Yummy Box pizzas reflect cross-country survey in US

Tucked away in a street in Huilongguan, one of Beijing's biggest suburban residential neighborhoods, Yummy Box appears to be a one-off in more than one ways.

Guangzhou Award to help build better future

The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, known as the Guangzhou Award, which aims to encourage urban management innovations, is set to make a practical and significant contribution in the "century of the city".

15 exemplary programs on shortlist

The organizing committee of the second Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation held a daylong seminar yesterday for the jury to hear presentations from the 15 cities shortlisted for the award.

'Some cities are thinking 100 years ahead'

The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation has the vitality of host city Guangzhou, an energy that facilitates innovative solutions to meet universal urban challenges, said senior officials bestowing the honor.

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Editor's note: Before the opening of the China International Friendship Cities Conference, representatives from some of Guangzhou's sister cities talked about their impressions of the friendships forged and hopes for the future.

The bidding paves the way for the play

Henry David Thoreau, a writer who, inter alia, railed against taxes, said, "A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."

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Museum donation by US philanthropist

More than 350 stuffed African wild animal specimens are on permanent free display at Shandong Provincial Museum.

China's shoe capital goes online

The chairman of Aokang Group, a shoemaker based in Wenzhou, packed goods alongside factory workers for Double 11 or Singles' Day, China's online shopping festival equivalent to Cyber Monday.

Harbor city champions private business development

Wenzhou in the Yangtze River Delta is an important harbor city in East China and one of the major cities in Zhejiang province.

Sales of cars go online, but shops close the deal

Online shopping is now a way of life for millions in China and they are buying ever-larger and more expensive items - sometimes even cars.