City's heritage restoration gives it an enduring and modern appeal

NANJING — At the easternmost end of Dongguan Street in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, stands the Marco Polo Memorial Hall, a museum showing the Italian traveler's journey to the East in the 13th century.

Alessandro Prosperi, an Italian who has lived and worked in Yangzhou for almost eight years, visits this memorial hall and strolls around the old streets with his family regularly.

"In these old streets, I can not only see some historical buildings but also feel the vitality of them after renovation," Prosperi says.