22 years, same gates, new stories

by Xinhua writer Guo Yifan

NANNING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Though the hibiscus-shaped roofline still stretches into the September sky, the faces beneath it continue to change.

This is my eighth autumn at the gates of the China-ASEAN Expo. Nanning, the capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region -- the only provincial-level region in China that shares both land and sea borders with ASEAN -- has b