Located in the city center of Xicheng District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, it was completed in 1995 and is a typical example of Yugoslav-style residential architecture. This group of high-rise buildings consists of five towers, with Buildings 1, 3, and 5 having 18 floors, and Buildings 2 and 4 having 24 floors. Each floor contains eight units, allowing a total of 816 households and accommodating over 2,000 residents. The model represents Building 5 among them, which is also the modeler's childhood home. Initially, these residential units were allocated to middle and junior-level engineers of the Daqing Petroleum Company. Employees only needed to pay a very low price—roughly equivalent to a year’s wages for both spouses—to purchase such a home. The apartment sizes range from 50 to 70 square meters, with the eligible floor area varying according to the buyer’s job rank.

The location of this group of high-rise buildings is at the absolute center of Xicheng District, Daqing City. Downstairs was once the city’s largest Northern Market, and nearby are Daqing No. 1 Secondary School and the headquarters building of Daqing Oilfield. In stark contrast to its prime location, residents consider the architectural design of these apartments extremely foolish. Since each floor is evenly divided into eight units, each household only occupies a 45-degree outward-facing angle, leaving homes on the shaded side perpetually without sunlight. The design concept of these residential towers completely inherits the Yugoslav design philosophy, prioritizing the spectacle and landmark function of the building over economic efficiency and practicality. Meanwhile, in the world beyond Yugoslavia—whether in the capitalist world or the Soviet Union—economic efficiency and practicality were considered by designers as the most important indicators for residential buildings.

What many do not know is that during the ideological confusion of the 1980s, some eclectic economists believed that both capitalist market economies and Soviet-style planned economies were too extreme. They argued that China should learn from Yugoslavia and experiment with enterprise autonomy, with Daqing Oilfield bearing the brunt of this series of social experiments. These experiments, of course, were not successful, but they also cannot be deemed complete failures. At least due to the humane nature of the distribution system, there was no upheaval during the subsequent earth-shaking disaster (some refer to it as an economic upswing period). This makes 21st-century Daqing resemble, in many ways, a parallel universe version of Yugoslavia that never dissolved. Even by 1995, after Yugoslavia had already disintegrated, historical inertia persisted. At the very least, Daqing’s architectural designers continued to apply Yugoslav design experiences.