Category: City Guide

Local residents queued up at major banks since morning yesterday to get their hands on 5-yuan commemorative coins issued by the People’s Bank of China.

The Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu displays the 14 panda babies born at the center this year. The centerin the capital city of southwestern Sichuan Province was opened in 1987 with just three male and three female pandas. Itnow has 51 male and 63 female giant pandas. The endangered animal is not passionate about courtship, mating or nurturingits babies, which is part of the reason the base was founded to carry out research to solve breeding problems. About 1,600pandas live in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan, while more than 300 are in captivity.

A COLD front is expected to arrive on Wednesday and bring the temperature down to the mid 20s along with some rain and strong winds, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said yesterday.

People play mahjong, a popular four-player Chinese tile game, during a large-scale mahjong competition at Hongkou township, Doujiangyan city of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, Sept 19. Altogether 2,380 mahjong lovers took part in the event, setting a new Guinness world record for the most participants in a mahjong activity.

Dalian Wanda Group, owned by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, unveiled a plan on Sunday to build the world's biggest film studio in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao.

This is a narrow, quiet lane. The road is lined with houses of one or two storied built of adobe or red brick. It is Saturday. A group of Uygur children are playing, bringing a joyful atmosphere to the quiet bane. At the end of the lane, a sign reading "Vegetable Bazaar Lane" reminds people of its past. The bazaar no longer exists, and people can only imagine the brisk scene here in the old days.

More than 70 percent of elderly people in Shanghai are open to a house-for-pension program, a survey showed, despite a recent public outcry against the idea raised in a central government document.

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China has been reduced in recent years to a networking opportunity, but this year, the national corruption crackdown has brought back some of the festival's original flavor.

China is to install independent inspectors in all its 300,000 primary and middle schools by the end of this year to improve educational quality and fairness.