The 1st China (Shanghai) International Technology Fair, which aims to promote advanced technology exchanges globally will be held in Shanghai.
Shanghai is trying to consolidate its status as a global hot spot by allowing visitors arriving by passenger liners to spend three days in the city without a visa.
Huaqiao has sped up efforts to develop its business travel industry as a driving force for other local businesses, including the food and hospitality industry, service sector and infrastructure sector.
At age 72, Yue Meiti still takes to the stage to perform young male roles in an art form she has studied since she was a teenager.
If you want to talk to Dick Mackridge about China, be prepared for him to burst into song.
Getting paid 50,000 yuan ($8,090) a day to dress in the latest fashion and have their pictures taken is no longer attractive for models working for Taobao. Instead, more of these beauties nicknamed as Tao Girl, are changing roles - selling clothes, not only modeling them, on the country's largest online shopping bazaar.
People touch a car as they compete during a car-touching competition in Shanghai April 29, 2013.
Chinese have long played a part in the global fashion industry, whether through tailoring, manufacturing or, since the 1980s, at the forefront as designers.