Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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In the southern town of Shenzhen, a 27-year-old literary young man named Wang Shi was sleeping in a bamboo shed on a construction site with a book that had been turned on. He wrote in his later autobiography:

"In Shenzhen in April 1978, the blooming kapok flowers had withered. Dead pigs were thrown beside the rails, and green-headed flies were buzzing; the air was filled with the mixed stench of livestock manure and rotten corpses. I was guiding the construction of the water supply and drainage project at the quarantine disinfection warehouse of Shenzhen Sungang North Station. Fresh goods exported to Hong Kong by railways were transported to Shenzhen, concentrated at Sungang North Station to form quarantine, and then departed across Luohu Bridge. Livestock and spoiled fruits and vegetables that occurred or died during transportation must be inspected and removed here.

"The reason I went to Shenzhen was because when I graduated from Lanzhou Railway Academy in 1977, I was assigned to the fifth section of the Guangzhou Railway Bureau project, serving as a water supply and drainage technician, with a salary of 42 yuan per month. The fifth section of the project was mainly responsible for civil engineering projects along the line from Pingshi, which borders Guangdong and Hunan in the north and from Qiaotou section of Luohu, Shenzhen in the south. On this section of the road under its jurisdiction, several engineering projects are often carried out at the same time. In 1978, we took over the disinfection warehouse project of the Sungang North Station. In that era, Shenzhen was still a border guard zone, and it was not possible for anyone to come.