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It was the media centre for the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. It will soon be one of the world's largest convention and exhibition centres, when it opens in 2025. It will be a place to welcome heads of state to international summits held in the Chinese capital, as well as the world's leading...

Airlines flying to China can offer more flights this winter, according to China's civil aviation authority CAAC. The increase in capacity mainly concerns domestic flights. The number of domestic flights is up by 34% compared with the pre-Covid period. This represents almost 97,000 weekly frequencies. Internationally, capacity to...

Swissôtel has returned to its flagship hotel in Beijing, one of the doyens of international chain hotels in the Chinese capital. Opened in 1991, the Swissôtel Beijing Hong Kong Macau Center was also one of the key establishments during the 2008 Olympic Games for welcoming officials and the media. And this...

Milan, Venice, Florence: the Radisson group is set to strengthen its upmarket offering in several of Italy's major cities. Between now and the end of the summer, its premium brand Radisson Collection will see the materialisation of several projects that have already been announced. At the end of August, in Milan, the former headquarters of the Touring Club Italiano, a historic building dating from the end of the 19th century, will...

And in the end, it's the City that wins, despite the Brexit and all the waltz and hesitation surrounding the UK's exit from the EU. The "Attractiveness of Global Business Districts 2020" report, published by EY and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), once again recognises London's business district as the world's most attractive. The...

More and more Chinese cities are appearing in AT Kearney's annual ranking of the development potential of major business cities. From just 7 out of 60 in 2008, they now number 27 out of the 130 cities surveyed by the consultancy firm. This compares with just 12 American cities. And yet, and this is...

"You can't be and have been. Well, you can! All over the world, the world's major business cities are putting the popular saying to rest. What were the key metropolises at the end of the 19th century? New York and Chicago in the United States, London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow in Europe, Tokyo in Asia,...

Finnair continues to expand its services to Japan. In December, the Finnish carrier will become the only European carrier to fly to Sapporo twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays. Sapporo New Chitose International Airport has not been served by a European carrier since KLM left in 2002. The flight...

Designed to relieve congestion at the existing Beijing Capital airport, the new Daxing international airport is due to open its doors at the end of September and welcome its first flights in October. Carrying the IATA code PKX, the new airport will above all be the hub for the China Eastern and China Southern airlines. China Eastern has announced the transfer of its...

This is a real victory for Nice airport, which becomes the first regional airport to obtain a direct air link with China. From August 2, Air China will be offering three flights a week to Beijing-Capital in Airbus A330-200s with a two-class configuration and a capacity of 227 passengers, including 28...

"The species that survive are not the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but those that adapt best to change": the principle of evolution summed up by Darwin could clearly be applied to the airline industry, that hostile ecosystem where airlines must continually adapt or risk bankruptcy. Determined to survive...

This will be the airport event of 2019, an event that is likely to overshadow somewhat the opening of the new Istanbul airport, which is suffering from a number of delays in its full opening to traffic. Beijing Daxing airport will finally give some breathing space to Beijing Capital airport, the Chinese capital's main air hub. And which, despite...

"Imagine an urbanised Paris from Melun to Rouen: here is Beijing!" says Jean-Philippe Dufour, sustainable development and transport adviser at the Economic Mission of the French Embassy in Beijing. A polycentric city with a population of almost 23 million, Beijing is also polymorphous, architecturally eclectic, with buildings by Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and Paul Andreu rubbing shoulders with...

We deliver to the four corners of China How did the idea of setting up French bakeries and patisseries in Beijing come about? Benjamin Devos - It was in 2003, I had just finished hotel management school in Lausanne and was doing a work placement in a Beijing hotel. I realised that quality bakeries were sorely lacking....

An app to measure air quality How did you come up with the idea of launching an environmental start-up in Beijing? Yann Boquillod - I first came here twenty years ago to work for Nokia. Then I got married. That's when the question arose...

Situated 120 km south-east of Beijing, Tianjin was for a long time just a port, somewhat off the coast of the Yellow Sea. Nowadays, it takes just 35 minutes by train to reach this ancient, peaceful town split by the Hai He river, which was the site of Gustave Eiffel's workshops during the...

On a Friday evening, the cars speed along Sanlitun Road. Ultra-fashionable young people are being dropped off in front of the new restaurants opening one after the other in the most sought-after district of the moment. This is the epicentre of modern Beijing, where the InterContinental Sanlitun opened at the end of 2016, in an extravagant tower looking...

The notorious annual average concentration of PM2.5, the fine particles known to damage the lungs and cause cancer, has finally fallen. While it still stood at 100 microgrammes per m3 of air in 2009, it has been reduced to 57 microgrammes in 2017, a huge step forward, but not yet...

"In Beijing, I've always preferred to live in the hutong district, where life is truly relaxed. That's where I opened my gallery, near the Lamas temple. Unfortunately, this area, with its traditional houses, is in the process of being transformed, and may well disappear. But it's the Beijing I love. Amongst...

BEIJING IDENTITY CARD Currency: In June 2018, 1 Yuan = 0.13 Euros Area code: + 86 (China) 10 (Beijing) 22 (Tianjin) Time difference: +6 hours GETTING THERE FINNAIR, the Finnish airline which in 1988 was the very first in Europe to operate a direct service to China, now offers a daily flight between Paris and Beijing via...