Ulaanbaatar was formerly called Kulun, and the name changed after **li was the same as the Koreans who changed Seoul to Seoul.

Ulaanbaatar is built on hilly ground between mountains. The main street buildings have a strong Russian flavor and are very elegant. Generally, they look three to five floors, and the tallest buildings in the city are only a dozen floors. There is a very grand square in the city, and the commercial area has a shopping mall that is exactly the same as the Wangfujing Department Store in Beijing. Even the stone used for stair railings is the same. It is said that the same drawing is used.

The new residential living areas in Ulaanbaatar are rising. In contrast, the buildings in the 1970s and 1980s are very similar to the five or six-story buildings built in China in the same period. Although the buildings in the earlier era are very old, they are very exquisite when they look closely. There are also a large number of low-rise houses built on the slope with many yurts in the middle.

A little outside the city, large areas of mountain grassland suddenly came to me. The grass was not high and the livestock was gnawed. Mongolia's animal husbandry was basically in a natural grazing state. On weekends, urban people often drove out to play in the beautiful places on the grassland.

Compared with the capital's 800,000 people, Ulaanbaatar still has quite a lot of cars. All the cars running on the streets are foreign cars, and South Korea has the most used cars.

Because Mongolia basically has no manufacturing industry, the three major economic pillars are mining, agriculture and animal husbandry, and retail. Due to the small population, the per capita natural resources are relatively abundant. The housing here uses a lot of wood and trees are cut down at will.

Although it rains less, the city does not lack water, and the water in several rivers is abundant and clear. The land used by Mongolians to build houses is basically unrestricted except in the city center, and it is easy to obtain approval from the government.

Ulaanbaatar is a capital with relatively high latitudes and altitudes, and is deep inland. Therefore, winter is long, but its summer is cool and charming, with long days and bright at around 9 o'clock in the evening. However, Ulaanbaatar's shopping mall closed early and the department store got off work at 8 o'clock in the evening.

It is difficult to conclude that the living standards of Mongolians are about 40 US dollars per month, and taxi drivers can earn 70 US dollars a month, but everyone's actual life seems to be better than this number.

According to the people in the embassy, ​​this data may be low because the Mongolians themselves have made it. The purpose is to ask for more economic assistance from Western countries. In fact, the Mongolians themselves believe that their lives are much better now than in the past few years.

"Mongolia's urban population is highly educated, and many people have gone abroad, and is generally knowledgeable. In the pastoral area, we visited a herdsman family. In addition to the old couple, there were four daughters, two of whom were abroad. The walls of the yurt were hung with photos of their daughters taking from all over the world." The embassy staff said to Jiang Feng, "The living habits of the Ulaanbaatar people are greatly influenced by the **. Although the food structure is still from the Mongolian ethnic group, the tableware and eating methods are both Western."

Jiang Feng and the others were strolling on the street. Although they did not meet beggars, there were many children selling small commodities at tourist sites. Some of them were pestering customers and asking for purchases, but they couldn't even chase them away, just like in some tourist areas in China.

"Is this the largest shopping mall in Ulaanbaatar?!" Jiang Feng couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw the scene in front of him, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Although he had long had no extravagant expectations for the people's livelihood in Mongolia, when he saw the largest shopping mall in Ulaanbaatar, Jiang Feng still felt that he was a little out of the way and could not keep up with the development of the situation.

Although the building in front of me looks quite large and sturdy, the decoration outside is also marble veneered, it looks like it is modeled after the Soviet style of the 1950s. But now it is December 2007, which makes Yan Chenhui feel like he has traveled through time and space again.

"Yes, this is the largest shopping mall in Ulaanbaatar City, and it is also one of the first large buildings that my country aided Mongolia during the Sino-Soviet friendship period in the 1950s." The staff of the embassy explained to Jiang Feng very enthusiastically.

In the 1950s, New China sent more than 20,000 people to help Mongolia twice. With their help, factories in Mongolia rose from the ground and roads ran through all parts of Mongolia. Many economic projects that Mongolia urgently needed to develop were completed with the help of Chinese workers.

However, after China and the Soviet Union had a feud, Mongolia immediately stood on the side of the Soviet Union without hesitation and turned around to deal with China.

Over the past few decades, Russia's influence on Mongolia has penetrated into all aspects of politics, economy and culture. Taking language as an example, Mongolia promoted Russian education after reading, and Russian was popular among the upper class of society. The children of powerful people went to the Soviet Union to study. Mongolia's culture and traditions gradually disappeared.

Now, the official language of Mongolia is Khalkha Mongolian, and the writing uses the Cyrillic letters created by the Slavs. Those who are familiar with linguistics will know that Russian language uses this letter, while Inner Mongolia, which has the same ethnic group and roots, still uses traditional Mongolian. Although the languages ​​in inner and outer Mongolia still sound similar, they need to be translated when communicating. This is a very painful thing.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, China's territory started from the Altai Mountains in the west, ended at Lake Baikal in the north, and ended at the Ergun River in the east. At that time, the Mongolian nation had not yet formed. In the Tang Dynasty, it began to set up prefectures there and implement direct jurisdiction. In the Song Dynasty, a branch of the nomadic tribes in the north began to flourish. Genghis Khan unified the tribes of the desert and established the unified Mongolian Khanate. Soon, the Mongolians defeated the Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty. After that, this fierce and warlike nation marched towards Central Asia, West Asia and even Europe, swept across the Caucasus region, the Caspian Sea, and the Baltic coasts, and established the largest empire in the world at that time.

The establishment of the Yuan Dynasty further integrated the Mongolian and Han people and became an important part of Chinese civilization. Shortly after the Qing Dynasty's political axe, China entered the era of warlord separatism. Provinces or regions declared their own power, and Outer Mongolia also joined this process. The driving force behind it was Tsar**.

At the beginning, Tsarist Russia also recognized Outer Mongolia as Chinese territory and only demanded that Outer Mongolia implement autonomy. However, during the peace talks between the two sides, Duan Qirui sent General Xu Shuzheng to lead troops into Outer Mongolia and forced Outer Mongolia to give up autonomy with force.

Unexpectedly, Duan Qirui's collapsed the following year, and a group of bandit gangs in Tsarist Russia supported the princes and nobles of Outer Mongolia drove the Beiyang Zhengfu army out of the capital Coulomb. Another year later, the Mongolian revolutionary party troops attacked the Beiyang Zhengfu army in other areas with the help of the Soviet army. The Beiyang Zhengfu army was defeated, and the Mongolian king, who was enthroned by the central government, was defeated, and Mongolia became a constitutional monarchy. After that, the Chinese army never entered Outer Mongolia again, while the Soviet army remained stationed in Mongolia until 1986 twenty years ago.

Jiang Feng looked at everything in front of him and couldn't help but shook his head, saying with some emotion: "In the past, the country had provided too much assistance to these white-eyed wolves. When the people in China were still hungry, they had spent a lot of money here. It cannot be said that it was not a failure. In fact, we did not get any real rewards. If I were the case, I would never do these big and inappropriate things."

The staff of the embassy immediately stopped talking. Jiang Feng could say that they were not suitable to follow the discussion of the founding head of state, which was a matter of position.

China is poor, this is a saying that every leader has said, but at the same time, China's foreign aid is also shocking.

Since the late fifties, there have been too many political aids, and there are many financial aids, and there are huge funds every time.

It is said that the Pakistani Prime Minister visited China and asked the Chinese for assistance. China was not rich at that time, so the founding prime minister decided to give 50 million yuan after considering it. However, when he showed the report to the founding head of state, the founding head of state added a zero at the back.

For North Korea, when resisting U.S. aiding North Korea, China almost gave all its national support. After the end, it provided a steady stream of assistance to maintain this crisis. This situation has continued to this day. According to foreign media reports, China aided North Korea 500,000 tons of grain, one million tons of oil, and two.5 million tons of coke every year.

The Vietnamese are not even more important. In the fight against the United States and aid Vietnam, according to the principle of "how much is needed, how much is given", China has devoted all its strength to Vietnam to provide assistance, from guns, ammunition, grain, trucks, medicines, communication equipment, and aid amount of up to 20 billion US dollars, and even sent 100,000 troops to join the war. Help them fight for free, build roads, do logistics, and be strong men. They use the blood of the Chinese to win their victory. But who would have thought that when they turned around, they would use the guns and cannons sent by the Chinese as weapons, and use the rice provided by the Chinese as racks and bunkers for guns to shoot and kill Chinese soldiers.

For Albania, within six years, they were given 9 billion yuan. According to the value of the currency and purchasing power at that time, it was equivalent to hundreds of billions of yuan now. As a result, the factory built with precious foreign exchange resources was heavily in debt, most of the factories were stopped, and the equipment was completely abandoned. The fortresses of aid were used by them to raise chickens, and the trucks of aid were thrown all over the mountains and rust.

In Tanzania, despite the limited railway capacity, a railway of 1,800 kilometers was built for them. The railway tracks of 1,800 kilometers were transported to Africa by the Chinese. The engineering team of tens of thousands of people had to reimburse all food and accommodation expenses, bomb mountain roads, paving roads and building bridges, and all the raw materials and construction costs were paid for by the Chinese. The construction cost of this railway had exceeded the limit of the financial endorsement of the poor country at that time. The project took ten years and cost more than two billion yuan. This investment was used in China, and not only one railway of the same length, five were taken down.

Whenever Jiang Feng thought of these things, he couldn't help but sigh, thinking that God had given him such a chance, and he would take back all the things he had thrown here from Mongolia? This requirement is really not an exaggeration. (To be continued.)
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