Why is there Nanning, the only international metropolis in Guangxi? Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nanning has been remembered for its self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. Many young soldiers set out from this humble city with blood to defend their motherland. At that time, Nanning could be said to be the frontier and fortress of self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. At that time, China people and overseas Chinese learned about this situation and heroic deeds from newspapers, magazines and TV, and began to remember the city. However, China people have the worst memory. When the war ended and the frontier began to restore peace, nothing earth-shattering happened in the small town of Nanning and Nanning in the southwest corner. It appeared in the media and newspapers so few times that many people did not know the existence of this city, especially in the north of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Many people will think that Guilin is the capital of Guangxi. There was once a story: a reporter drove to other provinces for an interview, and his colleagues from other provinces asked him: Are you from Guilin? Guangxi reporter replied: No, I'm from Nanning. Colleagues are full of doubts when they hear Nanning: Where is Nanning in Guangxi? Guangxi reporter is very strange: Nanning is in the south of Guangxi and is the capital of Guangxi. Colleagues were surprised: isn't Guilin the capital of Guangxi? Your license plates all start with the word "Gui". This sentence greatly stimulated Guangxi reporters. In fact, this reporter is not the only one who is stimulated and embarrassed. Guangxi people who have been to other provinces and contacted other provinces, especially the eastern coastal provinces, have had such experiences to some extent. They either don't know who Nanning is, or they think Guilin is the capital of Guangxi, and they think Guilin is a city elsewhere. People in China know so little about Nanning, let alone foreigners with worse geographical level. History has also pushed Nanning to an awkward position. Compared with provincial capitals or cities in Guangxi, Nanning has little capital. Traditionally, Guilin has a longer history and a greater reputation than Nanning. Guilin or its surrounding areas have always been the jurisdiction center of Guangxi dynasties in history, and Guilin has always been the leader of Guangxi economically. Nanning used to run behind Guilin like a little brother. Liuzhou has been a famous historical city since ancient times, and the national southwest heavy industry base is also there. In Guangxi, Liuzhou people's feelings in front of the people of the whole country are the same as those of the Northeast people in the 1950s and 1960s, and they are not the kind of air that can be summarized by the word "cow". Beihai was originally unknown, but when China first deployed the coastal opening strategy, Beihai was on the list of the first batch of 14 coastal open cities. Beihai people thought that they were the closest place to Guangxi from now on. The development tide in the early 1990s also made Beihai people lose their heads and strut in front of everyone. That is, at that time, other Guangxi people understood that Beihai people needed 180 degrees to see the sky. People in all three cities look down on Nanning people. A few years ago, Nanning was not as big as Liuzhou, its economic strength was not as strong as Guilin, its urban environment was not as good as Beihai, and Nanning people lived a timid life. Among all the capital cities in China, Nanning is also the least handsome, and Wuhan alone accounts for1/3 of the province's gross national product; Changsha has made rapid progress in recent years, and Star City seems to have become an entertainment capital overnight. Nanjing and Hangzhou are the economic, cultural, scientific, technological and educational centers of the province, although they face challenges from Suzhou and Wuxi, Ningbo and Shaoxing respectively. Although there are Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Foshan and Dongguan next to Guangzhou, its ambition to be the boss in South China has never wavered. Other provincial capitals and central cities also play an important role in their respective regions. But Guangxi is different, Nanning is different, and there is no real central city in Guangxi. Even today, the population and economic aggregate of Nanning is only the level of the coastal city of Zhuhai. Liuzhou and Guilin don't like to see the faces of Nanning people. Southeast Guangxi clamored for "going out of Guangxi and entering Guangdong" all day. Only Baise and Hechi are obedient. In the decades since the founding of the People's Republic of China, although Nanning is the capital of Guangxi, it is indeed the political center, but it is not the economic and cultural center of Guangxi. Nanning has no real industry. Even Guilin Liangjiang International Airport has more international routes than Nanning Wuxu Airport. Guangxi Normal University, Guilin Institute of Electronic Technology, Guilin Institute of Technology and Guilin Medical College can definitely be included in the top ten universities in Guangxi. Guilin Army College and Guilin Air Force College are also famous in the military field, while Guangxi Institute of Technology, named "Guangxi", is not in Nanning, but in Liuzhou, an industrial base. This reality makes Nanning people feel a little bitter. However, the bitterness of Nanning people did not stop there. What makes Nanning people even worse is that Nanning is not only a layman in civil war, but also a layman in foreign war. The development speed of GDP reflects the development prospect and potential of a city to a certain extent. According to the comprehensive statistics and analogy of the GDP development speed of provincial capitals in recent years, from 199 1 to 2000, the GDP of Wuhan increased by 7 .86 times, that of Nanchang by 7.56 times, that of Hangzhou by 6 .89 times ... and that of Nanning by 5.45 times. Even the surrounding provincial capital cities such as Kunming, Changsha and Guangzhou have higher growth rate and comprehensive strength than Nanning. Compared with the competing development of neighboring cities, Nanning is at an absolute disadvantage. Even Kunming, once an equal with Nanning, is now in front of Nanning. In 2003, Nanning's economic strength ranked only 22nd among 3 1 provincial capital cities in China. It is because Nanning is in such a dilemma in the ranking of provincial capital cities in China that Guilin people and Liuzhou people are unwilling to admit that Nanning is the boss. When Guilin people introduce themselves to mainlanders, they will say that they are in Guilin instead of adding a Guangxi in front of them, for fear of being moved by "Guangxi". Guilin people are also reluctant to introduce Nanning to mainlanders, feeling that Nanning is hot; Guangdong and Guangxi have similar cultures and living habits and have been brothers since ancient times. But now, the backwardness of Guangxi is in sharp contrast with the prosperity of Guangdong. Nowadays, Cantonese seldom recognize Guangxi as a "brother", for fear of making themselves fall in price when mentioning Guangxi, let alone Nanning. Mention these, Nanning people still unforgettable. This city has no foundation. The abbreviation of Nanning was originally Tancheng, also called Tancheng, and later it was changed to Greentown, and then it was proposed to build a city with "ethnic customs". With the acceleration of the construction of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and the China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, some people have proposed to build a city with "Southeast Asian ethnic customs". As a result, with the proposal of this slogan, some newly-built residential areas and commercial streets have been labeled as "Southeast Asian ethnic customs", and buildings have begun to reflect the unique style of ASEAN countries' architecture. However, according to this formulation or plan, if Nanning is really to be built into a "Southeast Asian city with ethnic customs", I don't know how many years it will take to achieve this goal. Because the shaping of a city's style is due to historical, regional, cultural and other factors, it is chosen and decided by the residents living in it, not dominated by individuals. The formation of a city's history and culture is a long life cycle, which will experience changes and integration, conflicts and even wars. It took nearly 2000 years for Nanning to develop its diet, psychology and folk customs today. If we really want to become a city with ethnic customs in Southeast Asia, we must go through cultural edification, psychological identification and historical precipitation. Which of these does not take hundreds or even thousands of years? Looking at other cities in China, Harbin is a Russian-style city, Qingdao is a German-style city, and Suzhou is an ancient garden-style city in China. Which one does not need hundreds or even thousands of years? A Turkish poet once said: There are two things in a person's life that can't be forgotten, one is the face of his mother and the other is the face of the city. But looking at Nanning as a whole, we can see which buildings and museums really have the ethnic customs of Southeast Asia. Moreover, there are few buildings with the characteristics of Southeast Asian countries, and there are many such things as painting a tiger without turning it into a dog. In fact, it is better to build a city with Guangxi's own ethnic regional customs on the original basis, so that the culture of ethnic areas can be developed. Why give the color TV industry a "fine display" today, a "frequency conversion" tomorrow, and a "film" the day after tomorrow to disturb people's hearing and hearing? Nothing more than grandstanding, yelling, and lack of self-confidence! It is enough to directly develop the local ethnic customs in Guangxi and directly shape a decent city with ethnic, historical and cultural connotations. Is it necessary to go that far and put other people's things and hands and feet in our city? It's like westerners are tall. Are their clothes suitable for ordinary people in China? If we continue messing around like this, I'm afraid we will all be laughed at and saddened by future generations, because today we are saddened that yesterday's people demolished a large number of ancient buildings in the city, and future generations will also be saddened to build a city without our own culture and characteristics. The city is its own first, with its own characteristics, and then it belongs to the world. Without its own characteristics, the so-called modern style buildings will become obsolete and will be demolished in a few decades. We did the same thing when we demolished tubular buildings and old buildings, but now no one dares to demolish the Forbidden City and Suzhou Gardens, because it is a symbol of history and culture. Today, those modern and luxurious buildings on Minzu Avenue have little cultural significance in their bones and are dwarfed by Manhattan in terms of modernization. It is estimated that it will be demolished in about forty or fifty years. It is said that China's famous architect Bei visited Beijing carefully, looked at the buildings covered with glass walls and said: Fortunately, these buildings will be demolished after all. There is no way to verify the truth of this sentence, but on the other hand, it also reflects the lack of China's own culture, which is directly reflected in architecture. Beijing's architecture is quite modern and magnificent, but for western architects who come to Beijing to worship with mysterious yearning for the East, modern Beijing may make them even more confused. At the annual meeting of world architecture held in Beijing a few years ago, China architects were also embarrassed, because they didn't know what other buildings were in Beijing besides the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. Modern Beijing may bring pride to Beijingers, but for young Beijingers and China people, it may be indelible pain and reflection. 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