Thanks to a
combination of young businessmen, large numbers of university students and
revitalization (新生)
efforts by the local and national governments, today’s Nanjing has an
36 of youthful exuberance (繁茂) that would have been 37 only
a few decades ago. 38 , the city, a booming city
of 6.5 million on the banks of the Yangtze River some 185 miles west of
Shanghai, bears 39 resemblance to
the former capital of China that suffered the worst cruelty and violence of
World War II.
40 Nanjing has shown a remarkable capacity
for reinvention during its 2,500-year history. And in recent years, the city
has moved 41 its tragic past to
become a vital engine of China’s economic growth, thanks 42
to its position in the middle of China’s prosperous eastern seaboard.
Growth has also 43 thanks to
improved ground transportation: A new bullet train linking Nanjing and Shanghai
started service last year, 44 travel
time between the cities from several hours to just 75 minutes, and a
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line is 45 to
open later this year, with a stop in Nanjing. Within the city, two metro lines
were built in the last few years; 15 more are planned to begin service by 2030.
Signs of Nanjing’s 46 wealth and optimism can be seen
everywhere. In the heart of the downtown Xinjiekou district, a bronze statue of
Sun Yat-sen, 47 the father of modern
China, looks 48 over a busy 49
area.
There is perhaps no
more 50 symbol of the city’s
transformation than the Zifeng Tower, a 1,480-foot skyscraper that opened its
doors last May. 51 offices,
restaurants and an InterContinental hotel, the tower is the second-tallest
building in China and billed as the seventh-tallest in the world.
Underlying all this
development is a large Chinese and 52 student
population — there are several major universities, plus a branch of Johns
Hopkins’s international studies school. In fact, art and music 53 in
all sorts of places.
On a larger 54
, local government officials and private investors are pushing the city as
a rising center for contemporary art and architecture, hoping to attract 55
from the neon-bathed streets of its neighbor Shanghai.
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