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Urban redevelopment: a city’s life and death

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest is taking us through various aspects of China’s urbanization process. Zhang … Continue reading

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Guangdong Party Secretary on bicycle to promote green Guangzhou

New Express: Guangzhou announced the opening of 2,372 kilometers of “green routes” as part of its attempt to promote “green and low-carban tourism”.

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Travel to the Philippines discouraged

Kunming’s Metro Times (都市时报) cancels its updates about Philippines tourism.

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Avatar’s Hallelujah Mountain in real life

The tourism bureau of Zhangjiajie in Hunan announced earlier today that the name of the reputed “South Pillar of the Heaven” aka “Pillar between Heaven and Earth” would be changed to “Hallelujah Mountain”

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Mainland tourist pleads ignorance in Taiwan graffiti episode

Beijing Times: Mainland Chinese tourist apologize for his autograph inscription.

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Capital of the seedy sauna

After the government of Ma’anshan announced their plan purportedly to reinvent the city as a tourist city by developing the bathing industry have caused great controversy.

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Chairman Mao audition

A drama which is going to be staged in the passed leader’s hometown Xiangtan, Hunan Province, have attracted over 130 Chairman Mao impersonators all around the country for auditioning

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Beijing radio hosts handcuffed in Prague

Chongqing Times (重庆时报): Chinese tourists were seized and handcuffed by Czechic police after a dispute over the exchange rate.

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Counter-terrorist police exercise on Segways

The top headline of today’s The First 竞报 features on the upcoming mainland tourist group to go to Taiwan.

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Vietnam travel advice

Free Vietnam travel advice.

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