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4. Guangzhou/广州 Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province (广东省), and it is the biggest city in Southern China. The city straddles the Pearl River (珠江) and borders the South China Sea (南海). As a port city with a long history, Guangzhou is extolled as China's southern gate to the world. Guangzhou hosted 16th Asian Games (2010), as well as 6th &9th National Games of China (1987 & 2001). As the provincial capital city, Guangzhou is going to host the next National Games in 2025 with Hong Kong (香港), Macau (澳门), and the rest cities of Guangdong. Guangzhou is another competition zone of Chinese Football Super League this season. 5. Shenzhen/深圳 Shenzhen, a city in Guangdong Province, stands close to the north of Hong Kong SAR. Actually Shenzhen hadn't become a city until 1979, when the then Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping decided to implement the "reform and opening up" policy and establish Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Within 40 years Shenzhen has been miraculously transformed from a fishing village to a bustling city, which gathered a large number of innovative companies. Shenzhen hosted 26th FISU World University Games in 2011. It may be a host city of National Games in 2025.

Let me briefly introduce these cities. 1. Shanghai/上海 Shanghai is the biggest city in China, and maybe the most familiar Chinese city to you. Many Chinese people think Shanghai is the most likely place to bid for the next Olympic games in China because of its economic strength. In the well-known Chinese science fiction movie The Wondering Earth, Shanghai is the host city of 2044 Olympics. Many Chinese sport stars and Olympic champions were born in Shanghai, like Yao Ming (Basketball), Liu Xiang (Athletics) and Chen Yuxi (Diving). Shanghai hosted 5th and 8th National Games of China (1983 & 1997), and several football (soccer) events of Beijing 2008. 2. Nanjing/南京 Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu Province (江苏省). In Chinese, "Nanjing" means "south capital" (and "Beijing" means "north capital"), because the city is located to the south of Yangtze River (长江), in southern China, and it used to be the capital of many dynasties in ancient times and Republic of China. Nanjing is the host city of 2014 Youth Olympic Games, as well as one of the host city of 10th National Games of China (2005). 3. Suzhou/苏州 Suzhou is a city in Jiangsu Province. It is located in the "Jiangnan area" (江南地区), northwest to Shanghai. The city is famous as "Canal Towns in South of the Yangtze" (江南水乡) and "the Venice of the East". With a deep cultural heritage, Suzhou attracts many tourists from ancient to modern times, from domestic to abroad. Now Suzhou is one of the competition zones of the Chinese Football Super League, and it will be a venue for the Asian Cup in 2023.

Another reason why I don't think these cities will bid for 2036 is the list of cities. I'll introduce them later.

There is news that 12 Chinese cities are bidding for 2036 Olympics after Brisbane was announced to be the host city of 2032 Olympics. These cities include Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dalian, Xi'an, Chengdu, Jinan, Xiamen, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Suzhou. But I think it's a rumor. We Chinese people do want to host an Olympic games again, because Beijing 2008 left us with wonderful memories. But when and where to host this game is something to consider carefully. One of the reasons why I don't think these 12 cities won't bid for 2036 is the authenticity of this news. None of the cities have come up with official bid plans. None of them have even told the media or written in the government working report that they were willing to bid. On Chinese official media like Xinhua Agency, People's Daily, CCTV, there is no report on the bid plans. I first saw the news of 12 cities' bid on my QQ zone (a platform to show yourself, just like twitter or Facebook). It was screenshots of some webpage of non official Internet media, which didn't indicate who the author of the news is. The source of the news is unknown. So I guess that the news was released by some "Yingxiaohao", a kind of accounts that often post some eye-catching, grandstanding, and sometimes forged articles or videos to gain attention. Many Chinese Internet users can't distinguish true from false, making these rumors easier to spread.