The economy of Baise developed inleaps and bounds in the past decade. InNovember 9oo9 Baise Prefecture was pro-moted to city status, heralding 10 yearsof supercharged growth for the southerndynamo.
It was this poem written by the late Chinese leader that inspired Wu Zuoren’s (1908-1997) Yellow Blooms on the Battlefield Smell Sweeter, which sold at the China Guardian 2013 Spring Auction for RMB 8