After four o'clock in the afternoon, the trees on both sides of the road were listless by the hot sun, bowed their heads to protest and sigh the heat of the climate. After more than nine hours of long-distance running, Yunfei's Audi finally arrived at its destination - Chengdu.
"Brother Yun, is this Chengdu?" Seeing the city gradually appearing in front of him, sitting in the back row, Mao er egg climbed onto the back of the front seat and asked Yun Fei, who was concentrating on driving.
"Chengdu?" Sitting in the co pilot's position, Yu Xiaogang made a ha and asked Yun Fei next to him with sleepy eyes.
Feng Bao and ER Gouzi, who were sleeping against the back of a chair, were woken up by the noise. They had left the nameless town where they grew up. The excitement of several people who had just begun to leave the oppressive nameless town was gradually dissipated by the almost unchanged scenery on the roadside and the dilapidated houses seen on the road. At noon, they ate some food in a shed supported by broken mats on the edge of Guocheng, rested for a while and went on the road again.
When the car ran, the wind from the window was very hot, which made Yunfei feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, there is an air conditioner in the car, otherwise so many people crowded in it, I really can't live that day. Originally, Yu Xiaogang had planned to take the train and wait for Yunfei at Chengdu railway station. Finally, after knowing that Yunfei's car had air conditioning, no one was willing to take the green car like a steamer.
"Yes!" Yun Fei just whispered. Seeing the city that had made him very familiar, but now it has become very strange, his heart is filled with emotion.
In the early 1990s, the urban area of Chengdu was countless times smaller than that of Yunfei world. Now in Chengdu, countless buildings are breaking ground around the whole city. In the world before Yunfei, Chengdu has developed to the location of the Third Ring Road to the belt expressway, and the whole urban area is nearly 300 square kilometers. Now, the urban area will not exceed 60 square kilometers.
Near the original Second Ring Road, there are some low and dilapidated houses, many of which are even farmland, and a large number of factories have not been relocated. Although Chengdu belongs to the plain, the plain is not as open as the plain in North and central China. The tallest building in Chengdu at this time is the Shudu revolving restaurant, the tallest building in Southwest China, which was built two years ago.
That building is 115 meters high, with a total of 30 floors. In Chengdu in this era, it can be regarded as a landmark building.
Chengdu is a city in the mainland. Although it is the provincial capital and covers a huge area, in the more than ten years of reform and opening up, the degree of development is far from being compared with coastal cities. General residential buildings are six or seven storey buildings, with almost no elevator apartments. The office buildings, there are only a small number of buildings with more than ten floors near Tianfu Square.
The development speed of Chengdu in recent years is far from being compared with that of future generations. Especially after 1998, the state vigorously developed real estate, and Chengdu was able to expand rapidly. Now, the construction of residential buildings in Chengdu is not as hot as that in later generations, and it can not be compared with the economic cities in coastal areas. Therefore, Chengdu in this era does not lack urban land. For factories or companies that need land, there is no need to ask for space towards the sky.
Mao Erdan was puzzled because when his eldest sister came home, she boasted to him how huge Chengdu is. Tall buildings are next to each other. Standing a little closer, she can't even see the top.
Just after leaving the town, Mao Erdan was sleeping when others were interested in any scenery on both sides because of the excitement of leaving the mountain. After lunch, the others were not excited. They were too lazy to look at the scenery flashing on both sides of the road. When he began to sleep, he woke up and became interested in the environment where the car ran all the way.
Mao Erdan has never left the small town deep in the mountain. Now he finds that it is so poor and backward outside. Many towns passed by on the road have only one main street. Most of the houses on both sides of the street are green brick houses built in the 1960s and 1970s. There are almost no buildings except government office buildings. There are even many villages and towns. There are few houses with green bricks and black tiles on the streets. A little even do not know when they were built, and the outer surface has been covered with mottled black wooden houses. What's more, it is the most common to use giant wood as the support of houses in the whole land of Bashu. The cheapest and common strips are woven into walls in the middle, and then the mud cut by broken straw is pasted on both sides, and finally the row fan house is painted with lime outside.
There are few brick houses on the roadside, and many are even thatched houses with rammed walls and straw on the top. This is the time when the rice harvest in Bashu is just beginning. Rice harvest scenes can be seen everywhere along the road. Although he hasn't come out and has been growing up in the city since childhood, Mao Erdan knows very well. Near the base town, there are still many aborigines who have the habit of growing rice.
As the mountains on both sides of the road gradually decrease, Mao Erdan knows that they are getting closer and closer to Chengdu. He was eager to see the city in his elder sister's mouth that it would take a day to cross the whole city in a straight line, and there were high-rise buildings everywhere.
But unexpectedly, with the gradual increase of houses on both sides, the rows of high-rise buildings he expected did not appear in his sight. He was disappointed and confused, and wanted Yunfei to tell him that this was not the big city he had been longing for for for countless years.
Yunfei's words broke the only hope in his heart. This is Chengdu!
"Xiao Yun, where are we going?" After waking up, Yu Xiaogang kept looking at this strange big city that they might stay in for a lifetime in the future. There are not many tall buildings in this city, but it is much larger than the small town where they are based. In particular, there are a lot of vehicles on the road, although they are small cars that they can't name.
"Go to Funan hotel. Take a night off tonight and get down to business tomorrow." Yun Fei said to Yu Xiaogang above the co pilot. It's already past four o'clock. When I'm not familiar with my place, there's no way to find someone to do business.
He does not intend to go to the economic and Technological Development Zone divided in the city to talk to the management committee. Ren Zhiguo has conveyed the situation encountered by Wang Qingfeng to him. Before departure, he found Zhao Xingbang to write letters to the leaders in charge of the economic development zone one by one according to the experience he saw on the Internet in his previous life. After all, he is now looking for a place to build a factory on behalf of 9327!
The existence of Chengdu's economic and Technological Development Zone is to serve the relocation of those factories deep in the mountains. Now the factories of the aerospace system have begun to break ground in the economic development zone. The national No. 9 Mechanical Technology Research Institute affiliated to 9327 has only greeted the Chengdu officials through the above. It has not yet decided which factories need to be moved out. Of course, the core production plant can't be moved here.
There are not many core factories, and there is no market prospect, so Zhao Xingbang is very embarrassed and has not made a decision.
Funan hotel is on the Fuhe River in the south of the city. In Chengdu in this era, it can be said that it is still a relatively backward suburb. Funan hotel has been regarded as the most upscale hotel in Chengdu in this era. Awesome though the city's housing is mostly built over 100 years ago, it has been used to receive the leadership of the municipal government. So it is very hard to maintain the building. There is no sense of frustration, but it is a sense of depth for the people living in it.
Yunfei has always been relying on the middle road of memory. After entering Chengdu from the East, he began to intersperse around the edge of the city towards the south gate.
The east gate of Chengdu, until 20 years later, is still the slum of the whole city. Although it has developed very well, there are some ordinary people living there. There are no high-end communities or villas. The rich areas of Chengdu have been gathering towards the South Gate since the early 1980s, especially those government officials at the provincial and municipal levels, whose houses are in the south gate.
So I always thought that I and others had seen the real Chengdu, and my heart began to lose. They all feel that since Chengdu is the provincial capital and the largest city in the whole southwest, the whole city must be huge and luxurious. At least, the dozens of high-rise buildings that make them dizzy and shock their souls, as Mao Chunya said, do not appear in their sight!
Chengdu is indeed bigger than they thought, because Yunfei's car has been driving for nearly an hour and has not reached its destination. If they want to cross that small town, they can only walk for 20 or 30 minutes, and driving is even more a matter of minutes.
Of course, they don't know that Yunfei doesn't know the road of Chengdu in this era and has been circling around everywhere.
Yun Fei was depressed. He didn't expect that the city would change so much in the next 20 years. In his memory, he could have reached his destination along this road. Until he finished walking this street, he found that he didn't know these places around him. If you are in the city, Yunfei doesn't think he will get lost. After all, the places within the first ring road in Chengdu will not change much in the next 20 years, especially those streets.
At first, Yun Fei thought that when he went to Tianfu Square, he was forced to drive to Funan hotel. After walking around for so long, Yunfei didn't dare to have the slightest carelessness. He began to think about whether to park the car on the roadside and ask someone for the way.