Is Xiamen the warmest city in China? Who can tell me?

1998, Xiamen, the warmest city in China (turn)

1998 Guangzhou New Weekly planned to edit and publish the album "China City Charm Rankings". At that time, Xiamen was selected as the warmest city in China, and the article wrote:

The warmest city: Xiamen

Population: 470,000

Best Hotel: Yuehua Hotel

The most powerful university: Xiamen University

The most famous scenic spot: Gulangyu Island

Best Museum: Xiamen Museum

1956 Before the yingtan-Xiamen railway was opened to traffic, Xiamen was only an island by the Taiwan Province Strait. When Jimei seawall was completed and connected with the mainland this year, Xiamen Island gradually became a beautiful back garden of China's big family.

Anyone who has been to this city will agree that Xiamen is a "sea garden", not because there are many flowers and plants here, but because it is small, quiet, clean and warm. The old city is so big, but the unique buildings in the southern coastal cities are very beautiful and exquisite, and there are only a few people in the city who look like neighbors. Minnan people were originally very generous, but since some foreigners and rich people in China built a large group of villas in Gulangyu in the last century, people gradually feel that it is not civilized to make a loud noise, so when you walk on the winding road of Gulangyu during the day, you can hardly hear any sound, but at night, you can hear the piano sound coming from the windows of some French, British and Spanish houses without any interference.

Although Xiamen has been a special economic zone in China since 1980, the business atmosphere of this city has not been very strong. Many mainlanders expect to make a fortune here, because Xiamen has become a special zone, but some impatient people quickly moved to other places, while others who stayed for a short time found that this is not a place to make money, but the most suitable place to settle down.

Xiamen has been a "coastal defense frontline" city for decades since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Before the 1980s, the state invested almost no money in this place. One result of this insurance practice is that Xiamen has never had a foundation for developing large industries. Another result is that industrial pollution in Xiamen is much less than that in most other cities in China. Xiamen is one of the earliest cities in China to publish weekly air quality reports to the public. Not long ago, she began to publish daily air quality reports. Home in such a place, whenever you open the window, you can see the blue sky and blue sea at a glance, and there is even a smell of plants in the oncoming wind-there are really not many cities in China that can make people enjoy this blessing.

Indeed, compared with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Xiamen's modernization and modernization process are full of drama, but strangely lacking in grandeur. From the island fishing village to the trading port, from the coastal defense front to the special economic zone, such great changes and such a strong contrast do not seem to cause any big shock. Xiamen people seem to naturally accept all these mutations and vicissitudes without making any major ideological changes.

Xiamen people love their city as much as their home. They build their own cities and homes. In Xiamen, it is extremely convenient to go out, take a bus, shop and make phone calls, and the fare and telephone charges are not very high. At every intersection, beautifully designed and illustrated road signs are erected to tell you how to get to a place, which may not be close at hand. The bus came, and everyone entered and exited the gate calmly and orderly. They don't grab seats when they get on the bus, and they hardly need to remind the elderly to give up their seats. In schools and units, teachers and students, classmates and colleagues are generally called by their first names, not surnames, just like family members, except those who must have titles. Whether old or young, you can address your female colleagues in this kind and natural way, regardless of whether the other person is a lady or a lady.

Xiamen may be one of the few cities in the economically developed areas of China that keeps the habit of traveling to other cities. On holidays, Xiamen people will invite foreign students or colleagues to their homes to surround the stove, so that they can experience a family-style warmth.

The problem is not what Xiamen people and Xiamen government have done and how to do it, but their mentality when they do it. Many writers have noticed that Xiamen people's attitude is very comfortable, comfortable and natural, whether they are building their own city or maintaining their own city, just like decorating and cleaning their own small homes. This calm and even serenity undoubtedly comes from the "feeling of home" in your city. It is this "feeling of home" that makes them consciously keep the streets clean and the stations orderly without relying on the supervision of pickets or fines. It is this "feeling of home" that makes them, like Germans, abide by their inner laws and regulations and do nothing that harms the image of the city.

This "homesickness" of treating one's city as one's small home may be the most prominent urban community feature that distinguishes Xiamen people from other urban people. The preference for one's hometown is a common feeling of human beings, but it seems that only Xiamen people express this feeling so casually, naturally, casually and naturally. (Text-Yi Zhongtian)