When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, there was general apprehension in the film industry that it was akin to letting the wolf through the door.
Though he has a penchant for melodrama in his films, Zhang Yimou is often seen as the man with the pulse on the Chinese box office. The celebrated director of Red Sorghum and To Live has through his films made the world realize that China is not only a large market for Hollywood films, but also for homemade blockbusters.
China's information and communication businesses have leapfrogged their way to the front of their respective fields, thanks in a large part to the reforms and opening up that began in the late 1970s, and have even become internationally recognized competitors.
In a county next to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, an old aviation center has plans to turn itself into a large industrial zone with hundreds of millions of yuan in potential output value. The only question is, how to make the best use of such a large area.
The Internet of Things (IOT) - a global network that links physical and virtual objects through data capture and communication (European Union definition) - is becoming a major new industry in China, especially in one particular county.
Recently, Shuangliu county in Sichuan province, which has one of the strongest economies in all of western China, has even bigger plans to become a new energy and manufacturing complex, centered on solar, nuclear and wind energy.
Pilots from all over the world have come to the city of Laiwu, in Shandong province to perform and compete in the skies overhead at an annual festival that started on Sept 24 and run through Sept 28.
An annual aeronautics show in the city of Laiwu, in Shandong province is not just attracting air sports fans but a broad range of tourists as well.
The international aeronautics festival is well underway in Laiwu, Shandong province and has tourists heading to the town in droves to get a look at the planes and air shows, with some of the world's leading stunt pilots performing.
One of the major events of the ninth National Ethnic Games, which run Sept 10 to 18, was a special show that ran all day, complete with banquet and at least 20,000 guests from various ethnic groups, in Guiyang, Guizhou province, Thursday morning.
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