Several Big Hotels in China

If you travel to China you can consider some of this hotel for staying: China World Hotel, Hong Kong Macao Center Swissotel at Chaoyang District, Jingguang New World Hotel which is also at Chaoyang District, Kunlun Hotel, Diaoyutai Guest House, Beijing Hotel, Grand Hotel, Shangri-La Hotel at Zizhuyuanlu, New Otani Changfugong Hotel, Hilton Hotel, Holiday Inn Crown Plaza, New Century Hotel, Palace Hotel, Beijing Kempinski Hotel, Great Wall Sheraton Hotel.

Chinese style of hand embroidery, pottery and porcelain

Chinese artisans adopt many different kinds of hand embroidery and countless different stitches which produce different effects in texture, tone, shading, buck and perspective. Chinese embroidery is concentrated in four centers – Suzhou, Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan.

Suzhou embroidery is famous for cat and gold fish products; Hunan embroidery is well known for its lions and tigers; Sichuan embroidery appreciates a high reputation for lotuses and carps, cocks and cockscomb; and Guangdong is famous for Hundred Birds Paying Respects to Phoenix, displaying enthusiastic scene with various kinds of birds flying around a phoenix with the sun, pines, bamboos, peony and red plum blossoms in the background.

Pottery and porcelain are one of ancient China’s inventions. Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province is known as China’s porcelain capital, with its products famed as “white as jade, bright as mirror, thin as paper and making music when taped.” Yixing is praised as China’s pottery capital, and its red ware, made with local purple clay, have close texture, simple and unsophisticated form and Chinese style.

Exit Registration Cards for China travelers

On departure, travelers must fill in Exit Registration Cards and have their passports and visas checked. Articles registered on the Baggage Declaration Form should all be brought out of China; if any item is missing, a certificate from a public security organ is required if something has been stolen; otherwise, the traveler must pay import tax according to the Customs regulation.

Visitors who want to change Renminbi back into foreign currency at a port of departure before leaving China will be required to show the exchange memo proved when they exchanged foreign currency in RMB on entry or at banks.

Articles that are forbidden to be exported according to law may not be taken out of China. Foreign currency, RMB, cultural relics, medicinal material, gold, silver and/or their products may not be taken out, unless they meet Chinese regulations and has been checked by the Customs.

Entry Registration Cards: another paper you should fill when you travel to China

On arrival in China, travelers must fill in Entry Registration Cards, and present passports, visas and quarantine certificates for inspection. All luggage, goods and packages must be checked by the quarantine inspectors before being allowed to enter China. Entry of travelers with VD, leprosy or infectious pulmonary tuberculosis is prohibited.

Those who wish to bring into China old and waste materials, food, micro organisms, biological products, portions of the human body, blood and/or its products, or animals that may spread infectious diseases among humans must declared them in full detail.

Travelers from areas with epidemic yellow fever must show valid certificates of inoculation against this disease. Those with symptoms of fever, diarrhea or vomiting, or rashes must declare this information clearly.

Travelers without quarantine certificates will be examined by the quarantine station designated by the Customs before being allowed to enter China.

Entry is forbidden to articles prescribed as dangerous, poisonous and/or harmful by Chinese law; those who have such articles must declare them to the frontier inspection station. When arriving at hotels, travelers should check in according to the local regulations.

Custom Declaration Form: something you must fill when you travel to China

Before entering China, travelers must fill in a Custom Declaration Form describing in detail all the luggage and valuables they are bringing with them. One form per family is enough.

All articles listed on the Form must be declared at a place of entry and taken out of China when the traveler leaves. The Form must be retained by the traveler and surrendered to the Customs when leaving the country. Customs clearance shall be based on inspection of the original declaration made at the time of entry.

Unaccompanied baggage should be declared to the Customs as regards quantity and port of arrival, and must be transported into China within six month from the day of the traveler entering China.

Social interaction in China

If you are a kind of people who loves to kiss each other as a way of greeting, you should be careful when traveling to China because usually people there do no embrace, kiss or walk hand in hand. Instead, people in China are accustomed to nodding, shaking hands and cupping one hand in the other in front of the chest whey they meet.

When meeting a guest for the first time, Beijing residents normally love to discuss about diet, family and arrangements of activities as topics to indicate friendly feelings.

Well I hope this little information about social interaction in China will be useful for you when you travel there someday.

The great diversity of wildlife in China

China is one of the countries with the greatest diversity of wildlife in the world. There are more than 2,000 species of terrestrial vertebrates, more than 10 percent of the world’s total. There are 1,189 known species of birds, nearly 500 animal species, more than 210 species of amphibians and 320 species of reptiles.

Among the wild animals, there are many rare species found only in China. These include the giant panda, golden monkey, white-lipped dear, takin, Chinese river dolphin and Chinese alligator. The Manchurian tiger is also a rare animal in China.

Giant pandas, recognized as one of China’s national treasures, live in the remote mountain areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanzi provinces and feed on bamboo. The panda is also called a living fossil. This animal is a remnant species which thrived during the glacier period of the Quaternary.

China has 7,000 species of woody plants, of which 2,800 are arbors. In a concerted effort to protect the nation’s zoological and botanical resources, China had establisedh 932 nature reserves covering 76,71 million hectares by 1997.