埃及90%的土地是沙漠,全国6000万人大都集中在仅占全国土地面积4%的尼罗河谷和尼罗河三角洲.开罗、亚历山大等大城市人口密度大,用埃及人自己的话说“已临近爆炸”.当前埃及人口迅速增长,城市与工业建设迅速扩展,耕地面积不断缩小,由1805年人均1费丹下降到目前人均0.1费丹.埃及人意识到,要从根本上解决这一突出矛盾,只有把目光投向沙漠,向沙漠进军!“向沙漠进军!”早在50年代纳赛尔总统就提出了,并取得了非凡的成就,如兴建阿斯旺水坝和水渠,购置喷灌设备,在沙漠地区兴建机械化农场等.但阿以间的敌对状态,使埃及不得不把大量原本可用于发展经济的资金统统投入到军备上,向沙漠进军的意愿被迫搁置.1979年,埃及总统萨达特顺应潮流,与以色列签署了戴维营协议,为埃及赢得了和平、时间与机遇,把发展国民经济、改善人民生活重新提上了政府的重要议事日程.“向沙漠进军!”的口号不仅被重新提出,还被赋予新的内容.埃及政府决定在开罗四周的茫茫沙海上兴建卫星城,向沙漠要地,以缓解因人口膨胀给各大城市带来的压力.斋月十日城,便是70年代末埃及政府规划的众多卫星城中的一个.我们初到埃及时,常听埃及友人对开罗人满为患感叹不己.我们问:“不是兴建了那么多卫星城吗?”他们摇着头回答我们说:“卫星城的设想或许 Ninety percent of Egypt’s land is desert, with 60 million people in the country mostly concentrated in the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta, which account for only 4% of the country’s total land area. Large cities such as Cairo and Alexandria are densely populated and, in the Egyptians’ own words, At present, Egypt has witnessed a rapid population growth, rapid expansion of urban and industrial construction, and ever-shrinking cultivated land, which has dropped from 1 Faindan per capita in 1805 to 0.1 per capita at present. The Egyptians realized that to fundamentally solve this prominent contradiction, Going to the desert and marching into the desert! “Entering into the desert!” President Nasser proposed as early as the 1950s and made remarkable achievements, such as the construction of Aswan dams and canals, the purchase of sprinkler irrigation equipment and the construction of mechanization in desert areas Farms, etc. However, the hostility between the Arabs and Israel has forced Egypt to devote large amounts of funds available to the development of its economy to military armaments and its willingness to march into the desert has been put on hold. In 1979, Egyptian President Sadat followed the trend, The signing of the Camp David agreement with Israel has won peace, time and opportunities for Egypt, and restored the importance of developing the national economy and improving people’s lives on the government Agenda. “The slogan” march to the desert! “Was not only reintroduced but also given new content. The Egyptian government decided to build a satellite city on the vast sand of the sea around Cairo, to the desert to ease the population expansion due to major cities The pressure of 10 December, the city of Ramadan, was one of the many satellite cities planned by the Egyptian government in the late 1970s, when we first came to Egypt, we often heard Egyptian friends sigh for overcrowding in Cairo and asked: ”It is not built How many satellite cities? “They shook their heads and answered us:” Perhaps the satellite city idea