In the thirties and forties, many craftsmen and cultural people fled to the safety of Hong Kong in order to escape the war, and then took root, and their craftsmanship was naturally passed on.

Hong Kong is dominated by Cantonese cuisine, but the eight major cuisines of China, there are the best chefs here, no worse than the state banquet masters, although the price is more expensive, but it is definitely worth the money.

But Qiao Guoer is not the kind of delicate lady, she has to rinse her mouth with bird's nest, season with abalone, and base matsutake before she can eat.

There are a lot of snacks in Shuchuan, and people who were born in Shuchuan generally don't like to eat big meals, but all kinds of street food and fly restaurants, which are places they are more willing to explore.

Qiao Guoer felt that if she and her lover sat in a high-end restaurant in a serious manner, eating under the gaze of the waiter, this feeling was really indescribably awkward.

So she took the information that Zhu Hong helped collect some time ago, and took Xiao Qi to the streets and alleys of Hong Kong.

Beef brisket noodles, pork intestines, dry fried beef river, stockings milk tea...... The two of them walked around in a circle, and their stomachs were already bulging, and Qiao Guoer shouted that she couldn't stand it.

Before I knew it, it was 10 o'clock in the evening, but here in Tsim Sha Tsui, it was still crowded with people, and many restaurants, gold shops, and shopping shops were patronized by many people.

"Why is it so late, and everyone is still so interested?" Looking at such a grand occasion, Qiao Guoer said in surprise.

"Because everyone has too many expectations for Hong Kong, it is not easy to come here, so we have to hurry up." Xiao Qi said with a smile, "Don't look at Hong Kong's prosperity now, in fact, after the 1997 financial crisis, the entire Hong Kong economy is almost about to collapse!" ”

"Oh?"

"Hong Kong's economy is built on a virtual economy, and real estate and financial investment are their main directions. The benefits of duty-free ports have long since become less important with the opening of places such as Dongfang, Nanwan and Dalian. In this case, in 1997, after Soros and the international financial predators wreaked havoc in Hong Kong, almost destroying the Hong Kong stock market, the property market also collapsed by at least a third. Hong Kong can't stand it. The young man said eloquently: "For example, the stars we liked when we were children, Andy Lau, Zhang Manyu, Zhong Zhentao, etc., all lost so much in the real estate market that they almost didn't even wear pants." There are countless celebrities who have lost most of their family property in the stock market. ”

"Giggle~~" Qiao Guoer smiled softly, "In the past few years, I often heard that some retired singers and movie stars have come back, so I guess that's why." ”

"So when I grew up, I learned that in fact, celebrities are not as mysterious and aura as they seem. They are just like the stars, they don't have much culture, and they don't have many brains. What I eat is youth rice. Once they stop filming and singing, their previous accumulation is simply not enough to maintain their decent life, so they are very poor. ”

Listening to Xiao Qi's narration, Qiao Guo'er also bowed her head and said, "Okay, these people are also to blame, don't talk about it." You haven't said that Weishenme Hong Kong will get better in the past few years! ”

At the request of his wife, Xiao Qi continued: "After 1997, the Hong Kong government originally wanted to cheer up. But gradually, they found that no matter how hard they tried. Hong Kong, which lacks actual economic support, is still weakening, and even the cultural export that flourished in the seventies and eighties has gradually been replaced by Japan and South Korea. Around 2002, the Hong Kong government felt that it could not hold on, and finally had the cheekiness to ask the central government for help.

Hong Kong's attitude towards the Central Government. They have always been more resistant, they always feel that they are superior, so they usually don't pay much attention to the central government, and if it is not a last resort, they will not lower their heads. Ask for help from the mainlanders they look down on!

Hong Kong is a territory that China has managed to reclaim with great difficulty, and it is also an important window to the outside world, and the central government is certainly not willing to let them weaken and become a backwater. Therefore, after careful discussion and reflection, a policy was finally decided to open up Hong Kong for mainland residents to travel and shop in Hong Kong in July 2003.

Two years later, in 2005, Hong Kong was back to 1997 levels thanks to its tourism economy. And with the high consumption of mainland residents in Hong Kong, it has gradually driven all walks of life in Hong Kong, such as catering, gold, luxury goods, etc., and Hong Kong has become a prosperous situation we see today. ”

Xiao Qi said a lot, Qiao Guoer listened to it with relish, these summaries from later generations, but she had never heard them.

But that doesn't mean she completely agrees, "Doesn't it mean that Hong Kong's biggest business is port trade?" How did it become tourism, I remember that Hong Kong's tourism industry has never been less than 5% of GDP, right? ”

"If you only talk about airfare, accommodation and meals, of course it's only 5%." Xiao Qi smiled, "Hong Kong people are very cunning, they never count aviation, gold, all kinds of luxury goods, electronic products and so on...... Usually every mainlander who comes to Hong Kong will buy a lot of such products with a large price difference, and these together can account for at least 30% of the revenue of the above-mentioned industries, and the proportion will further increase in the future. ”

I remember that in 2012, the consumption of gold, various luxury goods and electronic products by mainlanders in Hong Kong has exceeded 50%, which is equivalent to the mainlanders doubling the turnover of these businesses in Hong Kong, which is equivalent to the consumption of millions more Hong Kong people, which is not much help to Hong Kong's GDP?

South Korea and Japan, who didn't see the financial crisis in the future, are crying and begging Chinese people to travel?

It's just that at that time, the sharp contradiction between Japan and China over the island issue directly caused the Chinese people's tourism to plummet, which hit their tourism industry hard and caused the decline of the Japanese economy.

South Korea is different, through the currency depreciation, every Chinese tourist who goes to them is brought back with a large bag, which greatly promotes their economic GDP growth, and they are just as happy as Hong Kong.

The boy didn't say that Hong Kong's other big income is that water customers bring goods.

During peak periods, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people travel back and forth between Hong Kong and the Nam Wan customs clearance port every day, like ants moving, transporting containerized goods from Hong Kong's cargo terminals into the mainland.

By 2011, there were more than 200,000 Hong Kong people who relied on the business of water customers for food, and the total value of goods evaded in a year exceeded hundreds of billions.

If it weren't for the hard work of these sailors, the docks in Hong Kong would definitely be much empty.

"But I see that these big and small restaurants in Hong Kong don't have a very good attitude towards mainland tourists." Qiao Guoer remembered what happened before, and suddenly laughed, "It's like in a Hong Kong movie, the shopkeepers are all raunchy, like everyone else owes them money." ”

"They now only have so many years of psychological superiority left." Xiao Qi smiled faintly, "It is said that the quality of mainlanders is poor, but the quality of Hong Kong people is not much better...... Eight. Aren't the people who went to the mainland in the 90s to be abducted and deceived by Hong Kong? With an attitude of disgust, the mentality of referring to mainland tourists as nouveau riche is problematic in itself! ”

After a pause, Xiao Qi sighed again: "They do this worse than the Japanese, even if the Japanese don't like you in their hearts, when it comes to tourists, they are very polite, and the quality of service will make people feel worthy of the price...... Hong Kong, it's more about spending money to find guilt, but there are too many people in the motherland, and the price is quite cheap, so Hong Kong's tourism is hot! ”

Xiao Qi can also be regarded as feeling.

Hong Kong has returned to China, but their psychology is still outside the mainland, and this kind of mentality is really unacceptable! (To be continued......)