Rural workers(eariler photo)

For I took no photo on Dec,12th,So I randomly chose a rural workers' photo could be a substitute.This photo took by me on Dec,31st.Where had turned into 8 apartment buildings now.Yes,by their hands.

Location of this photo:Erqi Square,Erqi District,Zhengzhou

Rising up from Ruins

Erstwhile the land was cabbage fields then turned into buildings like we see on TV what existing in some Middle east countries,with narrow path shadowed by 5-7 floor buildings,equiped with insuffcient facilities for they were owned by the local peasants,so that,as"Unplanned Zone"excluded from city's planning.
This block turned into "planned"apartments,sold to people with a high price.around US$1100 per Square meter.
Share a unified market,using unique note,but incomes in different regions with a huge gap.Here is a low-income city.



Location of this photo:Ruhe Road,Zhongyuan District,Zhengzhou

ER-QI Clock Tower,with a cantilever

This is a clock tower was built as a memorial museum,in memory of the Ping-Han Railway workers Strike broke out on 7th,Feb,1923.What is the first nationalwide movement orgnaized by the juvenile Communist Party of China.Zhengzhou bacame a Railway conjunction from the Bian-Luo(Kaifeng-Luoyang)Railway's completion and R.Yellow bridge went into service,which connected Hankou(Hankow) and Beijing(Peiping,Peiking).Workers movement is considered as a part of"evolutionary tradition"and the mark.Actually Zhengzhou used not be the center of the Strike.But there is a zone (Erqi zone,in Chinese 二七区)named by"ER-QI"(In Chinese 二·七),Which means 2.7,the Feberary 7th.
At first that was just a wood tower,then rebuilt with concrete to the current appearance in 1980s,and 4 chime clocks add into its body.

The cantilever is run by constructers of MTR system,here will be a subway conjucntion station.

Location of this photo:Erqi Square,Erqi District,Zhengzhou

"Jiaotong Xieguan"

In the last decade,nationalwide revolution in economy and manufacture realm produced intractable side product,mass workers unfired in the process of reconstitutions of the national owned enterprises,and caused massive social pressure and many problems.
Through government was exhausted in promoting reemploying,but there is still thousands of adult unemployed workers.The Jiaotong Xieguan which means Traffic warden actually is the post set for the unfired employees in their 40s-50s.They take hundres of Yuan per month,and assist to keep the order in main road crosses.
But indeedly,who cross the red light still cross,who in good order needn't pursuasion from others.

Location of this photo:Junction of Songshan Road & Longhai Road,Erqi District,Zhengzhou

A storeboy in display window

In a display window of a costume retail store,a storeboy was renew the new trinkles and maintean the displays.When young are used to choosing modish clothes online,retail stores still enrich consumer's interests.Anyhow,for women,that can be depicted as,maybe a predisposition of shopping?This central city is not the international,extreme prosperous or fainty ones,first Louis Vuitton store opening soon,but counterfeited LV bags is easy to see,while mass girls and women are clientele of the stores face to proletariat,or maybe middle class.

Location of this photo:North Songshan Road,Zhongyuan District,Urban Zhengzhou

Succession in a block

Ascendant building is neat,especially all windows was detached,for no one living there anymore,the front gimini with brownish red balcony will soon disappear,and a tall apartment buildings will contain hundreds of families erected on the pact,at the same premise.So the longevity for the buildings,if it is not tall enough,often quite short,far from its limit to be suitable apartments.

2 years before,the zone was replenished by unplanned flats built by rural people.just in early 1980s,there was no building but cultivating land,then city have been rampanting for years,and enclosed the old village.then there eventually growed hundreds of flats,with poor environment in chaos.then under the new plan,the block of rural archtectures was demolished in 2007-2009,then some urban habitants and units was moved after reaching the agreement with the estate enterprise.Including a Epidemic Prevention Station.
Next year,you can't find nothing related to the past by the landmarks.And what is happening in some 20 places in the city,and across the whole mainland China,there is around 500 cties facing the same situation.

Location of this photo:Ruhe Road,Zhongyuan District,Urban Zhengzhou

A Park Avenue is Pure Luxury

When the urban planners of Communist China design this new city's streets,they totally want to create a new pattern of grid,totally different from old road net of the old city.Plane trees were introduced into the central provincial capital,also the mordern pitch road and paved sideways.According to the plan,actually it did,establish several main street with park,erected aspens,or chinars and spacious pedestrian ways.
What should startle them if they have been told after 40 years,80% of their planning would be overturned by traffic pressures.As a matter of fact,today in the city,most sideway for pedestrians was begrudged with width less than 5 meters,when the main motorway with 8 lanes.But to derogate or castigate the early planners is quite unfair.Who could make a prophey of this?

Following photo shows the view of sideways of Zhongyuan Road,Lush trees lounge over it,in front of north yard of municipal government.

Location of this photo:Mid Zhongyuan Road,Zhongyuan District,Urban Zhengzhou