Issue10 机井椰树，政府是否该资助城市……

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Nowhere is modern debate more muddled than over the question of whether governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive. Partisans of different views have waged intermittent battles for a long time, leaving all players profoundly dissatisfied. Those who hold with this point assert that governments should do that because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. As far as i am concerned, although governments should do this, above mentioned reason is not the main one.

Admittedly, the major cities of almost all countries secure prominent place both in economy, politics and cultural, but it is rash to say that the nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. Because throughout the thousands years' development, almost all countries’ cultural centers have been changed.  Each city is born, it culminates, and it decays. The city which the culture of one country origin from so every so often had come down and it had been no longer viewed as the major cities of its country for a long time. To illustrate, we even need go far to see a example in China. Anyang which is regarded as the first capital of dynasty Xia, plays an important role and leave indelible marks in the historical record of China. Of course the government should ensure it receive the financial support, but it is not one of the major cities, which maybe can not be called as city and just viewed as a county now. So it is obvious that the governments give the financial support to their major cities only because these cities are important to ensure a nation's cultural traditions.

At the same time, governments do need ensure that their major cities receive the financial support. Two factors weigh heavily to support this opinion. On one hand , those major cities are always views the symbols of one country. In order to erect the decent impression to the world, the government will endeavor to support these cities' pleas for development. Let us consider that which cities will attract more tourists of the world in a country, and experience teach us that the answer is those major cities. So the above issue is self-evident. On the other hand, because these cities usually own more advanced technology and equipments than the others,  they , as a matter of fact,  are  always more efficient than the other cities, so it is do more benefit to the government if it ensure these major cities' request. A good example in case is that since  the government can earn 20 millions by one billion dollars in New York and just 2 millions in another small city in USA, it is no doubt that the government would not hesitate a moment to prefer the former.

To sum up, even one did not know from concrete examples, one could deduce it from the above discussion that governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support in order to thrive. But it lends little, if not nothing, to benefit the preservation of a nation's cultural traditions.