What does western export mean in modern times?

The "West Exit" in Walking West Exit refers to: the earliest "West Exit" specifically refers to killing Tiger Exit (now Youyu County, Shanxi Province), and was later renamed as Cheng Guihua (now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia). However, due to the huge and complex crowd, the exact meaning of "Xikou" is actually different for people in different regions. Generally speaking, "Xikou" actually refers to all the passes from Qin Jin to Inner Mongolia.

In history, "westward", also known as "outward", refers to the immigration activities of people from Shanxi and Shaanxi to the Inner Mongolia grassland outside the Great Wall for reclamation and business. Westbound is one of the five most famous migration events in China's modern history. In the long history of more than 400 years from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the early Republic of China, countless Shanxi people, Shaanxi people and Hebei people left their homes, which opened up the economic and cultural channel between the hinterland of the Central Plains and the Mongolian grassland and promoted the prosperity and development of the northern region.

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The Social Value of "Westward Advance"

"Westward Journey" is a bitter history of immigration, but also a history of hard struggle and entrepreneurship. Groups of immigrants left their homes and came to Mongolia outside Beikou to develop Inner Mongolia. With the process of "westward migration", Inner Mongolia outside the mouth has evolved from a traditional single nomadic society to a diversified society with both banner and county, grazing and farming. In this evolution process, Shanxi immigrants, as the main body of immigrants, have made great contributions.

The flow of population promotes the spread of culture, which narrows the distance between regions and enhances the sense of identity between regions. The migration wave of "going to the west" has greatly promoted the exchanges between the central and western regions of Inner Mongolia and the mainland, further enhanced the national feelings of Mongolia and China, and had a certain positive impact on the prosperity and stability of our multi-ethnic country.

China Net —— "Westward Advance" in History

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