggle people by land, from Pengcheng Wutong Mountain and Sha Tau Kok to climb over the border barbed wire, which is jokingly called "fluttering net" in Cantonese. In order to avoid the police dogs, some escapees will go to the zoo to buy the keepers before leaving, find some tiger feces, and scatter them as they go.

At that time, the crackdown on stowaways was unusually severe. Anyone who goes to the port city without going through legal procedures will be regarded as "rebellion/guotou/di", and will be punished with containment if caught. Border guards are the biggest obstacle to stowaways. Before the 60s of the last century, border guards could shoot at any time when they encountered stowaways who did not obey orders, and many stowaways were killed on the tidal flats and in the mountains. After that, due to the strict orders of the superiors, the phenomenon of shooting gradually disappeared.

This extremely risky wave of fleeing Hong Kong has also given birth to a new profession - "corpse pulling". In its heyday, there were more than 200 "corpse pullers" active in Pengcheng. At the end of the 70s of the last century, the Pengcheng Shekou Maritime Police Station once stipulated that for every corpse of a smuggler buried by the "corpse puller", he could go to the Shekou Commune to receive 15 yuan in labor fees. ‘

After the reform and opening up, this phenomenon of smuggling has gradually disappeared. In March 1979, the central government and Guangdong Province decided to change Bao'an into Pengcheng City, and in November, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee decided to change Pengcheng City into a provincial-level municipality at the regional level, with six administrative districts of Longgang, Kwai Chung, Longhua, Luohantou and Songgang.

On August 26, 1980, the National Senior Officials Association approved the establishment of a special economic zone in Pengcheng, and now, this day is also affectionately known as "Pengcheng's birthday", since then, Pengcheng has embarked on the fast track of development.

"It's not high, I heard that the big boss over there in Port City is preparing to build a building of more than 100 meters!"

Li Shuangyuan's words made several teenagers completely stunned, and Huaxia's decades of closure imprisoned their imagination.

"Uncle, I'll go to play with you next summer, and when the time comes, will you take me to Pengcheng to play?"

"Yes, but you have to get your parents' consent!" Li Shuangyuan agreed.

Several people chatted, pestering Li Shuangcheng to continue to talk about Pengcheng, Yangcheng and his affairs in the university. Before I knew it, it was getting dark, and Li Liang's sister Li Meng came home from work.

Li Meng put away the bicycle and saw his uncle Li Shuangtong sitting in the living room, and hurriedly shouted: "Uncle!"

Li Shuangyuan is only two years older than Li Meng, about the same age, and they often played together when they were children.

Li Liang's parents, Li Shuangzhu and Wang Xiulan, have not come back yet, and it seems that they will definitely live at their grandparents' house today. Li Liang saw his sister coming back and was about to cook, so he hurriedly said: "Sister, stop cooking, let's go to Wangke to eat and pick up the wind and wash the dust for my uncle!"

Li Shuangyu heard it and hurriedly said, "Liangzi, just eat something at home!"

Li Liang knew that Uncle Li Shuangyu didn't want to waste money at home, so he pointed to the 14-inch color TV in the living room and said, "Uncle, what do you think of this color TV?"