Chong Loong Charles Chaw: 34 books

Foshan is situated in the central and southern part of Guangdong Province in the Pearl River Delta. It takes only two hours to drive from Foshan to Hong Kong or Macau, and one hour to drive to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. Foshan covers an area of 3,848 sq km and has a total population...

Bole, one of the major border land port cities in Xinjiang, is under the jurisdiction of Bortala Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the northwestern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at the northwestern foot of Tianshan Mountain. The city is located in a temperate zone with a continental climate. Its average temperature ranges from 3.7°C to −7.4°C.

Beihai, called Bakhoi in Cantonese, is a prefecture-level city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region located in the southwest part of China. The city, lying on the northeastern shore of Beibu Gulf, is well-known for being an excellent tourist city.

Cixi, a county-level city under the administration of Ningbo, is situated in the coastal part of eastern Zhejiang Province. It is situated only 70 km from Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, one of the most important deep-water ports in China. The country’s economic hub, Shanghai, is just on the other side of the sea, while Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, is only 145 km away.

Baoji is located in the southwestern part of Shaanxi Province and has a land area of 18,175 sq km. It had a population of 3.76 million as of the end of 2008. It has mountains in the south, west and north occupying about 83% of the land. The remaining area is plains, with the Wei River cutting through the middle.

China has long been regarded as a state of etiquette and ceremonies. Many proverbs relating to the importance of good manners have been passed down generation after generation: “civility costs nothing” and “courtesy demands reciprocity” are among the most popular.

Chongqing was approved and established by the State Council as one of China’s four provincial-level municipalities in 1997 after Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. It is situated in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River adjacent to Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and Shaanxi.

Baotou is the largest industrial city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Central Baotou has mountains and hills, with plateaus and grassland to the north and plains to the south. The Yellow River runs through the city from west to east. Baotou is rich in mineral resources, especially in metallic minerals; it is called the rare earth capital in China.

Changshu, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, is situated in the southeastern part of Jiangsu Province in the Yangtze River Delta. Changshu is bordered by Taicang to the east, Kunshan and Suzhou to the south, Wuxi and Jiangyin to the west, the Yangtze River to the north and Zhangjiagang to the northwest.

Hekou Yao Autonomous County is located in the southeastern part of Yunnan Province adjacent to Vietnam. It is one of Yunnan’s major border land port cities. Hekou has a tropical climate. The weather is usually hot and humid with temperatures reaching 40.9°C in the summer and 2.1°C in the winter. Hekou has many forests, wild animals and cash crops.

Jiujiang is located in the northern part of Jiangxi Province, close to famous landmarks that include Lu Mountain, the Yangtze River, which is the longest river in China, and Poyang Lake, which is the largest freshwater lake in China. Jiujiang has two districts, nine counties and one county-level city under its jurisdiction.

Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province, is also its political, economic and cultural center. It lies to the east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.Xining has a typical mainland plateau climate with an average temperature of 7.7°C and an annual rainfall of 425 mm. It experiences mild summers and winters.

The culmination of years of research, surveys, interviews and site visits, the China Knowledge Rating System assigns ratings to industrial parks based on five broad factors subdivided into 21 attributes with a view to guiding foreign investors looking to set up in China.

Taiyuan, which is the capital of Shanxi Province, boasts a history spanning over 2,500 years and is at the center of Shanxi’s politics, economy and culture. Taiyuan is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in North China with hills to the west, north and east. Taiyuan is rich in mineral resources, the majority of which are coal, iron and gypsum.