Yangtze River Delta

21 Oct 2012

While Hong Kong grumbles about floods of mainland visitors - muttering about denuded shop shelves and their "uncouth" cousins slurping noodles on the MTR, ...

Dyke collapse destroys 28 homes in Jiangsu

16 Oct 2012

More than two dozen houses were washed away by the Yangtze River in Jiangsu on Saturday after the collapse of 310-metre-long section of dyke protecting an island administered by the city of...

China Digest, October 6, 2012

6 Oct 2012

BEIJING

The cultural revelation

Cities scrap car curb plans as sales growth slows

10 Aug 2012

The city governments of Xian and Hangzhou yesterday scrapped plans to cap the number of new car registrations as growth in car sales across the country slowed again last month.

Ming-style luxury on sale for a humble 500m yuan

31 Jul 2012

A luxury Chinese-style garden villa project in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, has been launched in Hong Kong, with the biggest unit going for a whopping 500 million yuan (HK$608 million).

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Beijing deploys inspectors to push home policy point

The State Council has sent out another strong signal that it intends to tighten the enforcement of property curbs, highlighting Beijing's concerns that any easing of the controls at the local...

Art galleries will never be the same again

Everything on film seems to be in 3D these days: Toy Story 3, Ice Age 4, even the Biebs' concert movie Never Say Never. Yet this 3D craze has been spreading - from the West to the East, and from...

Tourism explosion

Immortalised in poetry and art for its bucolic and pastoral beauty, Hangzhou is riding a boom in tourism, as visitors flock to the city's scenic spots.

Cheap, cheerful and tasty

Like its sun-dappled, tree-lined streets, Hangzhou's cuisine is light and fresh.

Here are three places to try Hangzhou's local cuisine while you are visiting the city.

Technology fuels growth

The Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Area (HEDA) has fuelled the city's economic growth for two decades.

Last year, 1,137 enterprises were set up, bringing in...

Centre of creativity

There is a Chinese saying: 'Above is heaven, below is Hangzhou'. If Hangzhou is indeed heaven on earth, it's not only for its beautiful scenery, but also culture and creativity - and the city is...