AMUSEMENT PARK MANIA

正International theme parks compete for a share of the budding Chinese market Confidence in the spending power and habits of Asian consumers is attracting international amusement parks to enter the burgeoning Chinese market.According to the IAAPA Global Theme and Amusement Park Outlook 2015-19,theme park attendance in the Asia-Pacific region is     

My Impression of China

Marvin Z:My suggestion to future Beijing visitors is to visit the Summer Palace in late afternoon on a weekday, when you can pretty much have the huge park to yourself. Then the quiet beauty and elegance of the gardens will grab you, and allow inspired pictures to be taken. Shooting Velvia on a cloudy/rainy day in those Chinese parks can yield an extremely high percentage of keepers. This applies to those imperial gardens/parks in other Chinese cities as well.     

Building an Eco-Chain Within an Industrial Park

SINCE 2004, Chinese ex-perts and governments atvarious levels have beenactively promoting the de-velopment of a recyclableeconomy. Those involved agree thatthe eco-industrial park model has so farbeen most effective in constructing a re-cyclable economy.Eco-industrial parks involve theestablishment of an ecological chainwhere businesses collaborate in sharingresources, information and materialsand use one another's industrial wastes,discharges and by-products as raw ma-terials or energies. A…     

Science and Technology Eden

Dongguan Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industry Park is a paradise for innovation and green tech development.The tech center,one of China's pioneering industrial parks,sits in the geometric center of Dongguan,Guangdong Province,with an area of 72square km and a freshwater lake.Aside from the park's natural beauty and superior ecological environment,Songshan Lake just got a status upgrade-it's now a state-level hi-tech industrial park,which enjoys more preferential policies.     

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<正>A Green Slate A park in Xiongan New Area in Hebei Province on March 30. This is an important ecological and leisure space for the new area and will open to the public soon.Fitness Facilities China plans to build 2,000 fitness facilities, including sports parks, across the country by 2025, a sports official said on March 30.     

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<正>Setting the Sights High A section of the round-the-island sightseeing highway in Wenchang, Hainan Province on December 30, 2022. The highway is scheduled for completion in mid-2023.National Park System China has selected 49 candidate areas for building national parks to better protect wildlife species and their habitats, according to a spatial layout plan for the country’s national park system made public on December 29, 2022.The 49 candidate sites,     

Ready,Set, Go

正The Chinese people’s passion to run for fun and better health was taken to a new height by the Beijing Olympics. Situated among fascinating architectural structures,Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park is a special place.The 2008 Beijing Olympics organizers was made a wise decision to turn a huge nature reserve in a northern section of the city into a beautiful park open to all. Even on a very hot and humid day in late June, with temperatures     

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正Green City A photo of a park in Guiyang,capital of Guizhou Province,taken by a drone on July 12. Since 2015,the city has created a variety of parks,providing ample green leisure space for its residents.Xinjiang White Paper The State Council Information Office issued a white paper on the progress in protecting the rights of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on July 14.     

Rags to Riches,a Man and His Village

Arural community of 1,400 in a northwestem suburb of Beijing was from the outset a stark break from the stereotype of the Chinese countryside. Zhenggezhuang Village in Beiqijia Town, Changping District has roads that are paved and in good repair, lined by a variety of bustling retail businesses. Here, each morning, villagers stream out of their villa-styled homes and head for their decent jobs in the nearby industrial park.     

Zhangjiajie： A Celebration of Nature

ZHANGJIAJIE is a risingtourist city in northwestern Hunan Province, site of China‘s first national forest park, whose core scenic area,Wulingyuan, the State Council named a key area of national scenic and historic interest in October 1988. In December 1992,Wulingyuan was designated UNESCO World Natural Heritage.     

Getting the Word Out

正It's been little over a year since the master plan for the Hainan Free Trade Port was released,and all across the province,the effects of bold new policies are taking shape in the form of key industrial parks brimming with business headquarters,research facilities,specialized medical centers,and innovation centers.     

Putting Pep in Your Step

If you get up early and visit any of Beijing's parks, you're likely to see people of all ages engaged in some form of exercise. Yuyuantan Park, in the western part of the city, is one of the biggest parks and always a hive of activity.     

PARADISE FOR GIANT PANDAS

正Almost perished, pandas now enjoy a happy life as protection rises to the next level The world's only captive brown giant panda, Qi Zai, made its public debut in late May, during the trial operation of a science park in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Twelve years ago, it was found as a weak and neglected cub in a national nature reserve in Foping County, Hanzhong City of the province.     

Happy Valley Beijing Invites You to Dynamic Carnival

Happy Valley Beijing will hold its Third International Fashion Culture Festival from April4to June 1.Happy Valley Beijing is an amusement park east of the capital city.It is composed of six theme parks,including Firth Forest,Atlantis,Aegean Sea,Lost Maya,Shangri-La and Ant Kingdom.More than 50 scenic sights of culture and ecology are scattered in all     

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A Helping Hand for SMEsA staff member at an electricity company checks equipment in an innovation park for small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)inShizuishan,NingxiaHui Autonomous Region.The innovation park was inaugurated on October 9.The park is aimed at supporting the financing,trainingand technological innovation of SMEs and startup businesses.     

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<正>Wonderful and White A tourist enjoys the scenery in Jilin of northeast China’s Jilin Province on January 22.National Park China plans to build a national park in the Sanjiangyuan region,the cradle of the Yangtze,Yellow and Lancang rivers in northwest China’s Qinghai Province.A guideline for the park has been completed by a design institute under the State Forestry Administration.The park will cover more than 30,000square km,including the rivers’sources     

How It All Started

The first public celebration of the Chinese New Year in Denmark took place in 2002.It was to mark that it was 100years since the first Chinese immigrated.Before 1902 a few offi cial Chinese delegations and some sailors visited Copenhagen,but they all left.It had been noticed that the Chinese aroused great interest,though.At that time in Europe it was popular to watch"exotic"people.So accordingly the Danish entertainment park Tivoli     

Seventy Years Later, James Hilton’s Shangri-la Rediscovered

WHEN the Beijing Olympic torch relay passed through Shangrila (Zhongdian) County in June, seat of Yunnan’s Deqen Tibetan Auton-omous Prefecture and the likely inspiration for James Hilton’s book Lost Horizon, it began its second leg with a lighting ceremony at Po-tatso, China’s fi rst national park on the mainland. The park was the brainchild of Kyhigyala, secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Deqen Prefectural Committee, who proposed establishing the nature preserve in Shangrila three years ago, and today the park’s pristine beauty compares favorably with Hilton’s mythic Shangrila, an imaginary kingdom where no one grows old.     

The High Life

Tourists and locals looking to escape the summer heat in Beijing have many options,ranging from an air-conditioned movie theater to an outdoor water park.But for culture seekers,one attraction stands out:an acrobatics show run by a traveling group based in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The show is called Yahximusiz,Apandi (meaning "Hello,Apandi" in English),which is presented by the Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe at Tianqiao Acrobatic Theater.Apandi was a historical figure who lived during the 12th century and was known for possessing extraordinary wisdom and a strong sense of humor and justice.The legends about his life tell of Apandi's ability to help the poor while frustrating greedy plutocrats with his wit.     

Preserving the Soul of Beijing

WHILE many Westerners would not dream of living in other than Western-style housing, I like to try somethingdifferent. I was lucky enough to find a courtyard situated in a park. Every day,