Reports early last month that foundations run by mobile payments app Alipay and two Alibaba co-founders would give 1 billion yuan ($144 million) to the Chinese women's soccer team over 10 years inspired a trip away from Beijing at the weekend.
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
An old factory district is one of my favorite places in Beijing. The factory and warehouse buildings there, designed in the 1950s in the Bauhaus style, were abandoned and, in the mid-1990s, artists began using them for cheap studio space. By the turn of the century, the 798 Contemporary Art Zone had blossomed.
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
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