Nanyang.

The city government describes Nanyang as lying in the south-west of Henan at the meeting point of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi, named for its position south of the Funiu Mountains and north of the Han River, with mountains on three sides and open ground in the south, a country it calls the Nanyang basin. It lists among its titles the national civilised city, national sanitary city, outstanding tourist city of China and national forest city. What a visitor meets instead of slogans is a working set of places: a Qing-era prefectural hall where cases were judged, a railway of shops where jade is carved, a museum of fossil eggs, and a control room where the water for Beijing is watched on a single screen. The writing below takes those rooms one at a time, and only says what can be checked.