Général | matter | août 26, 2010,04:38
There is a saying in Guangdong province that the two most
painful experiences are living on Hengqin island and dying on Mangzhou
island.
The former was notorious for its extreme poverty while
the latter, now part of Taishan city in Guangdong, was a wartime
execution ground in the 1930s.
Although part of Zhuhai, one of
China's first special economic zones (SEZs) and now a prosperous city,
Hengqin was not part of the original zone and remains relatively
unchanged since the early 1980s.
However, there is now a growing
sense of optimism and, as the country marks the 30th anniversary of its
groundbreaking SEZs on Thursday, the island is set to join the party.
Following
last year's decision to redraw the Zhuhai zone boundary to include
Hengqin, soon to boast a new campus of the University of Macao,
residents have been eagerly building houses to rent out to the army of
migrant workers who will inevitably arrive to work on the
infrastructure and development projects.
Hengqin is the largest
of Zhuhai's 146 islands but for decades residents relied largely on
Macao, just a 10-minute boat ride away.
"Most of the time we
rowed boats to Macao, taking fish, fruit and firewood and bringing back
rice, oil and clothes," said 80-year-old Lin Beitian, who moved to the
island with his mother and three siblings in 1936.
"We were so
poor at the time," he said, explaining that about 500 of Hengqin's
3,000 inhabitants fled to Macao illegally when access was blocked
during the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976). "Most people didn't think
they could survive."
Since 1980, Zhuhai has seen its population
surge from 120,000 to 1.45 million. GDP has also increased by an
average of 20 percent year-on-year, hitting 103 billion yuan ($15
billion) last year.
Yet, although per capita GDP in Zhuhai has jumped to more than 69,000 yuan a year, in Hengqin it is still barely 9,000 yuan.
A
1,425-meter bridge, the sole link from the island to Zhuhai's modern
downtown, was not completed until 1999, and the No 14 bus is the only
form of public transport.
No courier companies deliver to the
area and even the Agricultural Bank of China, the only one on the
island before 2010, closed its branch years ago.
The lack of
progress has been a source of frustration for residents. Although
forests, wetlands and rare mangroves dominate more than half of the
106-sq-km island, for some the natural beauty cannot compare with the
gleaming Hotel Lisboa or the futuristic 338-meter-tall Macao Tower,
both of which can be easily seen across the water in Macao.
Lin
said his two daughters, who were born in Macao because there was no
hospital on Hengqin at the time, moved their families to Macao
permanently in the 1980s.
"They invite me to have dinner but
they seldom come back here," said the pensioner. "Even if they do, they
never stay overnight. They don't like it here."
However, life in
Hengqin has begun to change since August last year, when central
authorities approved plans to make the island China's third State-level
strategic new area, putting it alongside Shanghai's Pudong district and
Binhai in Tianjin.
"Macao was just like here in the late 1970s,"
said islander Xu Jianxin, 42. "Macao changed but Hengqin stayed the
same. Now it's finally our turn."
Ringing the changes
Due
to its location, the new area will act as a platform to promote new
cooperation between Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong under the "one
country, two systems" policy.
The 1,700-meter Lianhua Bridge
already links Hengqin with Macao, while the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao
Bridge, which is set for completion in 2015, will cut travel times to
Hong Kong to 30 minutes by road, as opposed to one hour by boat.
According
to Fan Hengshan, director of the National Development and Reform
Commission's regional economy department, the pilot project will ease
the land and workforce shortages in Hong Kong and Macao.
"The
development relies on the money, techniques and experience from the
surrounding areas, especially Hong Kong and Macao," he said.
Officials
in Hengqin, which is three times the size of Macao and has a population
of about 10,000, have already launched six huge projects and attracted
70 billion yuan in investment. (One of the projects is the
1.1-square-kilometer campus, which has been leased to the University of
Macao for 40 years. The city's oldest college has found it increasingly
difficult to house all 6,600 students and 400 teaching staff on its
original grounds.)
According to the blueprint, the new area will
increase its population by 120,000 by 2015 and 280,000 by 2020, with
per capita GDP also expected to rise to 120,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan
over the same periods.
New industries will focus on business services, leisure, tourism, education, high technology and research and development.
People
living in the island's 10 villages say they have already started to see
major changes, including the opening of branches by the Bank of China
and China Post.
About 50 percent of residents are now building
properties. Most four-story blocks have been torn down and replaced by
new six-story blocks, and advertisements for apartments to rent are on
view almost everywhere.
"There will be 120,000 people living
here by 2015 according to the plan," said an excited Xu Jianxin. "Let's
say 60,000 live outside Hengqin and 30,000 on the construction sites,
that leaves 30,000 who need to find somewhere to live."
Ding
Wenli, who arrived in Hengqin more than 18 months ago for the fishing,
said the average price of a two-bedroom apartment has already increased
from about 800 yuan a month in 2009 to 1,000 yuan this year.
"The
natives seldom fish or farm anymore," said Ding, who is from Yangjiang
in Guangdong. "With the houses they have, they're rich now."
Each household in Hengqin owns roughly 80 to 100 square meters of property and most are intending to make the most of it.
The
reconstruction fever began in earnest two years ago when Guangzhou
Chime Long Group opened negotiations with residents in two villages
over demolition compensation, said Liu Shuqiong, who came to Hengqin
with her husband and a 16-member construction team in 2006.
"That
was when we knew the development plan was for real," she said. "About
20 to 30 bosses are now doing the business in Hengqin and each of them
has a team of 40 to 50 workers," she said.
Liu said her team has
worked on several projects in Shenzhen, a major city in Guangdong,
since 1992 but added: "Business in Shenzhen has shrunk. After 2004, we
could hardly find any work. That's why we came to Zhuhai."
The
cost of building a six-story house in Hengqin is around 1,000 yuan per
square meter and many residents insist on building higher properties,
even those short on cash.
"They can either rent them out or get
much more compensation once it gets demolished," said Liu, who
originally hails from Sichuan province. She has invested in two houses
in Hengqin, the profits from which she will split with village
partners. "I've always followed the news about Hengqin's development,"
she added. "I think this place is the future of Zhuhai."
The
Shizimen central business zone has also successfully attracted interest
from five-star hotel chains including Sheraton and St. Regis, which
both opened properties there.
Chime Long International Ocean
Resort also brought eight beluga whales to Hengqin from Russia in
August, with the aim of turning it into the Chinese water theme park.
For
Hengqin residents who have waited for these developments their entire
lives, the future looks very bright. "With help from the central
government and the special policies, Hengqin will surpass Macao in five
years, 10 at the most," said pensioner Lin. "I just hope I have the
chance to see it myself."
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Général | matter | décembre 01, 2009,05:43
Scald treatment
Wonderful recipe: 2 pieces of lime water, 1 point of oil of camellia clarified, stir into a white lipoprotein form of insincere lotion.
Usage: 1, Burn, use this medicine best promptly, if has already used its medicine first, has employed the brine to wash off and apply this medicine.
2,Needn't wrap up in the first 5 days, often dip in medicines and apply the affected part with the clean chicken feather. 5 days later, burn feeling is dispelled, can wrap up. Wash old medicine off with the brine while changing dressings.
3,Burning severely can cooperate and take antiinflammatory agents orally.
4,Avoid frying the sour and hot, meat or fish.
Note: There aren't a lot of places of oil of camellia, can replace with vegetable oil such as vegetable oil.
Be careful, light, intermediate patient, use in this France separately already but. Burn injection needing to cooperate with the hospital, take severely orally,etc..
Burn the treatment that is scalded " Five word rhymed formulae " ,Only five steps: Wash, take off, the bubble, lid, sending. Wash and steep water each temperature of the epidermis of 15 minutes at home with the cold water, prevent temperature from and then prolonging to the hypodermis all over the placely.
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Général | matter | décembre 01, 2009,05:42
Roast banana
The roast banana is a dish of very special small pastry, because has not added the flour, make up only with egg and banana that is sent, so the mouthfeel is very soft, have a try together!
Material:
2 bananas, 3 eggs, 5 grams of coconut palm silk, 15 grams of raisins, a little of a big spoon of candy, white wine
Method:
1,The yellow and white separate, install among two anhydrous basin to have oil separately, egg yolk add candy stir, dissolve to all candy.
2,The grape is steeped softly with a little white wine after being dry-cleaned netly, the egg white is made to wet foam formation.
3,The banana is peeled and stripped, sliced, add egg yolk and egg white to mix thoroughly, put in the roast plate.
4,Let go, have coconut palm silk and raisins put in 170 preheating good oven bake 15 minutes.
Point out:
Can replace with the shredded coconut stuffing too without the coconut palm silk.
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Général | matter | mars 07, 2009,05:25
That early spring in the afternoon
Will it be early spring 2009, March 4, open willow begin very new and green, in the afternoon a extremely ordinary one, a young married woman beautiful, a story of effete and sentimental writings in general!
She and her girl friend is here " One day such as beauty " Wait for me in front of the door, I sent two calendars out of date to her, I had nothing, what is brought to devote to her?
At that time meeting each other, I can't believe one's own eyes a bit: This is and that woman of my video? More than in the video and my imagination! How about and her? Have shyness like the some young girl in being pleasantly surprised, look obviously lower than her actual age, it is a ripe young married woman.
Why will I have such an affair? Perhaps, is it that too bitter that God can not bear to see me? So, younger sister Lin falls down in the sky?
Having had lunch, to my office, she has given me unexpected pleasant surprise! Who has eaten candies by this way in this life? That is really happiness like the immortal! If the classmates not having her are present, if are only she and I, if, the office door is closed I do not dare to want to go down again.
Perhaps, the thing perhaps can not be like people's will. However, I am always thinking, it is enough if give me a section of bright memory. Even if it is only one in the afternoon, at one night, should be content with one's lot.
At that time when she and girl friend left me, I began to feel a kind of slow agony, it seems that there is a sound by my ear, the very grim one tells me: You can only have this one in the afternoon, this instant, she came, she must leave, must leave! I am still I who am original.
Perhaps, it is good many years later, only I can remember, it is her smiling face like the flower; Only I can remember, but she eats the look of the candy with me. And at this moment, I really really miss her!
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Général | matter | mars 07, 2009,04:38
The girl bosom friend's tears
Ten thousand two gold getting easy, it is difficult for bosom friend not to seek in the world.
Man people give birth to and hit except the wife, lover, whom he needs even more is girl bosom friend. The proverb is spoken well, someone in the world intimately?
The girl bosom friend looks like the stars, limpid, it was real that her feeling came, come purely too, does not include color of any utility.
Man can with wife and what that lover say, can tell the girl bosom friend, she understands you love you, can get you, she a certain time, faithful pal of you, can accompany you drink, accompany you to be crazy, accompany you to play, accompany you to shed tears, accompany you to spend endless long night. Belonging to you happily, the agony is shared with you, she will have neither enmity nor repentance. She is a spiritual prop in your life, tired, the girl bosom friend is your sail, can let you stop for a rest on a walking tour, tired, the girl bosom friend twitters for your unreasoning passion, you will enter the dreamland beautiful.
Someone says, the girl bosom friend is the man's hope, she will not be far away from you because your official fall, will not drift apart you because of your breaking the factory either, will not leave you because you have no wealth, she will pray quietly, establish confidence for you, she encourages you to bob up like a cork for you, she wants you to remember, on the road where you strive, a fawn goes together with you.
Someone says too, the girl bosom friend is a part in the man's life, is the man's good fortune, she though and you do not have any relation, but she can have mutual affinity with you, cherish quietly, she, no matter which kind of people you are, in her eyes, you have self-respect very much, she can point out your fault, can say others do not dare to talk about your words, she can not flatter you, will not please you, the every sentence that she says to you is a real speech, good speech, perhaps you do not like listening to, but she will not condone you, when your emotion meets the crisis, when you say that should divorce wife, she will criticize you, she wants you to treasure your hard-won fate. She wants your family to be harmonic, couple are affectionate, perhaps you will not hear, at this moment, she will dish out her trump card, "you or else to your wife well, I will not speak to you in this life. " Perhaps you were very angry at that time, said she was uncalled-for. Can get down, you think about it, for whom does she do it in this way?
Somebody says, girl bosom friend, she is not a wife of the old man of your family, but surpass the wife, she will separate for some time, reminds you, often come back home to see the elder person, she will remind you to buy some presents to show filial respect for your parents.
Wife and lover, man deal with, can take place war while being fine, some wives want to let somebody retaliate against the lover, let lover's face sweep the floor, some lovers want oneself to replace the wife and have the position, pass, have rich day, man large King. Man knowing strength hand in, break to pieces at this moment, well, know now early, why be originally. She will look for girl bosom friend, speak bitter, one hard.
Girl bosom friend, she want you think carefully, think carefully, think repeatedly, please go, injure the innocent woman, don't let the innocent child endure hardships. . . . . . .
Perhaps, girl bosom friend who does not many women do not understand the man, perhaps, many men can't really make the girl bosom friend happy, but as girl bosom friend, she have neither enmity nor repentance, perhaps when man difficult, fall, climb stand up, ,people know a circle tightly. But you know getting tight one too, she of girl bosom friend, she care about you, never can tell you she at your side. She understands you, love you, know you, long for you, but she will never destroy your family, she will tell you, " I know you love I, but have chance with, have copy this life, I will certainly become bride of you next life " The man is due to a girl bosom friend, because the girl bosom friend is the chicken soup of his soul.
Say the man has the gold, I think the girl bosom friend's tears can be beautiful with his Bin, because girl bosom friends are mostly reasonable, she can think of the question from the view of man, analyze the question, for the man, she is willing to receive by oneself hurt and wronged, for the man, she does not hesitate she is misunderstand, she stars, illuminate with taking place manning of relation no by oneself forever. The girl bosom friend's tears, like the man's knee, she will not shed tears easily, she can bear and can step aside, as the saying goes, " the good daughter solves the belt goldly " .
If you have a girl bosom friend, the man, you must not let the girl bosom friend shed tears, because of the girl bosom friend's tears, is the tears of the stars. The stars shed tears, do you say whether liver and intestines are cut into inches and heart-broken?
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