Chapter One Hundred Fifteen: The Chasm of Controllers
In Jiangbei, far from the city center of Jinling City, surrounding farms had, in recent years of economic development, transformed into swathes of industrial parks and factory buildings. However, due to uneven development, some areas were still temporarily abandoned and idle.
Jiangbei was home to Jinling City's petrochemical and heavy industries. Before the 1980s, it epitomized old state-owned enterprises: a large one was like a city within a city. Tens of thousands of workers commuted daily to the production area, and the residential area had everything, from hospitals and shops to barbershops and kindergartens.
Each large state-owned enterprise was an independent mini-society.
However, after the nineties, this place gradually fell into decline.
Many old state-owned enterprises' lands and workshops were, amidst the wave of restructuring, sold off or acquired, becoming part of new industrial parks.
