8:00 start, drove 300 km and reach the border town of Dongxing at 10:30. Dongxing was originally a border town, as located in the Sino-Vietnamese border, in recent years, Sino-Vietnamese relations have improved, more prosperous border trade. Urban construction, exit points from where the old neighborhoods slowly northward Yan Shen, two broad avenue, east-west of the Beilun Avenue, north to south, Xinhua Road, outlining the basic framework for the city, built along the new area, create many high-rise erected buildings, government offices, shops, hotels and banking financial institutions during an unqualified member. Trees flower bed and almost everywhere in the construction site, it is the town of Dongxing upgraded from a visual symbol of the city. Now Dongxing City, an area of more than five hundred square kilometers, population 10 million, is the only Beijing-ethnic settlements. Is located in the border for the special circumstances of Dongxing also set up an area of 4 square kilometers of border economic cooperation zones. The time may be established as a city is not long waits to be done, all trades to be done, Xinhua Street the southern section of the old style of colorful, quiet and ancient. Xinhua Road along the south line, at the end of it to the border of the border river beilun. Beilun here turned east to go east of Xinhua Road became the channel exit. Door Yuemo 200 meters due south is to connect the Sino-Vietnamese Friendship Bridge two countries. Bridge is about two or three hundred meters, two-terminal two countries have respectively set up the Sino-Vietnamese border crossings between the two crossings also has duty-free shops. Although the border town of Dongxing is just one, ports, or access to most of the border contacts, with Yunnan's Ruili is not much different, but here and exit procedures are much more complicated: First, there are border check points into the Dongxing check; Second, the application approval process more than longer period of time before we go to travel agency Dongxing has to do procedures, after one week, when we arrived at Dongxing, then pay for nearly four hours, but fortunately the hotel had been arranged, or else you really want to hopping of anxious. Third, clearance too formal, in Yunnan, whether it is Wanding nine Valley Bridge, or the Jiegao Ruili port, border pass a piece of paper can go, basically only the Chinese customs verification, witnesses in line waved through. In Dongxing, border pass is no longer a piece of paper, format, complete with passport, exactly the same in both China and Vietnam should be verified, there are many states: the camera could not take, focusing the camera could not take even the most everyday communication tools cell phone can not bring (China-Myanmar border may be disappointed not have these requirements).
China's solemn points out the door, that is, the Friendship Bridge across the beilun. Through the bridge is not only the flow of people, as well as large and small trucks to see if the license was in Vietnam are mostly filled with "MADE IN CHINA" of cargo between the shuttle. Bridge in the middle of a yellow line, that is, boundaries: the north is China, south of Vietnam, many people are here to stay "one foot across two countries" to commemorate, but the background is of course, the more two country's customs gate. We stood before the pillar of Vietnam Bridge overlooks the wide beilun quietly at the foot of the flow. It seems very shallow water, Blanchir bottomed out, occasional stone blocking the water flow, stirred by the gentle, the name of the East to the vortex downstream. Dongxing is still the other side of the old and quiet, but in that piece of the new high-rise buildings, a forest of Tic-Tac-seat aircraft like the lock in limitless in Spring, depicts a quiet town was filled with the robust vitality of the next.
After a Vietnam border port, went to the Vietnam border town - Mong Cai City, Mong Cai is Vietnam's Quang Ninh province, Haining County resident, in the past is the provincial capital of Haining is North Vietnam's first state-level economic development zone with beilun compared to the other side of Dongxing, Mong Cai is more like a small town. Down the Friendship Bridge, is a broad front of the cement Avenue - Peace Avenue, next to flower beds and trees also, but there is little beside the road two houses built, but with the walls enclosing the site one by one. Road West, not far from there is a French-style architecture, buildings, a bit like a southern Chinese city of arcades and narrow on the first floor to do pavement. The difference is that its European-style windows and balconies with the stress, arched shape of the stubborn display differences with its neighbors. Vietnam tour guide said it was an affluent area of Mong Cai are those that sidelined UNCTAD fortunes of the Chinese cover. Road East is a "poor areas" - those born and raised in areas where most Vietnamese. In spite of the wall separated, but in crossing the channel can still saw banana forest at those run-down under a thatched cottage on the same we have seen in Myanmar, bamboo walls, like Mao roofs. Into the urban areas, roads are not spacious, two adjacent buildings seemed a bit messy, jagged, scattered uneven, pattern also appears to ancient wooden, if not more eye-catching shop signs and the text on the mother, you must think that there is a certain one without the development of the ancient town. Because the long war, coupled with other factors, Vietnam's economic development is still relatively slow, low level of industrialization of the parity of the renminbi and the VND 1:1250 (previous minimum had reached 1:6000), Zaiqiong the Chinese people to the mountain Street is also very rich. In fact, the Mong Cai shopping malls entirely to foreigners, especially Chinese tourists open and sell things only wood handicrafts, belts, horn combs, slippers, and use of local resources, primary products, there are a number of imitation perfume . A narrow range of goods, prices are indeed cheap, like a horn combs, slippers, there is a green bean cake called Vietnam, and called authentic cheap. In Mong Cai, any one to Mong Cai Chinese, there is always chic to be wealthy when one: You just stopped a little, it will sell after hearing from a group of jade, diamond ring, and hammock hawkers, they are from more than a dozen to several ten-year-old range will be around you, "the boss, the boss," to keep barking.
In Mong Cai, we have also coincidence of a fellow serving in Vietnam, the government, and his father was once our home a secondary school teacher, 1957, to leave the school after the anti-right wing all the way to Vietnam, it is now Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), a Chamber of Commerce Chairman. The little fellow villagers met with exceptionally warm, be sure to pull us to his house sit. Shengqingnanque Well, a short while to pull up the homely. From his mouth that, in recent years, Vietnam also applied opening up, economic construction has also been attention to the people's living standard has improved, people's increasing sense of wealth, the market also active in many, but the general because the basis of relatively weak, the progress is not fast, only with the footsteps behind in China. Talking about Vietnam's folk, he made no secret of his three wives bluntly, as long-term war, in Vietnam, a serious imbalance in the proportion of men and women, woman is much much more than men, even though the law is also implemented in Vietnam, "Kazuo 1 Wife "system, but in fact no one to manage. In Vietnam, polygamy is common, according to the Vietnamese name for the wife called the "rice", the other wives are known as "rice noodle", "noodles," "instant noodles", "bean cake ... ... and only his wife bear the responsibility of the family , housework, child-rearing (including other children born to his wife where she was also sent to support), other's wife as the mistress of the West in general, the difference is that the man did not lift the relationship with her before the woman can not marry. Therefore, In Vietnam, asked about other people's household staff is a taboo, but can not casually inquire about the girl's father is. In recent years, Vietnam's tourism industry also began to heat up, in the North Sea, in the Xingdao Hu, we have also seen a Pipi Vietnamese tourists; but mostly to Vietnam or the Chinese people to travel that with border passes can go to Vietnam, "Marine Guilin" Ha Long Bay, you can also go to the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, but in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) would have Office official passport. little fellow warmly invited us to go to Hanoi, Paizhuoxiongfu to charge d'affaires of all procedures, only a pity that our visit has been scheduled, kicking up his regret for a while.
Author: sunmg
