Tradition Versus Modernization, Which to Reject and Which to Accept?

Recently newspapers have reported that officials in a little-known mountainous area near Guiyang, Guizhou Province wanted to turn the area into a “central business district” for Guiyang and invited a foreign design company to give it an entirely new look. The design company came up with a blueprint for unconventional, super-futuristic buildings. This has triggered off different responses. Some appreciate of the bold innovation of the design, but others held that it failed to reflect regional characteristics or local cultural heritage. What is your view on this? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.

Tradition versus modernization, which to reject and which to accept?

Recently, there is a news leads to heated discussions on whether the officials from an unknown mountainous area in Guiyang should invite a foreign design company to make a blueprint aiming at refreshing the image of the city. Some people appreciate the bold innovation of the design but others disagree. From my point of view, the officials should pay more attention to the city’s local characteristics, based on the following reasons.

In the first place, it is the core spirit when it comes to a city’s unique characteristics. As a mountainous area, with numerous bumpy roads and precipitous paths, it will be dissonant to built super-futuristic buildings in this connection. There have been numberless so called modern cities in China composed of concrete and steel, following the same pattern without their own features. We cannot be attracted by those architectures in most cases, since they fail to combine with local conditions properly. In order to break out of the mould and achieve something individual, the officials should manage to unfold the unique humanities style of the city and take its original culture heritage into account.

In addition, it is unsafe to construct such grand buildings in that mountainous area, where is one of the active...