迪拜酋长国是阿拉伯联合酋长国的第二大酋长国,而在20世纪五六十年代前,迪拜还是一个小渔村,当地人开荒、寻水,与贫瘠的荒漠、滚滚黄沙进行斗争。20世纪60年代初因为发现了石油,这片土地才慢慢发生了神奇的改变,特别是本世纪初这十年间,迪拜简直换了人间,多个世界之最的摩天大楼屡屡刷新世界纪录, The Emirate of Dubai is the second largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates. Before the 1950s and the 1960s, Dubai was still a small fishing village where local people pioneered land-clearing, water-hunting, struggle with barren deserts and rolling yellow sand. In the early 1960s, because of the discovery of oil, the land slowly changed magically. Especially in the first decade of this century, Dubai simply changed hands and the world’s most skyscrapers repeatedly set new world records.