To maintain its role as a major economic center in western China, Chengdu will need to further deepen its high-tech industrial development, said economists and experts on Thursday during the 2013 Fortune Global Forum.
Chinese netizens have been fawning over a giant inflatable duck created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman that sailed into Hong Kong on May 2.
China issued a circular on Wednesday calling for improvements to the country's capacity to independently innovate.
The Second China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was launched in Beijing on Friday, and registration will be open through mid-July.
Premier Li Keqiang visited the Einstein Museum in Bern on Saturday morning and cheerfully mingled with some enthusiastic Swiss youths. He told them that innovation was important, as was hard work and regular exchanges between East and West.
The concept of the "smart city" is not entirely new to China. But its close relatives such as the "digital city", "low-carbon city", or "green city" cover only a part of the larger concept.
China's best-known annual high-tech fair aims to boost industrial innovation and serve as a driving force to improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth as the nation's economy slows down, officials said on Sunday.
China should try to take advantage of globalization to facilitate its struggling transformation into an innovation-driven economy.
Two striking news items recently made headlines: skyrocketing real estate prices have created a record number of millionaires in Hong Kong; two top-end restaurants, which have operated for 20 and 30 years respectively in Causeway Bay, are moving out of the area due to unbearable rents and searching for alternative locations.
How can innovation be cultivated? How can individual and collective minds be freed of the stale hallways of repetitive habit?
The city of Dalian will play host to the World Economic Forum's "2013 Annual Meeting of New Champions", Sept 11 to 13, so the organizing committee held its first plenary session yesterday to discuss preparations