China’s Rich Spend Big to Celebrate Valentine’s Day – Reuters
From Reuters via CNN.com: Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine’s Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China. Nowhere more so than in Shanghai, China’s showcase city for...
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Advisor: Too Many Holidays Not Advisable – Xinhua
From Xinhua News Agency via Beijing Review (photo: economist Wu Jinglian wrapped up by reporters, via bjreview.com.cn): With a vast majority of Chinese upholding more public holidays, Wu Jinglian, a...
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New Year, New Marriage Record – Lu Feiran
From Shanghai Daily: New Year’s Day 2008 seems to be a great day for getting married – more than 1,360 couples yesterday registered for marriage in Shanghai, 500 more than last New Year’s Day....
View ArticleSexy Beijing: Beijing or Hong Kong?
The new episode of Danwei TV looks into how people celebrate Chinese New Year in Beijing and Hong Kong, via Youtube: As Beijing gears up for Chinese New Year, Sufei finds out how locals celebrate, and...
View ArticleSlideshow: Huge Dumpling Banquet
On 2008 Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve, people in Liuminying Village in Beijing’s Daxing District continued their 28-year-tradition: A massive dumpling banquet, large in both the number of people...
View ArticleSlideshow: New Year and New Unpaid Migrant Workers
On Feb 5, 2008, nine migrant construction workers, holding up signs that read “repay my blood and sweat,” (还我血汗钱) blocked the main road near Dabeiyao Bridge and Jianwai Soho in Beijing, causing serious...
View ArticleSlideshow: All About Train Tickets
A netizen with the nickname Zeng Guangyong posted some photos taken recently on fengniao.com. These photos illustrate how difficult it is for common people in China to buy train tickets back home for...
View ArticleToll-free Holiday Traffic Ends in Gridlock
As China commenced a week-long National Day vacation known as Golden Week, authorities decided to do car travelers a favor and make the roads toll-free. With train tickets for the long holiday selling...
View ArticleSingles’ Day Draws in Online Shoppers
China Daily reports Singles’ Day promotions have successfully draw in online shoppers. This report comes amid the shift in political power with the 18th party congress and claims of the continuing...
View ArticleBritain Looks to China for Christmas Cheer
As Britain is split over attracting Chinese tourists and visa plans posing a security threat, AFP reports Britain is now looking towards Chinese tourists for Christmas cheer: Congee and dumplings are...
View ArticleGolden Week 2013: Travel Woes and Unruly Behavior
Beginning each year around the anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the 7-day national holiday known as “Golden Week” has become notorious for the congestion it brings to travel infrastructure and...
View ArticleSmog Disrupts the National Holiday
Heavy smog descended over northern China last weekend, trapping hundreds of thousands of people on their way home as the week-long national holiday came to an end. From Xinhua News Agency: As of 10...
View ArticleValentine’s Day With Chinese Characteristics.
An article in Beijing’s central state-run English daily reveals just how much the West’s most famous Hallmark holiday means to some in China. From China Daily: “Nowadays, Valentine’s Day is widely...
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Qingming, Grave-sweeping Day
Although Qingming jie is an ancient Chinese holiday to commemorate the dead, it was only last December that the Chinese government made Qingming an official holiday. From China Daily: People are...
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China Marks “Emancipation” of Tibet With New Holiday
To recognize the 50th anniversary of the PRC’s rule of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s exile, China has declared March 28th to be a holiday that marks Tibetan emancipation. From Jason Subler of Reuters:...
View ArticleChristmas Blossoms in China
Several foreign media reports look at the rising popularity of celebrating Christmas in China. From the BBC: Only an estimated 2% of China’s population are practising Christians so, for people such as...
View ArticleThe Greening Of Mooncakes
Amid concerns of corruption during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xinhua reports 85 million Chinese traveled on the first day of the long holiday. Holiday travel has been infamous for straining the already...
View ArticleHoliday Hordes: Good for the Economy?
CDT previously reported on China’s super rich still going all out with their Golden Week travel plans. The Wall Street Journal reports Golden Week hordes may be a good sign for the economy: A total of...
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China Expects 3.6 Bln Trips Over Lunar New Year
With the Year of the Snake reaching its tail end, China has now officially entered Chunyun (春运)—the 40 day period of heavy travel that comes as many in the world’s most populous nation scramble home to...
View ArticleMap Visualizes Chinese New Year Migration
As the Chinese New Year (January 31) quickly approaches, an expected 3.6 billion trips will be made as millions of people from across the country voyage home in what is known as “the world’s largest...
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