This time, the boat Li Zhongxin and his friends were on was the Magnolia, which was from Guangzhou Zhoutouzui Passenger Station to Haikou in Hainan Province.

Since the 1960s, this Magnolia has been the main passenger ship for passengers from Guangzhou to Haikou, and it has been traveling back and forth between the two sides of the Qiongzhou Strait.

There are three floors above the main deck of the Magnolia ship, one and two floors are rooms with first to third class cabins, where you can see the sea in the guest rooms.

The third floor is the top deck, and there are two floors below the main deck of the hull, with rooms in fourth and fifth class cabins.

The fourth-class cabin has small windows, so you can’t see outside when you arrive in the fifth-class cabin.

Li Zhongxin and the others arranged for the Magnolia ship tickets to be purchased in advance in Guangzhou. They were all first-class tickets. After all, Li Zhongxin is not short of money now. Most of the trips to the family are elderly and children.

If you can buy first-class cabins, Li Zhongxin will never buy second-class cabins.

First-class cabins are not only comfortable when riding on the boat, but also rarely experience seasickness. After all, first-class cabins are the most comfortable position on the entire sea boat. Through the bright glass, you can see the surging sea outside.

At this time, the tickets from Guangzhou to Haikou were very difficult to buy. It can be said that you can buy so many first-class tickets at one time. The connections with Li Zhongxin's young grandfather at this time and Wang Peng, Zhongxin's company, were in Hainan.

The business developed there is related to.

Another important point is that at this time, people don’t have much money. People who take a boat to Hainan Island are basically those who go to Hainan Island to find dreams.

In 1988, with Hainan's establishment of a provincial and special economic zone, more than 100,000 talents flocked across the Qiongzhou Strait, performing a rare feat in the history of world talent migration.

They are almost all passionate "sea-driven" from all over the country. They are pursuing Hainan to build a province, which will become China's largest special economic zone, and even establish a free trade zone like Hong Kong.

Although most people have never been to Hainan, let alone Hong Kong, everyone yearns for it and looks forward to going to the Special Administrative Region to make achievements.

They went to Hainan Island to work and start a business, rather than people like Li Zhongxin who were traveling there. It was a good thing to be able to buy a boat ticket for a small amount of money, and they would never give it up so

I have more money to buy a first-class ticket.

At this time, people's salary was not very high. It was already very good to spend 16 yuan and 2 cents to buy a sleeper in fifth-class cabin. Even if the person sent to Hainan Island for business, the most people can only be sent to the company for business.

It is to purchase tickets for third-class or fourth-class cabins.

The most common thing that Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo see on the deck is the one who holds the cardboard similar to the train ticket in his hands. The boat tickets are similar to train tickets at this time, but they only read

It is the Guangzhou Maritime Transportation Bureau, which writes about when and when to start the ship.

This kind of boat ticket looks no different from the train ticket of this era. It also has the word "half-price for children's tickets". It is marked that the price of children's tickets is 8 yuan per cent, and they are all checked with ticket pliers.

According to the information given to Li Zhongxin by Wang Peng, the Magnolia ship belongs to the Guangzhou Maritime Transportation Bureau and is a relatively good ship among the maritime passenger ships.

At this time, the Guangzhou Maritime Transportation Bureau was a maritime transport enterprise directly under the Ministry of Transportation. The Maritime Transportation Bureau has more than 130 passenger, cargo and oil tankers, 1.9 million cargo tonnage, and more than 8,000 passenger seats. The annual freight volume is about 24 million tons.

The passenger volume is about 1 million passengers.

The Guangzhou Maritime Transportation Bureau operates 200 routes. In addition to the routes between Guangzhou and Haikou, it also operates routes to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, etc., which undertakes some long-range, near-range and coastal passenger and freight transportation.

In terms of passenger transport, there were five passenger stations of Zhoutouzui, Dashatou, Xiti, Huangpu and Huada Ship Service Company, which opened for sale of ship tickets.

Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo discussed that they wanted to conduct passenger and freight transportation between Guangzhou and Hainan or Xuwen, but later, Hainan Province, no, should have been rejected by the Maritime Transportation Bureau.

When Wang Peng talked about this matter with government officials in Hainan, he thought that the thing Zhongxin Company was not good, it was not a state-owned transportation company, and it did not have the corresponding qualifications.

Whether it is passenger transport or dual-purpose ships, they are controlled by the state. A foreign-funded or joint venture company is not qualified to operate such things, even for the good economy on Hainan Island.

The Guangzhou Maritime Transportation Bureau is now able to complete such a task well, and there is no need to add such a transport ship at this time. They cannot manage such a ship. Once an accident occurs, there will be big problems at that time.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Zhongxin's preparations to invest in passenger and freight transport ships in Hainan Province were temporarily placed, and Wang Peng was asked to take charge of the construction of Sanya and the construction of ocean fishery.

Standing on the deck, Li Zhongxin looked at the magnificent sea for a while, and then began to look around the ship that had been in operation for almost thirty years.

Li Zhongxin saw that although the Magnolia had been in service for many years, the hull was well maintained and it didn't feel very old, which was better than many sea boats at this time.

It can be said that people of this era have very good maintenance for such large ships.

On this ship, there are two things that impressed Li Zhongxin the most. One is that people who come to Hainan are basically young people.

They were all people who went to Hainan to make a fortune by building a special economic zone in Hainan Island. These people were all wearing similar clothes, basically all of them were Yeliang's shirts and grass green or light yellow long

Pants, occasionally some people wearing shorts, basically look black and thin, and everyone's face is full of longing for the future.

These people were called sea-driving people at this time. They were called to Hainan to find the trend and the corresponding governments to help develop Hainan Island.

Second, when we arrived at Hainan Island, foreigners began to appear. Most of them wore cameras and took photos with people everywhere. Although they were not able to speak, they could communicate with gestures.

These people are all people who went to Hainan Island for investigation. These foreigners heard that the Chinese government was going to build a special economic zone on Hainan Island. They wanted to come here to see what they could do on Hainan Island.

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