One of the world's leading integrated oil and gas providers, French company Total SA also puts heavy effort into helping promote cleaner, more efficient mobility in China, the world's largest automobile market and energy consumer.
An earthquake-hit village in Yunnan province received some early Christmas cheer over the weekend as the German premium vehicle maker Mercedes-Benz pledged funding for school reconstruction and staged special Star Wish classes with the help of volunteers.
When visiting Huangshan Mountain in Huangshan city, Anhui province, take a side trip to the city's Xiuning county, where you can enjoy traditional Chinese culture, green mountains and authentic Anhui cuisine.
For those visiting Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, you can go to the city's Chaohu district to enjoy the countryside and the hot spring. Chaohu is more than five hours' drive from Xiuning county, and is known as the capital of ancient hot springs due to the Bantang Hot Spring discovered as early as the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). In the daytime, you can ride a bicycle on a 15-kilometer cycling route in the Tulip Highland Scenic Area to see the colorful flowers on the road. At night, you can relax in the ancient spring after one day's sightseeing. At the end of the route is an area of flowers such as tulips, lavender and peonies. It's better to visit when the flowers are in full blossom. More outdoor leisure facilities in the scenic area are under construction.
For those who want a quick getaway from the hustle-and-bustle of Beijing, Shilinxia Scenic Area in Pinggu district is certainly a good choice. It is picturesque, with rocks, gorges, mountains and forests.
Korean cuisine is spicing up the menus in Beijing. The increasing number of Koreans who have moved to China has given rise to a large number of Korean food stores and restaurants.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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