New York

Ground breaking

Cheng Lei (third from left), deputy consul general of China in New York, is joined by guests and media on Dec 15 in Atlantic Yards, New York, at the ground-breaking event of 535 Carlton Avenue, an affordable housing project by Greenland Forest City Partners, a joint venture between China’s conglomerate Greenland’s US branch and its US partner Forest City Ratner.LU HUIQUAN / for China Daily