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New China was just established in 1949, with hundreds of industries to be developed, and the petroleum industry was particularly difficult. At that time, the national oil output was only 120,000 tons, while the oil output of the United States reached 300 million tons at the same time. The gap is huge. Looking for oil and refining has become the whole country. Anxious.
A coincidence, when a child in a village in western Guangdong simmered sweet potatoes with a stone kiln on a mountain, he found that the stone could actually burn, and unexpectedly discovered a large oil shale mine. The total oil shale mine was discovered through exploration. The reserves reached 5.1 billion tons, ranking second in the country.
In 1956, with the approval of the state, the local oil shale development was included in one of the 156 key projects of the national “One Five” plan, and hundreds of thousands of construction troops from all over the world were rushing into the village, one after another. The furnace rose.
Under the drive of the petroleum industry, the local area was upgraded from a county to a county-level city in 1959.
Unfortunately, the wheels of history are turning too fast. Just when the oil refinery was ready for production, the good news of the discovery of the Daqing oil field came in 1961. The central government decided to concentrate all resources on the development of Daqing, and the development of shale oil has slowed down.
So what should I do, the stove that was finally built cannot be abandoned! The local area is rapidly transforming, taking advantage of its proximity to Zhanjiang Port, importing crude oil from Zhanjiang Port, and processing the crude oil into lubricating oil and fuel oil. It has gradually become an oil supply base in south-central and south-west my country for decades.
In 1975, the place was upgraded to a prefecture-level city and became one of the 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong. This city is called Maoming.
In recent years, due to the single industry in Maoming, the oil and petrochemical industry has a limited capacity, and housing prices have not been able to fall, resulting in continued population outflows. Becoming the city with the largest net population outflow in Guangdong in 2019.
In the ranking of ghost cities index, Maoming has also become the second ghost city in Guangdong after Kaiping.
Because I’m historically addicted to digging, I like to look for imprints under the wheel of history. I’m also interested in ghost towns, so I embarked on a journey to Maoming.
Mao Ming impression
Maoming Station is quite new. After getting off the station, there are many real estate developments around.
Open the map app and see that the high-speed rail station is just over 2 kilometers away from the city center. You can walk on the shared bicycle and you can see that the pattern of Maoming’s urban area is four or four. Fangfang’s.
A lot of these shops were encountered on the road, which should be regarded as the characteristics of western Guangdong, but I have never seen them in Yangjiang.
To go to the city, you need to go through a viaduct and take a picture on the bridge. The buildings in the city are few and not high. The sky is blue and blue. Massive clouds spread across the sky like squeezing toothpaste.
It seems that the city’s greening and ecology are not bad.
At this time it was more than 4 pm, there were few people on the street, and you could cross the road with your eyes closed.
There are many fun shop signs on the road.
I can’t afford to stay at the eight-star hotel in Dubai, but it’s okay to live in a chain hotel opposite it. I settled down and went to the city again.
Youcheng
Maoming is larger than Guangzhou, with 2 districts under its jurisdiction (Maonan District, Dianbai District) and 3 county-level cities (Gaozhou, Huazhou, Xinyi), my district is Maonan District, Maonan District is more developed and is also the seat of the municipal government.
The center of the city is penetrated by a Youcheng Road, from Youcheng No.10 Road to Youcheng No.1 Road, which can be connected to the town. You can also see the characteristics of the city by the word Youcheng. The city government is located on Youcheng No.6 Road.
I stepped on a shared bike from Renmin South Road to Youcheng Fourth Road. There is a landmark building in Maoming. Three people have three goals, and I don’t know what it means.
Checked, this is the most prosperous place in Maoming, with HSBC Plaza and Minghu Shopping Mall.
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Go along Renmin South Road and go up to Guandu 3rd Road, here is the best university in Maoming—Guangdong Petrochemical College, referred to as Guangyou.
Go down the Guandu 3rd Road and go all the way to Guandu Bridge. The buildings you see on the road are all related to Sinopec.
Sinopec Cultural Center.
Introductions of outstanding employees hang at the door.
Sinopec affiliate company.
Walk up Guandu Bridge and see the chimneys standing across the bridge, where the oil refinery should be located.
You can see Maoming Petrochemical Company on the bridge.
There are slogans of big, hard, hard, and fast-drying for 100 days. I watched it with blood.
A large building opposite the petrochemical company has the words “Long live the People’s Republic of China”.
A hundred thousand troops in the 1950s flashed in my mindEntering Maoming, the spectacular scene of everyone refining together.
Open the map app, this feeling is even stronger. The road next to Maoming Petrochemical Company is called Hongqi North Road, the opposite street is called Rocket Street, and Rocket Street is connected to Xingfu Road. There is a Yuejin Street near Yuexing Road. Next door is the construction road, a kind of leap-forward construction of the petroleum industry carrying a red flag and rockets. Is there any sense of grandeur that leads to happiness?
According to the information, it turned out that this neighborhood was the place where the hundreds of thousands of oil troops poured into Maoming in the 1960s. At that time, the leaders set aside 37,000 square meters of land to build a house to allow oil from all sides to support the oil. The builders of the city development have a place to live, and this area is also called “37,000”.
“Thirty Seven Seven” was once the most lively place in Maoming. Rocket Street and Yuejin Street were also the names of the roads taken at that time.
Later, these houses were demolished one after another. By 1982, Maoming Petrochemical Company had built 72 buildings in the original 37,000 area in order to solve the accommodation problem for employees. , Also known as “seventy-two tenants.”
I turned into Rocket Street, this is the location of “72 House Tenants”.
How many buildings of Maoshihua are hung on each building.
Stone tables along the road are marked by Sinopec.
The darkened walls are in sharp contrast to the vibrant plants on the balcony.
This is the evening, and the children are out of school.
Old people also watch TV leisurely.
We chatted with Uncle in Cantonese for a while. Uncle said that in the 1980s it was the best residential area in Maoming. The directors of oil refineries lived here. They moved one after another, and many people went to live in the newly built ethylene living area. However, because the nearby primary and secondary schools are complete and convenient to buy food, there are still many people staying here.
The sun is setting. From here, you can see the chimney of the refinery outside the wall.
Come out of the community and see a Maoming Petrochemical Hospital, it feels like a certain number of years.
Come to Youcheng 3rd Road, where there is a permanent bridge connecting the city, walk on the bridge, there is a ferris wheel on the right river beach, no one sits, The pillars on the bridge are in the shape of an oil refinery chimney.
After passing through Minghu Mall and seeing the buildings of the headball, a word suddenly appeared in my heart, and the oil workers held up the city.
Nightlife
Dinner I ate at a spicy hot chain restaurant near the hotel. I thought the consumption here was not high. At checkout, it was nearly 40 yuan.
Frankly, the nightlife here is boring, you can’t find a large shopping mall, you can go shopping, there are no stalls, and there are few people. This is just a casual shot on the street.
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The most lively is the intersection.
Oh no, it should be here, People’s Square, there are many people dancing square dance, and it is a few hundred meters from the high-speed rail station.
FromInside and out are people dancing square dance.
It’s too boring at night. Everyone came here. I watched the square dance for dozens of minutes and felt the vitality of the city.
Vinyl community
The uncle of the 72 tenants told me that many of the petrochemical workers moved to the vinyl community and checked it with the map app. It’s terrible. It’s a large area, occupying two grids in the urban area. , Zones 2 and 3.
Popular science: Ethylene is an extremely important reagent in the petrochemical industry and other industries, and its output marks the ability of a country’s petrochemical industry.
On the second day of Maoming, I came to this community. The streets here are named after vinyl.
The nearby hotel is called Maoming Petrochemical Bamboo Garden.
There are kindergartens and elementary schools in the community. The kindergarten is called Maoming Petrochemical Kindergarten. It is a terrible kindergarten in Guangdong Province.
The primary school is called Maoming Ethylene Primary School.
The environment here is much better than that of the seventy-two tenants, and the residents are relatively wealthy, with small cars parked everywhere.
After a few laps in the community, I went back to the hotel and booked a high-speed rail ticket in the morning.
Maoming’s streets are really wide.
On the way to the high-speed rail station, I saw a large number of newly built high-rise buildings.It’s time to rebuild a city center and check that the house price is around 8,000.
Photographed with the back to the high-speed rail station, this kind of real estate that can take the high-speed rail as soon as you go out should be popular in the future. If the high-speed rail speeds up again, maybe the future Both Guangzhou and Shenzhen can become a half-hour life circle.
Entering the high-speed rail station, I realized that Litchi was originally a specialty of this city.
The wheels of history are rolling forward, and people’s fate is often pushed away, just as in response to the call of the state, to build an oil industry from all over the world to Maoming Many hundreds of thousands of troops have checked from Fushun, Liaoning, because Fushun is also a famous shale oil producer, where there are skilled miners.
The craze has faded and the industry has shifted. Perhaps Maoming is not as glorious as it was back then, but fortunately those descendants of those miners were taken care of very well. They lived in good neighborhoods, and children read the best kindergartens and elementary schools. Believe They will have a good future.
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