Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, located on the southern coast of China, the Tropic of Cancer runs through the central part of the region, connecting Guangdong in the east, and facing the Beibu Bay and Hainan across the sea in the south, it is one of the main areas of Lingnan cultural heritage and one of the most livable provinces in China.
But some say 99 percent don't know where Guangxi's capital is. Of course, I personally don't think so. After all, Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, is the largest city in Guangxi and the only city in Guangxi to have won the United Nations Habitat Award.
Nanning is now a second-tier city, in the impression of many people, Guangxi is relatively poor, so Nanning should also be relatively poor, urban construction should not be very good. However, almost everyone who actually travels to Nanning will be surprised.
Because such a second-tier city in a remote area, skyscrapers above 200 meters can be seen everywhere.
What is a skyscraper? Only tall buildings with a height of more than 200 meters are skyscrapers, and the number of skyscrapers also shows the speed of a city's development to some extent. According to the data of the 2021 China Skyscraper Rankings, the top ten are Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Changsha, Chengdu, Shenyang, Tianjin.
Then there was Nanning. Nanning has 32 skyscrapers, only one less than Tianjin, while Guangzhou has only 47.
Many people come to Nanning, walk around the Minzu Avenue, and look up to see many skyscrapers, including The China Resources Building, the tallest building in Guangxi, and the second tallest building, Longguang Four Seasons, and so on.
In fact, Nanning's surprises and surprises to us are not only more skyscrapers, the city's greening is also very good, no wonder it is known as the "green capital", enjoying the reputation of "half a city green trees and half a city tower".
Nanning is the core city of the Beibu Gulf City Cluster, China's international corridor for the ten ASEAN countries, the inland open economic high belt, and the southwest comprehensive transportation hub city. It can be seen that the dream of the metropolis of the south is about to come out.
As a result, many people predict that in the next ten years, or even less than ten years, Nanning may develop into a first-tier city in China. Of course, Nanning's economy is still somewhat backward, and the main reason for this is that there are fewer factories and enterprises. So some people say that in Nanning, with the wages of fourth- and fifth-tier cities, there are consumption in second-tier cities.
So, for the current Nanning, how do you evaluate it? The following are the personal feelings of some netizens:
Some people believe that not to mention ten years, nanning will not become a first-tier city in another twenty years, and a city will not become a first-tier city by relying on a few buildings. In 2015, I traveled in Nanning for half a year, the urban construction is really good, the streets are clean and tidy, and the greenery is very good! Unfortunately, it is difficult to lift the economy without industrial support.
Nanning's current economy is not strong enough, but it has not been developed, do you know how much area Nanning is, in fact, the area of Nanning is equivalent to the total area of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, and there are many places in Nanning that are quite plain but undeveloped industrial zones.
Objectively speaking, nanning's urban construction level is very good, if economic development, education and scientific research, etc. have the development speed of building high-rise buildings, there is no problem in ten years among first-tier cities, but Nanning still has a very large gap with first-tier cities in terms of educational resources, scientific research strength, economic strength, and enterprise scale, which can not catch up overnight! But within ten years, it is possible to be on a par with Or surpass Kunming!
But some netizens believe that the level of the city is not determined by the number of high-rise buildings, London, Paris and New York and other international metropolises are said to have not many high-rise buildings, take your standards to measure, then these cities are not to be ranked behind the seven lines and eight lines?
Except for real estate, there is no company that can get its hands on it. To put it in my heart, I don't want Nanning to become a first-tier city, a third-tier city, because, at that time, there are more people, house prices, prices are more expensive, like the north, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and tens of millions of people in the city, house prices of 45,000 flat, is it really livable?
As for whether Nanning can be ranked among the first-tier cities, everyone has different opinions, what do you think? Focus on streetlight photography, we see the world together.