(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-07-09 09:03

In China, the color of green represents health and vigor. Then a green life is one that is healthy and pleasant. Both Beijing and Shanghai have some green venues for people to enjoy their lives free of pollution and noise. There are restaurants offering healthy food, hotels with pleasant lodgings in green surroundings and recreational centers offering cool exercises in the hot summer. Read on to find out more.

Beijing

The Community by the Great Wall

Located at the foot of Badaling Great Wall, one of the most famous scenic spots in Beijing, the Community by the Great Wall is hidden in a green forest. It's a hotel consisting of 11 modern villas and a clubhouse, each designed by one of 12 prominent Asian architects, conveying a sense of place and integrating seamlessly with the surrounding environment.

Food provided by the community is excellent. It features mainly Chinese dishes from all over the country, such as Beijing roasted duck, spicy Sichuan food, Cantonese seafood as well as fresh vegetarian dishes. Whatever the dish is, community diners can also complement their meal with well-selected fine wines from all over the world.

Location: at the Shuiguan Exit of Badaling High Way, North Beijing
Tel: 010-81181888
How to get there
Bus: Take one of the many tourist buses to Badaling, then take a minibus or cab to the Shuiguan section of the wall, and keep your eyes peeled for some contemporary architecture.
Car: Take the Badaling Expressway to the Shuiguan exit. Drive 2km and you will see the gate to the Commune.

LOHAS Organic and Healthy Food Supermarket

The new hot buzzword, LOHAS (Lifestyle of Healthy and Sustainability) reflects people's wishes to have a healthy and simple life. Its main tenet is that people should live closer to nature.

This supermarket focuses on organic and healthy food, all of which don't have any preservatives, fertilizers or chemical additives. Recommended food are LOHAS city special pickles, organic hawthorns, freshly made bee honey and organic muesli.

LOHAS city has a bean curd workshop producing highly nutritional organic soybean milk and tofu, neither of which have any additives, as well as the bread provided in LOHAS supermarket's bread house and LOHAS supermarket's fresh vegetables and fruits transported directly from farmhouses.

Location: No.52 Jingshunlu, Chaoyang District
Tel: 010-84594332

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