Mark’s city -How it has changed (Taiyuan, China)

My hometown is Tai Yuan which is locates at the middle region of Beijing and Shanghai. So the city has been an important stage from the ancient time. Taiyuan was a small city with natural all around it. Over the last 20 years, especially since the introduction of reform and opening-up policy, significant changes have taken place in there. The quadrangle where I lived has been demolished. Trees were cut down and were superseded by skyscrapers and factories. Hundreds of new cars are rushing into the expressway everyday. The city is becoming an industrialized metropolis.

The ceaselessly changing society brings us not only opportunities but also problems: environmental problems. I know that the city need development, but we can’t ruin the environment as price of the development. I hope they will be solved in future years.