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NANNING deservedly enjoys its reputation as a garden city. "Becareful, fruits might hit you," locals say without exaggeration.The city's streets are lined with fruit-bearing tropical trees,such as coconut, mango and jackfruit, and residents love to sitin the shade of magnolia trees. Jacaranda trees line its many bicycle paths,pinangs decorate its restaurants, and local residents cultivate a variety offlowers on their balconies. In this humid city, the streets are always coveredin greenery, even in the depths of winter.