As early as 1909, local people used indigenous methods to exploit oil in Yumen city. Later, with the attention of geologists, it became the first oil industry city in China. Since then, Yumen oil has become a household name in China. During the Anti-Japanese War, Yumen oil production reached nearly 90% of domestic crude oil production. Even more oil resources were discovered later, Yumen's oil resources.
It was also from that time that Yumen was among the best in Gansu Province in terms of its city establishment, development and wealth. More and more talents are pouring in here, and the famous 404 nuclear industry factory is also built in Yumen. It can be said that Yumen made great contributions to the whole country at that time.
However, the good times did not last long. With the continuous exploitation, Yumen's crude oil output is far less than before. Coupled with the discovery of many super-large oil fields in China, local oil talents have also gone all over the country. Until 2002, Yumen moved all kinds of schools and institutions to Jiuquan, and in 2006, the municipal government also moved to Xinyumen. This once prosperous city has officially come to an end, and the population of the old city has decreased to less than 30,000 (2,065,438+00). There is only one traffic light left in the whole old city, guiding the scarce traffic alone.
However, although the old city of Yumen has been advertised as an empty city by many media, people who have just arrived in the old city of Yumen can still feel a little prosperous, but if you walk around the city carefully, you will find that the shadows of the old city are all deeper, and the prosperity is just a flash in the pan. Because the old city has become an empty city, Yumen Old City has attracted many tourists who like to explore the empty city.
The famous old city park in the old city looks like a tree-lined park today. Imagine how many people used to enjoy the cool in the park. How many young people are here for a romantic date. There is also the equally beautiful Hero Park. Perhaps the original appearance of these parks exists in the memory of the older Yumen people. Although many sculptures in the park have been damaged, there is an eschatological landscape here, which can be said to be a unique landscape.
In the old city of Yumen, there is one of the most meaningful places worth visiting, and that is the famous laojunmiao. Although it is called a temple, it is actually the cradle of China's oil industry. Because the first oil well was mined here, laojunmiao has also become a pilgrimage site for many oil people, and it is also the deepest memory of this city, which is prosperous and exhausted by oil.
Although now, the old city of Yumen is often called an empty city, and even some areas are like eschatological scenery, which reminds people of many American eschatological movies. But some local friends said to me with self-mockery. If you want to use it to shoot the final movie here, maybe it will add a lot of color to China movies, and maybe it will develop the tourism here! ? Although it's just a joke, it seems that many people really like to go to this empty city at present.
If you were given a chance, would you like to experience such an empty city? Last time? What about the unique tourist experience of the city?