【马来西亚】我来到了课本中的马六甲，曾经的航海传奇的海峡，如今怎样了？

Ladies and Gentlemen, is the place name Malacca familiar and unfamiliar to everyone? It first appeared in our textbooks, and then frequently appeared in the news, but few people have seen what it looks like? With this curiosity, let's take a look at why this city with a prime geographical location has become lonely? How are the Chinese who followed Zheng He to Southeast Asia now? Why does the once prosperous Malacca city seem so declining now? There are three reasons. First, the colonists changed their cards. Portugal only robbed money but did not build. The Netherlands turned to Indonesia. The United Kingdom directly gave up Malacca and devoted all its efforts to building Singapore. Second, the river channel was silted up, and the aging port could not be entered by steamships in the 19th century! The deep-water port of Singapore next door can handle 100,000-ton cargo ships 24 hours a day. Third, the rise of the next door, Singapore promoted universal English education, and rose rapidly in line with international standards. When Malacca was trapped in its historical glory, Singapore had reconstructed the economic map of Southeast Asia with institutional innovation and global links.