As early as the Ming Dynasty, Vladivostok has been a piece of foreign countries in the northeast region of the inherent territory, but at that time, the Ming Dynasty will be the country's focus on the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai zones, the northeast region belongs to the ? The northeast region belongs to the "cold freezing zone". Not very suitable for the development of farming civilization, coupled with the Northeast region to the female Zhenren and other nomadic people, the Ming Dynasty's control of this area is not very in place, so the Ming Dynasty government also ignored the development of the outer Northeast region.
Waiting for the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the outer Northeast is part of the Manchu Qing Dynasty?
When the Qing Dynasty was founded, the Northeast China was the backyard of the Qing Dynasty, and not much attention was paid to it. Moreover, the Qing rulers realized that the Central Plains were richer in materials, and the more populous people lived more comfortably, so they were more attentive to the management of the Central Plains, and thus ignored the development of the Northeast China. At that time, Vladivostok was under the jurisdiction of General Jilin.
Ming Dynasty period of China's navigation technology is still relatively advanced, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty has come to Europe's great navigation colonial era, the Qing Dynasty in order to avoid the impact of colonialism, but also the complete implementation of the closed country. Because the Qing dynasty army is good at riding and shooting and do not communicate with foreign countries, so the Qing dynasty does not focus on the art of navigation.
From the end of the Ming Dynasty until the Opium War in 1840, China's seafaring technology not only failed to improve, but also continued to decline, so the Qing rulers never realized the benefits of a deep-water port along the coast, and Vladivostok naturally had little value in the eyes of the Qing rulers.
For the Qing rulers, Vladivostok was just a piece of ? The land of fishing is just a place for some fishermen to live and work. land, that is, some fishermen go out to sea to fish to rest their feet, the land is quite barren. Because of the weak power of people against nature at that time, the coastal area is very easy to form a big wind and waves, not conducive to the growth of crops, traditional houses are also very easy to be destroyed. So in the eyes of the ancients, Vladivostok was not a good place.
Therefore, when Vladivostok was later invaded by Tsarist Russia, the late Qing government did not take it too seriously.
Today Vladivostok has become Russia's most important city in the Far East, and Russia's new name for Vladivostok is ? Vladivostok? , meaning the conquest of the East. If we look at Vladivostok from a modern perspective, we will find that it has a lot of flashpoints, the loss of Vladivostok really let our country loss is not small.
First of all, the loss of Vladivostok directly affects the development of our northeast economy.
China's northeastern region of the land is very fertile, rich in produce, but if you want to trade with the world must have access to the sea, the three northeastern provinces of the nearest access to the sea in Liaoning, but if you want to go out to sea from the Heilongjiang Province must be passed by Vladivostok.
While the Tumen River in China and the Sea of Japan are less than 15 kilometers apart, and China has the right to sail from above the Tumen River, only need to go through the Soviet Union and North Korea in the year on the Tumen River to build a ? Friendship Bridge?
But this bridge was built very low, directly blocking the passage of large ships through the Tumen River to the Sea of Japan. Russia has also been able to earn significant tolls on Chinese shipments, and the increase in freight costs has resulted in a loss of some competitive advantage for products produced in the northeast of the country.
Despite the efforts of the Chinese government, the Russian authorities have given a lot of policies in favor of overseas trade in Northeast China, such as tax and rent reductions for Chinese goods passing through the port of Vladivostok, but Russia's national policy still affects the country's free trade with other countries.
For example, the Outer Northeast is the most fertile section of Russia's land in the Far East, and likewise one of the most productive regions in Russia. Some of the products in this area make duplication with the northeast of our country, and the amount of global overseas orders is limited. In order to increase the competitiveness of their products, Russia will deliberately raise the tax rate of similar products in China, thus protecting the export of Russian domestic products. For some products in demand in Russia, the Russian authorities will deliberately depress the prices of Chinese products by means of tariffs.
Russia's international relations with the third world will also affect our trade volume, for example, Russia and the United States because of the Middle East issue between the two countries are secretly competing, then Russia will naturally, consciously or unconsciously, to limit the flow of U.S. products through Vladivostok to China or Chinese products through the Vladivostok flow to the United States.
Secondly, the marine resources that are close at hand can be seen but not reached.
Vladivostok is very rich in fishery resources in the Sea of Japan, in accordance with China and Russia's international agreement, although our ships can enter the Sea of Japan directly through the Tumen River without restrictions, but Russia built that the Friendship Bridge simply does not allow large ships to pass through, so China's fishermen for the Tumen will be rich in fishery resources, can only look at.
If China's fishing boats from China's Liaoning out to sea around the Korean Peninsula and then to the Sea of Japan, then it will lead to an overall increase in costs, not conducive to the competition of the market price, and long-distance transportation will increase the mortality rate of seafood, which will lead to a decline in the overall price. If the fish were sold directly to Russia, Russian authorities would surely put up price barriers to protect their fishermen.
What we can see from this is that just by losing the key city of Vladivostok, we have lost a huge fishing treasure in the Sea of Japan.
In addition to this, there are very rich mineral resources under the Sea of Japan. Nowadays, the competition for energy among the world's countries is already fierce, and there are a lot of oil and other mineral resources stored under the Sea of Japan. If we own Vladivostok, we will have at least 200 nautical miles of exclusive economic zone and the right to exploit certain marine resources.
Just like the South China Sea islands, we do not give up an inch of land, not because these islands have a large area of land, but in these islands around the existence of a certain exclusive economic zone of the sea, and this area of the sea under the treasure is unforeseeable.
Finally, it is also not conducive to the development of our military power in the North Pacific.
Vladivostok's water is smooth year-round, with few high winds and waves, making it particularly suitable as a harbor. Although Russia is a coastal country, most of its coastline is within the Arctic Circle, making Vladivostok one of the few natural unfrozen harbors in Russia today.
In addition to this, Vladivostok is also very conveniently located as it is at the crossroads of maritime transportation between South Korea, China, Russia and Japan. Russia has even placed the headquarters of its second largest fleet, the Pacific Fleet, here.
After the Second World War, countries around the world were trying to develop their maritime military forces, so that if a war did break out between two countries, it would be best to keep the enemy off the mainland. The loss of Vladivostok, on the other hand, has aptly exposed the interior of the country. If a war occurs in the future, Russia and give convenience, the other side is equivalent to can directly intervene in our mainland combat.