Yongzhou, today's Nanning, held out for 42 days in 1076 against an army of Vietnam's Lý dynasty; its governor Su Jian died by fire with his family, and more than 50,000 people were reportedly killed after the city fell.
邕州即今天的南宁,一零七六年抵抗越南李朝军队围攻四十二天;知州苏缄与家人一同自焚,城破后据史书记载有五万多人被杀。
The city has been called Nanning,...
Cadmium from an upstream spill in January 2012 threatened the water supply for Liuzhou's 3 million people, and in June 2025 antimony levels rose after a tailings-site collapse in Rongshui as residents again bought up bottled water.
二零一二年一月,上游的镉污染威胁到柳州三百万人的饮水安全;二零二五年六月,融水一处尾矿区塌陷导致锑浓度异常,市民又一次抢购桶装水。
The Tang writer Liu Zongyuan was posted to...
Wang Zhenggong, a Song official aged 68, wrote "Guilin's scenery is the best under heaven" at a banquet in 1201 for 11 successful candidates in the provincial examination, but the cliff inscription bearing the poem was rediscovered at Duxiu Peak only in 1983.
宋朝官员王正功六十八岁时,在一二零一年为十一名乡试中举的学子设宴,写下"桂林山水甲天下"的诗句;但刻有这首诗的摩崖石刻,直到一九八三年才在独秀峰重新被发现。
Guilin's other...
Guangdong and Guangxi owe their names to a Han county, Guangxin, "Broad Trust", that stood around today's Wuzhou; the Tropic of Cancer cuts through the city, and its workshops process more than 70 percent of the world's synthetic gems.
广东和广西的名字都来自汉代的广信县,意为"广布恩信",它就在今天的梧州一带;北回归线从这座城市穿过,而这里的作坊加工着全世界百分之七十以上的人工宝石。
Wuzhou is the first big city...
Forecasters once crowned Beihai the world's fastest-growing city, promising 5.8 million people by 2020; the census counted 1.85 million, yet this coast has traded pearls since the Han and slid a British consulate 56 metres to make room for a road.
预测者曾把北海封为世界增长最快的城市,称到二零二零年人口将达五百八十万;人口普查数出的是一百八十五万。然而这片海岸自汉代起就在交易珍珠,还曾为给马路让路,把一座英国领事馆平移了五十六米。
On paper it was...
Fangchenggang's name means "defence city port", after a Song-dynasty stockade; today the defenders are police who hike mountain tracks with a dog called Hani, the port takes ships of 200,000 tonnes and four nuclear reactors hum on the coast.
防城港之名意为"防城之港",源自宋代的一圈木栅;如今守边的是带着一条叫"哈尼"的警犬翻山巡逻的民警,港口可靠泊二十万吨巨轮,海岸上有四台核反应堆在运转。
The city sits at the south-western...
Guangxi received Qinzhou from Guangdong in 1952, returned it in 1955 and took it back in 1965; the port now handles 226 million tonnes a year, and its oyster beds supply 70 percent of China's oyster seed.
广西一九五二年从广东接收钦州,一九五五年归还,一九六五年又收回;如今钦州港每年吞吐货物二点二六亿吨,当地蚝场供应全国百分之七十的蚝苗。
Qinzhou lies at the head of the Beibu...
Guigang is a port on the Xi River, the water road to the Pearl River Delta; the Taiping rose against the Qing on 11 January 1851 in a village it now administers, and its name is younger than the book on its Han tombs.
贵港是西江上的港口城市,经西江水路可通珠江三角洲;一八五一年一月十一日太平天国在它今天管辖的一个村庄起义反清,而它的名字比那本研究其汉墓的书还要年轻。
Guigang...
The Yulin of 111 BCE was a Han commandery ruled from today's Guigang, while the modern city says two-thirds of the world's spices pass through its markets, though abroad it is better known for a June dog-meat "festival" that officials say they do not...
Handaxes found around Baise are thought to be about 803,000 years old, based on the dating of associated impact glass; Deng Xiaoping helped lead an uprising there on 11 December 1929, its smelters now make about 2.4 million tonnes of aluminium a year, and...
Today's ancient administrative centre in Hezhou, Linhe, became a county seat in 111 BCE and remained a seat of local government until 1952, and today the city grinds marble into about 20 million tonnes of heavy calcium powder a year.
位于今贺州的临贺,公元前一一一年设县,此后长期作为地方行政治所,直至一九五二年;如今这座城市每年把大理石磨成约二千万吨重质碳酸钙粉体。
Under Qin the area belonged...
Hechi grows more silkworm cocoons than any other prefecture-level city in China, has 65 percent of its land covered by karst and produced 1.016 million tonnes of fruit in 2024. Its highest mountain is called Nameless Peak.
河池的蚕茧产量居全国地级市之首,全市百分之六十五的土地是喀斯特地貌,二零二四年水果产量达一百零一点六万吨,而它的最高峰就叫"无名峰"。
Hechi was set up as a prefecture-level city...
Indium is a soft metal used in flat-screen displays, and Laibin calls itself the world's largest indium production base; the city was set up only on 28 December 2002, though its first county dates to 214 BCE.
铟是一种用于平板显示屏的软金属,来宾自称是世界最大的铟生产基地;这座城市二零零二年十二月二十八日才挂牌成立,但它的第一个县早在公元前二一四年就已设立。
The Qin set up Zhongliu County at Wuxuan...
Chongzuo produces about a fifth of China's sugar, 84 percent of its people are Zhuang, a jawbone from one of its caves is about 100,000 years old, and in 1907 Sun Yat-sen fired a cannon from its border pass.
崇左的蔗糖产量约占全国的五分之一,全市百分之八十四的人口是壮族,城里一处洞穴出土的下颌骨约有十万年历史,一九零七年孙中山还从这里的边关上发过炮。
Chongzuo was set up as a...
