Beijing
China Eastern: a Paris-Beijing flight in 2019 or 2020?
China Eastern, Air France's partner on the France-China route, is working to open a Paris-Beijing route, according to Heng Yu, the airline's Senior Marketing Manager Europe in Paris. "We are working very hard to obtain a new daily frequency between Paris and Beijing with the opening of the new airport for the Chinese capital. It is possible...
Mandarin Oriental expands to Beijing and South America
Mandarin Oriental had once planned to open in the CCTV Tower, designed by Rem Koolhaas, but it burnt down in 2009. In the end, the brand's first representative in Beijing will be inaugurated in the historic Qianmen district. The hotel will play on the characteristic style of the hutongs, the narrow streets of old Beijing,...
Skyteam will move all its flights to the future airport...
Skyteam will be the main alliance to transfer all its flights to the future "New Beijing Airport" (provisional name), which is now scheduled to open in early 2019. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Civil Aviation Department of China, which has designated China Eastern and China Southern for this transfer. Air China,...
Wuhan: the ambitions of a Francophile
Knowing that Wuhan is pronounced Wouran will soon be no more than a question of general knowledge. And with good reason: the capital of Hubei - one of China's richest provinces - is fast becoming a first-class business city. Of course, when you stroll along the banks of the Yangtze, you'll notice...
Chongqing: an oversized megalopolis
A Chinese version of the conquest of the West is being re-enacted in Chongqing, almost 2,000 km from Beijing. With a population of 32 million living in an area of 82400 km², Chongqing is the most densely populated city in the world. These extraordinary dimensions are in fact maintained by...























