Awaiting the Birth of a City of Old Culture: After seeing Penang, Chang Yu-huan, a mainland Chinese scholar who was invited to Malaysia in connection with business regarding the Johor Temple, holds that if the Penang government would establish a number of historical districts and prohibit economic development and preserve the original appearance of the architecture, within 10 years they would definitely be of more economic value than building high rises.
期待「文化古城」的誕生為柔佛古廟修護應邀赴馬考察的大陸學者張馭寰在參觀檳城後認為，檳州政府如果能把檳城建有許多歷史古蹟的地段劃出來，不允許任何經濟發展，以保存古建築原貌，它們的經濟價值在十年之內一定比蓋高樓大廈更高。