恰克图,一个令山西人魂牵梦萦的地方。2016年3月29日,我们来到了这个位于俄蒙边境、承载着晋商光荣与梦想的俄罗斯小镇。想象中的恰克图是一个很热闹的地方。因为早在18世纪中期,这里就曾经是中国最大的对外贸易口岸,这里的对外贸易额一度占据了大清帝国对外贸易的半壁江山。卡尔·马克思1857年在《俄国对华贸易》一文中就专门讲到:“恰克图的中俄贸易 Chak map, a place that makes Shanxi people dreaming. On March 29, 2016, we came to this Russian town on the Russian-Mongol border carrying the honor and dream of the merchants. Imagined Chkotu is a very lively place. Because as early as the mid-18th century, here was once China’s largest foreign trade port, where the foreign trade once occupied the Qing Empire half of foreign trade. Karl Marx wrote in his article ”Trade with Russia to China“ in 1857 that ”China-Russia trade