Chang'an Avenue ends at Dongdan and Xidan - technically, that is.
To step into Raffles Beijing Hotel is to be transported back 100 years.
It is hard not to be impressed by the Westin Bund Center Shanghai, with its rooftop crown lighting up the Bund at night and its towering palm trees lending the lobby a tropical flavor that belies the hotel's proximity to People's Square.
Renaissance Tianjin Teda Hotel &Convention Center is located in the center of this new boomtown, accessible from downtown Tianjin via an expressway and a mass transit light rail.
Lido is not only a hotel, but a community. A hotel may have a few gift shops, but what hotel is supplemented with banks, a post office and some 50 shops? A hotel may be joined by an office tower, but what hotel is appended with apartment buildings, schools and a country club?
"The lobby is the soul of the Sheraton Sanya Resort," says Julie Wang, its marketing communications manager.
Gloria Resort Sanya is first Chinese deluxe resort in Yalong Bay.
The heart of Beijing is indisputably Tian'anmen. But a few miles to the east lies another "heart", the capital's Central Business District.