The Cities Of China. China's Cities. Metropolises In China.
Well you get the point.
The Little Red Book recently did a series of posts nicely setting out various mostly marketing type facts/statistics on some key China cities. So far, they have done "snapshots" of Tianjin, Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jinan, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou.
I am hoping they add Beijing, Qingdao, Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing and Harbin.
UPDATE: The links over to LRB are no longer valid so I pulled them.
Comments (6)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endDr. Daniel W. Kwong, FHKIOD , FAPS - February 3, 2009 8:20 AM
That should be more accessible and useful when
installed in a DVD...
I have observed my friends in GuangZhou
carrying a little booklet for all bus routes
in GuangZhou City. Very convenient and
thrifty for some travellers/tourists or
businesspersons/employees from overseas...
However, those are in Chinese. I do not know
if that publication does have copy in English
version or other lanaguages.
Thanks for the information.
Dr. Daniel W. Kwong
(Hong Kong, China and US)
Daniel - February 3, 2009 6:15 PM
Also Xiamen and Fuzhou. I've heard about that, because of the proximity of Taiwan and the fact that Xiamen speaks the same Minnan dialect as Taiwan, there's a lot of Taiwanese investments into the region. Plus something like 50% of overseas Chinese are from Fujian.
EC - February 3, 2009 6:33 PM
The Little Red Book blog also shows "city snapshots" for Dalian, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Beijing on the next page. Nothing on Qingdao or Harbin yet.
Paul - February 3, 2009 8:33 PM
Very interesting linking to this particular blog.
Are you aware they copy-paste much material from paid corporate subscriptions and attempt to pass it off as their own?
Pretty cool indeed.
robert - February 3, 2009 10:38 PM
I second Xiamen and Fuzhou. Most of the Chinese in Singapore (and Penang and KL) speak the same dialect as Xiamen and Taiwan.
Rand - February 5, 2009 3:37 AM
@paul
Yes we did have some news articles posting facts about companies in China (ie: adspend, opening a new shop etc) and all of that was attributed to the site, which btw was adagechina. However, we didn't have many hits on that info (all a bit stale IMHO) and decided to drop it altogether after complaints from adagechina for using material that they sourced from Xinhua and China daily.
So much bitterness in the world - can't we all "just get along"?