Wine consumption on the Chinese mainland is tiny by world standards, at about half a glass per person per year. In Australia, where I live, average wine consumption is about 80 glasses a year.
Zhaoqing, however, wants to position itself as "Guangdong's back garden" and its cause has merit.
Whenever I talk about my hometown with my foreign friends, I like to make fun of its name - Hefei - which means "two fat men together".
Boasting architecture typical of the Ming and Qing periods, Pingyao, Shanxi province, looks like a period-film set.
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa just around the corner, tours to South Africa have got cold shoulders from Chinese tourists who believe the prices are too high.
Building a Broadway theater in Beijing might no longer be a dream if the municipal government successfully reaches its investment target of 55 billion yuan set at a tourism summit Tuesday.
Residents give mixed reviews of apartments next to the big event
In the four years since its founding Earnshaw Books has published 11 titles on old Shanghai.
As Shanghai flourished as a multinational hub for finance and business in the 1930s, it also became home to many prominent Chinese writers and translators, who lived and worked in Shanghai during that period.
While this city's early 20th-century romance still excites the imagination of writers, contemporary life in the rapidly changing port town is also inspiring authors, Chitralekha Basu reports
The Lobby Bar at Sofitel Wanda Beijing has introduced a homemade iced tea for summer, which mixes Tequila with pineapple, fresh lemon juice, orange liqueur and fresh orange juice, all garnished with strawberry.
Beijing's signature multi-functional property, Landmark Towers, holds its own in sea of five-star hotels.
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