Fame and fortune prove to be a toxic mix for a tourist attraction
A body artist finds tranquility in hutong living
Bai Tianhua, 15, is a regular visitor to Nanluoguxiang in Beijing. He doesn't pause at the main alley with stores, cafes and restaurants, but turns into one of the 16 narrow hutong on both sides.
Several tourists excitedly hold their selfie sticks to take pictures. A young couple anxiously queue up for fried chicken chop and iced milk tea. A few cyclists ring their bells and shout "Out of the way, please", trying to get through the crowds.
How can an international organization with limited resources stay relevant in a vast country awash with money, such as China? Asian Development Bank's experience might offer an answer to that question.
Innovative startup companies have become a new driving force for Binhai New Area's growth, according to an official of the new area in Tianjin as it celebrates its 10th anniversary.
China's parallel-import car sales are growing at the fastest pace in the past two years, at 31.5 percent to more than 150,000 this year, according to a leading industry insider.
China's top electricity supplier, State Grid Corp, is set to export its ultra-high-voltage technology to India soon, as it pushes to expand its large-scale network both at home and abroad, a senior official at the utility company said.
Singapore's state-owned investment firms Temasek Holdings Pte and GIC Pte, long-term Alibaba Group Holding Ltd investors, bought a combined $1 billion stake in the Chinese e-commerce behemoth, the second-biggest stakes being sold by SoftBank Group Corp.
Chinese stocks rose to the highest level in almost a month, led by consumer-staple and technology shares, adding to the benchmark gauge's steepest rally since March this week.
Xiaomi Corp has bought nearly 1,500 technology patents from Microsoft Corp in a deal that may smoothen potential legal tangles over intellectual property as it pushes beyond China.
Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details.
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