Hundred Years oil field dream once disillusionment: the city of Yumen resources exhausted bleak

From Jiuquan to West to the Yumen old urban highway like the scene in the American western film. The road is straight, along the way are desolate Gobi, long sparse low alhagi, splendens and other drought-tolerant plants. After Yumen Dong Town, the vegetation became dense and the saplings were seen by the roadside. Further west to the South Road, to the Qilian mountain under the Yumen Old Town. A lot about this resource exhausted city how desolate, almost empty no one report, I had no time to imagine, the car has been through the top of a few thick pipe folded into the "gate", into the Yumen old town. The depressed Old town bus stop opposite the deserted supermarket, only I am a guest. The boss told me that she continued to stay, because the store rents cheap, but more crucially, although the old City is less people, but the oil companies are still in production, her shop can still maintain operation. In the late 30, Yumen oilfield began to develop, 1957, Yumen built China's first modern oil industry base. And the depletion of resources has made the city prosperous. February 2002, the Yumen oil field life and office base gradually moved east Jiuquan Suzhou District, here only left work area and dormitory building, April 2003, the city government station 80 kilometers west moved to Yumen Town. 2009, Yumen by the state as the second batch of resources exhausted city. Yumen Wei Party School lecturer Yu Yongjun said that many railway institutions, Yumen oilfield production enterprises and the relocation of living base, leading to the yumen popularity, large outflow of funds, consumption capacity weakened. In the bus station not far from the Agricultural Bank building, hung in the yumen old Urban Management Committee of the brand, the city after the relocation, the original North Ping, South Ping and other street office to revoke, the CMC now governs 9 communities. Many of the pedestrians in the streets are oil workers in blue or red uniforms, with a seashell logo on their chests. Traffic between the vehicles, many are in the oil bus, tanker and engineering vehicles. It's hard to see the bus in Main Street and the taxi only picks the way. Near the bus station, a pudgy bald-headed taxi driver in an old suit came forward and he opened his mouth to more than 200 yuan in the Yumen new district. However, there is a local called "Face Egg" van, short range is generally a dollar. Oil City Park is the city north and South "watershed", since then entered the yumen deserted side. The park was quiet, and only one of the cleaners gently waved the broom to sweep the leaves. In the park, a left and right stands the Iron Man Jinxi sculpture and Yumen Miao, the geologist who discovered China's first oil well, has not only influenced the yumen but also affected China's oil (8.71,0.02,0.23%) development process. Outside the park there is a row of fitness equipment, and two old ladies are exercising. One of the more than 70-year-old woman said she was a native and lived alone in the neighbourhood. Yumen Old Town near the mountain, winter is not too cold, summer is not too hot, the elderly told me outside the weather she can't stand. The other old lady, who was with her, was also her neighbour, and there were few people living here except for them. It was in the building opposite them, and now there was no one, a bust. Leaving the park, next to an oil field administration compound, is the Yumen culturePalace, hung the "create brilliant" placard of the building has been dropped paint, apparently abandoned for many years. The Cultural Palace shutter door is locked, the above is affixed with the seal, the closing date is December 2007, the roof not only grows a lot of weeds, even also grows several small trees to come. The farther south the mountainous area goes more and more dilapidated, has completely not seen the shop, but also has the people to reside also is the Oil field organization. Residential buildings have been deserted, and some of the building glass broken weathering, leaving only an empty window, and some buildings and doors and windows full of bricks and mortar, even the roadside Xinhua bookstore and the mosque are deserted. A large deserted stadium was passing by, with grassy trees full of runways and pitches, strewn with broken glass, leaves and rubbish. The concrete of the stand is broken, cracks out a crevice, the channel of the rostrum is sealed dead. The only thing that makes people feel alive is the barking of dogs. On this road for half an hour, only met two people, but also all go back.