Beijing News You Might Have Missed this Week, Dec 5

Joey Knotts, Contributing Editor | Dec 5, 2020 2:30 pm | 1 comment | 438 reads

Beijing is a happening city! Don't miss a thing with our weekend roundup of the latest news.

Code’s good on the Bund: Beijingers can now use their transit QR code to board the subway in Shanghai (and visa versa). The integration of the cities’ transit systems is part of an ongoing effort to ease the burden of regular travelers between the two, which has also been reflected in the recent adjustment of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train prices. In other travel news, train tickets are now on sale for your solar New Year trip.

Time to tell ‘em how you feel: With the new year just around the corner, China is on the lookout for new year's resolutions. In the process, they haven’t forgotten about their foreign friends. On the contrary, the country’s central government has put out a call for feedback from foreigners residing in China, complete with an English-language interface. Click here to submit your thoughts.

Say what you want about TCM: Over the summer, we debunked the claim that a new law would criminalize the criticism of traditional Chinese medicine – in fact, the draft outlawed making harmful false claims about Chinese medicine. However, the controversy over the law persisted, and the clause in concern has now been dropped.

Sorry Zuck, you’re outta luck this year: As expected, Beijing’s annual marathon has been canceled this year due to COVD-19 concerns. This is the first time the race has been canceled since the tradition began 40 years ago.

Well, butter my beer and call me a wizard: A Brit’s coming to China and it ain’t Eddie Izzard. New photos of Harry Potter World at Universal Studios Beijing have emerged, mostly of snowy rooftops but also of platform nine and three-quarters.

Best of the blog

  • Moving into the space that once held dance club Salsa Caribe, the newly opened Wood Garden House restaurant is really taking the space in a different direction.
  • Read the story of a man who had his heart ripped to shreds – and his cash too – in this week's Beijing Lights.
  • How is China making sure that so-called digital refugees aren't left behind? Find out in Talking Tech.
  • Get a head start on your nostalgia for 2020 (if there's any to be had) with our Year in Review blogs. This week, we took a look at the foreign residents we've waved goodbye to.
  • Can't afford to eat Michelin-starred cuisine? Neither can the poor saps featured in this week's Pee-king Report.

READ: Bei-Jingle All the Way: Make Like a Tree and Get Lit This Christmas Weekend

Images: Shanghai Metro, athree23 and kian2018 (via Pixabay), Weibo

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Re: Beijing News You Might Have Missed this Week, Dec 5
Posted Dec 7, 2020 1:47pm by wjh
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Slow work year, Giovanni Martini?

Giovanni Martini wrote:

. "New photos of Harry Potter World at Universal Studios Beijing have emerged, mostly of snowy rooftops but also of platform nine and three-quarters."

Slow news week, eh? Photos of Harry Potter...meh. Unless of course, he's in chains and being savaged by a tumescent Snape in Dumbledore's private dungeon.