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  1. TRAVELLING IN CHINA
  2.  
  3. The travel situation
  4. vis-a-vis China is
  5. becoming more flexible
  6. though it is still
  7. best to see China as a
  8. guided tour.The
  9. Chinese are still
  10. dominated by a fairly
  11. strict Communist regime
  12. -the last in the world
  13. apart from Cuba and
  14. North Korea and as a
  15. result the government
  16. is still a little
  17. suspicious of the
  18. west.
  19.  
  20. Facts and figures:
  21.  
  22. UK address:
  23. Embassy of the
  24. Peoples Republic
  25. of China,
  26. 49-51,Portland Place,
  27. London W1N 3AG
  28. Tel:071-636-5726
  29.  
  30. Pop:1,037,000,000
  31.  
  32. Capital:Peking
  33. (Beijing)
  34.  
  35. Language:
  36. Official language
  37. is now "Modern
  38. Standard Chinese"
  39. based on the
  40. dialect of the North
  41. Chinese.There are
  42. an enormous number
  43. of other dialects
  44. and English is also
  45. widely spoken by
  46. tour guides.
  47.  
  48. Time:GMT+8
  49.  
  50. Electricity:220volts
  51.  
  52. Pasport/visa
  53. Full UK needed
  54. Visas are required by
  55. all
  56.  
  57. Money: Yuan(Ren Min Bi)
  58.  
  59. Credit cards:Accepted
  60. in major establishments.
  61.  
  62. Health:
  63. Precautions are advised
  64. for Yellow fever,
  65. Malaria and Typhoid/Polio
  66.  
  67. Air travel:
  68. national airline is
  69. China Airways -
  70. daily flight from UK
  71.  
  72. Main airports:
  73. Beijing
  74. Shanghai
  75. Guangzhou/Canton
  76.  
  77. Sea:
  78. Principal ports
  79. are Qingdao,Shanghai
  80. Canton
  81.  
  82. Rail:International
  83. services run twice weekly
  84. to Moscow and Korea(N)
  85.  
  86. Car hire:Car rental
  87. is available in the major
  88. cities.
  89.  
  90. Hotels:these are usually
  91. pre-arranged by your
  92. tour organiser however
  93. accomodation is easy to
  94. find and very cheap by
  95. European standards.Each
  96. town has hotels desig-
  97. nated for foreigners.
  98. These are in special,
  99. regular and economy
  100. categories.All have
  101. full en suite bathrooms
  102. and also Post Office
  103. and other facilities.
  104. Air conditioning is
  105. rare.
  106. Some hotels do offer
  107. Western food.
  108.  
  109. RESORTS AND EXCURSIONS
  110.  
  111. Beijing and North-east
  112.  
  113. Beijing and Forbidden
  114. city
  115. Beidaiha
  116. Chengde
  117. Dalian
  118. Harbin
  119. Hohhot
  120. Shenyang
  121.  
  122. Eastern:
  123. Fuzhou
  124. Hangzhou
  125. Nanjing
  126. Shanghai
  127. Suzhou
  128. Wuxi
  129. Jinan
  130. Qingdao
  131.  
  132. Southern:
  133. Changsha
  134. Guangzhou
  135. Guillin
  136. Kunming
  137.  
  138. Central:
  139. Chengdu
  140. Wuhan
  141. Xi'an
  142. Luoyang
  143.  
  144. Northern:
  145. Lanzhou
  146. Dunhuang
  147. Turfan
  148. Urumqi
  149.  
  150. Tibet:
  151. Tibet(Xizang)
  152. Lhasa
  153.  
  154. Climate:
  155. Chinas enormous size
  156. causes major 
  157. climatic variations
  158. within the country.
  159. The NE experiences
  160. hot and dry summers,
  161. and bitterly cold
  162. winters.The central
  163. and north has
  164. continuous rainfall
  165. hot summers and cold
  166. winters.The SE has
  167. tropical rainfall
  168. with hot summers and
  169. cool winters.
  170.  
  171.  
  172.         
  173.                             
  174.  
  175.