Chapter 24 In the first chapter, I saw the great northern port in "The Strategy of Founding a Country"

The harbor in front of me is very beautiful and spectacular... When the sun rises, the tall crane stretches its strong arms, always passionately embracing every round of new hope and new boiling; It is a city that never sleeps with joyful boat songs, which will make your blood boil and linger forever. I believe so: Jingtang Port, this port on the Bohai Bay will soon be remembered by all the people in the world, because it will definitely be a big port that attracts attention in China and even in the world. In front of the map, when standing together with Liu Weimin, chairman of Jingtang Port Co., Ltd., when reviewing yesterday, today and imagining the port of tomorrow, we all have an irresistible impulse. For the owner, this impulse is struggle and entrepreneurship A majestic fighting spirit and confident confidence in the journey; for a bystander like me, it is a sense of national pride and honor.

The largest port in northern China on the Bohai Bay has grown from scratch, from 1 million tons of throughput to 10 million tons...100 million tons of throughput, it only takes about 20 years. Such a miracle is also rare in the history of world ports. .The present and future of Jingtang Port, which is still rising rapidly, is even more amazing and exciting! For this, who can not be excited?If you too stand on that sea... All the builders of this port told me that they all have a beautiful dream in their hearts, that is to watch with their own hands build a port on Bohai Bay that is the same as Tianjin Tanggu and Qinhuangdao ports, which are famous for centuries. Dagang, even surpasses them.However, no one dared to think this way before the leader of the group with Liu Weimin as the chairman.Because more than ten years ago, this place was still an uninhabited, overgrown saline-alkali land and bare primitive coastline.

Liu Weimin said that he thought about it, but this dream was gradually formed in his continuous struggle and thinking in recent years, and was also inspired by the ambition of the revolutionary pioneer Mr. Sun Yat-sen—— The greatness of Sun Yat-sen is not only due to his existence as a pioneer of the bourgeois democratic revolution in the old China era. He worked tirelessly to save the suffering Chinese nation. "Fanglue" is a big book.Among them, in the section "Northern Great Port", he described in great detail the geographical advantages and long-term planning of the construction of China's Northern Great Port from the perspective of political, economic and military national conditions, and with full patriotic sincerity.He pointed out: "It is proposed to build an unfrozen deep-water port in Zhili Bay. The planned port is halfway between Dagukou and Qinhuangdao, between the Qinghe River and Luanhe River, and along the road between Dagukou and Qinhuangdao. "On the headland of the coast", and proposed that "in a limited period of time, this port will be developed to make it as big as New York", and it will be built into a "large northern port that will not be silted or frozen" and "a pathway for world trade".

There is an old map of China obtained by accident, which Liu Weimin especially treasures.On that map of China, "the great northern port" is "as big as New York"!Sun Yat-sen used his walking stick to point the rivers and mountains, and clearly drew three seaports on it: "Southern Great Port", "Oriental Great Port" and "Northern Great Port" that will revitalize the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.In the ensuing years, the "Southern Great Port" and "Oriental Great Port" were built in Guangzhou and Ningbo, and they dominated the world's port industry.Only the "Northern Great Port", which is located "in the middle of Dagukou and Qinhuangdao, between the mouths of Qinghe River and Luanhe River", has always been humming the birth song of hope in the Bohai Bay where the waves are endless...

"Northern Great Port", "Making it as big as New York".What a boldness, what a majestic blueprint! However, the last wishes of the ancestors were ultimately lost in countless hesitation and poverty due to the endless changes in the wind and rain.On the other hand, the two ports of Tianjin Tanggu and Qinhuangdao, which are close to each other, have risen rapidly and become a generation of famous ports, and they are still popular today. They have "the terrain is located at the key point of water and land", "the deep water is close to the shore", "there is no danger of freezing all year round", and "the harbor can accommodate The "Northern Great Port", which is a natural good port with four major advantages, where most ships berth, has never been born under the attack of the left and right.As a result, a golden bright spot is missing on the territory of the Chinese nation.

Tangshan people feel a kind of regret, a kind of regret that cannot be calmed down.The "Northern Great Port" drawn by Sun Yat-sen is on the coastline of Leting Wangtan, which belongs to Tangshan.This is the hometown of Li Dazhao, the pioneer of the proletarian revolution who was busy spreading the revolutionary fire to overthrow the "Three Great Mountains". The blood was sprinkled under the knife of the enemy... Tangshan people lost the care of a generation of great men with nostalgia, and also lost a long and precious journey to rejuvenate the country.During this period, Bohai Bay has never been calm, and various ports have risen one after another, followed by the great development of large hinterland villages and cities.Tangshan people feel a sense of loss and urgency.Especially in the tide of socialist construction in New China, especially under the waves of surging sky after the reform and opening up, the dream deeply buried in the hearts of Tangshan people has been stirred and awakened again and again.

Who is Tang Shan?Tangshan is the cradle of modern Chinese industry! The first modern coal mine in China, the first industrial railway, the first steam engine, the first bag of cement and the first piece of sanitary ceramics were born here.In a sense, Tangshan is the starting point and synonymous with China's modern industrial history.Coal, steel, cement, soda ash and ceramics here have dominated China's industrial circles from beginning to end. Even in the 21st century, this pattern has not changed much. This is the pride of Tangshan people.However, it is precisely this kind of pride forged by relying on wisdom and unique resource advantages that makes Tangshan people feel another kind of unbearable humiliation and unwillingness, that is, the pain of "there is no sea without a port"!

"The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things without fighting, and it can deal with the evils of everyone, so it is almost in the way. Live in a good place, have a good heart, be kind and benevolent, speak good faith, be good at governance, do good things, and move good times. The only thing is not to fight, so there is no You." I believe that Liu Weimin, who is in charge of the "Northern Great Port" today, is not the only person in Tangshan who can read Lao Tzu's passage well. "The best kindness is like water, and those who benefit the people prosper", the virtue of using water to benefit all things without fighting, developing others while developing oneself, and promoting oneself while developing others, is exactly the broad-mindedness and life style of Tangshan people like Liu Weimin. The coordinates of establishing a career determine their historical choice.

The development of Tangshan is more than the Tangshan people's own business. The rise of Tangshan affects the entire Bohai Bay economic circle, Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan, and even the boundless northern and western territories on the Chinese territory. That is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River watershed. A hundred years ago, the reason why Mr. Sun Yat-sen was in Bohai Bay was to build a port named "Northern Great Port" on the waters of Tangshan area. 10,000,000; the northwest is the special area of ​​Rehe and the nomadic plains of Mongolia, which is sparsely populated and urgently needs to be developed. With the large population of Zhili and the wealth of mineral resources in Shanxi, this port must be relied on as the only way to export. If in the future After the completion of the railway between Toronto and Norku, connected by the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Central Siberia area will regard this as the nearest seaport... In the end, it will become the definite end point of the Eurasian route in the future, and the two continents will be connected as one." Therefore, Mr. Zhongshan thought, "This part of China must be a seaport, so it goes without saying."

A great man's eyes are always sharp, and he can hit the nail on the head, see every detail, and speak of the essence. If the "Northern Great Port" is not built, it is a loss of national prestige and an omission of the nation; late construction is also a waste and dullness.Tang Shan can't wait any longer, he is a hero who seizes the day and night.As early as the founding of the Republic, Tangshan people's dream of building Hong Kong has been affecting every nerve all the time. In the years of "taking steel as the key link", the construction of the "Northern Great Port" has been brewing with the establishment of Tangshan Iron and Steel Base.Even in the "Tangshan Earthquake" that almost completely destroyed this steel city in 1976, this idea has never been wiped out.

Tangshan people's belief in establishing Hong Kong is as unshakable as cherishing life. There is a period of history and a group of people that will never be forgotten: it was between 1979 and 1984 after the trumpet of China’s reform and opening up sounded. Focus on the strategy of developing the eastern Hebei region. The seaside of Wangtan, where the "Northern Great Port" is located, suddenly became a commotion, and a research work consisting of 600 experts was carried out in full swing. "Steel base and seaside port" must be considered at the same time!The suggestions of the experts excited Wang Daming, the deputy mayor, and Wei Zhenjiang, the head of the Municipal Planning Commission, who participated in this great strategic conception. In 1984, an important person who must be mentioned in the history of the construction of the "Northern Great Port" came to Tangshan City to take up a post. He was Comrade Yue Qifeng, the new Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.With extraordinary foresight, this port-building enthusiast who later served as the governor of Hebei Province organized and decided on the grand plan for the construction of Tangshan Port, and spared no effort in raising funds.When he left Tangshan and went to Shijiazhuang to become governor, he still did not forget to use the energy construction fund handed over by the Jidong Cement Plant to the provincial government to leave 50 million yuan per year as the start-up capital for the construction of Tangshan Port. This money determined the "Northern Great Port" It is a historic turning point from talking on paper to concrete implementation. In 1988, Tangshan City Construction Headquarters was formally established. Since then, the character "8" has been closely linked with the fate of this port, and many important days in the port after that are almost connected with the auspicious "8". At the beginning of planning to build the port, the mayor at the time, Chen Liyou, made the decision to “build a 10,000-ton berth if necessary” in Tangshan Port, which made the future Wangtan seaside move towards a true “Northern Great Port”, leaving a wonderful foreshadowing. "We must build the port even if we sell iron and pot!" The blood of Tangshan people boiled for the grand blueprint of building the port, and a large construction army began to march towards the saline-alkali barren beach with only smoke and no shadows.While recalling the scene at that time, Liu Weimin said affectionately: "At that time we heard that we were going to build a large port in our hometown. We couldn't believe it. I just changed jobs from the army and returned to my hometown this year. When I heard about it, I went to the county overnight to inquire about the news, and then I went to look for information. When I knew that the port to be built was the "Northern Port" planned by Mr. Sun Yat-sen, I decided to build a port in Wangtan without hesitation!" Two months after Liu Weimin, who was in military uniform, laid the first pile in Tangshan Port, he and a group of college students and engineering technicians came to report to the Port Construction Headquarters. "The waves are high, the waves are surging, the waves are tight, and the army building the port is resting on the coast. The scorching sun is in the sky, and the heat is scorching, and the sweat is dripping on the ground..." The construction of Tangshan Port has accepted the triple experience of hard work, engineering technology and market economy from the very beginning. . At the beginning of the establishment of the port, the conditions on the Wangtan seashore were very difficult. This is a barren land in the true sense of "without a tile on the top and a tree on the bottom".According to port construction practices, it generally takes at least 5 or even 10 years to build a 10,000-ton port.However, people in Tangshan know that their port construction has been delayed for too long due to historical reasons and constraints, and what is left for them now is to seize the day and catch up.It is the entire pursuit of all the people involved in the construction of Tangshan Port to hold up their ideals on the blue coastline as soon as possible.For this reason, they launched an excellent battle against time and speed. On the beach in midsummer, the sun was scorching and unobstructed, and poisonous mosquitoes with big mouths were flying all over the sky in the surrounding puddles. When the construction workers came, they were often bitten all over their bodies even if they were wearing thick canvas clothes; in winter, the biting cold wind and the wind and sand all over the sky made it hard to keep your eyes open.However, Tangshan people faced up to the difficulties with the "earthquake resistance spirit" of the year.Without roads, saline-alkali embankments were stepped on the barren beach; without shelter, simple tents were erected among the weeds; without fresh water, they had to be hauled from more than ten miles away.Even a party member meeting and business training can only be held on the commuter car.The builders of Hong Kong said: the motherland is developing everywhere, and we Tangshan people have no reason to complain about suffering and tiredness. Only by catching up can we live up to Mr. Sun Yat-sen's last wish of building a "big northern port". "Laughing and breaking wasteland into old things, greatness rediscovering new relationships." The spirit of the founders of Hong Kong has once again proved to the world that Tangshan is a city composed of heroes.The immortality of Tangshan people lies in their unyielding backbone surging in their blood. "The location of the port is close to the deep water and far away from the big river. There are no rivers to silt up. Filling up the port is like the problem of dredging at the mouth of the Yellow River and Yangjiang. Natural obstacles can be avoided. It is also a dry plain. The residents are extremely There are no artificial obstacles, and the construction work is as good as I want." This is what Mr. Sun Yat-sen said about the good sea area geography of the "Northern Great Port" in the "Northern Great Port" after he visited the Wangtan sea area and faced the sea. gladly described.Tangshan Wangtan sea area has a steep water depth and shoreline, that is, every 5 kilometers from the coastline to the sea, the natural water depth reaches minus 10 meters, which is basically 1 meter for every 500 meters of sea area.When the technicians built the port in this sea area, they adopted the "dug-in" type of port construction, that is, artificially excavated on land to form a harbor basin. The advantage is that the investment is small, the effect is quick, and the mooring conditions in the port are good. One investment, long-term benefit.The Wangtan sea area of ​​Bohai Bay is a silty coast. It was the first time in China to build a "dug-in" port wharf for berthing 10,000-ton ships in such a place.What makes the builders even more proud is that when building this "dug-in" 10,000-ton port, they also have a "world's first" technology, that is, relying on the engineering technology of the underground connecting wall as the main structure of the wharf. Hong Kong played a huge role.Due to the unimaginable success of these two technologies in port construction, the builders have realized the world port construction miracle of completing the construction of four 15,000-ton wharf projects in two years, and the project investment has been saved by 20%. "It can be said that we have successfully realized the pioneering work of building a port on a silty coastline by using the 'dug-in' and 'ground-to-wall' technologies in port engineering construction, which will serve as a foundation for the future Beijing-Tianjin Port to become a world-class port. The development of the port has laid an unshakable foundation.” Dong Wencai, vice chairman of Jingtang Port Co., Ltd., who has been involved in the project construction, was in high spirits when talking about this topic, and it was difficult to suppress his inner excitement. On August 28, 1991, an unprecedented event occurred on the coast of Wangtan in Bohai Bay: Tens of thousands of people, like the tide, flocked from all directions to the newly built simple port, looking forward to the The giant ship "Hailong" galloping from the far sea. "Come on! The big ship is coming!" That day, the long Wangtan coastline was immersed in boiling.Interestingly, whether it is the leaders of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee or the fishermen who have lived by the sea for generations, they were all surprised, shocked and excited by the giant ship that stopped in front of them for the first time. "Don't look at the hundreds of miles of golden coastline in Tangshan, don't look at the 600-year-old man in Wangtan saline-alkali wasteland, but it's the first time we have seen such a huge ship, so it's so exciting. Those days when the 'Hailong' was moored Every day, it attracts tens of thousands of onlookers. Some of them are three generations of grandparents, and some come from Tangshan and Beijing hundreds of miles away. Li Guizhuo, the deputy secretary of the party committee of Tanggang Company, is an old "railroad soldier" who has fought north and south on the front line of building key projects of the motherland and has seen the world. But when he talked about the opening of Jingtang Port, he also seemed very excited. . "Ah, my harbor / You are the gentle cradle of sailors / You are the Tangshan in the wanderer's dream..." Maybe Tangshan people are too eager to "open their arms to embrace the sails coming from afar" as soon as possible, when the first ship When the giant ship came to them, they hadn't even prepared the matching cranes and automatic conveyor belts. In fact, I knew that they were "shy in their pockets".As a result, more than half of the thousands of tons of cargo on the first ship were moved from the pier to the giant ship by the original shipment carried by people on their shoulders.The leader doing this work is Liu Weimin, the helm of Jingtang Port today. "At that time, we relied on a belief in building a large northern port on the coastline of our hometown, relying on our shoulders and sweat to support the wharf of the 10,000-ton port..." Liu Weimin, who has been an instructor at a military academy for more than ten years, has been studying for more than a year. After gaining professional knowledge, he was assigned to be the captain of the first-line shipping team when he returned to his port.No one would believe that this well-mannered and honest military school teacher turned out to be a demobilized soldier. He turned out to be a tough guy with a strong body. A bag of raw salt and grain weighing more than 200 kilograms fell on the ground Walking like flying behind the shoulders, those fat and strong shipping team members poked their tongues, picked up the sacks, and followed... Relying on such belief and drive, Tangshan people "return Zhongshan's long-cherished wish and paint a rainbow in the Bohai Sea." Tangshan, known as "the elbow of Shenjing", has its own port. On a new development platform.On July 18, 1992, less than a year after the opening of the simple port, Tangshan Port announced to the world that it was officially opened to navigation at the moment when the 10,000-ton giant ship "Fengcai" slowly sailed out of the harbor. On the golden sea, the flute sounds in the daytime, and the high lights send the night away at dusk. 1992 was an unforgettable year for the reform and opening up of China. Deng Xiaoping's "Speech on the Southern Tour" filled the land of China with vitality.Tangshan Port in Bohai Bay has also entered an important period of development.At this time, an old Beijing leader who fought bloody in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in eastern Hebei came to Tangshan. After sweeping the graves of those dead old comrades in the martyrs cemetery, he was invited by comrades of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee to visit the ongoing When talking about the port under construction, he said enthusiastically: "Northern Great Port" not only belongs to Tangshan, Beijing should also have a share.What's more, Beijing is now worried about finding an ideal seaport!He does not mean that.The heartstrings of the people in Tangshan, who were worried about finding an investment partner for the construction of Hong Kong, were deeply touched by the old Beijing leader, so he tentatively proposed: If Beijing is willing to cooperate with us in the construction of Hong Kong, we will support it with both hands. "Good thing, I'll match you up!" The old leader readily agreed, and in the days that followed, he shuttled back and forth between Beijing and Tangshan many times, making great contributions to the cooperation between the two companies in establishing Hong Kong. "Northern Great Port" ushered in another important day on July 18. On this day in 1993, at the moment when the document on the renaming of "Jingtang Port" jointly drafted by the leaders of the Beijing Municipal Government and the Tangshan Municipal Government was signed, it was at the same time that the 10,000-ton ocean-going freighter "Hong Maohai" sailed away from the port with wind and waves. A new port open to international navigation on Bohai Bay was born! "Jingtang Port" has since become the official name of "Northern Great Port". The cooperation between Beijing and Tangshan has really given wings to the "Northern Great Port" that Mr. Sun Yat-sen dreamed of building nearly a hundred years ago...Jingtang Hong Kong people will not forget Jiao Ruoyu, the old mayor of Beijing who made special contributions to this successful cooperation , Li Runwu, the deputy mayor of Beijing who died young, and the "good man" Li Runwu, Liang Zhizhong, Zhang Shiru, Zhang He, and the organizers and leaders of the early construction of Jingtang Port in Tangshan City. The dead are like monuments, and today people are like flags. Jingtang Port was different from the moment the first pile was laid in Bohai Bay.The construction of the port here does not rely on the capital investment of the country and the government. The operation of the market economy is the entire lifeblood of the port.The form of joint-stock port construction jointly invested with the capital Beijing has written a wonderful chapter in my country's first cross-provincial port construction; the sole proprietorship and joint venture construction of the owner's wharf is another pioneering work of Jingtang Port in the development blueprint.When you step in the Dagang Wharf, which is boiling day and night, you will find that there are special coal berths of Kailuan Mining Bureau, bulk cement silo facilities jointly invested by Jidong Cement Group and Singapore foreign investors, and Zhongchen Energy Storage Company. There are berths for imported liquefied petroleum gas, as well as Shanxi Shanxi Coal and other special wharves for well-known domestic and foreign enterprises... They are like bright stars, setting off the bright moon that shines in Jingtang Port. Liu Weimin told me very proudly: It took more than 10 years for Jingtang Port to enter the ranks of major international trade ports with tens of millions of tons that other ports need decades to complete. What matters is the vitality of the operating mechanism.Today, the port's infrastructure investment of more than 5 billion yuan, including wharf construction, port railway and other auxiliary facilities, almost entirely relies on social resources and the company's own capabilities.No wonder former President Jiang Zemin, after listening to the report on the construction of Jingtang Port, said emotionally: As long as the Chinese people carry forward the national spirit of being brave and indomitable, any wish and ideal can become a beautiful reality. The people of Jingtang Hong Kong have turned the last wish of Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary pioneer yesterday, and today's Chinese ideal of strengthening the country and enriching the people into a living reality.