Most Fascinating City
The city of Chengdu was honored as one of the two most fascinating
cities in China at the 2005 Sina.com Internet Ceremony held Tuesday
night in Beijing. Tens of millions of netizens throughout the world
witnessed the exciting moment via live video broadcast on the
net.
Qingdao, a costal city in eastern China’s Shandong Province, was
another city granted the title. Thousands upon thousands of
Sina.com users and an expert panel gave their thumbs-up to the two
from 20 candidate cities in the past two months.
Besides Chengdu, other candidates included Beijing, Shanghai,
Xiamen, Chongqing, Qingdao, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Macao SARs,
Dalian, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Harbin, Taipei, Sanya, Wuhan, Changsha,
Kunming, Guangzhou and Hangzhou.
Having long been famous for its brilliant culture and civilization,
Chengdu is a city with perfect harmony between people and nature.
It’s full of vitality and a unique ambience of comfort and leisure.
As strong advocates of personality, harmony and being magnanimous,
the Chengdu people have a deep love for their life and work. They
are enjoying life while continuing efforts to improve their quality
of life. Zhu Zhihong, Vice Mayor of the Chengdu Municipal
Government, said when addressing the ceremony.
Choosing the most fascinating cities through public voting on the
Internet, Sina.com started sponsoring the program in 2002, which
included another 46 categories like “financial people of the year”
and “the people of environmental protection of the year.” The
annual program enjoys high prestige among the Chinese people. This
one was the largest ever covering the most popular online topics
concerning news, sports, entertainment and life. Over one million
Internet users participated in the activity starting last
November.