A good article on "30-year urban changes in Wuhan"

If it is big, Wuhan is really big. There are no more than three cities in China that can surpass the scale of Wuhan. Wuhan was first used as the capital city in the Three Kingdoms period, and the place known as Xiakou at that time was Wuchang today. At present, the ancestor of the Yellow Crane Tower, the first of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, is a military parade building built by Wu on Guishan during the Three Kingdoms period. Today, the formation of three towns in Wuhan is attributed to the diversion of Hanshui River in Ming Dynasty, which diverted Hankou and Hanyang. Although Hankou was finally formed, it developed much faster than the other two towns. Its unique advantages made Hankou rapidly develop into an important commercial port and cargo distribution center in China during the hundreds of years from the Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. The rise of Hanyang is attributed to Zhang Zhidong's Westernization Movement. Heavy industry, steel mills and arsenals made Hanyang take off overnight. Only Wuchang has been unknown.

After the founding of New China, Shanghai and Wuhan, the only two metropolises in China, were listed as municipalities directly under the Central Government. A few years later, the fate of Wuhan took its first turn: don't be downgraded to a sub-provincial city. But this can't affect Wuhan's position, because at this time, a large number of heavy industries with the prefix of "Wu" settled in Wuhan. After the completion of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, Wuhan still made great contributions to the national economic construction. The turning point of Wuhan's backwardness is that it missed three reform waves from 1980s to 1990s. The inland city of Wuhan has not gained any opportunities from the reform, while other coastal cities have completed capital accumulation and redevelopment. For a long time, the leaders of Wuhan government used to pretend to be a municipality directly under the central government, and the relationship with the provincial government has been very subtle, which led to the lack of concern of the provincial government for the construction of Wuhan. It can be said that from 1980s to the end of last century, the development of Wuhan was extremely slow. And the construction of the whole city can't keep pace with the times. No wonder people call Wuhan "the largest county".

Wuhan's opportunity comes from the beginning of the new century, especially the implementation of the strategy of the rise of central China. Secretary Yu of the provincial party committee, the former Minister of Construction, clearly instructed Hubei Province to take Wuhan as the construction focus, while the new government of Wuhan was pragmatic: face up to the backwardness and gap and correctly position the development direction of Wuhan. In recent years, Wuhan's economy has developed rapidly, and urban construction has also made certain achievements. However, the gap with coastal cities still exists. Development depends not only on the support of national policies, but also on our own efforts. The clear goal of the provincial and municipal governments is to be down-to-earth and build Wuhan into a mega-city with a strong economy. Become the leader of the rise of central China!

Misreading the weather in Wuhan: Foreigners often say that the summer in Wuhan is terrible. In fact, early summer begins in mid-May every year, and summer enters midsummer. The highest temperature in midsummer is 37-39, which is lower than that in some cities, but the lowest temperature is relatively high, generally at 29-30. Why does it make people feel sultry? Wu Hanyou's developed water system. After the water vapor evaporates during the day, the air humidity is high, so it gives people a very uncomfortable and sultry feeling. Generally, it is difficult to fall asleep without turning on the air conditioner in summer. The temperature may reach about 38 in September, but the minimum temperature is not very high. After 10, in early autumn, the temperature will gradually drop, with an average of 20-25. The weather is dry, and sometimes the temperature will reach nearly 30 or exceed it abnormally. From autumn to winter, it is often very fast. As long as there is cold air going south, the temperature will drop very sharply. It is common for the temperature to drop more than 10 degrees. /kloc-the end of 0/2 to February next year is winter. The average temperature in winter is generally 1-3 degrees, and it can be 7-8 degrees in good weather, but it is often below 0 degrees in cold wave or rain and snow. Most families in Wuhan have no heating. In the early spring after March, the temperature rose rapidly, reaching more than 20 degrees at the highest, but the temperature was still low. Be careful of the cold spring in March-April-the temperature often drops overnight 15 to 20 degrees, with heavy snow.

Understanding urban construction: Wuhan urban pattern: two rivers and three towns, sitting on seven lakes. No city can match water resources: per capita water resources are 90 times the national average and 10 times the level of developed countries in the world. What is worrying is that these precious water resources were seriously polluted or slightly polluted in the past, but now they have to spend a lot of money and material resources to rectify them. 2 1 century is the century of water, so we must cherish the precious water resources. Under the background of Wuhan's urban pattern, Wuhan's urban construction has to be centered on rivers and lakes, so the city is not very disciplined, giving people a sense of chaos. Indeed, crossing the two rivers has great constraints on urban construction, especially traffic construction, and broken roads often appear, so there are large-scale traffic jams on some main roads and river-crossing passages, which are more obvious on important festivals. It must be admitted that this is a bad place in Wuhan. Although the road environment is improving on a large scale, we must speed up the construction of rail transit to fundamentally solve the problem.