Mobissimo

China has been undergoing a facelift for some time now and Guangzhou is participating well.  Not just because of the change of name from Canton, but Guangzhou long a center of trading is not becoming a hot destination, read more here via the NY Times.

GUANGZHOU, the Chinese city formerly known as Canton, is famous mainly for its commerce and its cuisine. Throw in eight-lane highways that loop every which way like giant concrete pretzels, and seemingly year-round gray skies, and it’s no wonder this industrial city along the Pearl River Delta of China has never been a tourist draw on par with, say, Shanghai or Beijing.