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An Overview: Official Flowers of 32 Chinese Cities

   The Plum Blossom: One of China's National Flowers   -by Josh Gartner & Eva Lai     You don't have to go to Kunming to enjoy a breathtaking array of China's flowers. Olympic cities from Beijing to Shanghai h... ...full story at China Expat

from China Expat on Mon, Aug 18 2008

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01 Jun 07 visit Weddings at the hotel, flowers on limo  »  YouTube videotwo weddings at a hotel on the same day at the garden expo hotel in Kunming. flowers galore, went there to go bowling. seems rather western to me but who am I to say
22 Jul 08 visit Flowers all the way for a green Games  »  Shanghai Daily BEIJING has prepared 40 million flowering plants to decorate streets and Olympic venues. "July and August are usually a hard time for flowers," Wang Sumei, vice director of the Beijing Landscape Forestation Bureau,...
19 Feb 07 visit Chinese present flowers to Deng  »  Xinhua Over 33,000 Chinese netizens presented virtual flowers to Deng Xiaoping on Internet portal Sina.com, showing their respect for him on the 10th anniversary of his death.
05 Apr 08 visit CIC, JC Flowers to open $4 bln fund for U.S. deals  »  People's Daily China Investment Corp (CIC), the country's 200 billion U.S. dollars sovereign wealth fund, has signed a deal with JC Flowers & Co to launch a 4 billion dollars private equity fund to focus on investments in US financial assets, despite incr ...
03 Nov 08 visit These 15 Chinese Cities Are Everywhere You Want To Be.  »  China Law Blog Mastercard recently came out with its list of the 65 key cities driving growth in emerging markets worldwide. Fifteen Chinese cities made the list. (h/t China Business Blog) The top ten cities worldwide were as follows: 1 Shanghai China 2 Beijing China 3...
19 Jul 08 visit Olympic evictions  »  James Reynolds China's spent about $40bn to make Beijing a more modern city for the Olympic Games. Visitors are meant to be dazzled by the skyscrapers, the new subway lines, and even the newly-planted rows of flowers by the side of the road (especially grown so that...

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