Beijing’s smog sufferers may soon have another oasis thanks to eco-conscious urban planning by Italian architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti.
On Monday, the designers broke ground on its aptly named ‘forest city’ development in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, which will consist of buildings covered in hundreds of thousands plants and trees set to reduce the pollution in the area.
The eco-friendly metropolis is designed to absorb 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 57 tons of pollutants per year and house about 30,000 residents, which is about .07 percent of Liuzhou’s population.
It’s likely the amenities will be comparable to the designer’s similar apartment complex in Milan’s Porta Nuova district, the Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, which commands £1.7 million for a 200-square-meter penthouse.
In China, the Liuzhou development will also feature hotels to host visitors seeking fresh-air as well as an escape from the concrete jungle.
Smog-fueled tourism has already seen a boom in the country—late last year, dangerously high levels of pollution in Beijing and surrounding areas prompted wealthy residents to travel to coastal cities in China, beach resorts, ski resorts, and even out of the country entirely.
Ctrip estimated at the time that 150,000 travelers would book trips abroad in December just to get away from the capital’s poor air quality.
Nanjing in China’s eastern Jiangsu province may soon also be added to the travel destination list, should there be a similar pollution-fueled travel boom.
Stefano Boeri confirmed in April it would be building two skyscrapers in Jiangsu’s capital that will have around 3,600 trees and plants, and will house a 247-room Hyatt hotel and a museum.
Stefano Boeri’s forest developments are also slated for other Chinese cities.
Mountainous Guizhou in southwest China is expected to get a hotel, Shanghai’s Pudong Airport may soon see a “sky jungle” and Chongqing may get a suburban complex featuring “seeding hortiecture.”
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Monday, 3 July 2017
Saturday, 1 July 2017
CHINA: Huangling Attracts Visitors From All Over The World
Located in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province, China, Huangling attracts visitors from all over the world. The quaint and elegant village has preserved and maintained its ancient Hui-style architecture and offers an authentic Chinese countryside travel experience.
Praised as the most beautiful countryside in China, the unique view of shaiqiu can only be found in Huangling, where baskets of colorful harvest bask in the sunshine.
Huangling, China's most beautiful countryside, has embarked on a journey to promote the village's unique cultural heritage and folk customs across Eurasia as part of The Tea Road (China), which is holding a series of events to highlight the influential history and modern potentials.
The first TRC roadshow took place in Ulan-Ude, capital of the Republic of Buryatia in the Russian Federation during the 2nd China-Russia-Mongolia Tourism Ministers' Meeting, and will be followed by sessions in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Huangling's folk heritage belongs not only to China, but to the world.
Visitors to the village have much to explore, from the unique shaiqiu custom inspired by the distinctive landscape to the traditional handcrafts and festival celebrations, we hope to show the beauty and charm of Huangling to tourists worldwide as we travel along The Tea Road, said Cao Jinzhong, executive vice president of Wuyuan Rural Culture Development Co., Ltd.
Huangling is most known for its shaiqiu spectacle, where the locals sun dry harvests like chili peppers and pumpkin slices in bamboo baskets on rooves to preserve the foods in the humid climate. The vibrant scene of colorful produce against the quaint Hui-style architectures attracts crowds of visitors from around the world every year.
Strolling through the ancient village, visitors can also find celebrated ancient handcrafts like inkstone engraving, paper umbrellas, classic wood oil, and embroidery.
Huangling will also take part in the Sino-Foreign most beautiful shooting location contest at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. The competition will highlight the village's serene natural scenery, rich history and folk traditions.
Huangling offers a grandiose view of rapeseed flowers in spring, outdoor adventures like creek rafting and mountaineering in summer, peak shaiqiu viewing in autumn and nostalgic festival experiences in winter. The one-of-a-kind experiences that visitors encounter are a combination of farming traditions and cultural heritage, said Cao.
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Praised as the most beautiful countryside in China, the unique view of shaiqiu can only be found in Huangling, where baskets of colorful harvest bask in the sunshine.
Huangling, China's most beautiful countryside, has embarked on a journey to promote the village's unique cultural heritage and folk customs across Eurasia as part of The Tea Road (China), which is holding a series of events to highlight the influential history and modern potentials.
The first TRC roadshow took place in Ulan-Ude, capital of the Republic of Buryatia in the Russian Federation during the 2nd China-Russia-Mongolia Tourism Ministers' Meeting, and will be followed by sessions in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Huangling's folk heritage belongs not only to China, but to the world.
Visitors to the village have much to explore, from the unique shaiqiu custom inspired by the distinctive landscape to the traditional handcrafts and festival celebrations, we hope to show the beauty and charm of Huangling to tourists worldwide as we travel along The Tea Road, said Cao Jinzhong, executive vice president of Wuyuan Rural Culture Development Co., Ltd.
Huangling is most known for its shaiqiu spectacle, where the locals sun dry harvests like chili peppers and pumpkin slices in bamboo baskets on rooves to preserve the foods in the humid climate. The vibrant scene of colorful produce against the quaint Hui-style architectures attracts crowds of visitors from around the world every year.
Strolling through the ancient village, visitors can also find celebrated ancient handcrafts like inkstone engraving, paper umbrellas, classic wood oil, and embroidery.
Huangling will also take part in the Sino-Foreign most beautiful shooting location contest at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. The competition will highlight the village's serene natural scenery, rich history and folk traditions.
Huangling offers a grandiose view of rapeseed flowers in spring, outdoor adventures like creek rafting and mountaineering in summer, peak shaiqiu viewing in autumn and nostalgic festival experiences in winter. The one-of-a-kind experiences that visitors encounter are a combination of farming traditions and cultural heritage, said Cao.
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Friday, 30 June 2017
CHINA: China’s Surpluses Could Be More Than Assumed
Tales of Chinese tourist largesse providing a big boost to destination economies are legend.
They may also be incorrect, with China’s current account surpluses understated as a result.
Anna Wong, a senior economist with the US Federal Reserve, reckons the money spent overseas by Chinese tourists,some $215bn last year, according to one industry estimate is not all it is cracked up to be.
Wong says a large amount of the money designated as having come from Chinese tourists globally should actually count as investment in assets.
Financial outflows concealed as travel imports are large and significant, growing to about 1% of China’s GDP in 2015 and 2016, and account for a quarter of recorded net private financial outflows.
This would mean that China’s current account surpluses over the past few years are actually larger than reported, and possibly as big as before the financial crisis.
China’s capital controls make it difficult for wealthier Chinese to invest abroad, but the implication of Wong’s findings is that there are a plethora of ways for the country’s "tourists" to buy property and other assets overseas.
Factors suggesting this is happening come down to the amount of money being reported as tourist-related versus the actual macro-economic conditions surrounding it.
One example is that China’s travel expenditure as a share of GDP was reported to be higher than Britain’s in 2014, even though the latter’s per capita GDP is seven times China’s.
Similarly, in the same year, spending by Chinese tourists abroad was reported to have increased four times faster than the actual number of tourists.
The way that money designated as tourist inflows ends up as asset-buying is mainly anecdotal.
Wong cites purchases of insurance saving and annuity products, real estate properties, and cash-back through a cover-up jewellery transaction, as examples.
None of this is to say that Chinese tourism is not a huge boom to some countries, or that the phenomenon of a new wave of tourists is not real.
But it does have some impact on both tourist economies and China’s finances.
For the former, it means tourist expenditure may not be adding to jobs, revenues and manufacturing in the way that has been assumed.
Instead, a lot of the money designated as Chinese tourist inflow may simply be pumping up asset prices in real estate, for example, that do not necessarily benefit the economies, or the locals, of the destination countries.
For China, it suggests that official current account surplus data may have been distorted, that far more money is escaping capital controls than believed, and that China’s services deficit has been inflated.
Alex Wolf, senior emerging-markets economist at British fund firm Standard Life Investments, says the main implication of Wong’s report is that the current account surplus is larger than implied by official statisticsa hot potato politically.
Transactions that appear as travel imports actually should have been on the capital or financial account, he said.
If, then, the services deficit is smaller than implied, the overall net surplus would then be larger.
China’s current account surplus is likely as large as a percentage of GDP as it was before the global financial crisis.
Wolf noted that the US Treasury has recently cited progress in China reducing its external balance.
If Wong’s analysis is correct, the Treasury’s assessment may not be.
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They may also be incorrect, with China’s current account surpluses understated as a result.
Anna Wong, a senior economist with the US Federal Reserve, reckons the money spent overseas by Chinese tourists,some $215bn last year, according to one industry estimate is not all it is cracked up to be.
Wong says a large amount of the money designated as having come from Chinese tourists globally should actually count as investment in assets.
Financial outflows concealed as travel imports are large and significant, growing to about 1% of China’s GDP in 2015 and 2016, and account for a quarter of recorded net private financial outflows.
This would mean that China’s current account surpluses over the past few years are actually larger than reported, and possibly as big as before the financial crisis.
China’s capital controls make it difficult for wealthier Chinese to invest abroad, but the implication of Wong’s findings is that there are a plethora of ways for the country’s "tourists" to buy property and other assets overseas.
Factors suggesting this is happening come down to the amount of money being reported as tourist-related versus the actual macro-economic conditions surrounding it.
One example is that China’s travel expenditure as a share of GDP was reported to be higher than Britain’s in 2014, even though the latter’s per capita GDP is seven times China’s.
Similarly, in the same year, spending by Chinese tourists abroad was reported to have increased four times faster than the actual number of tourists.
The way that money designated as tourist inflows ends up as asset-buying is mainly anecdotal.
Wong cites purchases of insurance saving and annuity products, real estate properties, and cash-back through a cover-up jewellery transaction, as examples.
None of this is to say that Chinese tourism is not a huge boom to some countries, or that the phenomenon of a new wave of tourists is not real.
But it does have some impact on both tourist economies and China’s finances.
For the former, it means tourist expenditure may not be adding to jobs, revenues and manufacturing in the way that has been assumed.
Instead, a lot of the money designated as Chinese tourist inflow may simply be pumping up asset prices in real estate, for example, that do not necessarily benefit the economies, or the locals, of the destination countries.
For China, it suggests that official current account surplus data may have been distorted, that far more money is escaping capital controls than believed, and that China’s services deficit has been inflated.
Alex Wolf, senior emerging-markets economist at British fund firm Standard Life Investments, says the main implication of Wong’s report is that the current account surplus is larger than implied by official statisticsa hot potato politically.
Transactions that appear as travel imports actually should have been on the capital or financial account, he said.
If, then, the services deficit is smaller than implied, the overall net surplus would then be larger.
China’s current account surplus is likely as large as a percentage of GDP as it was before the global financial crisis.
Wolf noted that the US Treasury has recently cited progress in China reducing its external balance.
If Wong’s analysis is correct, the Treasury’s assessment may not be.
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017
CHINA: Husband And Wife Fight At Airport, Pilot Declines To Allow Them On The Plane
A man and woman were detained at an airport in southwest China on Tuesday for brawling on the tarmac as they were boarding their flight, which was delayed for half an hour, a local news portal reports.
Couple, who were boarding their flight in Yunnan, said to be undergoing divorce negotiations
The incident happened at Kunming airport in Yunnan province as they were boarding a China Eastern Airlines flight to Chengdu, Sichuan province, that was parked on the tarmac..
Police said the two passengers were husband and wife, who were in the course of divorce negotiations when the fight broke out.
The husband without his shirt, fighting with his wife on the tarmac. The couple late tried to enfer the aircraft but were barred by the pilot.
The couple started to quarrel after stepping off an airfield passenger bus. While other passengers boarded the plane, the pair lingered at the foot of the aircraft steps and eventually broke into a fight, according to witnesses.
The woman was pinned on the ground by the man, whose shirt was torn off by the woman.
When they stopped fighting, the couple tried to board the plane but the captain refused and called airport security instead.
The plane took off at 11.30am following a half-hour delay, and arrived in Chengdu an hour later.
Police said they couple were severely criticised for their behaviour, which violated airport safety, and offered them counselling before releasing them without charge.
Couple, who were boarding their flight in Yunnan, said to be undergoing divorce negotiations
The incident happened at Kunming airport in Yunnan province as they were boarding a China Eastern Airlines flight to Chengdu, Sichuan province, that was parked on the tarmac..
Police said the two passengers were husband and wife, who were in the course of divorce negotiations when the fight broke out.
The husband without his shirt, fighting with his wife on the tarmac. The couple late tried to enfer the aircraft but were barred by the pilot.
The couple started to quarrel after stepping off an airfield passenger bus. While other passengers boarded the plane, the pair lingered at the foot of the aircraft steps and eventually broke into a fight, according to witnesses.
The woman was pinned on the ground by the man, whose shirt was torn off by the woman.
When they stopped fighting, the couple tried to board the plane but the captain refused and called airport security instead.
The plane took off at 11.30am following a half-hour delay, and arrived in Chengdu an hour later.
Police said they couple were severely criticised for their behaviour, which violated airport safety, and offered them counselling before releasing them without charge.
Tuesday, 6 June 2017
CHINA: Air France Bans Woman Student After Slapping Airport Staff
A woman passenger has been placed in detention for 10 days and blacklisted by Air France after she slapped a member of staff at an airport in central China, Chinese media.
The woman lost her temper after she was told by ground staff that check-in for her flight from Wuhan to Paris had closed fourteen minutes earlier on Thursday morning.
Staff advised her to alter or refund her tickets, but the woman refused saying she was about to go abroad to take part in an important conference.
She then rushed to the staff working area and slapped a member of staff twice after negotiations failed, the report said.
Police were called and arrested the woman, whose real name was not given.. She has now been blacklisted from taking flights on Air France.
The woman, a 36-year-old doctoral student from a prestigious university in Wuhan, was with her husband and child when the incident occurred.
Internet users in China strongly criticised her actions and said harsher punishments should have been enforced.
Domestic flight companies should also blacklist the woman and all flights should refuse to take this kind of passenger, one person wrote.
Another said: So barbarous and wayward. Did she major in kick-boxing for a doctoral degree?
The woman lost her temper after she was told by ground staff that check-in for her flight from Wuhan to Paris had closed fourteen minutes earlier on Thursday morning.
Staff advised her to alter or refund her tickets, but the woman refused saying she was about to go abroad to take part in an important conference.
She then rushed to the staff working area and slapped a member of staff twice after negotiations failed, the report said.
Police were called and arrested the woman, whose real name was not given.. She has now been blacklisted from taking flights on Air France.
The woman, a 36-year-old doctoral student from a prestigious university in Wuhan, was with her husband and child when the incident occurred.
Internet users in China strongly criticised her actions and said harsher punishments should have been enforced.
Domestic flight companies should also blacklist the woman and all flights should refuse to take this kind of passenger, one person wrote.
Another said: So barbarous and wayward. Did she major in kick-boxing for a doctoral degree?
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