Travel Notes in China

RED-CROWNED crane waits for coronation

THE red-crowned crane is the popular choice to be the national bird of China and just awaits the approval of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature.
The State Forestry Administration has handed the nomination to the NPC after it held an online poll to choose a national bird in 2004, [...]

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Hangzhou, long famed as ‘Heaven on Earth’, is typical of the celestially bewitching natural scenery of the region of South of the Yangtze River. It has long been a famous tourist attraction. The widely expressed Chinese proverb, “in heaven there is paradise and on earth there are Hangzhou and Suzhou” combined with the words [...]

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SHANGHAI: Hangzhou was named the best place to do business in China for a fifth consecutive year in a Forbes survey released yesterday.
Shanghai came in at No 2, with Beijing remaining in sixth position for the second straight year. Wuxi was third, Nanjing fourth and Ningbo fifth.
Forbes China short-listed 194 mainland cities from a pool [...]

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