An eight-car train runs on the vast Yellow Sea Plain. On this train, which is obviously much shorter than the normal train, it is the delegation of southwest Japan that is heading to Central Asia to participate in the conference.

Kita Teijiro looked at the endless fields outside the car with an obsessive look. The endless farmland with no end in sight on the vast Huanghuai Plain is simply the dream of all Chinese people in Japan, where there are many narrow mountains and earthquakes from time to time.

The fields that had just been harvested were devoid of the golden waves of wheat, and from a distance, the most conspicuous thing in the farmland was the rows of trees planted on the boundary, as if measured with a ruler. In the open field, these luxuriant trees are like rows of guards standing guard, protecting the fields of the great plains. All members of the Japanese delegation were in awe.

Because the vast fields also represent a great force, a force that a country cannot do without if it wants to be stable - food!

He is well versed in Chinese culture, familiar with the history of the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties, and deeply aware of the importance of grain to China, a huge country. He has traveled to Ukraine and North America, which is one of the world's leading grain producing regions, and can even be said to be part of 'Greater China', and has seen the same vast Great Plains. But what impressed him most about the agriculture on the plains of China was not the advanced mechanical agriculture, but the obviously well-planned overall system, whether it was farmland or irrigation, the powerful 'system' covering the entire plains, and the result of this - agricultural output can be imagined.

Moreover, China now has the world's largest ammonia industry. Coupled with the fact that the Chinese began to systematically cultivate excellent agricultural seeds from a scientific perspective soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, 60 years of development have allowed China's agricultural technology to surpass Europe. Went to the forefront of the world. In the past few decades, China's own Shennong Award has reached the peak with bright pearls such as hybrid rice and Fengshou No. 1 [wheat], and its influence has also shrouded the world, and by the 30s, it has become the highest award in the global agricultural category. The Chinese government has also followed the trend and expanded the scope of the Shennong Award from China to the whole of 'Greater China', and then to the entire WTO. The whole planet.

The evolution of the Shennong Award can also be said to be a microcosm of the changes in China over the years. With China's national strength reaching the top of the world, as China's influence envelops the world, the first is the science award. Then there are the literary awards, China's 'medals' are rapidly gaining government around the world, and this phenomenon is ultimately the power of Eastern and Western civilizations.

The Western civilization that dominates the world has faded from its hegemonic color, which naturally makes the phenomenon of Western culture less attractive than it was in the past.

The rise of China is the course of the great counteroffensive of Eastern civilization. It is the east wind that prevails over the west wind. It is the 'counter-offensive calculation' of oriental culture.

Liu Xianam, who was well versed in the phenomenon of 'cultural aggression', popularized this phenomenon to the ruling class of the Chinese government early on. At the moment when sound films appeared, China set up the banner of developing films, using movies to promote China's strength, China's long history, and China's brilliant civilization......

In the original time and space, Ulyanov was the first to elevate 'film' to the highest level of art, saying: Among all arts, film is the most important and popular art.

In the present space-time. Liu Xian did not say such things, but he supported it with practical actions and a large amount of money. Prove this sentence.

What opera, cross talk, shadow puppetry, all the modes of artistic expression in the past have bowed down under the impact of movies. In the first decade of the 20 th century, the whole of China has laid down the order of the film industry for the next 100 years -- nine major public film studios, six major private film companies, and six major cinema chains across the country.

Shanghai Film Festival, Guangzhou Film Festival, Beijing Film Festival, Huabiao Award, Nebula Award......

In the next 100 years, these film studios, film companies, and theaters across the country will certainly fall halfway, but the main body has been decided, just like the old and beautiful Hollywood of the original time and space, no matter how big the impact of the rising stars is, the first series of film companies is still occupied by those old guys. Their names are still bright and famous at the Chinese Film Festival a hundred years later.

As a Japanese who is well-versed in Chinese culture, Kita Keijiro is very fond of Chinese movies, especially original soundtracks. He can feel China's past and present from these films, especially the many modern films made by the Chinese film industry, and compare China with its development - although Japan has had too much better life for the country and its people in recent years, regardless of whether it is north or south, but the huge gap compared to China always makes him sad. And then this heartache can turn into a huge momentum.

Hokujiro was very familiar with China and admired Chinese politics, but the last time he came to China was in 1923. In that year, the Great Kanto Earthquake struck the Japanese government in Tokyo, which shocked the world, and Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, and other places were devastated like a curse. The earthquake killed 150,000 people, left more than 2 million people homeless, and caused property damage of up to 6 billion yen.

In the face of such a huge natural disaster, southwest Japan cannot but lend a helping hand, of course, the Japanese have to count on their boss China to help. For the first time since the split, North and South Japan formed a joint delegation to Beijing to ask for help, and Kita Keijiro stayed in Beijing for a month, and he never went to China again.

China in 1923 had just won the battle for world supremacy. The whole of China is under the strong stimulus of war dividends, the economy is unusually prosperous, the proportion of urban residents from 35% before the war, quickly crossed to 45%+, and entering the 50 club is just around the corner.

However, in China at that time, in the impression of Kita Teijiro, some of China's big cities had more modern buildings, but they were not necessarily more prosperous than Tokyo and Nagasaki, but the ordinary countryside was much more advanced than the Japanese countryside. During his month in China, Kita Keijiro traveled to some prefectures and villages in Hebei Province and saw the Chinese countryside with his own eyes. Compared with the poverty of the Japanese countryside, not only is the spiritual outlook and clothing of the people in China's rural areas more than superior, but the houses are also generally tall brick houses, and there are more or less two- and three-story buildings in each village, and the number of motor vehicles in China's rural areas is far from comparable to that of Japan. The roads between the villages, at least on the main roads, are rested, and some of the roads are paved with asphalt or cement.

At that time, Kita Teijiro had a clear understanding of the gap between China and Japan, and the middle class of Chinese [above the poverty line] was far more than that of Japan, and there would definitely be poor people, but the proportion of the overall population was much smaller than that of Japan.

Combined with the policies that the Chinese government has been implementing for decades, China's great development can be understood as a major campaign to eradicate poverty.

The overall strength of such a country would far surpass that of Japan even if China were reduced to one Japan.

However, this time in China, Kita Keijiro and his entourage did not land directly in Tianjin, as a delegation from southwest Japan, they landed in Shanghai. As the economic center of the whole of China, although Guangzhou has the power of the South Seas, it cannot hide the edge of Shanghai after all. Since the establishment of China's first economic center at the end of the 19th century, this crown has never been lost from the hands of Shanghainese. And soon the total population of Shanghai will also surpass that of Guangzhou, and today it has a population of more than 10 million, making it the largest city in the entire East!

In the 20s, Tianjin and the old city, which always retained its ancient atmosphere, the original city center, and Beijing, which was almost not demolished, could be compared with Shanghai, which represented the image of China's modern metropolis. If Kitejiro had been able to go to Shanghai at that time, his idea that China's big cities might not be more prosperous than Tokyo and Nagasaki would have been completely dispelled.

After that farewell to China, Kitaki Teijiro never came to China again, and all his impressions of China came from movies and newspapers, or the words of friends and subordinates around him. Isn't it natural that there are few bad things about China's cities and villages in newspapers and movies, and that China is more advanced than Japan.

This time, the delegation from southwest Japan still chose to enter the country from Shanghai. Compared with Tokyo, Japan's landing in Tianjin, the old route of southwest Japan is to enter the country by sea. Shanghai had been the largest industrial and commercial city in the Far East since the late 19th century, and when he arrived in the city again, Kiteijiro was shocked. The port of Shanghai has undergone a massive expansion and is very different from what it used to be. It is not at all the same level as the port of Tianjin in Kitajiro's impression, and Nagasaki, the most prosperous port city in southwest Japan, has become so small compared to the port of Shanghai.

For a big city like Shanghai, the whole world knows the first port in the East, and even now some people have put the name of "the world's first port" on Shanghai's head, and the beautiful port area is nothing. But after passing through the customs and entering Shanghai, Kita Teijiro found that the China of more than ten years ago in the depths of his memory had really disappeared. This is not at all comparable to Nagasaki and Tokyo, which are full of alleys, and what is presented in front of Kita Teijiro is a modern city that he cannot imagine. The most common roads are basically four-lane + sidewalks, and the wide main roads are eight or even twelve lanes. There are beautiful green belts on both sides of the road, and the roads are filled with cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles.

Looking at those wide, straight roads, Kita Teijiro felt that even the runway of the airport was nothing more than that. If the war had been fought in Shanghai, these roads would have been used as temporary airports immediately. On both sides of the sidewalk, there are small high-rise buildings of four or five floors, none of which are distinctive, but the buildings hidden in the green belt are one after another. Comparing it with the low-rise wooden houses in many Japanese cities speaks volumes about the gap between China and Japan. (To be continued.) )