Spotlight
- Xiamen University to build 3,000-ton oceanographic research ship
- 85 teams to compete in 2012 Dragon Boat Race in Xiamen
- Xiamen starts to build China’s 1st Whale & Dolphin Lake
- China's 1st National Conservation Centre for Palms settles in Xiamen
- Xiamen tightens ban on dumping garbage at sea
- Longxia Railway starts operation in June
- Tong’an and Xiang’an launch ten projects
- Cebu Pacific Air opens direct flights between Xiamen and Manila
Business
- Southeast International Shipping Center receives financial support
- Xiamen: green light island with prosperous opto-electronics industry
- Xiamen eyes role as financial hub for cross-Straits business
- Cross-Straits monetary settlement in planning
- Promotion of the 5th cross-Straits cultural industries fair
- An upgrading grid-connected system initiated in three cities
- Fujian promotes tourism resources
- Xiamen enterprise produces the first batch of silicon carbide epitaxial wafers in China
Info
- Xiamen launches improvement project of its largest traditional market
- Xiamen ranks 2nd in international trade growth potential nationwide
- Xiamen ranks as second happiest city
- Xiamen ranks among the top ten most livable cities in China
- Xiamen ranks 2nd most popular tourist destination in May Day holiday
- Xiamen ranks second among the Chinese cities for sustainable development in 2011
- Xiamen becomes the 8th city accessible to all Chinese provincial capitals by air
- Xiamen named in top 10 most attractive Chinese cities for expats in 2011
- Xiamen named as China’s Charming Conference City in 2011
- Xiamen to be China's 1st city with 3 undersea tunnels
- Taiwan to see more mainland individual tourists
- Construction begins on Xiamen West Tunnel this year
- CCPIT visits South Africa
Education
- Xiamen to subsidize schools to buy national standard school buses
- Cross-strait teenagers compete in science innovation
- Free tuition for medical freshmen at Xiamen University
- Xiamen University was invited to set up campuses in Malaysia
- Investment will support the Logistic Center of publications and prints in Xiamen
- Promoting economic growth
- Xiamen Financial Bureau appropriates 28.5m yuan ($4.53m USD) to support the first batch of “Double-hundred” talents
- Teachers required to do homework before assignment
- Xiamen to establish 18 new public kindergartens
- XMU Xiang'an campus to be completed
- Xiamen renders gratuitous compulsory education
- 70% Tuition capped for private kindergartens
Numbers
- Transient population in Xiamen hits record 2.4 million in 2011
- Gulangyu Island receives 58,000 tourists on 1st day of May Day holiday
- Xiamen achieved a 9.1 growth in GDP in Jan-Feb this year
- Xiamen tourism revenue expected to hit RMB13.1b in Q1 of 2012
- Xiamen Railway Station to be expanded to 2.3 times larger
- 256 urban construction projects in Xiamen
