While China's northern regions continue to struggle with persistent heavy air pollution, the air quality in the southern coastal city of Xiamen is among the best in the nation, according to official monitoring data.
Gulangyu, the largest satellite island of Xiamen, will embrace a new start by transforming from an over-commercialized tourism spot into a cultural community.
Xiamen will host the finale of the International Awards for Livable Communities 2013 from Nov 28 to Dec 2.
Classical gardens in Jiangsu province were mostly built adjacent to private residences. The past owners of the gardens were usually retired government officials, who took the natural landscape as their model for creating artistic garden scenery. They would invite the social elite to gatherings in their gardens.
When he visited Suzhou in 1952 as a senior architectural student, Liu Shaozong found no one was taking care of the city's classical gardens, some of which have since been listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
In the ancient town of Yanjing, Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism literally stand face to face.
Nobody took China Open tournament director Alfred Zhang seriously when he declared a vision during the event's 2004 debut to make it the "fifth Grand Slam".
Despite increasing attendance and tennis' roaring popularity in China, the China Open is still battling a financial deficit and lacks revenue streams.
"When I make the schedule for next year, of course, China Open is one of the main events of my preparation. It's not the Grand Slam, but it's even bigger almost than the Grand Slams."
Li Songshan is thinking about the 12,000 pieces of African art he and his wife spent more than 30 years collecting, before handing them over to a museum so others could enjoy the art they love: "It was like marrying off our own daughter. It's hard but you still want her to end up with someone good, someone who deserves her."
They say you can take the boy out of the county, Africa in this case, but you can't take the country out of the boy. One Johannesburg native, Richard Green, may have made Hong Kong his home for the past five years, but his heart is still in South Africa.
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