Zibo, a sleepy industrial city of 4.7 million in eastern China, is not typically known as a tourist hot spot. But when Zibo native Mr Zhang travelled home for his wedding last month, he was stunned by ...

The local government of Zibo, East China's Shandong Province, has issued two open letters in a short time to all citizens, extending its gratitude for their warmth and hospitality toward visitors who ...

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You may not believe this, but during the Spring Festival holidays, the first meal I craved upon returning to my hometown was not a homemade meal cooked by my parents, but the Zibo barbecue. Yes, my ...

BEIJING – Zibo, in eastern Shandong province, looks just like any other industrial town in China, home to petrochemicals, textiles and porcelain factories. Its biggest claim to fame is a visit by then ...

In March last year, driven by the allure of barbecue skewers wrapped with small pancakes — a traditional way of consuming barbecue in Zibo — tourists from all over the country flocked to the city.

Prominent scientist Shi Changxu (left) presenting a plaque to Zibo's Party chief, Liu Huiyan, on behalf of the Chinese Materials Research Society, proclaiming Zibo a 'New Materials City'. Thanks to ...

For restaurant owners in the newly crowned barbecue capital of China, business was thriving as usual on Friday, the midpoint of the three-day Dragon Boat festival. The music was loud, every restaurant ...

Zibo, in Shandong Province, is an important ceramics industrial base in northern China, and has been ranked along with Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and Tangshan in Hebei as one of China’s “three capitals of ...