Clarence (Beijing) - Hello,Welcome to Xi'an !My name is clarence guo,42 years old a taxi driver and tour guide in xi'an - the home town of terra-cotta figures for 16 years. I do a special tour to the qin terracotta warriors, cave dwelling village anda daoist temple.
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1-Day Field Trekking To The Great Wall (Beijing) - Distance: 20kmAititude raise: 400mGradient: 3%There are two major ridges surrounding Beijing: Tai-hang-shan Ridge in the west, Yan-shan Ridge in the north. Guan-gou gorge is where the two ridges meet.
A Tour To Beijing (Beijing) - It's one of Beijing's most fascinating yet least advertised attractions - A vast underground city beneath Beijing, built back in the Cultural Revolution and able to keep millions of Beijingers safe from nuclear attack. As the Sino-Soviet split worsened in the late 1960s, Chairman Mao and his then-heir-apparent Lin Biao stepped up construction of Beijing's bomb shelter complex out of fear of a Soviet attack.
The Village of Scholars (Beijing) - During the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, a village to the west of Beijing became famous for producing 22 top scholars. Over 1,000 years old, this small mountain village has been well preserved to show a rustic and harmonious life-style with 17 temples covering all major religions in China (Confucian, Buddhism, Taoism, and Catholicism), 14 scholar's houses and 10 historial, unique trees.
Cliff Caves For Mysterious Ancient People (Beijing) - Seen as the most mysterious culture wonder within China, this cliff cave group was home to mysterious ancient people lived - a historic site of 1,000 years old. It sits in a tranquil gorge in the northwest of Beijing.
Sunshine (Beijing) - Xi'an was called Chang'an in Han Dynasty. The connotation of "Chang'an" is "a place of permanent peace".
CAPITAL CITY OF China: Beijing LANGUAGE OF China: Chinese CURRENCY OF China: Yuan (CNY) COMMENTS ABOUT China: China is a country in Eastern Asia Cities : Beijing (capital), Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Kunming, Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou Best places : Great Wall of China, Tibet, Silk Road, Hainan island Electricity : 220V/50Hz (various plugs) Calling Code : 86 Time Zone : UTC +8
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight. CLIMATE OF China: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north RELIGION OF China: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4% note: officially atheist (2002 est.) POPULATION OF China: 1,298,847,624 (July 2004 est.)> ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF China: In late 1978 the Chinese leadership began moving the economy from a sluggish, inefficient, Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system. Whereas the system operates within a political framework of strict Communist control, the economic influence of non-state organizations and individual citizens has been steadily increasing. The authorities switched to a system of household and village responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted a wide variety of small-scale enterprises in services and light manufacturing, and opened the economy to increased foreign trade and investment. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978. Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, China in 2003 stood as the second-largest economy in the world after the US, although in per capita terms the country is still poor. Agriculture and industry have posted major gains especially in coastal areas near Hong Kong, opposite Taiwan, and in Shanghai, where foreign investment has helped spur output of both domestic and export goods. The leadership, however, often has experienced - as a result of its hybrid system - the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy and lassitude) and of capitalism (growing income disparities and rising unemployment). China thus has periodically backtracked, retightening central controls at intervals. The government has struggled to (a) sustain adequate jobs growth for tens of millions of workers laid off from state-owned enterprises, migrants, and new entrants to the work force; (b) reduce corruption and other economic crimes; and (c) keep afloat the large state-owned enterprises, many of which had been shielded from competition by subsidies and had been losing the ability to pay full wages and pensions. From 80 to 120 million surplus rural workers are adrift between the villages and the cities, many subsisting through part-time, low-paying jobs. Popular resistance, changes in central policy, and loss of authority by rural cadres have weakened China's population control program, which is essential to maintaining long-term growth in living standards. Another long-term threat to growth is the deterioration in the environment, notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table especially in the north. China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and economic development. Beijing says it will intensify efforts to stimulate growth through spending on infrastructure - such as water supply and power grids - and poverty relief and through rural tax reform. Accession to the World Trade Organization helps strengthen its ability to maintain strong growth rates but at the same time puts additional pressure on the hybrid system of strong political controls and growing market influences. China has benefited from a huge expansion in computer internet use. Foreign investment remains a strong element in China's remarkable economic growth. Growing shortages of electric power and raw materials will hold back the expansion of industrial output in 2004.
Hi! I am Mary Yin and I have 5 years experience in showing people of all nationalities around Beijing, and arranging excursions to the surrounding areas, the most popular being The Great Wall. My unique knowledge of the city allows me to provide my customers with an exclusive service that gives them an insight into the history behind all the sites, which has been greatly appreciated by my customers. I am able to provide a tour guide service for groups of people, or on a one to one basis if it is required.
Just to look at the sights in Beijing is an enjoyment in itself. However you get so much more when you start to understand the history behind it, plus some of the reasonings why something was built in a certain manner. For example the moat running through the Forbidden city was put there for a purpose.
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