What can $50,000 do now? In beijing, it's a square-metre toilet; in shanghai, it's a brand-name bag; but..Crane– it's a full house! It's a low house price, low price, slow living, 10 bucks worth three tons, and so on, the "mythic" makes cranes a place where many lay-ups are `unprevented'. However, it was also said that cranes were safe havens for the losers, that only the incompetent were afraid to go to the insides and that dignity was preserved at the lowest cost. If cranes are so good, why would a young man run away with the k-train? Today, let's tear the filter open and talk about whether this small north-east town lies in a flat heaven or a shurot for the poor
On the map, tsukaku is the northernmost town in china, with nearly 15,000 km2 of land, divided into six districts and two counties, inhabited by 940,000 people. The city-wide GDP of rmb 37. 63 billion, or 44. 8 million per capita, is a one-term tuition fee if it is placed in the jiang zhe region。
You may think it's okay because the price of cranes is very low, starting with 2100/m2 and starting with new houses at $3,500/m2, even in the core urban areas of the industrial and agricultural areas and the sunyang district, the average price is only around $3,000/m2. East mountain and hing mountain, once a mining site, are now in the market for cabbage, and 25,000 can be bought in two rooms and a hallLow house pricesIn the lowlands, a house is worth less than a toilet in the north, and it's nothing more than a flat heaven in a 996 animal dream。
And it's a very low price, a bath in the bath centre plus a back of $15, eight taxis running all over the city, and money in cranes is not money, but joy beans。
But what you don't know is that there are many consumption traps behind low housing prices. The winter of cranes is seven months long, 30°c is a normal meal, mobile phones are frozen and steam from iron pot stew is ice skating! If you buy 60m2 for 40,000 dollars, you'll find the heating costs are higher than the salary, and you'll sell pancakes for 2,000 months
Why would i sell pancakes with a stand? It's harder to find a job than to find someone! There is only one listed company in the city, with jobs concentrated in catering, cleaning and security, with a general monthly salary of 2000-3000. Such an industrial vacuum leaves no choice but to lie down。
It is also a personal society, where locals are used to relationships, and outsiders are often asked if they know anyone. To go to the community, the staff asked who you knew, otherwise the process could be delayed for three days, and if you didn't have a second uncle, you would be embarrassed to go out and lie down on the internet, it was for the locals。
It's cold here, but it's not easy. Dogs don't have to be tied, but they don't meet a second person. In this environment, depression is 15 per cent higher than in the south。
If you're a freelancer, it doesn't matter where you get paid, you can consider lying down here. If you barely have a deposit and don't want a roll, you can rot in cranes for the first half of the year, and get out to work in the second half of the year. If you're a pure proletarian, i advise you not to come. How can you lie down when you're young and you don't have any money or security? It's better to get out and fight。
It's not like the old cranes, and they've had a good time。
This used to be the “coal capital” of the northeast, which peaked at an annual production of 30 million tons of coal. The miners traveled under a kilometer well, carrying this out of their shoulders. Small shanghai in the north-east, which pays farmers three years' salary, is higher than civil servants. At that time, there were 13 cinemas, 8 department buildings, cabarets, ice skating fields and more popular than harbin。
Today, however, the mines are depleted and factories are abandoned, especially after 2015, when the depth of the cranes' wells exceeds 1,500 metres and the cost of mining has soared to $600 per ton, far exceeding the price of imported coal. One third of the 300,000 miners were forced to relocate, and the former 10,000 mines gradually became empty cities, leaving behind miners and their families over 50 years of age, sales advertisements that followed the streets, 60 per cent of the city's GDP shrunk, and 200,000 people lost their lives over 10 years. That is why no one has no resources to survive。
Is tsukaku still alive
Of course, the cranes didn't give up, and they're turning themselves around with their old miner spirit, from digging coal to digging new mines
First of all, new energy sources, based on abundant wind and photovoltaic resources, are planned to build a million kw wind power base, with new energy installed in 2023 exceeding 2 million kw. The laid-off miners once again trained as wind and electricity operators, with their monthly salary rising to $5,000, who were digging coal to feed the country and are now fighting for the sky。
The second is the activation of the white ice economy, studying harbin, and the development of a limited winter crane post, such as the golden peaks skiing field and the golden town of the tunnel, which have become a net-kicking field, where tourists can ride dogs and plough across the forest and eat iron-cooked geese in the miner's theme house. In the past two years, the city-wide winter tourism revenue has increased by 40 per cent, and even retired miners have opened coal cultural experience shops, selling mine lights and coal sculpting。
Finally, policies have been used to bring new citizens to the bottom, the government has introduced a talent buy-in subsidy, 10,000 yuan for home buys over university degrees, and up to 500,000 yuan for interest-free loans for start-up. The new zone has created a digital economy industrial park to attract light assets such as live broadcasters and data labels. Young entrepreneurs come here at no cost to rent, electricity is cheap and short video is at least 30 per cent lower than in the south。
Signs tell us about tsukaku's survival philosophy: it's not a house, it's another possibility for life. The so-called lie-down has never been to give up, but rather to the intelligence of the chinese to survive in their bones — to keep the bottom line in poverty and to find a way out of trouble. Laying down is not depraved; rather, it is a slow pace against the high-pressure inner scroll。
One last question: if you get $50,000, will you lie down in this city or will you continue to die? The comment section says your choice
