Speaking of escaping Hong Kong, it evoked Hua Junyao's memories, she should be one of them, compared to others' deaths, she couldn't be more relaxed. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There have been four large-scale smuggling in the history of "Pengcheng", namely in 1957, 1962, 1972 and 1979. There are more than 565,000 official cases of "fleeing Hong Kong".

The large-scale exodus of people from the mainland has changed the fate of many people, and has also made a profound and poignant paving for the establishment of special economic zones such as Pengcheng, one of the most important decisions of China's reform and opening up.

Before the liberation, due to war and other factors, the trend of large-scale escape to Xiangjiang had emerged.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a large-scale exodus from Hong Kong, because everything was returned to the public under the communalized "big pot rice" model, such as personal property, all gold, silver and jewelry had to be reported to the government and then deposited in the bank, which greatly hurt the people's enthusiasm for production. In the era of "preferring the grass of socialism to the seedlings of capitalism", many desperate people, with a feeling of incomprehension and unwillingness, began to flee to Xiangjiang in a desperate way, especially along the Lingnan line.

At that time, the Pearl River was used as a swimming ground: hundreds of citizens were in the water of the Hongjiang River to strengthen their bodies, and the slogans were shouted loudly, and the real intention behind it was tacitly understood by everyone: to flee to the Xiangjiang River for the sake of a long trip that might happen at any time - to smuggle across the border defense line and flee to the Xiangjiang River.

Most of those who fled were young and middle-aged, so that many border villages became "daughter countries" and "homes for the elderly and children." The folk song said: Bao'an only has three treasures, flies, mosquitoes, and manhole oysters. Ten houses and nine empty fled to Xiangjiang, and only the old and young were left in the family.

The methods of smuggling are even more varied and strange, and it can only be said that the wisdom of the masses is infinite.

Smugglers from the waterway generally carry car tires or lifebuoys, styrofoam, etc., and some people blow up *** and hang it around their necks and swim all the way over. The people of Yangcheng call the smuggling of people from the waterway to Hong Kong as "supervisors", borrowing the term of playing chess, taking the meaning of "there is no return". People also often go to the Pearl River to practice swimming spontaneously, so that "escaping Hong Kong" will come in handy in the future. Many children have been instilled by their families since they were young, such as "train your body well and go to Xiangjiang in the future".

The smugglers from the land crossed the barbed wire fence and reached the Xiangjiang River, which the locals jokingly called the net". This kind of net is difficult to climb over, and later the barbed wire was equipped with advanced sensing devices, and the net could be detected as soon as it was touched, and the combination of searchlights, sentry posts and police dogs was a deadly danger. In order to prevent dogs, smugglers often go to the zoo to buy breeders before leaving, find some tiger feces, and scatter them as they go. In order to avoid being seen by the border guards, some people hollowed out the watermelon, put the melon skin on their heads, and only exposed their eyes.

After all, it is the work of young people to cross the "net" on land and break the waves at sea, and middle-aged and elderly people, children and women have only the way to take a boat. Taking a boat is relatively safer, but it has the nature of a group, and the problem is more serious, and it costs a lot of money ranging from 300 yuan, but in order to "escape from Hong Kong", many people often do not hesitate to go bankrupt. However, the sea is very windy and rough, and drowning during smuggling often occurs.

The most recent escape was in 1979, when there were rumors that on the day Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom ascended the throne, a general amnesty was granted in Hong Kong -- anyone who was stranded in Hong Kong could declare a permanent resident of Hong Kong to the government within three days. Later people were full of sighs: on May 7, 1979, the day after the "Dafang River Estuary", hundreds of corpses floated on the 20-kilometer sea adjacent to the Xiangjiang River. In front of me, the sky was wide and silent, as if nothing had happened. From Shatoujiao in the east, to Xiabu Temple in the middle, to Mangrove Shekou in the south, even a figure is difficult to find.

It seems to be even crazier than in the movement, and after the movement, the people of the mainland were freed from extreme political repression. In the coastal areas, the common people have come into contact with more information through their relatives and friends abroad, and the shackles of the class struggle have begun to loosen, and an unprecedented agitation has emerged among the people, but the upsurge of "fleeing Hong Kong" has once again sudden.

Compared with the previous turmoil of "fleeing Hong Kong" that had just ended, the number of people was wider and the momentum was more rapid, and it even triggered local social panic. During the movement, the "escapees" were mainly composed of three parts, namely, the masses in difficulty, the intellectual youth, and the "class aliens". After the movement, many ordinary citizens, grassroots cadres, and even some middle school students in their teens joined the team.

In Yangcheng, groups of teenagers who have been repatriated due to smuggling can often be seen in various shelters. In many places in the Pearl River Delta, "smuggling" is an open secret. If someone succeeds in "smuggling", the family will not only not avoid suspicion, but will show off in front of outsiders, and even good deeds will put on a feast and set off firecrackers to celebrate.

In some places, there were also smuggling incidents headed by the head of the production team and with the participation of the party branch secretary and the director of public security.

At that time, the border defense was almost powerless to deal with the increasingly violent "escape from Hong Kong," and if the forces were further strengthened and the military and police were mobilized from the whole province or even the whole country, it would inevitably have a negative impact. In addition to leaving a bad impression on the international community, what is more important is that a large-scale armed blockade that is not done well may cause public anger and form a sudden mass incident.

After the high-level inspection, they came to the conclusion: "This is a problem with our policy, and this matter is beyond the control of the troops." ”

The chief stressed the need to restore the policies that had been effective in the past, develop the economy, and "only when production and life are done well can the problem of fleeing Hong Kong be solved." The main reason for fleeing Hong Kong is that life is not good, and the gap is too big."

At that time, the income of a farmer in Bao'an was 0.70 to 1.20 yuan per day, while that of a farmer in Xiangjiang was 60-70 Hong Kong dollars, a huge difference of nearly 100 times. In some areas, there is a widespread saying that "a year of hard work is not as good as 8 cents for others" (referring to sending a letter to Xiangjiang to ask relatives to remit money back), and "a month of work in the interior is not as good as a day of work in Xiangjiang". This also tempted many people to flee to Xiangjiang as if they were "going forward and one after another".

From the historical circle of "fleeing Hong Kong," the top decision-makers have once again realized that it is impossible to stop it by relying on "blockade" alone, and it is necessary to shift the focus of the state's work to economic construction.

The pendulum will swing. The repeated prohibitions of "fleeing Hong Kong" directly led to the creation of special economic zones. The protracted struggle against smuggling has made the central and local leaders realize that it is impossible to effectively curb smuggling by simply guarding against smuggling, and that they must find another way. Next year, the special economic zone will be established in Pengcheng, the city where the "flight from Hong Kong" is the most serious, thus kicking off the prelude to reform and opening up aimed at making the Chinese people rich.