This detail from Fuller’s map shows the area around the Forbidden City, the ancient Chinese palace complex in central Beijing. The design at the very center combines a starlike Western compass ...

View on Google Maps. Share. ... This Old City house is also the site of China’s first Catholic chapel. 238 Qiaojia Rd, Lao Xi Men, Huangpu Qu, Shanghai Shi, China. Location.

CHINA’S urbanisation is a marvel. The population of its cities has quintupled over the past 40 years, reaching 813m. By 2030 roughly one in five of the world’s city-dwellers will be Chinese.

Where China is planning military drills. ... One of the planned drill areas appeared to be less than 12 miles from Kaohsiung, a southern port city, according to a map released by Xinhua.

Hangzhou redraws its map and adds a district named Qiantang, ... an old name that was given to the city by China’s first emperor in 222 BC, or 2,243 years ago. ...