Dan Jixiang, director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, said in Tianjin today that he was very opposed to the two popular words "old city reconstruction" and "dilapidated house reconstruction". He said that these two words were uneducated, and neither were the people who used them. Under such a slogan, many of our cities are rapidly losing their cultural memories.

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The fatal disadvantage of "old city reconstruction" is that only the old cities with thousands of years of cultural accumulation are targeted for reconstruction, without emphasizing that they need protection. "The house is going to be torn down just because it is old? Don't we support our parents because they are old? " Dan Jixiang participated in the compilation of Beijing urban planning twice. He compared the different practices of Beijing and Tianjin. Beijing was built within the Third Ring Road in the 1970s and within the Fourth Ring Road in the 1980s. Since then, the downtown area has gradually spread out like a big cake. Tianjin's choice is to jump out of the old city and build a new one, which greatly relieves the pressure of the old city and brings rare opportunities for its protection.