介紹廈門
Xiamen is an island city with a rich and dramatic history,replete with pirates,rebel leaders,and European merchants.Now linked to mainland Fujian by a causeway,Xiamen retains a strong international flavor.Known in the West as Amoy,Xiamen has a long history as a port city,and later became a center of British trade in the 19th century.Their foreign settlements,later taken over by Japanese invaders at the start of World War II,were established on the nearby small Gulangyu Island.Many of the old treaty-port and colonial buildings in Western styles survive.Xiamen was declared one of China’s first Special Economic Zones in the early 1980’s,taking advantage of the city’s heritage as a trading center and the proximity to Taiwan.Today Xiamen is one of China’s most attractive and best-maintained resort cities.Xiamen was founded in 1394 at the beginning of the Ming dynasty as a center of defense against coastal pirates.Its prosperity was due to its deepwater sheltered harbor,that supplanted nearby Quanzhou,the port that had been the center of the maritime trade with the Indies.
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廈門是一個富有戲劇性的歷史上的一個島的城市，充滿了海盜，叛軍領導人和歐洲商人。福建大陸現在的堤道相連，廈門依然擁有強大的國際風味。在西方被稱為廈門，廈門是一個歷史悠久的港口城市，和後來在第十九世紀英國的貿易中心。他們的租界，後來被日本侵略者在第二次世界大戰的開始，是建立在附近的小嶼。在西方風格的舊條約口岸和殖民建築許多生存。廈門被宣布為一個中國的第一個經濟特區在1980年代初，以利用城市的遺產作為一個貿易中心，鄰近台灣。今天的廈門是中國最具吸引力和維護最好的度假城市。廈門建於1394明初為中心向沿海海盜防線。它的繁榮是由於它的深水避風的港灣，這取代了附近的泉州，已與Indies的海上貿易的中心港口。