Ahead of the weeklong Lunar New Year celebration, US Northwest pear growers and industry officials are looking forward to increased demand for a variety of fresh US pears during China's holiday shopping season.
Mercedes-Benz is planning to build its presence in the nation's lucrative high-end tourism industry, according to the company.
It may take an innocent yet transcendental eye "to see a world in a grain of sand", as the English poet William Blake wrote in the opening of his Auguries of Innocence.
Over 62,000 individual tourists from the Chinese mainland traveled to Taiwan in December, registering a new high.
China's meteorological authority issued a yellow alert for foggy weather as heavy fog will continue to shroud central and eastern China on Friday.
A recent proclamation from the regulating agency for the television industry has made it clear that hosts for TV shows must not use dialects, but Mandarin (Putonghua) only.
To attract more Chinese travelers during the Lunar New Year holiday, the California tourism authority is gearing up to spotlight unique pop-up shops, merchandise, special events and cultural presentations.
In the Year of the Horse, the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley are both showing their particular affinity and openness to China, as well as open arms to new Chinese immigrants bringing in hefty investments.