Even if I have arrived at Hangzhou East Railway Station for countless times, I will not feel as lively and strange as this one, unconsciously secreting large amounts of adrenaline.
Strangers from the face outline and pupil color, lively from the vast crowd, it may be after the fall of the station without air-conditioning.
At that time, Hangzhou had not been long in the lurch, and it was still steaming.
I wish it would come and go soon
On December 1, 2015, China officially took over the Presidency of the G20. Since then, in Hangzhou, zhejiang province, the host city, the whole city has been talking about the G20, from POTS and pans to lakes and mountains.
When He heard people around him talking about the G20, he seemed to complain that roads were being improved and roads could not be used. The nanshan Road, which could be repaired in one or two days, had been blocked for ten days.
Wheat in middle age was brought up in Hangzhou. His parents were retired university teachers, and he inherited their profession.
“Because of the road construction, pedestrians are not convenient and the road is even more congested. I hope the G20 will end. The roads are fixed, wider and wider, and many guillotines are open to traffic. It will be better, won’t it?” “Said Wheat with a smile.
Scaffolding is everywhere, cobweb-like, clinging to storefronts along the street. Banners were unrolled, boldfaced with the words “Fight for 50 days to win the summit environmental clean-up project”, and a piece of A4 paper hung from the cracks in the small shop, a rough but sweet reminder to passers-by that “our shop is open as usual”.
A week before the summit, the breakfast shop downstairs had closed for various reasons.
Mr. Chen, who runs a local specialty shop, also returned to his hometown in Jiangsu province. Those few days hangzhou executes odd-even number to limit to travel, stock is inconvenient, close door then xie Guest, the business does not do, rent obeys pay.
“These small traders and hawkers are actually responsible for a large part of people’s livelihood.” “These are the capillaries of the city,” Mai said. “These are gone. The city seems to be empty.”
Small vendors are the capillaries of the city, these are gone, the city seems to become empty. Small vendors are the capillaries of the city, these are gone, the city seems to become empty.
Mai Zi likes climbing mountains. Three days before the summit, he started from Wushan Square and walked along Wansonglin to Jiuyao Mountain. A path to his familiar exit has been closed, the duty of the armed police soldiers to see the wheat from the mountains, with his hand to do a stop action, quickly said three times with a loud and urgent tone: “Here has been closed, please go back, don’t come back.
This makes the wheat a little nervous, the Atmosphere of The G20 blow on the face, originally wheat tried to find other dirt road up the hill, but think or not.
“This is a national event and an honor for Hangzhou, not a bad thing. Sometimes it is inconvenient to think about the people, after all, it is also the need of the country, just bear with it.” “We can cooperate, but as long as we can live a good life.”
After climbing the mountain that day, he posted a long circle of friends. After telling the story of his journey over the mountains, he said, Hangzhou, I will see you after September 6, my hometown.
Like many others, Mai Chose Hangzhou. His destination was Guilin in Guangxi province, and it’s hard to imagine that at this age he would have found eight friends to travel with if it hadn’t been for the summit.
More than 2 million Hangzhou residents are expected to travel during the G20 holiday, according to the G20 Tourism Report released by Ctrip on Aug 30. This means that a third of the city’s residents will leave Hangzhou during the summit holiday, spending 3,200 yuan per person to visit Huangshan mountain, Shanghai, Qiandao Lake and even Thailand. It also means that Hangzhou East Railway Station, the largest rail hub in Asia, will be able to handle more passengers than usual.
In a community 6 kilometers from the G20 central meeting, watchtowers operate on 24-hour shifts, residents in lake blue volunteer T-shirts chat with their fupu fans, and water and pastries sit by their chairs. Feng Chenyuan, 53, a support worker at Hangzhou Jiangcheng Orthopaedic Hospital who has been in Hangzhou for just three months from Xuzhou, is also involved in the volunteer work, working at bus stations for nine hours at a time. “In Hangzhou,” he said, where he already has a certain sense of identity, “people say you have to look beyond the big picture. It may only be for once in your life, so everyone has to pay a little.” The implication of his name, he explained, was to “always be a son of this country”.
00:15 on September 4, the morning, about car driver zhang finish last single stroke, hear the weather forecast says it will rain today, still some doubt close around the hall center within 100 kilometers of a large number of factories, single and double line number, operation and energy saving in the city bus and a series of measures to build “the G20 blue”, don’t know will have a good performance.
“It’s like Chinese New Year.”
Alexa, a British journalist who is in Hangzhou to cover the G20, wrote on Facebook: “China looks good, but judging by the number of cars on the roads in Hangzhou, it should be the level of a backward country, probably not even Tanzania. There are not even a single car on the wide roads. And in a lot of places around Hangzhou, factories have somehow shut down, it’s like a recession…” Some netizens reply: Have a kind 6 don’t go.
Whether this passage is true remains to be verified, but just back from Sweden miao Miao said: Hangzhou why so desolate?
“Solitude” is a word often used by those who stay in the city. There are no tour groups, shops are closed, and even sprinklers don’t play “Orchid Grass,” a campus hit from the 1980s.
Qingchun Road is the first financial street in Hangzhou, and its junction with Yan ‘an Road is the busy section of the city. Standing on the bridge, you can see Baochu Mountain beside The West Lake. On weekdays, pedestrians weave on the overpass; At their feet, buses filled with passengers, people looking vaguely out the Windows, enjoying a momentary respite from the torrent of life.
If you live on the roadside of Wensan, after early morning, you can see dried noodle vendors like snails rising out of the intersection. You can hear the rumbling sound of trucks rolling over the road, which is the sound of the growth of this city. And these days are no more.
For those who stayed in the city but didn’t travel, “it was like the New Year, and the Whole G20 was like the first to the sixth day of the New Year.”
But a subtle difference from the Spring Festival is that “The West Lake area is very busy during the Spring Festival, but there are no people in the area now.” Zou Fusen is an 85-year-old man with white hair who is a neighborhood scout and shop owner.
At 21:15 on The evening of September 4, west Lake staged an “impression of The West Lake”, and the scenic area stopped opening early. “The west Lake scenic area is already saturated with people. To ensure security, the security check channel is temporarily closed “please understand” signs block visitors. The young girl with the entrance of the police, not an accident or sullenly left.
“How? This is the G20 Summit, so to speak, a world congress. Never before have so many heads of state come to Hangzhou. They want to see it. Give some room for international friends to see, and let’s go outside.” Zou Fusen grew up in Hangzhou. He watched hangzhou grow from a small city ten miles from the east to the west and ten miles from the north to the south to what it is now. Seeing the G20 settled in Hangzhou, he said, “I can only see it once in my life.”
The crossroads of the policeman with a baton to guide kris taxi from straight lane to the right lane, he carried on a passenger can’t find the road, the car radio over tune “jasmine”, came to the hostess’s voice, “applause rang, we heard a brand-new deduction, troupe is a committeeman of mine better deduce the unforgettable jasmine, once again to the music of” jasmine “been spread all over the world……”
“This is not the West Lake.”
The vast majority of Hangzhou residents watched the live broadcast of “Impression of West Lake” on TV at home, which was synchronized with the heads of state at the scene. One of the tea picking dances impressed Weng Yingdi. She began to pick tea when she was seven or eight years old. Now she is a major tea farmer in Weng Jiashan. “This is a feature of the Chinese Longjing people in Hangzhou, and it’s well performed.” She smiled. “Picking tea can’t be so beautiful and happy! Every year, not a single tea picker is under 40 years old.”
Wu Haiyan, dean of the School of Design and Art at the China Academy of Fine Arts, has her own opinion on the performance. “I think the ballet is good, and Lei Jia sings very well in it, and the little girl sings very well, both are very elegant. But just the lights are like neon lights. The overlapping beauty of the west Lake gardens is gone.” Growing up by the West Lake, she thought, “This is not the West Lake.”
The west lake scenic area is under traffic control and will be closed to the public for six days after August 28, solstice and 31 with id cards. “In fact, this restriction is a little early, should be a few days later.” Wu Haiyan lives on Nanshan Road, southeast of The West Lake scenic area. After the traffic control, you can see a long queue every day. Many people take out their ID cards and hold them over their heads, eager to go forward, but they are trapped in the sea.
“The other thing is that the lights on nanshan Road have been on for a long time. As soon as it appears in the newspaper, it becomes a place of interest for people. They all flock to nanshan Road at this special time.”
Nanshan Road has always been busy, but she didn’t mind. After it was closed, she felt as if she had gone back to her childhood. “Because I went to primary school on Nanshan Road and the university was also on Nanshan Road. When I was a child, there were not so many cars in Hangzhou. Some trees and plants were allowed to grow at will. Every year during the Qingming Festival, we would go to the mountains to pick a lot of things, such as malantou and Onions.” She thought hangzhou should be like this, elegant and quiet.
When it comes to the changes the G20 has brought to Hangzhou, what she doesn’t like most is the lighting. “Beishan Road is too bright. The West Lake in Hangzhou should be elegant. There’s a little light, a little light. The lighting on Nanshan Road may be popular among ordinary people, but from the perspective of sustainability, there will be many problems.”
However, Wu haiyan was proud of the G20 after all. “The G20 being held in Hangzhou will certainly bring a great improvement to our city and country,” she said. “As a Hangzhou person, everyone should feel proud and give full play to it.”
Best of all, she hopes hangzhou’s changes “will be permanent, not temporary.”
“76 temporarily diverted. This stop will not stop.”
Volunteers at the Hangzhou Tower bus station repeated the phrase 10 times in 10 minutes. The citizens who came to take the bus were informed of the temporary adjustment of the bus route and had to take a taxi or walk to the next station.
The roads along the West Lake are often closed because of the motorcade of dignitaries, and the crowds who do not know where they are turn into spectators and take out their mobile phones one after another beside the iron fence. An all-black car with Chinese and American flags in front of it roared past, causing quite a stir among the crowd, with all the words “Obama” rustling and flashing flashing.
The street regained calm after the convoy, the police blew a few whistles: “scattered scattered ah, finished watching.” The crowd dispersed, the child returned to the back of his mother’s scooter, and the man returned to his mouth after smoking half of his cigarette.
After the west Lake was restricted, entering the scenic area became tedious, and the old people who walked there looked elsewhere. “Grandfathers and grandmothers do not pour out bitter things easily. They think it is very serious. My grandparents would go out for a walk and talk to other grandparents about what they couldn’t do and then come home and watch TV and my grandfather would just sit there and play with his iPad.” Debao said.
Last year, hangzhou people “celebrated a New Year” in autumn
Li Hangyu, a writer of the roots-seeking school, wrote in His book Hangzhou is Hangzhou for all the people in the world: “This is a Hangzhou man. He is very good at adjusting himself, so he is also very good at experiencing the process and enjoying himself from it. Hangzhou people can often think of many things to entertain themselves. They are masters of spiritual and temperamental self-regulation.”
“Hangzhouese are pacifists at heart.”
Xu Zhe is not, “citizens travel greatly inconvenience, can not get a taxi, I had to die waiting for the bus.” He suddenly appeared a lot of dissatisfaction: the price of food in the name of the summit prices, the occupancy rate of blind roads, the disabled equipped with facilities, public facilities maintenance……
The market under the Wangjiang Bridge is gone. “Some people even travel ten kilometers from one district to buy food,” he complained. “The G20 meeting can at least not affect the basic life of ordinary people.”
Debao’s biggest complaint was that “the school kicked us out.” As a senior, she wanted to plan her life by living on campus, but now she has to “eat at home”. She wanted to buy a few paintings online, but was put off by the high delivery fees. The swimming pool closed early. She didn’t even know why, so she had to walk the dog, walk and talk to the neighbors.
On the evening of September 5, Wheat returned to Hangzhou from Guangxi. At the end of the two-day summit, he was a little sorry that he had not personally experienced the process with the city. However, he understood that “After all, the G20 is a meeting, and when it’s over, it leaves. It only takes a few days for the country to sign many agreements, but for Hangzhou, it’s just a matter of dressing up the house, welcoming guests and sending them away.”
In two days’ time, after the seven-day holiday, many people will come back. The city is back to normal when it is busy and quiet.
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(The characters are pseudonyms.)
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