[photopress:real_estate_Shanghai_World_Financial_Center.jpg,full,alignright]When work began on the Shanghai World Financial Center in 1997, the most famous Japanese real estate developer, Minoru Mori, knew he had to aim high to make his mark. And by the time of the groundbreaking it seemed as though his team had struck on the right plan. It was to be the world’s […]
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[photopress:hotels_thorn_tree.jpg,full,alignright]A new form of marketing for less expensive hotels. That is listing on Internet guides with at least a show of non-commercial involvement. On Thorn Tree, which is possibly the most popular site of Lonely Planet which is probably the most popular guide book company in the world and has just been sold to the […]
[photopress:ITruralchina.jpg,full,alignright]The Internet has been extending fairly rapidly in China’s rural areas, with the number of rural net users reaching about 5.1% of the rural population which does not sound like much until you realize that is 37.41 million people. Comparing that with towns the National Development and Reform Commission puts urban netizens at 125 million, […]
[photopress:logistics_MTR_number_5_1.jpg,full,alignright]Beijing has opened its new 27.6 km No 5 mass transit line and, at the same time, slashed the price to a flat fare of RMB2. The opening of the RMB12 billion line is part of a nationwide explosion of interest in mass transit networks. Over the next decade, 15 Chinese cities will spend RMB […]
[photopress:hotels_designated_for_officials.jpg,full,alignright]More than 2,600 hotels across the country have been designated as the venues for Party and central government officials to stay during their official business trips and conferences. A meeting co-sponsored by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Finance on Friday said Party officials and officials […]