HOHHOT off white air max 90 for sale , June 28 (Xinhua) -- Having worked in Ordos in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for nearly six years, Zhang Xin, a clerk at a property management company, is relieved to have bought a new apartment last year.
"The price we bought at was 5,900 yuan (860 U.S. dollars) per square meter. Today it is worth almost 9,000 yuan per square meter," Zhang's father Zhang Wenquan said.
Zhang is a native of Qiqihar City, in neighboring Heilongjiang Province. Her new apartment is well located cheap nike air max 90 , next to a middle school in Kangbashi District, once labelled a "ghost town" by international press.
With an area of some 30 square kilometers, Kangbashi was a futuristic town built on a wasteland in Ordos. Work began in 2004. Facilities of the town were widely put into use only in 2009.
At the very beginning, the population of Kangbashi was no more than 30,000. The town was notorious for the pointless construction and the resulting housing bubble.
The city government came up with a series of measures, including curbing new building work, improving local schools and health facilities, beautifying the environment and air max 270 2018 , perhaps most crucially, attracting businesses and investment to encourage people to settle down.
It worked. Kangbashi is now an ideal tourist destination and a viable place to invest. At the end of May, there were more than 4,750 businesses in the district and a permanent population of 153,000.
The housing prices in Kangbashi have been rising since the end of 2015, said Liu Hai'e, an official with the local housing authority. The average price per square meter has increased from 4,200 yuan to around 6 cheap air max 2018 ,500 yuan.
In 2016, a total of 2,089 apartments were sold and more than 1,700 had been sold by June 20 this year.
With green space coverage reaching 42 percent, Kangbashi was designated as both a garden city and a forest city in 2016.
The cool climate in summer and the nearby prairies have brought the tourists in and along with a number of retirees, attracting even more people from other places to move in.
Wang Yongcheng, 74, a retired cadre from Hangjin Banner of Ordos cheap air max 2017 , is among them. He bought a 134-square-meter apartment in Kangbashi two years ago.
"Kangbashi is like a big park with green space everywhere," Wang said, well satisfied with a retirement replete with recreational alternatives.
Zhang Wenquan echoes his views and told Xinhua he is very pleased to live in Kangbashi, breathing fresh air and enjoying the green and pleasant environment, good security and convenient public services.
"My brother, who is in his 80s, at first did not believe what I told him about Kangbashi until he visited us," Zhang said.
Liu Hai'e said more than 60 percent of new house buyers over the past two years in the district have come from neighboring areas.
Over 40 air max 1 master sale ,000 apartments have been built since construction started in 2004. Most have now been sold and no more than 500 remain available.
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JERUSALEM, July 20 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli soldier with 18-monthsentence in prison for killing a wounded, incapacitated Palestinianassailant has been placed under house arrest on Thursday.
A military court in Tel Aviv convicted Elor Azaria ofmanslaughter in January, as he shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif when hewas injured and immobilized on the ground in March.
The incident took place in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida inthe West Bank city of Hebron, where a few hundreds of settlers livein a heavily guarded enclave between some 200,000 Palestinians.
Azaria has appealed the court to reconsider his sentence. Sincehis military service ends on July 20 air max 97 mens cheap , he was allowed to travel tohis parents' home in Ramla, west of Tel Aviv, and stay there underhouse arrest until his appeal on July 30.
Since the incident, Azaria has been under "open arrest," meaninghe was confined to a military base but was allowed to move therefreely.
The rare conviction against Azaria, a military medic, marked thefirst time in 12 years that an Israeli court convicted a soldier ofthis charge.
The case stirred a polarized public debate in Israel, with manypolitical leaders air max 97 womens size 7 , including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,calling that Azaria should be pardoned. Enditem
BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- When the Communist Party of China announced on Thursday that all couples will be allowed to have a second child, 33-year-old Zhang Jing cried.
"It was the day I've been waiting for," she said.
Zhang, a member of staff at the family planning authority of Yishui County in east China's Shandong Province, has an eight-year-old son. "But I'm looking forward to the second baby, so that after our death air max 97 all white womens , they will not be lonely."
She even has a nickname for her second child, even though she had no idea when it would come to the world. The name is Tangdou, which means candy in Chinese. She hopes Tangdou is a girl.
Zhang told Xinhua that everyone in her office has been discussing the new policy, with some older women expressing their regret at not being able to seize the chance.
"Compared with people in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, we in counties and townships will find it more convenient to have a second child, because we are not so pressured by skyrocketing housing prices and fierce job competition," she said.
Zhang is not the only person now weighing startling new possibilities.
"Nobody will sleep tonight.