China Landscape Architect

China Vanke Co., Ltd. ranks No. 1 among the top 10 property developers listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in terms of comprehensive firm power, citing a latest research report by China’s State Council.

In the north of Hebei Province, the city of Tangshan has a long, at times heartbreaking history, but today it is a modern metro area emphasizing sustainable development.

CCTV reports that “China’s top economic planning body has approved a monitoring system for the property sector. It will cover property markets in 40 cities across the country. But the National Development and Reform Commission did not say when it will be put into use.”

Two wells as deep as 2,000 meters underground will provide heat for a 7,500-seat gymnasium in winter, the competing venue for the badminton tournament of Beijing Olympic Games, and another 12 wells are used for the cooling system in summer.

The Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium will realize zero emission in the use of geothermal energy, and energy consumption would be reduced by 30 percent, said vice president of the university Zhang Ailin.

Vice premier Hui Liangyu on Tuesday called for the better use of the second national agricultural census to develop scientific plans for harmonized urban and rural development.

SANQING Mountain in Jiangxi Province has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list, China Youth Daily reported today.

The mountain was added yesterday at the 32nd Session of the World Heritage Committee in Quebec, Canada.

It is the province’s first natural site and the country’s seventh to make the list, the report said.

This site in Sandao, Hainan province, has been recreated in the virtual online world of Second Life where the public will design an “Eco-friendly Community” that will later be built on the actual site.

When David Greenberg stumbled across a cluster of tree houses while trekking the jungles of Maui, he felt a sudden and mighty urge to rebel.

“That was the moment I knew I wouldn’t be an urban designer,” he says. The California native with a disdain for convention and an admiration of nature would instead reinvent himself as an “anti-architect” and “anti-designer”.

“Just like the architects went into the rundown parts of the cities in the US during the 1960s to remodel and revive, the landscape architects must go to China’s rural areas and do much the same thing,” he says. For that reason, he says: “I’m so lucky and so happy to be working for my last few years in China.”

Dongshan Tunnel newly-completed at Huainan City, east China’s Anhui Province, June 30, 2008. The tunnel, at a total cost of 190 million yuan, has double lines extending 916 meters and a net width of 14.5 meters and comprising lanes for motorcycle, non-motorized vehicle, pedestrians, and maintenance. The tunnel is equipped with complete functional sets of ventilation, illumination, monitoring, and fire extinguishing etc

YEARS of negotiations between the Shanghai government and Walt Disney Co appear to have clinched a deal for a huge Disneyland to be built in Pudong.

The official announcement is expected to be made after the Beijing Olympics in August.

An exclusive report published by the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po newspaper yesterday said the park will cover about 10 square kilometers of land - about eight times the size of Hong Kong Disneyland.

Although the property market in some Chinese cities is cooling down, many property developers are reluctant to talk about their financial pressures. However, some developers are selling their land via equity exchange.

At the Beijing Equity Exchange, real estate projects on sale are not only from the capital, but also around the country including Chongqing municipality and Anhui Province