The garden beside the Changming River
The Li Bai Memorial in Jiangyou is a twentieth-century garden for a poet who never lived in it; the river outside the wall is older than the halls.
Mianyang.
Mianyang is not one story. The Fujiang River runs through a city of Tang poems and twentieth-century laboratories; a rebuilt tower, a poet's garden and a science city each describe a different kind of ambition.
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Fifteen storeys above the Fujiang
Yuewang Tower was rebuilt from 2001 and opened in 2013. At 99 metres it is a new structure making an old claim on the Fujiang bank.
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Fission at the expressway exit
Mianyang's research institutes arrived with the First Five-Year Plan and the Third Front. The city shows that history at road scale and keeps the laboratories closed.
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Li Bai Memorial
A Tang-style garden and museum beside the Changming River in Jiangyou, built to remember a poet who left.
Yuewang Tower
A 99-metre Tang-style tower rebuilt in the 2000s, looking over the Fujiang River and Mianyang.
Mianyang Science City
A city shaped by research institutes placed here in the First Five-Year Plan and the Third Front.
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