WANG Shiyuan, from Shanghai, can still remember clearly that he sipped his first coffee at a Hilton hotel in Jing'an district in the 1990s.

"I was so impressed to see the Christmas decorations at the hotel, for there were miniature villages and electric trains running through them. In that era, it had the most aesthetic and festive place, even better than any amusement park in my view," Wang told the Global Times.

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