Not long ago, still in line to see a message that the Shanghai area due to air quality improvement, blue sky weather apparently increased in number. Want to come, those giant buildings of glass-like spring bamboo shoots jungle, in the bright sunlight refraction, the will be more beautiful and eye-catching.
Until the aircraft is about to land at Pudong airport, I found the Shanghai area is thick cloudy. Very close to the airport, close to the ground when we come to see the scenery on the ground. Shanghai's Pudong suburb of the east coast is still a block of green fields, draw vertical and horizontal lines, is a Road trail, or stream. Along the trails and river, is a Home Ownership Scheme blocks of Shanghai farmers, mostly gray two-story small building, scattered, but in the structure and in color on the harmonization with. Even if from time to time some of the new light-colored buildings, is still scale, maintained a tradition of style, does not seem prominent and assertive. In China, tens of miles outside the country's largest city, is still the old school of rural scenery.
Connecting the airport and the city Welcome Avenue, and goes on the outer ring is naturally full of modern atmosphere. Pudong's skyscrapers, looming in front of the road. However, a more eye appealing to me or roadside fields and cottages. In the past 10 years, there were probably a dozen times to visit Shanghai, in addition to newly developed urban areas designated as the situation is always an old suburb of Shanghai, the old style. One after another, the farmers house, the roof is always dark gray, light gray walls, a slight upward tweak the eaves, a square shape. May be due to two-story house is always a high degree of reason, even if the poly into the village, nor significant congestion, density has caused, but also set off both trees, winding stream, a typical rigid Jiangnan rural scenery, and the ever-changing urban areas changes in contrast. Repeatedly to see this lack of change in sight, it is not monotonous like behind the worn-out feeling, but think it is a relaxed, calm and the atmosphere. I believe that the main people that home ownership is certainly with the Shanghai's rapid development greatly enhance the quality of life of their old-fashioned small building's inside, fitting out and decoration is always on the interpretation of the continuous process of modernization.
Friends to help set the People's Square near the Jinjiang Youth Center, one thing they are convenient, and second to spare at this time to Shanghai's central square for a walk, visit the original has never been this square. Settled later, alone on the ninth floor of the hotel's restaurant, surprised to find that the hotel opposite the south of People's Square, is a large Shikumen, which is a unique, old-fashioned Shanghai residential construction, although old, does not feel broken Although intensive, does not feel crowded, which may be attributed to the overall neat layout and scattered the detailed structure. From my highly of view, Shikumen region in space to become an extension of the square, along with the surrounding high-rise buildings surrounded by the newly emerging. Paved with red brick tones, steady integration of a brand new in with the surrounding buildings, green space, roads, and the crowd composed of the screen.
Shikumen the last century a typical Shanghai Urban residential areas, in the booming growth of the city is now also easily covered by a modern high-rise buildings, but now, Shanghai, interested in the preservation of some of these buildings into a film. From the city's beauty, space, stretch, and many other aspects of the history of deposition, this is a very worthwhile thing can be said that this relatively ancient common residential areas, for the greater Shanghai to add a historical flavor and characteristics, while also adding a visually rich and Choulan.
In the prosperous and growing a large eye-catching in Shanghai, the city outside the city, ordinary houses tied to the old address with the same but the city has not lost some essential things stable internal. These things, in my opinion, it seems that a new luxury building than those that are more innovative.
The next morning, train travel to Nanjing. For the rain is still gloomy weather. Rail on both sides, there is no lack of natural scenery of Jiangnan, not scattered among the thin fog Oi. I was surprised to note that the train out of Suzhou, Wuxi and far, that is, 23 kilometers outside the railway side is a typical rural landscape in southern Jiangsu. Almost all this: Shen gray accommodation, irregular green fields, winding rivers, patches of fish ponds, dash of light reed, lotus leaves in the wind-induced, but both hustle and bustle of a flock of ducks, the twittering Yan'er, separated by air-conditioned car windows, it seems that all felt.
Suzhou and Wuxi, in the economic aggregate, are in the national rankings very front of the city, and even beyond, Tianjin, Wuhan and other industrial cities. They are also some of the city skyscrapers, but far less ambitious as Shanghai. The urban garden, I believe is still exquisitely carved, graceful Zhongxiu, but I think most worthy of these two cities pride is entirely possible that the edge of the city is still a purely pastoral scenery.
Until Nanjing, in the work of a friend I live in the east coast of Nanlin Hotel Xuanwu Lake. Night, all right, we love the night overlooking the lake and the lake city. Xuanwu Lake is far from West Lake in Hangzhou's fame is, however, the foot of Zijin Greenwood, along with an inclusive forward to the second largest city in East China's growth. As if a group of broad roots, people think that no matter how the city will remain a stable growth pattern.
A man lying on the hotel bed, then back to thinking about their own lives in the Pearl River Delta. With the economic development of China's two most dynamic regions, but, and the Pearl River Delta in East China more than I have a special feeling, naturally tend to see more emphasis on the achievements of the Pearl River Delta of some. However, I have to admit that the development of East China, urban and rural areas has changed significantly, including those which should have the same thing, it is much more than the Guangdong excellent. Drive away Guangshen Surprisingly, it is difficult to see farmland, not to mention the rural landscape. To see the plant is always a mess, billboards, and although the overcrowded rural townships, though the new building was mediocre and even ugly Guangdong farmers of HOS flats. Living in rural areas without a city, there is no laid-back quiet contrast to the picture of life, then the city's bustling luxury, meaning not being compromised?
To the Shenzhen city is even more gas than anyone. The entire city, almost all newly built two 20-year. Some of Lingnan characteristics of the original East Gate commercial streets, has been squeezed together, replaced by large commercial buildings. Inside the urban area, would have been a number of villages, the original residents of Shenzhen, according to their development in Shenzhen, the benefits received can put their home ownership, and built a beautiful luxury villas, but these greedy farmers, actually to rent housing area is larger, put a hundred square building on the land, build them up to 56 or even 78 levels have been high, regardless of room lighting their own ventilation at the same time, it completely overlooked the pollution of the city's visual space. Can we expect a beautiful architectural style and personality do? Even more incomprehensible is the Shenzhen Urban Construction management is actually acquiesced as a result, everywhere in the city of Shenzhen farmers private ones, like a beautiful girl's face everywhere pock, and almost regret is permanent ... ...
I really wish Shenzhen, Guangdong, especially the farmers, when the rental income with the lucrative tourism in eastern China, we can also note that what can feel more ashamed.
In August 2002, writing in Shenzhen
Author: jimyuan
