Jingle bells rang in the air and the sparkling decorations in many shop fronts clearly indicated Christmas was truly a joyous occasion in downtown Guangzhou.
Proposed regulations could help, but lifestyles remain an obstacle in a country that consumes one of every three cigarettes in the world.
Xu Guihua, the executive deputy director of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, said she was very happy when the State Council published the draft of a national law to control tobacco use.
Zhang Xuewen, 28, a white-collar worker in Beijing, has been smoking for three years.
"In bars, you drink, and with alcohol, you smoke," said Mohamad Kheer Ferekh, 27, from Syria, in a crowded bar in Sanlitun, one of the capital's most popular bar areas.
It is about 2:30 in the afternoon, and Wang Xiaohong, the smoking-cessation therapist with Peking University Third Hospital, is talking with a husband and wife about ways for him to quit his habit.
Land sales in Shanghai have ended the year on a high, highlighting a growing appetite by developers for plots in first-tier cities as oversupply risks continue in smaller cities.
Graduates born after 1990 may become a generation of renters because many prefer to spend their money on things besides home ownership, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The United States lobster trade with China is growing rapidly, especially for a species called the spiny lobster that is harvested in the Florida Keys.
WeChat, the mobile text and voice messaging service owned by Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Ltd-China's largest and most used Internet service portal that claimed to have had 468 million monthly active users in the third quarter of this year - is now becoming so much more than just away for people to communicate.
Chinese investment banks have awarded pay rises to their staff for the first time since the 2008/09 global financial crisis, buoyed by a surge in China-related deals, but salaries and bonuses still trail far behind those paid by Western banks, according to research published by a global professional services firm.
China's western and border regions have enjoyed a surge in infrastructure investment this year, including railways, and will continue to enjoy high levels of spending next year, officials said.
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