The battle for Li Bai’s hometown [1] was triggered by a city promotional video in Anlu, Hubei. In mid-August 2009, Hubei Anlu launched a city promotional video on the Chinese International Channel of China Central Television (CCTV-4), which was broadcast three times a day. The content of the promotional video was "Hometown of Li Bai, Home of Ginkgo, Hubei Anlu welcomes you." [ 2] On August 21, the Jiangyou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department sent a letter to CCTV and the Hubei Province Anlu Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, believing that Jiangyou was Li Bai’s hometown and Anlu was suspected of “infringement” and requested that the promotional video be stopped. [2] On August 24, the Anlu City Government sent a special letter to Jiangyou, hoping that the two places could "exclusively enjoy Li Bai." [2] On August 28, the Jiangyou City Culture and Tourism Bureau sent a lawyer’s letter to the Anlu City Government, hoping that the other party would immediately stop broadcasting or delete the promotional video containing the words “Li Bai’s Hometown” within 10 days, and reserve the right to use legal means Right of further recourse. This move greatly angered the Anlu City Government. On the same day, Yang Zhenglin, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Anlu Municipal Party Committee, publicly stated: Anlu's promotional videos are mainly to build the city's image and are not commercial activities, so the infringement is not established. Jiangyou should not "dominate" Li Bai's hometown. The actions of the two municipal governments have now reached a fever pitch, and the whole country has been shocked. CCTV International Channel has suspended the broadcast of the advertisement. Anlu City immediately sent a letter to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to inquire whether it had infringed the law. [2] On September 15, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued a reply to the Hubei Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce stating that Anlu’s use of “Li Bai’s Hometown” does not infringe. [2] On September 24, Fang Min, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangyou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, told the media that there can be only one and only "Li Bai's hometown" in the country, which is Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province. If the approval from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce is true, Jiangyou seriously questions the rationality of this approval. In this regard, Jiangyou will resolve the matter through legal channels. [2] On October 29, Zhusayev Gubang, Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in China, visited Anlu and said that Li Bai’s hometown is Tokmak City in Kyrgyzstan. He hoped that the two cities of Tokmok and Anlu could be integrated into each other. With Li Bai as the link, we jointly shoulder the responsibility of carrying forward Li Bai's culture and further expand cooperation in economy, trade and other aspects. In fact, as early as October 2008, Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Culture and Information Laev told the Chinese media that Suiye City, Li Bai’s birthplace, is Tokmak City in Kyrgyzstan. Now they are negotiating with the Chinese side to provide Li Bai built a commemorative statue to promote economic cooperation between the two countries' Li Bai culture. Zhusayev Gubang's visit to Anlu this time shows that Kyrgyzstan has realized the economic value contained in Li Bai's hometown and strives to get a share of the pie. Subsequently, the two places initialed a series of cultural and economic cooperation intentions. [2] In March 2010, Radar, a scholar from Gansu Province, wrote an article suggesting that Li Bai’s hometown was Qin’an, Tianshui, Gansu Province. Immediately, netizens signed signatures and other activities were held there, which was quite lively, but these were limited to private appeals. At present, Tianshui, Gansu Province has "Fuxi - the holy land for Chinese people around the world to seek their roots and worship their ancestors" as the main tourism brand. There is also a Maiji Mountain Scenic Area. The municipal government is making every effort to promote the Maiji Mountain Scenic Area to be included in the "Silk Road World Heritage Project". Therefore, the strategic focus of tourism development in this area is not Li Bai, and the attitude of the Gansu Tianshui Municipal Government has always been ambiguous. [2] “Li Bai’s hometown, Chinese poetry city” is the positioning of Jiangyou city’s tourism image. Its key measures include: increasing government investment, accelerating the pace of hardware construction of Li Bai's cultural system, taking Li Bai's former residence as the core, and focusing on the Li Bai Memorial Hall, Xiaokuang Mountain, Daitian Mountain, Douqi Mountain, Qianyuan Mountain, and Foye Cave in the city to create " "Li Bai Journey" tourist route, and built a 360-acre Taibai Stele Forest in Li Bai's former residence. In 2003, Jiangyou registered "Li Bai's Hometown" as a trademark with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. As a result, Jiangyou identified itself as the "only" Li Bai's hometown in the country. With the confidence of "the only one", Jiangyou launched the construction of eight major projects involving Li Bai's hometown, with a total investment of more than 700 million yuan. [2] Anlu’s courage to openly challenge Jiangyou is also rooted in Anlu’s strategic plan for local economic development. In its "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", Anlu clearly proposed to "preliminarily build Anlu into a base for the display and dissemination of Li Bai culture", and there is also a large project behind the plan - the Baizhao Mountain Tourist Scenic Area Project. Baizhao Mountain is the place where Li Bai "hid in Anlu for ten years and wasted ten years". The project was launched in 2002 with a total area of ??804 hectares. Specific contents include: reception villa, Tang Poetry Garden, Forest of Poetry Steles, Peach Garden, Antique Street, Baizhao Temple, Li Bai Teahouse, etc., with a total investment of 80 million yuan.

According to the plan, after completion, the annual reception income will be 20 million yuan, and the investment can be recovered within 4 years. This project is also the largest investment tourism development project in Xiaogan, Hubei, where Anlu is located. It is estimated that in 2010, Baizhao Mountain will receive 200,000 tourists annually and its comprehensive tourism income will reach 50 million yuan. In addition, Anlu invested heavily in urban advertising on CCTV to enhance the city's brand. In 2010, Anlu also took advantage of the momentum and launched the "Li Bai Memorial Hall Continuation Project" to expand the Li Bai Memorial Hall into a cultural service center integrating tourism, film and television creation, leisure and entertainment, and a data center for studying Li Bai. The total investment is 7.85 million yuan. After completion, the annual sales revenue is expected to be 10 million yuan and the profit is 1.75 million yuan. [2] The dispute over Li Bai’s hometown. This place called “Broken Leaf” is now the suburb of Tomak City in Kyrgyzstan. The place is now a wilderness and ruins. Almost no one in the local area knows that this place once gave birth to the world-famous ancient Chinese romantic poet Li Bai. Li Bai was born there as his parents were doing business and serving as officials in Suiye. Later he returned to the mainland with his parents. Only due to historical changes, his birthplace is now a foreign country. However, before Guo Moruo's paper was published, there was a saying in Sichuan that Li Bai's hometown was in Jiangyou. Even Guo Moruo admitted this, but after researching and researching, he still "assigned" Li Bai to the Western Regions. Now, it is not only Jiangyou in Sichuan that is robbing Li Bai, but also Anlu in Hubei and Tianshui in Gansu. Kyrgyzstan did not rob it, but its ambassador to China generously approached Hubei Anlu and wanted to "jointly develop" Li Bai. This made Jiang You furious. At this time, Tianshui intervened and signed a large number of signatures on the Internet, hoping that netizens would support the statement that Li Bai's hometown is Tianshui.