Popularity surges for cartoon image collage app

An app named "MYOTee Lian Meng" (cute face) has become a sudden sensation all over social networks in China. The app allows users to select from a wide variety of built-in templates for different parts of the face, and the completed images can be shared directly from the app to social networks. It saw an increase of five million users last Friday, with the number of total users reaching 20 mi...

5 Beautiful Places in China Ruined by Tourism

Tourism has exploded in China, especially the domestic industry. Traveland tourism contributed to 9.2% of the country’s total GDP in 2013, and is forecast to rise by 7.7% per annum in the next ten years. This prediction means that travel and tourism could result in a 10.1% contribution of the total GDP in 2024 – at a total of 11,887.6 billion RMB. Out of all this, 90.9% originates from domestic ...

The Great Debate: China Unicom vs. China Mobile

When choosing between the two major mobile phone carriers in China, there are a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration: - Price- Speed- Contract options - International Compatibility However, a direct comparison can be somewhat difficult to make as there are many variables that need to be addressed. One particularly important point that needs to be addressed is degree of ...

Water Town Sits at Foot of Great Wall

Gubei Water Town, billed as the Wuzhen county of the North, is located at Gubeikou in Beijing’s suburban Miyun district, at the foot of the Simatai Great Wall. With a history of more than a thousand years, the water town, which covers an area of 9 square kilometers, has been revitalized with new attractions. Boutique shops selling local delicacies and souvenirs line the flagstone roads. ...

Mainland tourists bring Taiwan over 11 bln USD

Tourists from the Chinese mainland have brought 355.1 billion new Taiwan dollars (11.78 billion U.S. dollars) to Taiwan in the past six years, the island's executive authority said on Wednesday. Taiwan opened its doors to mainland tourists in 2008. Since then up to the end of March this year, the number of group visitors from the mainland reached 7,039,000, said Jiang Yi-hua, head of Taiwan's...

Travel Tips for the Palace Museum

Statistics show that the Labor Day holiday and the National Day holiday are two spikes in term of the number of visitors. Graphics over the past few years shows a stark contrast between the Palace Museum’s peak time and slack season. Each year, the Labor Day holiday and the National Day holiday are two spikes in term of the number of visitors. Plus, the summer vocation wh...

Lightwire Theater brings show to China

In 2012, Lightwire Theater, a light-up puppet group act, received a standing ovation for its Dinosaurs With Light Sabers performance on NBC's hit show America's Got Talent. Glowing dinosaurs roared at the crowd amid colorful dancing flowers. Now the act is coming to China, where the group will perform a kid-friendly show, Darwin the Dinosaur, and offer workshops on their art. Lightwire Theater ...

Shanghai art mall hosts Monet exhibit

Adrian Cheng is not surprised at the sight of hundreds of people waiting on a weekend morning to see the Claude Monet exhibition at K11. Cheng created K11, which claims to be the world's first art mall. It's located in downtown Shanghai on Huaihai Road. The exhibition-the first of the French painter in China-is expected to receive more than 300,000 visitors by the time it ends in mid-June. Che...

Xixi National Wetland Park

A named "if you are the one" film to let people know the only natural wetland in the Chinese city. If the mountain is Hangzhou's lung, then Xixi is the Hangzhou‘s kidney.Xixi National Wetland Park is located in the western part of Hangzhou City, only 5 kilometers from West Lake. Xixi was created during Han and Jin Dynasty. Xixi is a good place, good air, quiet, fewer tourists. The Xixi scenic a...

Shanghai Disneyland Owners to Invest a Further 800 Million USD

The joint investment agreement between The Walt Disney Company and the Shanghai Shendi Group has pledged to commit a further 800 Million USD to the already massive project of building a Disneyland theme park in Shanghai. The new investment will be added to the 4 Billion USD already committed to the project. Of the new funds, Shendi will contribute just more than half, with Disney supplying the ...