It is home to a big convention centre and some smart malls and hotels.
The technology giant announced a tie-in with real estate developer China Vanke in 2014, to work together on 20 new digitally smart malls.
Gaza City's smartest mall, Andalusia, declared it was suspending credit for Hamas government employees.
When we met he was eating a steak sandwich in the food court of a smart shopping mall, sitting among scores of shoppers and families feasting on curries, pizzas, fried fish and the ubiquitous chips.
No high-level officials have been sacked as a result of the disastrous handling of September's assault by the Shabab on the Westgate Centre, a smart shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi, when at least 67 people were killed.Since then the Somali militants have switched to softer targets, such as commuter buses and open-air markets.
The accused were trackers who mounted a sophisticated years-long surveillance operation to find and follow Guerrero Chapa, who was gunned down while he sat in his Range Rover in a parking area of a smart shopping mall between Dallas and Fort Worth on 22 May 2013.
The distributed algorithm is executed by a set of interconnected simple Finite Automata (FA) deployed into a mesh (Gamma) of cells, modeling the smart shopping mall.
WESTGATE, once Kenya's smartest shopping mall, is now a ruin pored over by forensic experts.
Kiev, with its smart shopping malls and rebuilt churches, is a shop window to attract new investment.
It is a city that encompasses the smart shopping malls of Sandton at one extreme, and the shabby township of Alexandria at the other.
