Many say that the tradition of presenting gifts contributes to Beijing's traffic woes in September - an ongoing anti-corruption drive might allow us to test the theory.
An entrepreneurial fellow from Luoyang, a backwater city in Henan Province, is living the American Dream selling popular Chinese snacks like Roujiamo (肉夾饃) and Liangpi (涼皮) from a converted trailer at the gates of Columbia University in New York.
Since 1990, Beijing's book lovers have been heading to Ditan Park to pick up bargains at an outdoor book market that's held every Spring and Autumn. But rising costs and competition from online retailers have now led to the market's demise.
An ad for hair dressing services delivered "to the door" scribbled in Chinese on the wall of a Paris metro station has sparked debate on Chinese social media.
Xinhua News Agency says that a report about China's president Xi Jinping taking a taxi in Beijing that was published by Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao newspaper is not true.
According to Xinhua, the Middle East bureau of China's official news agency in Cairo was 10 seconds ahead of CNN in reporting the outbreak of hostilities in Iraq.
