What are the cities similar to Yangzhou in the world?

Don’t talk nonsense upstairs, don’t think that Huai’an wants to be close to Yangzhou because of Huaiyang cuisine. The “Huai” in Huaiyang cuisine refers to the Huai River, and Yangzhou is the famous capital of Huaizuo, Jiangbei, Huainan and Haixi. head. Yangzhou is geographically located in the north of the Yangtze River and culturally located in the south of the Yangtze River. The urban construction style is very similar to Suzhou, and the culture is similar to Zhenjiang and Nanjing.

With trains, our city is on the road?

In the United States, there is such a city that has such the same experience as Yangzhou. It's St. Louis. The story is this: Two or three hundred years ago, St. Louis was an important town in the middle of the United States. At that time, people used boats to transport cotton, sugar, and furs to various cities along the Mississippi River. Various workshops along the St. Louis river are busy with business, and the docks filled with goods record the prosperity and glory of commercial civilization. Later, plans to build an east-west railroad across the United States began. St. Louis' reputation naturally led designers to choose it as a central hub for east-west rail transit. When the news reached St. Louis, citizens inevitably started talking: Why should a dangerous monster running on two railroad tracks be invited to St. Louis? It is said to bring prosperity and wealth. Nonsense! Isn't St. Louis prosperous? Doesn’t the water of the Mississippi River give us prosperity? Who can guarantee that the railway will not bring disaster and destruction? If a disaster strikes and disrupts river transportation, our jobs as St. Louisans will be ruined.

So St. Louis held a referendum. Plans to build a central railway hub in the city were rejected by the vast majority of citizens. Water transportation on the Mississippi River declined rapidly with the rise of railroad transportation, and the golden rice bowl of St. Louisans was shattered.

What a similar incident! In human history, the means of transportation that have had the greatest impact on urban development patterns have been trains and railways. After the Industrial Revolution, it can be said that with the extension of every inch of railway tracks, many new cities have sprung up in remote parts of the world. Those traditional, conservative cities that rejected trains, without exception, were almost abandoned by the times. On the contrary, the westward movement can tell us how trains created a brand new country. The westward expansion movement of the United States from the end of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century was a large-scale immigration and colonization movement in the United States. Many economists call it a successful history of railroads in the United States in the 19th century. The process of Americans' development of the West is also the process of urbanization, industrialization and the integration of the American nation. In the process of western development that lasted for more than 100 years, a large number of growth centers of different levels along railroads, river ports, and highways emerged in the region west of the Appalachian Mountains, including regional central cities such as Chicago and San Francisco. The emergence of these central cities has greatly stimulated the economic development of the western region. The city has become the most developed and concentrated core of the western economy, politics, culture, art, and education. It is also the place where all kinds of markets in the western region are most concentrated. The emergence of central cities has accelerated the development of rural urbanization and agricultural industrialization in the west.