Wuhan in the modern times had been an important industrial base and a trade center in China;its urbandevelopment even reached the highest point after the breakout of the Anti-Japanese War due to abnormal and temporaryprosperity. During the seven years of Japanese invasion thereafter,however,the city proper was seriously damaged,urban functions deteriorated, the dynamic mechanism of urban modernization was severely wrecked, the ecoenvironmentfor urban development fell to its worst,and the modernization process was thoroughly broken. Wuhan＇ssituation embodies a concentrated reflection of all other fallen cities. Japanese occupation ravaged all key elementsnecessary for urban development and interrupted the modernization process,resulting in the failure of Chinese cities＇development of early modernization and transformation.
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