ps: Today is the third day of September!

Before the state stirs up this day, there must be some people who don't know what day in history it is.

Keep it in mind!

With the sound of a whistle, a passenger ship slowly sailed into the dock.

In the midst of the crowd, Morris disembarked with two large suitcases. As a freelance writer, Morris didn't come to China with a blind eye.

In the square outside the wharf, he met his good friend for many years, Dick, the commercial representative of Lihe & Co. in Tianjin. Mariondo. "Welcome to China! My friend. ”

Dick exaggeratedly spread his arms and laughed heartily at Morris, who was standing beside him.

Yes, this is Tianjin, the gateway to Beijing, the capital of China, and one of the most important ports in northern China.

With the development of China's industry, especially the development of the Beijing-Tianjin economic circle, there are not only more and more factories in Tianjin, but also the status of Tianjin Port is becoming more and more important.

Last year alone, the import and export volume here exceeded 15 billion.

"Dick, you're right, China is really different."

Morris had been to China ten years ago, to Tianjin and Beijing, and Tianjin at that time was completely different from the industrially developed city in front of him, which was full of chimneys inside and outside the city.

Tianjin's chimney is the most direct evidence of China's industrial development in recent years.

"I'm not going to cheat on my friends. Morris. Dick waved his hand toward the chimneys, "Every day after dawn, every day at dusk." The chimneys began to emit black smoke, obscuring the sky. Tianjin is one of the most important industrialized cities in China. It is home to the world's most advanced shipyard. There were large-scale machine factories, arsenals. machine qì bureau, steel mills, and countless light industries. ”

The former's many heavy industries were the key to Tianjin's industrialization status. But the latter is not to be underestimated!

Today's China, like the United States and Germany before it, has strong domestic demand that is the biggest driving force for its own industrialization, especially light industrialization close to people's livelihood.

It is not the time of the First World War, the American market is still quite closed, the European market still has a strong foundation, and those light industrial products represented by the textile industry are exported to Korea, Japan [Southwest], Vietnam and the South Seas. The vast majority of it is still the self-digestion of the Chinese market.

With 450,000,000 people in China, the original small-scale peasant economy was almost completely destroyed, and the light industrial products led by the textile industry were transferred by rail or steamship, taking advantage of the self-protection policy and relatively low prices of the new Qin government, not only seized a lot of market share, but also expanded the scale of the entire market.

Because the new dynasty was established, the country was stable, and the people's livelihood was restored. With the economic recovery, this market should have been much bigger than the late Qing Dynasty.

The southern provinces have seized more opportunities in light industry. Whether it is Jiangnan, Zhejiang, or Guangdong, the private capital is abundant, and the people's thinking and vision are better than those in the north. More importantly, the southern country was the territory of the Qin army to settle down first, and when they began to test the water to enter the light industry market, the northern country had not yet been able to give the Qin army all the ground. In this way, the private capital in the south is of course even better.

In addition, Guangxi, Taiwan, and Beiqi in Vietnam were themselves the gathering places of the Qin army's heavy industry, and if there was no investment in the northern provinces after the domination of the world, a lot of money flowed like water. The economy of the north is really not even qualified to look at the southern provinces.

The time, place, and people are all in the south. Then Guangzhou relies on these advantages. Even now, they still firmly occupy the position of China's first economic center of gravity, and only the little brother is suppressed from Hong Kong, which is not far away.

Even if Hong Kong is now a free port, its economic status and city status are far from being comparable to Guangzhou's. Both Chinese and foreigners attach more importance to Hong Kong, because this is a piece of meat that Britain wants from China!

Just anyone with a discerning eye can see that it will not be long before Guangzhou, the title of "the first economic center of gravity", will become the center of gravity of the southern economy, and Shanghai, which has the full support of the state, is developing much faster than Guangzhou.

Since industry and commerce have developed, then the great development of the service industry will follow. In Tianjin, old Chinese teahouses are everywhere, and there are also brand new cafes, but business seems to be mediocre, and Morris walks along the way, and sees three cafes all closed, and the only few customers inside are all blonde and blue-eyed Westerners.

"The entertainment life in Tianjin is very good. Too many investors, speculators, and the most ordinary craftsmen from China and around the world have brought a variety of pastimes and means of entertainment to Tianjin, both Chinese and foreign; There are both Eastern and Western colors; There are legal ones and there are illegal ones. All in all, in this city, you can see both hope and the dark corners of society.

Anyone who comes from an industrialized city in the West will find that every aspect of this industrial city in the East is so familiar. Dick looked at Morris with his fingers wagged in front of his nose, "a smell that seemed to be the same." ”

"What happened on the streets of Paris, Berlin, London, and New York can be seen in the city. The difference is that the Chinese have relatively strong trade union organizations, as well as local associations and townspeople's associations, and the city's law enforcers - the police. ”

"China's police system is very strict, and the internal review mechanism is also very strict, although it is inevitable that the police will collude with the Gangsters, but with their unique neighborhood committees and neighborhood offices, God, God knows why China has so many layers of government agencies, but China's law and order is much better than London. This is something that all Britons can relate to. ”

The hustle and bustle of industry ushered in an era full of longing, and behind the glitz and glitz is people's infinite desire and crazy pursuit of money. In the big city of Tianjin, people get rich and go bankrupt almost every day. Morality and faith are no longer clear under the shroud of money, and what really maintains the social order of this city is the strict laws of Xinqin.

Now, Morris saw Tianjin no different from the Newcastle he saw in England, the sky was no longer blue, and the air was filled with a faint smell of soot; If you listen closely, you can hear the roaring sound of machines in the factories; The streets are wide and the streets are clean, which is better than Newcastle.

Occasionally, two policemen armed with short guns and batons can be seen on the streets, and on each street there are chengguan wearing black vests and red armbands. These are police officers who don't have guns! Morris understands 'chengguan' in this way.

"The country is changing so fast, when I first came here, it seemed to be in the Middle Ages. Now, an industrialized city. Morris shook his head in admiration. He saw the rise of a great power, and a great power would truly stand in the east of the world to participate in the feast of interests of the earth.

In the past thirty years, the Americans have caught up, the Germans have risen, the French have risen back from decay, the Russians have shed their shackles, and Italy has become a force to be reckoned with. Now China has appeared in the east of the world, and they are so close to the most dazzling jewel in the crown of the British Empire, India.

One rival after another appeared in front of the British Empire. How nice it would be if these countries were all the same as Austria-Hungary? Although Karl I was ambitious, he did not have the corresponding ability, and the upper class of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also mostly very mediocre and very mediocre people.

"Yes, when you came to China before, China was a country that couldn't even make breech guns. But now? Did you get that factory over there? It was a locomotive factory with an annual output of 100 locomotives. The quality is not inferior to the British one. If you are interested, I can introduce you to interviews and visits. "Dick has been in Tianjin for five years, spanning thirteen years. I have also served as the senior commercial representative of Lihe & Co. for two years, and I am really familiar with Tianjin. Lihe Foreign Company is not famous, it is also a British-funded foreign firm, and I know many acquaintances, even the president of the Tianjin Commercial Association.

"Thank you very much, Dick. Seriously, I'm interested in China's railway development. I have great admiration for the fact that the central government of China is now deliberately developing several industrial centers in the southeast, the two Huai, the central China, the southwest, the north of China, and the northeast. This practice is not only conducive to conserving resources and avoiding waste, but can also promote the development of many cities and rural areas throughout the country, instead of squeezing the center of gravity of the economy together and turning it into a 'cancer' of the national economy, which not only poisons the entire national economic system, but also poses a great hidden danger to the economic security of the country during wartime. Morris said with great emotion.

"This approach by the Chinese requires perfect transportation and unified planning. Without the help of many talents in railway construction in Europe and the United States, the Chinese would not have been able to realize their railway transportation layout in a short period of time, and naturally industrial planning would not be possible. ”

"Of course. But we cannot ignore the ambition and strong economic foundation of the Chinese.

Grand Cross Project, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Tianjin Railway, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Northeast Railway, Beijing-Mongolia Railway......

This is the construction of tens of thousands of miles of railroad. It was completed and opened to traffic in just a few years, how much manpower, material and financial resources are needed? What kind of hard-handed government and administrative support is needed? Think I don't know the views and fears of the ignorant Chinese about the railway?

These are the scariest things about the current Chinese government.

Although, in my opinion, such strong government intervention in economic activity seems to be contrary to the principle of free economy. But it is precisely this kind of forceful government intervention that has come from the success of Chinese industry. Morris's mouth was full of exclamation.

In just a few years, China has achieved such great development, which is a great achievement that cannot be imagined for Europe.

In one fell swoop, it went from a traditional agricultural country to a preliminary industrialized country. It makes people shudder with excitement just thinking about it. (To be continued......)