A trip to the United Arab Emirates

Ruanping

Last year, I traveled to the United Arab Emirates in 65438+February 16, and lived in Sharjah one or two days ago, next to Dubai. When I first came to this land, I was impressed that this was a local tyrant country with no history. In just a few decades, it has built many of the best in the world: the most luxurious presidential palace, the tallest Burj Khalifa, the largest artificial island Palm Island, the largest shopping center, the largest musical fountain and the most exotic sailing hotel. , and has become a famous international metropolis.

What impressed me most was that when I stepped on the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world on the168th floor, overlooking the whole Dubai, I saw only two colors, one was blue and the other was yellow. This country consists of sea water and desert. There are no trees, let alone crops. The lawns and trees in the city are all imported from other countries, and even the soil is imported from other countries. Greening water is pure seawater, and watering is done regularly and quantitatively with advanced equipment. Water here is more expensive than oil (a bottle of water is about 18 dirhams, while oil is only 2 dirhams), and domestic water is purified with seawater. The cost of planting a tree is tens of thousands of dollars a year. Whether you are rich or poor in Dubai depends not on your luxury house and luxury car, but on how many flowers and trees you plant.

Abu Dhabi is the political center of the UAE. Abu Dhabi Palace Hotel is the only eight-star hotel in the world and a miracle of rising in the desert. It is made of more than 40 tons of 24K gold, which is priceless and luxurious. It is one level higher than the sailing hotel in Dubai (using 15 tons of 24K gold or more). Sailing Hotel mainly receives business elites, while Palace Hotel mainly receives political figures such as heads of state and members of the royal family.

I visited the presidential palace in Abu Dhabi in detail. It is also made of more than 40 tons of gold and white marble. It's really magnificent. No country's president can enjoy it so luxuriously. We ordinary people can only feast our eyes on 90 dollars (more than 600 RMB), and the tourism income of the presidential palace is several hundred million dollars a year. I can watch it in this presidential palace made of gold and marble, and glad you came.

? Arabs believe in Islam. Visiting Sheikh Zayed Mosque is really an eye-opener. It is the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates and the second largest mosque in the Muslim world, with a cost of $5.5 billion. Not to mention spending 40 tons of gold, a crystal lamp cost 480 thousand dollars (three of them were hung inside) It took 65,438+03 years to build this mosque.

The United Arab Emirates consists of seven Emirates, namely Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Fujairah, Umm al-Qaiwan, Ajman and Ras al-Khaimah. 197 1. I went to three Emirates this time: Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Abu Dhabi is the political center, Dubai is the economic center and Sharjah is the cultural center. Only Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the richest brothers.

Abu Dhabi and Dubai are really rich now, but I think it's sad. This nation used to be one of the four ancient civilizations, which created splendid culture, but now it has completely disappeared, torn apart and lost its former glory. My analysis has both internal and external factors. The internal cause is that this nation is not unified, and there are different sects, which have consumed their vitality in the struggle of different sects and classes. The external causes are: foreign invasion, first of all, Genghis Khan's fighters in Mongolia traveled all over the two river basins, followed by the Crusades in Europe. These two invasions caused a fatal blow, and finally made the ancient Babylonian kingdom disappear.

Looking back and looking at the present, I can't help thinking about the future of the UAE.

Be pampered. Take Dubai as an example. Of the more than 3 million people, Arabs only account for 15%, and the rest are immigrants from other countries. For two days in a row, I didn't see Arabs working. I found that the Arabs here don't work when I asked. More than 60,000 dirhams per year (1 UAE dirhams = 1.95438+0 RMB) is equivalent to several hundred thousand RMB. In order to prevent Arabs from being lazy, the government should mobilize young people to work. Basically, young Arabs work in the government. Those engaged in manual labor are floating population (including many people in China). Being so pampered will destroy a nation. More than 2,000 years ago, China's Confucius said: "If the sky is going to descend to Sri Lanka, we must first suffer from its mind, strain its bones and muscles, starve its body and skin, and empty its body." The reason why the Chinese nation is endless and prosperous is because its people are hardworking, brave, peace-loving, indomitable and self-reliant. The Arabs give me the impression that they are lazy. Even its character has not changed. A straight line bends several times to form Arabic characters. Unlike our Chinese characters, they have imagination and connotation.

? Pay attention to luxury. Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates pursue the best in the world for people's pursuit of material enjoyment and luxury. Tens of tons of gold are used to repair its hotels, palaces and mosques. Instead of investing in technology and cultivating talents, it is used to decorate buildings and make them more luxurious. You should think more about why your nation has fallen into such a state, or you should forget your initial heart. We should think more about neighboring Israel, an extinct Jew, and your territory has developed so strongly. All you can do is throw petrol bottles and stones at the Arab-Israeli border. Can you hit Israel like this?

? After the trip, on the plane home, I was thinking that you are rich now because of oil. Why is the Middle East a powder keg? What will you do when the oil resources are exhausted?

? Although the UAE is rich, I prefer the three colors of the Persian Gulf.

? 2020.08.2 1.