Taiyuan ancient county reconstruction after three years of hard work has begun to take shape, according to the relevant sources, in accordance with the normal process of work, is expected to be in the "National Day" this year to open to visitors. Taiyuan ancient county is 20 kilometers away from the center of Taiyuan, is located in the ruins of the ancient city of Jinyang, an early Ming county. It inherits more than 2500 years of jinyang ancient city culture, is the continuation of jinyang ancient city, followed the jinyang ancient city "fengxiang yu city" architectural pattern, commonly known as "Phoenix City". Relying on Longshan mountain, it shows the spirit of the ancient Jinyang dragon and phoenix, embodies the harmonious integration of farming culture and nomadic culture everywhere, and maintains the regional folk culture of Han and Tang cultures and traditions. It is a city with complete facilities by mountains and rivers.

At present, as part of the city has not been completely completed and the interior is not open, I, who arrived in advance, can only take a detour around the city along the road outside the city (which takes nearly 2 hours) to have a preliminary taste of the new style of the old city.

　　When it comes to the reconstruction of taiyuan's ancient county, there is only one person to be mentioned, that is Geng Yanbo. The controversial former mayor of Taiyuan has retired to his family. But where he served as a major leader, he left behind impressive ancient buildings.

In 1993, Geng yanbo was transferred from the office of Jinzhong Prefectural Party Committee to lingshi County Party Committee as deputy secretary. Two years later, he was elected as the county head. In 1997, I organized the restoration of the large residential community left by the Wang family in jingsheng Ancient Town of Lingshi County, and then the Wang Family courtyard was officially opened under the name of "Art Gallery for Chinese Citizens". Since then, when lingshi locals talk about Wang's courtyard, they tend to associate "Geng Yanbo" and "Wang's courtyard", two independent nouns with completely unrelated literal meanings. Wangjia courtyard now enjoys a good reputation both at home and abroad and has become one of the classical representatives of shanxi courtyard culture.

In April 2000, Geng Yanbo took office in Yuci. He led the people to fight for more than 500 days and nights to make an old city, covering an area of 1 million square meters, featuring Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and other cultural characteristics, and integrating the essence of traditional Chinese excellent architecture, appear in front of the world. It has the largest county government in China, the most complete and exquisite preserved Chenghuang Temple in China, and the largest urban classical garden community in the Northern school of China. Then it renovated the jinshang courtyard changjia manor, covering an area of more than 120,000 square meters, making this China's largest garden-style architectural complex spectacular and spectacular. Now these two places have become yuci tourism two bright bright pieces.

When Geng yanbo was appointed mayor of Datong in 2008, he decided thatRevitalizing the famous historical and cultural city is the "last opportunity" that Datong can seize. His strategic goal of "three talents and one Strong city" (famous cultural city, famous tourist city, famous ecological city and construction of strong economic city) is expected to bring 3 million tourists to Datong every year.

In April 2009, Datong began construction of the East Wall, Huayan Temple, Shanhua Temple, Confucian temple, mosque and other famous city protection projects. Subsequently, the restoration of the south wall, the north wall and other projects have been mounted. Now Datong city has taken on a new look.

Geng yanbo was appointed vice mayor of Taiyuan in 2013 and later mayor of Taiyuan. The restoration of the ancient county of Taiyuan was put on the work schedule. In his persistent efforts and his successor continue to seize now taiyuan ancient county will appear to the world.

Some people praise Geng yanbo as a scalper, while others accuse him of building a city leader. However, should officials at all levels draw some lessons from the above scenes?

Geng Yanbo summed up himself: first, leave no legacy and no regrets. Second, it is better to be scolded for a while than to be scolded for thousands of years.