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People’s Republic of China Administrative Division

Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region;

Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces;

Shanghai Municipality, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong Province;

Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province;

Chongqing Municipality, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan Province, the Tibet Autonomous Region;

Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region;

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province;

History: From the mid-12th century AD, as Beijing Yuan, Ming and Qing history before and after the capital of nearly 800 years. October 1, 1949, after the founding of New China, Beijing People’s Republic of China was designated as the capital.

Area: Beijing a total area of 16,808 square kilometers.
Administrative divisions: 16 Beijing administered zone two counties, followed by the Dongcheng District and Xicheng District, Xuanwu District, Fangshan District, Chongwen District, Haidian District, Chaoyang District, Fengtai District, Mentougou District, Shijingshan District, Tongzhou, Shunyi District , Changping, Daxing, Huairou, Pinggu and Miyun County District, Yanqing County.
Location: adjacent to the northwest Shanxi, Inner Mongolia plateau, South and the North China Plain convergence East near the Bohai Sea.
Climate: temperate monsoon climate, four distinct seasons and pleasant weather. Rainfall concentrated in the summer, the average annual rainfall 644 mm, spring and autumn is the best tourist season.

Beijing outlined

Beijing called Beijing, the People’s Republic of the capital. City Centre at 39 degrees north latitude, 116 degrees east longitude, is located in the northwest edge of the North China Plain, south-east about 150 km from the Bohai Sea. Area of over 16,800 square kilometres. The city’s total population of 13.819 million people. North Hill has all the military, a Western Hills West, the mountainous area of the city’s 62 percent; southeast of the Yongding River, the Chaobai River and other rivers from the alluvial, slowly tilt to the Bohai Sea on the plain. Mountain coal, iron and other minerals and granite, marble and other fine materials.

Beijing Plain in the altitude of 20 to 60 meters, mountain general elevation of 1,000 to 1,500 meters, and Hebei at the junction of East Mountain 2,303 meters above sea level, the highest peak for Beijing. River runs through the territory of five, mainly the eastern part of the Chaobai River, North Canal, the western part of the Yongding River and Juma He. Beijing is the topography of the northwest, southeast low. Yu Mo is the Taihang Mountains west of the Western Hills, north of the Yanshan Mountains are mountains of the military, the two-ditch clearance in the south of the intersection, forming a semicircle to the southeast of the start bending the mountains, known as “Beijing bends,” it around the small Beijing Plain is the small plains. Looking at Beijing terrain, the mountain Jin, the magnificent situation. As the ancients said: “You Zhou land, sea, Central left, right Yong Taihang, North pillow Ju Yong, South River Ji Jin,-the Land of Abundance.”

Beijing city’s total land area of 16807.8 square kilometers. Plain area of 6390.8 square kilometers, accounting for 38 percent. Mountain area of 10417.5 square kilometers, accounting for 62 percent. City area of 87.1 square kilometers. Suburban area of 1282.8 square kilometers, the suburb area of 3,198 square kilometers. County, an area of 12239.9 square kilometers. Urban planning: Ding Fuzhuang the east, west Shijingshan, Nanyuan the south, north and Qinghe, 750 square km area. Downtown area (that is, the old city areas and things to the Second Ring Road center for the community, north-south axis for the sector to a moat) area of 62.5 square kilometers.

Beijing’s climate is typical of the temperate sub-continental monsoon climate, hot summer rainy, cold and dry winter, spring and fall short. The average annual temperature of 10 to 12 degrees Celsius in January -7 ~ -4 degrees Celsius, on July 25 to 26 degrees Celsius. Minimum -27.4 degrees Celsius, 42 degrees above the highest extreme. Annual frost-free period 180 to 200 days, the western mountain shorter. The average annual rainfall over 600 mm, for the most rainfall in North China one of the regions, Piedmont windward slope up to 700 mm and above. Season is very uneven distribution of precipitation, 75 percent of annual rainfall concentrated in the summer, 7, 8, often heavy rain.

Beijing Tourism Resources

Beijing is rich in tourism resources, the opening up of more than 200 tourist attractions, the world’s largest palace Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven temple worship of heaven, the Royal Garden in the North Sea, the Royal Summer Palace gardens, Badaling, Mutian Valley, Sima Tai Great Wall And the world’s largest courtyard Prince Gong House, and other sites. The city’s total of 7,309 cultural relics, of which 42 units of national cultural relics, the municipal heritage preservation unit 222. Beijing existing tourist hotels designated 456, including 407 star hotels and 84,000 rooms, 456 travel agencies, 21 major languages of the tour guides more than 5,000 people, operating on a global market. 2000 received 2.821 million overseas tourists trips, tourism foreign exchange earnings 2.77 billion U.S. dollars. Beijing by the National Tourism Administration as “excellent Chinese tourist city.”
As of March 1995, Beijing has opened the forest park and forest total of 15 tourist areas, including: the Western Hills, Mangshan, at the top of hill and Jiufeng four national forest parks; Yunmengshan, small goal-Xin Three city-level forest parks, Pine Tree Hill National Nature Reserve, municipal Baihua Mountain Nature Reserve,丫Kyrgyzstan Hill tourist areas and tourist areas, such as four floor, a group of state-owned tree farms.
The list of attractions:
Dongcheng District: People’s Heroes Monument, Yu Qian Temple, Tiananmen Square, Tai Miao (labour People’s Cultural Palace), the National Museum of Chinese History, the Museum of Chinese Revolution, the China Art Gallery, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Wen Tianxiang Temple, Confucian Temple, Zhengyang Men (the front door ), The East four mosques, Peking University red chamber, Ditan, the Observatory, Sun Yat-sen Museum trip, the Corfu Palace, Imperial College, the National Palace Museum (Forbidden City), Jinshui Qiao, Berlin Temple, the imperial history (Mian + 10%), the clock tower, intellectual and Temple, Purdue Temple, the Drum Tower and the Lama Temple.
Xicheng District: Great Hall of the People, the high-Hyun Hall, Wansong elderly tower, Guang Jisi,Temple of Ancient Monarchs, Zhongnanhai, Yingtai, Zhongshan Park, Shi Shahai, on altar, Beihai, Baiyun Guan, National Culture Palace, the Xi Shi Church, Mission City, the Tomb of Matteo Ricci, the former residence of Soong Ching Ling, Miaoying Temple Baita (Baita Si), Shing Wong Basilica, Prince Gong House, Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, the former residence of Guo Moruo, Jingshan, the former residence of Lu Xun, Deshengmen Jianlou, the China Science and Technology Hall.
Xuanwu District: Tianning Temple, the Niujie Mosque, Xian Nongtan, at Temple, Song Jun Um, Fayuan Si, South Hall, Taoranting Park, Liulichang, Liyuan Theatre and the Lao She Teahouse.
Chongwen District: Temple of Heaven, flyovers and music tea Longtan temple fair.
Haidian District: 10, Pu McGREGOR Temple (Wat Pho), 7 Wang Fen, the Tomb of March 18, Tai Juesi, large-hui Temple, the Chinese People’s Revolutionary Military Museum, Yuquan Shan, the Beijing Planetarium, Li Dazhao martyrs Park, the 1911 revolution Luanzhou Martyrs Tower, Pine Hall, Diaoyutai, McGREGOR Health Temple (Dazhong Si), Xiangshan, the Capital Gymnasium, I really feel Temple (Wu Tasi), Yuanmingyuan ruins, sorghum Bridge, Snow tomb, Zizhu Yuan, Jingtai Mausoleum, and the Longtan, Jimenyanshu monument, the Summer Palace, Cishousita, Biyun Si, Ying Taogou, Mo he Um, Wei Wo statues and the China Millennium Monument.
Chaoyang District: on the altar, Dongyue Miao, West Huang Si and the National Agricultural Exhibition Center.
Fengtai District: the western Bao Han Tomb, Changxindian February 7 revolutionary relics, the Lugou Bridge, the site in Tucheng, the town Kong tower and Yan pier.
Mentougou District: Mountain and Baihua Mountain, Miao Fengshan, Longmen Jian, Tanzhe Temple, Xifeng Temple, Jietai, riverside city, Zhenzhu Hu, while the Great Wall of Taiwan’s enemy and under-the village.
Shijingshan District: Western Hills Bada Chu, the Shijingshan glaciers Cahen and Fahai Temple.
Changping District: Xiaotangshan Hot Springs, Gong Hua City, Gougou Cliff, the Ming Tombs, Juyongguan, Juyongguan Haeundae, pagodas and Yinshan Zhaozong Bridge.
Yanqing, Huairou, Miyun County: Badaling Great Wall, the statue of Zhan Tianyou, Mutian Valley Great Wall, hit Crossing, Gubeikou Great Wall, the Longquan Temple Qi Jiguang and poetry landmark Sima Tai Great Wall.
Shunyi District and Tongzhou District: Jiaozhuanghu tunnel warfare sites, bridges and Lizhuo Wu Yong-tomb.
Fangshan District: Shidu, at the top of mountains, cloud water tunnel, the Chinese Yuan Ren sites, Zhoukoudian fish fossil origin, Shandingdongren sites, new holes were sites, Liangxiang Dubbo pagoda, Yunju Si towers and Liuli He Shang and Zhou sites.
Pinggu District: Jinhai Hu (Haizi Reservoir).
Transregional: Tucheng yuan site, the southeast corner Jiaolou City, Beijing Mass Transit Railway, the Commissioner ditch King, 72, pillow-sen, Hakuho mound, Mu Guiying dianjiangtai, white trees, Play Gap, Turtle Rock, the natural barrier, Tsing Lung inverted water, Wangjing stone, Chadao Town and courtyard dwellings.

Tourism Resources

China’s tourism resources are divided into three parts: the natural landscape, history and the human landscape Local Customs.

The natural landscape

Sichuan Jiuzhaigou

China’s vast land on the list goes on the odd-water vary – mountains, lakes, valleys and cave, waterfall, Xuanliduozi. Taishan Mountain, Mountain, Mountain, Hengshan and Songshan since ancient times was called a “Wuyue”, is China’s famous mountains. One Miangen in the central part of Mount Tai in Shandong Province magnificent, pulling the Forum, known as “the head of Wu Yue,” said. Huangshan in Anhui Province in the south while Qisong, Guaidan, sea of clouds and hot springs of the natural landscape of fantasy.

Jiuzhaigou, the Huangguoshu Falls and landscapes are located in Guilin, southwest China. The northern part of Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan, is a deep ravine 40 kilometres of the valley, a total area of about 620 square kilometers, with both lakes, waterfalls, snow-capped mountains and forests of the United States, known as the “fairy-tale world.” The Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou Province for a Great Falls group, 18 from the ground and four underground waterfall waterfall composed of five kilometers outside will be able to hear the roar of. Guangxi in the territory of the Li River from Guilin to Yangshuo section, 82 km long, winding between the karst peaks, the river clean, picturesque, is the seat of the famous mountains and rivers of Guilin.

In the north of the plateau, many of the Pinghu become a spectacular mountain. Tianchi Lake in Xinjiang’s Tianshan Mountain, elevation 1,980 m, most of about 105 meters deep, crystal clear lake, around the hills, green grass and bright flowers.

Yangtze River Three Gorges scenery has long known, the two sides many attractions and beautiful parade of fascinating legends. Qutang Xia magnificent dangerous; Wu Gorge beautiful Shenyou; Xiling Xia Beach and more water needs, forest reef, more minor Three Gorges lush green, Shuiqing bottomed out. Here the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest hydropower project.

History of human landscape

Great Wall

China’s long history of tourists left for today’s numerous cultural monuments. Great Wall as a symbol of the Chinese nation, has become China’s most famous tourist attractions, the history of human civilization’s greatest construction projects built in more than 2,000 years ago in the Spring and Autumn period, the voluminous works, the momentum of the majestic,known as the world miracle. At present there are open to tourists in Badaling, the veteran leader, Jiayuguan, such as the dozens of lots and their pass, Pier and Fort-fung.

Caves, rock paintings and sculpture art is also China’s tourism resources in the magnificent treasures. Grottoes relatively concentrated distribution of the Silk Road in Gansu Road, is the most famous Mogao Grottoes, known as the “Oriental Art treasure trove.” Mogao Grottoes existing distribution of the 492 caves in the cliffs on three or four levels ranging from murals total area of about 45,000 square meters, Choi statue more than 2,100 bodies, their fine art skills, rich imagination, Weiweitaiguan. Grotto art in southern China’s Sichuan masterpiece to the Leshan Giant Buddha as the representative, this mountain Zaocheng the Buddha, 71 meters high, Shoulder Width 28 meters, is China’s largest stone carving of a Zuofo; It is not only great shape and structure of symmetry Shows that the ancient craftsmen superb carving skills.

Religious and cultural sites from south to north the length and breadth. China’s Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Zen Buddhism built in 495 AD, to which the world-famous Shaolin martial arts. Temple is famous Ming Dynasty 500 arhats murals over 300 square meters, also in possession of the Qing Dynasty Shaolin boxing spectrum. Wudang Mountain Scenic Area in Hubei Province, within a radius of 30 km has 72 mountain peaks odd-insurance, beautiful scenery and is well-known Chinese Taoist shrines, is also the most complete existing China, the largest and highest grade of the ancient Taoist buildings. Peaks Pinnacle, the green to drop, “Emei show the world” reputation of Mount Emei is located in western Sichuan, is one of China’s four major Buddhist mountains, the mountains there are many ancient architectural relic of Buddhism.

China has 100 historical and cultural city, has reached most of the years of history. Yangtze River south of Suzhou, Hangzhou, two cities, rivers and lakes staggered, vertical and horizontal water networks, bridges water, rural cottages, picturesque Poem, since ancient times there is “paradise” reputation. Jianyu Ming’s, is still intact to protect the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province, central, and here one after another found the Yangshao culture of the Neolithic period and the Longshan culture types of sites that Wuliuqiannian former human reproduction has been in this home. Old Town of Lijiang in Yunnan is the center of the Naxi Dongba culture, is the Han, Tibetan, Bai, such as the cultural crossroads of all ethnic groups, have rich historical and human landscape. The city was built in the Song Dynasty, the city has many Ming and Qing period of the stone bridge, stone Church and residential areas, to study the history of the Chinese Vernacular Architecture has provided valuable information, known as the “living museum of ancient residential areas.”

Local Customs

Tibet's Potala Palace in Lhasa

China’s 56 ethnic groups of different culture and way of life colorful, unique national holiday. Tibetan is also the largest one of the most interesting festivals – Xuedun Festival (yogurt), and was designated as the Tibetan Drama Festival and the Tibetan calendar every year on June 30 began five days in Tibet around the major schools of Tibetan Drama gathered Lhasa Norbu Lingka To perform card game, and it buzzes.

Lunar New Year to be held in July grassland that Damu (entertainment, recreation) General Assembly, the Mongolian is the annual grand festival. Mongolian people sing and dance festival in, wrestling, horse races and archery competitions, festival Aobao and material exchanges.

Live in Yunnan’s Dali Bai annual Lunar New Year held in March “March Street”, Dali West Point Cangshan this festival to become the natural arena. Legend has it long time ago, the Goddess of Mercy Bai uniforms for the people of the hazards of Beelzebub, the people of their sense of merit, year after year to spend Fenxiang worship, but gradually evolved into traditional festivals, the Bai people has now become an annual exchange of material and cultural and sports activities event .

Yunnan Xishuangbanna Dai people of the Lunar New Year festival of Songkran, the water was regarded as auspicious Dai, happy, a symbol of happiness. In the first day of the festival, people with squid Zhanshui exchanged blessing ceremony, the following day for splashing water, the scene of a grand warm, people with Piao, pots, barrels of water, chasing each other, the spill. During the holiday season also held dragon-boat race, jumping Kongque Wu and other activities.

The newly built road to the junction of Yunnan and Sichuan plateau lakes – Lugu Lake became a popular tourist destination. Several hundred square kilometres around the lake area inhabited by ancient, mysterious 30,000 Mosuo people still retain a matriarchal society and the characteristics of “non-married men and women do not marry” the marriage custom, known as the daughter of the last on Earth States . Mosuo girls Fengzi, the elegant and Dumuqingzhou to break out of the Yuge tourists were called the “Lake Sanjue.”

China’s rich tourism resources, with magnificent mountain rivers, rich and colorful customs, unique flora and fauna and countless monuments, plus the unique Chinese opera, music, dance and world-renowned cuisine, attracting a large number of annual Domestic and foreign tourists. At present, China has become the world’s largest, fastest growth, the strongest potential of the tourism market.

China's tourism market

2007 China’s total tourism income reached 1.09 trillion yuan, exceeded 1 trillion yuan. 2007 the year the number of inbound tourism to 132 million passengers, an increase of 5.5 percent, the number of inbound overnight travel up to 54.72 million passengers, up 9.6 percent; tourism foreign exchange earnings reached 41.9 billion U.S. dollars, up 23.5 percent; China will continue to maintain the world’s fourth largest inbound tourism reception status. The number of domestic tourism reached 1.61 billion passengers, an increase of 15.5 percent; domestic tourism revenue reached 777.1 billion yuan, an increase of 24.7 percent.

Steady development of China’s outbound tourism citizens into the emerging Asian region remarkable source exporter. At present, China has opened tourist destination countries and regions reached 134, of which the implementation of 91. 2007 Chinese citizens outbound tourism amounted to 40.95 million passengers and continue to maintain Asia’s largest outbound tourist country’s position.

According to the World Tourism and Travel Council (WTTC) to preliminary estimation, China’s tourism and travel industry in the next decade is expected to realize an annual growth rate of 10.4 percent, China will become the world’s fourth largest tourism economy. According to the World Tourism Organization predicted that by 2020 China will become the world’s number one tourist destination and fourth largest exporter of tourists.

Welcome to the People’s Republic of China

Chinese national flag

The world’s third largest country, ranking after the Russian and Canada, China has a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers, making up 6.5 percent of earth’s land mass. Approximately 98 percent of China’s land area is located between 20 and 50 north latitude. In climate, the greater part of the country belongs to the temperate zone (i.e., the cold-temperate, temperate, and warm-temperate zones) and the subtropical zone, which respectively account for 45.6 and 26.1 percent of China’s land area.

The territory of China extends about 5,200 kilometers from the Pamirs in western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the eastern corner of the boundary marker at the confluence of the Heilong and Wusuli Rivers.

From north to south, it measures some 5,500 kilometers, stretching from the borderline in the Heilong River north of the town of Mohe to the Zengmu Reef at the southernmost tip of the South China Sea Islands.

China is bordered by Korea in the northeast; Russia and Mongolia in the north; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and India in the southwest; and Burma, Laos, and Vietnam in the south. Across the seas to the east and southeast it faces Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia.

The length of the land boundary is 22,000 kilometers and the mainland coastline, 18,000 kilometers (32,000 kilometers with the coastlines of the 5,000 or more offshore islands included).

China has a vast sea area, its domain extending into the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. Contiguous to each other, the four seas form a northeast southwest arc covering a total area of 4.78 million square kilometers.