Before July 23, 48-year-old Ninghai resident Wang Zhen was a common bus driver in the small city in East China's Zhejiang province.
Zhejiang province has been famous for its natural beauty since ancient times. For thousands of years, poems, songs and prose have extolled the province.
The fifth annual Straits Forum opened on June 15 in Xiamen of Fujian province in Southeast China, focusing on "expanding civilian exchanges, boosting cross-Straits cooperation and promoting common development".
The Southern Fujian Cultural Festival, the annual celebration and showcase of local culture held in the province's Quanzhou city, will be incorporated into the ongoing Straits Forum for the first time.
The Straits Forum has established a reputation of promoting a strong and diversified partnership between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
Visitors and residents now have access to various cuisines, specialties and creative products from Taiwan at a fair staged on the plaza of the Xiamen Culture & Art Center in Xiamen on June 14.
A forum on cross-Straits charity was held in Xiamen on June 15, aimed at boosting the cooperation on the sector of social work and public welfare between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
With the 2013 Fortune Global Forum under way in Chengdu, locals are overcome with excitement over the arrival of business elites and political leaders from around the world.
Douglas Baker Jr, Ecolab's chairman and CEO, has a "quite favorable" first impression of Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Despite growing competition in the automotive market, Volvo is confident about its development in China, said Lars Danielson, senior vice-president for China operations, in an exclusive interview with China Daily.
To maintain its role as a major economic center in western China, Chengdu will need to further deepen its high-tech industrial development, said economists and experts on Thursday during the 2013 Fortune Global Forum.
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