Alert readers will have picked up on the fact that China today celebrates her 70th birthday. Authorities up and down the land, in every field of public service, have been clambering over each other to be seen to be doing their bit for the motherland. Among the more quirky which attracted the attention of The Nanjinger, lamposts.
警惕的读者会注意到，中国今天庆祝她的70岁生日。 在公共服务的各个领域，在土地上下的当局，一直在相互攀偂，以便被视为正在为祖国尽自己的一份力量。 在吸引《南京人》注意的更古怪的人中，灯杆。
On the afternoon of 11 September, at a Nanjing Government press conference entitled, “Innovation for Development, Struggle for a New Era”, the Nanjing Urban Management Bureau took us on a delightful look back at the 70-year history of urban street lighting in Nanjing.
9月11日下午，在题为“创新促进发展，为新时代奋斗”的南京政府新闻发布会上，南京城市管理局愉快地回顾了南京城市街道照明70年的历史。
Today, there are 320,000 street lamps in Nanjing, a far cry from that little starlight through a window by way of compliment to the amber glow cast by the past’s kerosene lamps.
今天，南京有32万盏路灯，这与透过窗户的小星光相去甚远，而是赞美了过去煤油灯投下的琥珀色光芒。
During the press conference, Jin Nan, Deputy Director of the Bureau, explained that after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the main roads in Nanjing were equipped with basic street lighting; the source thereof being incandescent lamps. In the 1960s, these were gradually replaced with high-pressure mercury vapour lamps, which again stood down to make way for high-pressure sodium lamps in the 1970s on major trunk roads.
在新闻发布会上，局副局长金楠解释说，中华人民共和国成立后，南京的主要道路都配备了基本的路灯；其光源是白炽灯。 在20世纪60年代，这些逐渐被高压汞蒸气灯所取代，这些灯再次被取代，在20世纪70年代在主要干道上为高压钠灯让路。
By the time the 1980s and 1990s came around, the laying of separate power lines and pole lighting had been popularised, leading to functional lighting standards being established and and a coverage in urban areas that has remained above 97 percent ever since.
到20世纪80年代和90年代，铺设单独的电力线和电线杆照明已经普及，导致功能性照明标准的建立，此后城市地区的覆盖率一直保持在97%以上。
The concept of landscape lighting did not appear in Nanjing until 1989, when the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and Confucius Temple became the earliest and most Nanjing-style night scenes in the city. In 1991, the Hunan Lu Light Night Market opened. 4 years later, Xinjiekou, Gulou, Hunan Lu were among those to introduce illuminated outdoor advertising.
景观照明的概念直到1989年才在南京出现，当时南京长江大桥和孔子庙成为该市最早、最具有南京风格的夜景。 1991年，湖南鹿光夜市开业。4年后，新街口、鼓楼、湖南鹿是引入灯光户外广告的。
With the following improvement in living standards and an increasingly rich nightlife, outdoor lighting needed to become more multi-functional. In 2000, the then-modern landscape lighting appeared on the Zhongyang Men Overpass, which soon became a kind of visual business card for the city. At the same time, Nanjing’s main urban area began to extensively lay cables and install street lights, which not only increased the number of lights on primary and secondary roads, but also brought illumination to sub districts and more remote communities. Residents thereof were finally able to go home without the need for flashlights.
随着生活水平的提高和夜生活越来越丰富，户外照明需要变得更加多功能。 2000年，当时的现代景观照明出现在中阳门立交桥上，很快成为这座城市的视觉名片。 与此同时，南京的主要城区开始广泛铺设电缆和安装路灯，这不仅增加了主要和次要道路上的灯光数量，还为分区和更偏远的社区带来了照明。 那里的居民终于可以在不需要手电筒的情况下回家了。
In this decade, functional lighting has realised energy conservation, while LED lighting has also emerged. Its luminous efficiency is higher and light distribution more even, while the quality of lamps is developing rapidly, especially with the diversity, multi-colour and controllability of lamps that make Nanjing’s landscape lighting more beautiful than ever.
在这十年里，功能性照明实现了节能，而LED照明也出现了。 它的发光效率更高，光线分布更均匀，而灯具的质量正在迅速发展，特别是灯具的多样性、多色性和可控性使南京的景观照明比以往任何时候都更加美丽。
In 2013, with the coming of the Asian Youth Games and the Youth Olympic Games the following year, a series of landscape lighting projects with Nanjing characteristics was undertaken, such as the Nanjing City Wall, the Imperial Examination Hall and the Youth Olympic Park.
2013年，随着亚运会和次年青奥会的到来，开展了一系列具有南京特色的景观照明项目，如南京城墙、帝国考场和青年奥林匹克公园。
It’s not all fancy modern technology, however, as Nanjing has also been respectful of history. At the end of 2018, with renovation of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge complete, the full length of the bridge was lit for the first time, using the same vintage magnolia lamps that were originally, and sporadically, installed.
然而，這並不全是花哨的現代技術，因為南京也一直尊重歷史。 2018年底，随着南京长江大桥的翻新完成，大桥的整个长度首次被点亮，使用了最初零星安装的老式玉兰灯。
Bringing the city’s street lighting well into the 21st century are the 25,000 street lamps in Nanjing with single-lamp control capabilities. Each lamp can be individually controlled; brightness, color, etc., making possible dynamic patterns of light.
南京的25,000盏路灯具有单灯控制功能，将城市的路灯带入21世纪。 每盏灯都可以单独控制；亮度、颜色等，使光的动态模式成为可能。
Such lighting facilities also double up in their functionality; some offer video surveillance possibilities, others can be 4G/5G base stations, smart manhole covers and water level detectors, while there are even also smart illuminating rubbish bins.
此类照明设施的功能也加倍；有些提供视频监控的可能性，另一些可以是4G/5G基站、智能沙井盖和水位探测器，甚至还有智能照明垃圾桶。
All these different kinds of lighting systems must take quite some looking after. According to Liu Jianxiang, Director for North City Maintenance of the Street Light Management Office, the service life of Nanjing’s street lights has been extended from 100 days to 10 years. Just as well, given that the future plan is to make Nanjing’s night more and more dazzling. Even today, then are more than 800,000 landscape lights in operation, meaning that there are a total of more than 1.1 million lights to be looked after. In the past, this was done with push bikes and ladders; today’s maintenance teams have the assistance of electric bikes, engineering vehicles and inspection cranes.
所有这些不同类型的照明系统都需要一些照顾。 据路灯管理办公室北城维护主任刘建祥称，南京路灯的使用寿命已从100天延长至10年。 很好，考虑到未来的计划是让南京的夜晚越来越耀眼。 即使在今天，也有80多万盏景观灯在运行，这意味着总共有110多万盏灯需要照看。 过去，这是用推自行车和梯子完成的；今天的维修团队得到了电动自行车、工程车辆和检查起重机的协助。
As the great Chinese nation ticks off her seventh decade, the Nanjing Urban Management Bureau wants us to know that more landscape lighting will be coming next to Gulou, Xinjiekou and Binjiang. If they keep going at this rate, future Nanjing by night, as the songs goes, will be so bright we’ll have to wear shades.
随着这个伟大的中华民族的七十周年，南京城市管理局希望我们知道，鼓楼、新街口和滨江将有更多的景观照明。 如果他们继续以这种速度走下去，未来的南京之夜，正如歌曲所说，会非常明亮，我们将不得不戴墨镜。
