Can the universities change the fate of a city? Why?



What is the relationship between the University and the City? Bismarck, which gained him the nickname "The Iron Chancellor", said that the city as the arteries and veins, but the universites as the blood, It is theirrelationship. A great city, she must have a great university, otherwise, just like the blood barriers, and how can the city becomes thriving and prosperous.

大学与城市是一种什么关系？德国“铁血宰相”俾斯麦一针见血地指出：城市如脉，大学如血，城市与大学乃血脉关系。一座伟大的城市，必须存有伟大的大学，否则，血脉不通，繁华岂能苟延？

Today's question:

1) Do you think it is important for a city have a university?

2) Can the universities change the fate of a city?

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in my opinion if a city really have agood university it must be can chang the city !

in west county,maybe it's right,but it's never true in our country

I would like to argue that such a statement is true for every countries in the world.

For example. Beijing, Shanghai , and Hongkong in China are great cities because they have great universities. Lanzhou, my hometown, is also a great city since we have Lanzhou University.

An excellent university can offer excellent human capital so that it can keep developing in a long period.

One may argue that Shenzhen is a great city, but there is no great university in Shenzhen currently. Is that a contradiction to my statement? Certainly not. I would say Shenzhen would be better if it has its own excellent universities like ones in Beijing and Shanghai.

I don't think so ,for one thing if one city just has one good university only little people can be accepted good education.the little people can't lead popular idea.

for another i wonder what is the standerd being a good university.

我英语不好,有错处请指出,谢谢.

take the whole world in view and you will find that most cities with famous universities are well developed inculture,science,arts and economy. so i can't agree more that the relationship between cities and universities is just like that between arteries/veins and blood.

however there might be some special cases. take shenzhen for example, as an economically developed metropolis, it has no well-known universities as yet. the first city to open up to the world, shenzhen has received preferential policies from the central government, of which i think as a main cause of its fast developement. i'm sure shenzhen will become stronger ifthere could appear some world famous universities in the future.

different cities develop in different mode. some, such as beijing, center of politics and cultrue, develop chiefly on high-tech economic, we could call it knowledge economic. and hongkong, which is a center of financial, develop on finance and tourism. i dont think hongkong must have prestige university, though it has, because it can attract talents immigrant to hongkong for its construction.