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The Yellow River Station is the only polar scientific research station established by Huaxia within the Arctic Circle, and it is also the third polar scientific research station of Huaxia after the Antarctic Great Wall Station and Zhongshan Station.

But when it comes to the Yellow River Station, there are really quite a few twists and turns.

In fact, the reason why the Yellow River Station was able to be built in Ny-Alesund in Svalbard must be thanks to Professor Gordon Yi in China.

In fact, the name Svalbard was still very unfamiliar to Chinese people before 1991. In other words, Chinese people had forgotten this place that China should have had sovereignty over for a full sixty-six years.

At the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Dutch and the British successively discovered the Svalbard archipelago. This archipelago with many whales and walruses began to come into the sight of the world.

In 1858, the Finns discovered a large amount of coal resources and other mineral resources on this archipelago, and this archipelago immediately attracted the coveted eyes of many European countries. People from many European countries began to enter the archipelago, Norwegians, Russians, British, Germans, Swedes, Danes, and so on. But the largest populations are Russians and Norwegians.

These people first hunted whales, walruses, and seals on Svalbard, and then slowly began to mine the mineral resources on the island, and gradually formed immigrant towns one by one. Including Longyearbyen, Barentsburg, Sveagluwa, New Alesund, and the small dead town Pramiden built by the former Soviet Union and has been completely evacuated. A settlement established on the Valbard Islands.

From the perspective of population and actual administrative jurisdiction, the weight of Norway and Russia seems to be heavier. However, after all, Norway's national strength is limited, and Russia was in a period of revolution and civil war at that time, so there was no time to look around. This is undoubtedly the best historical opportunity for European and American powers who are unwilling to give up the interests of Svalbard. So countries hastily launched shuttle diplomacy, you come and go, bargaining, using many isms and principles, after countless rounds, finally reached a set of conditions that everyone can accept.

On February 9, 1920, 18 countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan. The Treaty of the Administrative Status of the Spitsbergen Islands, the Treaty of Svalbard, was signed in Paris. In 1925, 33 countries including China, the former Soviet Union, Germany, Finland, and Spain also participated in the treaty and became allies of the Svalbard Treaty.

The treaty makes Svalbard the first and only demilitarized zone in the Arctic. The treaty recognizes Norway's full and complete sovereignty and that the area shall never be used for purposes of war. However, citizens of each contracting state can freely enter and engage in legitimate production and commercial activities within the scope of abiding by Norwegian laws.

In other words, as a signatory to the treaty, Huaxia had acquired an enclave in Europe in 1925, and the Huaxia people had the full right to enter and leave Svalbard at will, and also had the right to build their own outposts there.

But alas, this treaty was forgotten. After the founding of New China, they never thought that there would be such a treaty that would be extremely beneficial to China.

Until 1991, Professor Gao Dengyi was invited to Norway to conduct polar scientific research, and saw the English version of the Svalbard Treaty in the Arctic Guide presented by Professor Y Yexin from the University of Bergen, Norway.

Later, when Professor Gao Dengyi brought the Svalbard Treaty back to China, Huaxia realized that his country still had such an enclave in Northern Europe. In the end, Huaxia relied on this treaty to establish the Yellow River Station in New Alesund in 2004.

This is the polar scientific research station that was originally converted from the dormitory where the miners of Wangwan Company lived.

This building is a rare building made of reinforced concrete in New Alesund. After it was built in the 1940s, it was used as a dormitory for the miners of the Wangwan Company. Later, Huaxia and Wangwan Company signed a lease agreement, and the building was converted into the Yellow River Station.

So this building doesn’t have any grand gates. If it weren’t for the two white marble lions squatting in front of the gate, it would be hard for Yang Jing and Gege to believe that this is the gate of the Yellow River Station—the gate is just a single gate, and There is no difference between the doors in the homes of ordinary residents.

Under He Rui's leadership, Yang Jing and Gege were about to push the door in when the door was opened, and a young man came out yawning and frowning.

Seeing this young man, He Rui asked, Zhao Bin, with your expression, could it be that you were restrained by stationmaster Li again?

Zhao Bin spread his hands helplessly and said, Sister He, don't make fun of me. Huh? Sister He, are these two tourists from China?

Well, my college classmate happened to pass by here, so I came to visit.

Welcome to the Yellow River Station. The young man was just polite, without the enthusiasm he imagined, and then said to He Rui: Sister He, I'm sorry, I have to send this information to the experiment on the mountain Go to the room to compare, or the stationmaster Li should restrain me again. Said, the young man politely waved to Yang Jing and Gege, and hurried out.

Ge Ge said puzzledly: This guy doesn't seem to welcome us very much? After all, we are from China, so why isn't this guy excited at all when we meet in such a far away place?

He Rui smiled and said, Haha, are you deflated? Fourth girl, let me tell you, it's not that Zhao Bin doesn't welcome you, and it's not that he isn't excited when he sees his fellow countrymen. When tourists come here, the Yellow River Station has to receive three waves of domestic tourists a day, and we have long been numb to domestic tourists.”

Yang Jing and Gege looked at each other and smiled wryly.

Yang Jing and Gege followed He Rui inside, and asked curiously: Where is that young man going to send the materials just now? Do you want outsiders to see your internal materials?

He Rui explained: Here, like sounding rockets, atmospheric environment research equipment, and a lot of observation data, the research stations of various countries can be shared. Zhao Bin is responsible for the monitoring of the atmospheric environment. It is estimated that some data is wrong again. Ask stationmaster Li to send data to the laboratory sent to the top of Zeppelin Mountain for comparison.

With such an explanation, Yang Jing and Ge Ge understood.

Although the Yellow River Station is the scientific research station with the largest area in Ny-Ålesund, the combined area of ​​the upper and lower floors is only about 500 square meters, and the average of the 32 rooms is not that big.

There were not many people in the station, Yang Jing reckoned that there were only about twenty people. These people were in a hurry, and when they saw Yang Jing and Ge Ge, they just greeted Yang Jing and Ge Ge with a smile, and then went about their business.

He Rui led Yang Jing and the others into their office. Only then did Yang Jing and Ge Ge realize that although the office was only about ten square meters in size, the interior was quite cozy.

There are two pots of flowers on the window sill, the September chrysanthemum and the fuchsia, which grow very well. On the desk under the window sill are computers, various documents, and of course, a small national flag.

In the corner of the room, there is a single bed, and there is also a large filing cabinet and a few simple chairs in the room.

Sit, sit whatever you want. He Rui started to make tea for the two of them while talking, The conditions here are relatively simple, so you two need to take care of it.

Gege smiled and said, This place is already very good, what better conditions can we ask for in this kind of place?

Thank you for your support, long live your understanding! I'll see if Stationmaster Li has time later. If he has time, you can meet with Stationmaster Li.

Ge Ge said: It's best to meet up. We have prepared a lot of good things on the Blue Whale, and we want to invite the compatriots in the station to go on board.

Well, this reason is very good and strong. I guess our Station Master Li will not refuse such an invitation. He has been on duty here for a whole winter, and counting this summer, it will be a whole year. If it can change his old man's taste, he will definitely like it.

After a pause, He Rui said with some regret: It's a pity that you two can't live here tonight. Because the environment here is too fragile, so generally if it is not for scientific research personnel, although the cruise ship carrying tourists can rely on The port berths, but tourists are not allowed to spend the night on the shore.

Anything else?

Well. He Rui nodded very positively, Our Station Master Li is old and abides by the rules in this area, so we only have one day. Of course, if you have space on the ship, we can go to bed at night. We can continue talking.

Ge Ge looked at Yang Jing, Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders indifferently, It's up to you, I'm in charge of logistics, and it's my greatest responsibility to serve the two young ladies happily.

He Rui nodded in satisfaction and said, I'm talking about Yang Jing, your words are the ones I like to hear the most today.

Gege covered her mouth and laughed. Although He Rui didn't smile, the smile on her brows already showed her mood at the moment.

Okay, the two of you sisters haven't seen each other for more than two years, so you two continue to chat here, and I'll go out for a walk. At the same time, I will inform the ship to ask the chef to make more breakfast.

Gege looked at Yang Jing apologetically and said, Then be careful when you go out, don't provoke those bad birds, and don't let me cover your head at night.

How is it possible? I have Dabai, those bad birds dare not approach me.

With that said, Yang Jing waved his hand, opened the door and walked out.

He Rui asked strangely: Who is Dabai?

Ge Ge explained to her best friend, and He Rui was taken aback for a while.