When Yang Jing got off the plane and left Kai Tak Airport next to Kowloon Bay, the atmosphere that greeted him made Yang Jing feel both familiar and unfamiliar.
Due to terrain restrictions, Kai Tak Airport is located in the city centre of Hong Kong Island. This airport with only one runway was built entirely in Kowloon Bay using land reclamation methods.
Similarly, this international airport with only one runway ranks third in the world in international passenger volume at its busiest times, and ranks first in the world in cargo volume!
It is a miracle that this narrow airport has achieved such an impressive result with only one runway.
After leaving the terminal building through the airport gate, the scene in front of him made Yang Jing fall into a strange memory.
Whether in the original time and space or in the current time and space, this is Yang Jing's first time to come to Hong Kong Island, but this does not mean that Yang Jing is not familiar with Hong Kong Island.
When he was in college, although it was already the second decade of the 21st century, Yang Jing still liked to watch old Hong Kong movies, especially those from the Hong Kong cinema's most glorious period in the 1980s and 1990s.
Chow Yun Fat, Lung Ge, Maggie Cheung, the Four Heavenly Kings, Principal, Leslie Cheung, Sing Zai... a series of familiar names contributed to the extreme development of the film and television industry in Hong Kong during those twenty years.
Movies like "Across the World", "A Better Tomorrow", "God of Gamblers" series, Stephen Chow's nonsensical series, etc. were also Yang Jing's favorite movies.
Through movies, Yang Jing had seen many street scenes of Hong Kong Island in the 1980s and 1990s. Therefore, even though it was his first time in Hong Kong Island, and in the early 1980s, Yang Jing felt that this city was not unfamiliar to him at all.
On the way to the hotel in a taxi, Yang Jing would occasionally see a familiar street scene that he had seen in a movie or TV. Although his memory was a little fuzzy, when he saw these street scenes in his memory, he would immediately remember which movie or TV show this place had appeared in...
Moreover, most of the young men on the streets have long hair, and most of the girls have permed afro hair. Jeans and bell-bottom pants are everywhere in the streets and alleys.
Yang Jing also knew that within a few years, this style of dress of young people in Hong Kong Island would be introduced to the mainland and become completely popular in the mainland.
Apart from other things, Yang Jing had seen photos of his parents when they were young in the old photo albums at home more than once, especially when they first met, around 1988. At that time, his father had long hair and bell-bottom pants, while his mother's braids were gone, and the one that appeared in the photo was a girl with a permed hair. If it weren't for his grandmother telling Yang Jing very confidently that this was his mother, Yang Jing wouldn't have believed that his mother, who was a car blocker in a cotton mill, could have such a fashionable side...
In fact, until the advent of the new century, Hong Kong Island was the fashion leader in clothing for the entire Eastern continent, always leading the clothing trends of the people of that huge country.
Yang Jing felt it was truly magical to appreciate the situation of Hong Kong Island nearly forty years ago from the perspective of a future person, which led to him staying in Hong Kong Island for two more days.
Afterwards, Yang Jing handled the relevant travel procedures, took the train through the Luohu Port, and entered the territory of Pengcheng.
In fact, it was Yang Jing's curiosity that got the better of him. He really wanted to see what Pengcheng, one of the four first-tier cities in China in the future, was like in 1980.
Thanks to the existence of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, Pengcheng, which was originally just a small village, was finally officially established as Pengcheng in March last year, 1979. Then in November of the same year, Pengcheng was upgraded again to a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the province.
Yang Jing also knew that on August 26 of this year, Pengcheng would officially establish its status as a special economic zone, and this day would later be known as Pengcheng’s birthday.
Then from that day on, Pengcheng was like a rocket filled with booster fuel, and began to take off rapidly. With a development speed that shocked the whole world, it developed into a world-class city in just less than forty years.
This is the famous "Pengcheng Miracle"!
But now, before the ignition and takeoff, Pengcheng is really... very primitive...
Although Hong Kong Island in 1980 was relatively primitive in Yang Jing's eyes, compared with Pengcheng, which was just separated by a river, Hong Kong Island was simply in heaven, while Pengcheng, which had not yet started, was a complete peasant.
At this time, Pengcheng had not yet started the large-scale construction, and this small city was still a pure and original ecology.
In the later generations, there were seven railway stations in Pengcheng, but now there is only one small and pitiful railway station, and even the waiting hall is just a row of bungalows...
After coming out of the train station, Yang Jing strolled along the way. Of course, his typical foreigner appearance naturally attracted the attention of many people in Pengcheng.
In this era, although Pengcheng and Hong Kong Island are separated by a river, foreigners who often appear on the other side of the river in Hong Kong Island are rarely seen in Pengcheng, especially foreigners accompanied by police, which is even rarer.
That's right. Just after getting off the train, Yang Jing was invited into a bungalow. When he came out, there were two policemen wearing white 72-style police uniforms beside him. In this era, even if foreigners come here for tourism, they need to be accompanied by police comrades. As for the purpose, you can go there by yourself.
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