I was born in the 1990s, which was the heyday of the big family of the motherland. For my small family, my appearance has also changed the lives of every family member. The father accepted the reality of being the father of two boys in distress situation, and the mother took back the girl's clothes prepared in the closet. But I think my brother is the most surprised and depressed. He is happy to have a playmate, but he is also worried about giving me half of everything, including his parents' love.
When I first set foot barefoot on the land of Korla, my roots were rooted here, and I was destined to be inextricably linked with it. In the memory of childhood, Korla has always been very vague, and we can only sort out the memory slowly in the description of our elders. Even in that backward and pale era, Korla is full of its unique charm.
1979, Korla City was formally established, which belongs to Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture. Bazhou covers an area of more than 470,000 square kilometers, becoming the largest prefecture-level administrative region in China and the first state in China. Up to now, whenever I introduce her, I am proud to speak Chinese loudly first.
This young city opened for the first time in 1984. That year, with a long sound, Korla ushered in the first train.
Korla has been a transportation hub since ancient times, and people from south to north will pass through here. In ancient times, it was a post station, and the naming significance of Gan Lan Road preserved to this day is also here.
Gan Lan means post station in Uyghur. My father grew up in Xinjiang, and he learned Uighur. Gan Lan meant exactly what he told me. I once asked my father what Korla was like at that time, and his answer made me feel fresh. "Dirt roads, clods, carriages and donkeys running all over the street are dusty everywhere" is the description of Korla in that era.
At that time, when Korla was established, there was only the old city on the north bank of Peacock River. Although there are some sporadic retail investors in the old city and the new city, the scale is not large. It was an era when bicycles were popular. Every once in a while, people will shine at the sight of a car, which is completely contrary to my original memory of Korla.
In my eyes, Korla is clean, tidy and prosperous, with traffic on the road, tall buildings on both sides of Peacock River and friendly and harmonious people. In the mouth of the previous generation, how could Korla be so unbearable? This makes me interested in finding out.
Ask the elders around you when you are free, and I am more curious about the memory of Korla, how Korla has changed so much in such a short time. Most people's answers have a key message-resources. I understand the meaning of the word resource, but I can't understand it when I put resources and Korla together.
Why do you say that? Because I know Korla, I have no resources to support its rapid development. Tourism and fruit industry are the main pillar industries in Korla. Even in the early years, the development of tourism in Korla was relatively backward.
How can we achieve today's scale with these conditions alone?
The development of this city always takes five years as a step. 1979, Korla was founded. 1984, opening of railway; ? 1989, Tarim oil exploration and development headquarters was established; ? 1994 first proposed to build the second largest city in Xinjiang, forming a pattern of "northern Wu and southern".
As a citizen of Korla, the biggest change to Korla in my eyes is the successful settlement of Tarim Petroleum Exploration and Development Headquarters.
My memory gradually became clear. I remember when I was a child, I didn't know when I saw groups of people in red in the street. High-rise buildings on the south bank of Peacock River have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and the two sides have been painted with layers of green, and brand-new stone tablets, statues and squares have appeared one after another.
Once those bare lands turned into flat and clean tiles, as if they suddenly appeared in the blink of an eye. The whole city is like a colorful cartoon, with new colors and stories on page after page. These changes, which should have appeared in front of people a long time ago, were accelerated by the oil people, allowing us to see the future in advance.
Korla and Tarim oilfield have unspeakable fate. In order to seize the great development opportunity of petroleum exploration and development in Tarim, revitalize the economic development of Korla and promote the urban construction of Korla, at that time, the state and municipal government decided to take out the south bank of Peacock River 1.807 mu of land, which is the most golden area, and hand it over to Tarim Petroleum Exploration and Development Headquarters. This is a good place where trees can germinate after being inserted into the soil.
I don't know much about the history of oil exploration and development in Tarim, but I have been a TV director. I have a deep understanding of the oil field, heard many stories, met the real oil people and learned their contribution to the city of Korla.
Recalling those vague days in my past life, the details that I neglected gradually became clear after taking oil as a clue. When did Tarim oil exploration and development and Tarim oil people change my daily life? When did the unfamiliar Tarim Oilfield become familiar?
When I found that I could no longer see the small tricycle pulling the gas tank in the street, I realized that the gas tank at home had not been changed for a long time; When my mother turned on the valve of the natural gas stove and the light blue natural gas flame danced gently, I realized that life had indeed changed; Strolling along the beautiful peacock river and looking at the blue sky, it turns out that our sky can be so clean.
During the period of 1998, natural gas from Tarim entered my home and family in Korla through various pipelines.
Goodbye Korla, where "dirt roads and mud houses, carriages and donkeys run all over the street, and dust is everywhere".
I can't help but imagine the future Tarim Oilfield and the future Korla City. What comes to my mind is a dazzling starry sky.