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Yunnan province in south China is one of my favorite places to visit. Just north of Viet Nam, Laos and Burma, Yunnan has two distinct climates. In the North are mountains and in the south there are semi-tropical forests. In the middle is Kunming known as the Spring City because of its altitude and cooler weather during the summer at 5,000 feet. In the north is LiJiang, Dali, Zhongdian, the Leaping Tiger Gorge and other remote spots like Lugu Lake famous for the beautiful lake surrounded by mountains occupied by the Muoso people who seldom if ever marry. Most people go to Kunming to see the Stone Forest which is about two hours by car and a wonderful site to see which is one of the most unusual in the world. In the south the city of Jinghong in the Xishuangbanna area has the only airport or is two days by bus from Kunming. This area has many minority peoples living here with their own language, dress and culture. You may visit several of these minority villages to see how they live and work. One group the men retire after marrying and the women do all the work. Another live in stilted houses with two entrances; one for the women and one for the men. Learning the customs of each group is interesting and makes for good photography. This area also has beautiful parks that were once the research areas for tropical plants before the revolution. There is also the Wild Elephant Preserve in the jungle which you may visit not far from Jinghong. A walk way above the canopy of the forest/jungle makes it easy to tour with a cable car to bring you back. Tourists usually spend about 4 days in the southern part of Yunnan and about 4 days in the north. For more information on touring China contact me at email: interlak@eskimo.com My friends call me ChinaDave and I have travelled all over China for the past 26 years.
Investors from China should be cautious about market risks,” the China Securities Regulatory Commission said on its microblog. “We shouldn’t be thinking if we don’t buy now, we will miss it.” Chinese investors act as giddy as Americans were on December 5, 1996, the day Alan Greenspan made his famous "irrational exuberance" search on markets. Do not take my word for it. Here's what the securities regulator in the country said on Friday, the day of the Shanghai Composite Index rallied to its highest since May 2008:
Not much ambiguity there, and yet the Shanghai stocks rallied Monday at the head of their longest winning streak since 2007. What gives? Beijing made the same mistake Washington made 18 years ago-more and not clamping down on a stock market boom that is based more on leverage than reality.
Can sliding Greenspan Federal Reserve chairman on Wall Street was a foam without enthusiasm - so cryptic, in fact, that many senior journalists missed Fed. He came in the middle of a boring speech stultifying about the bubble of the 1980s in Japan. For a couple of days, markets quaked at the prospect that the Fed may cut short the ongoing event, which affected the astronomical valuations for startups dodgiest.
But Greenspan blew the final. Lawmakers were apoplectic over the actions targeting the Fed. Rather than hold his position, Greenspan shut up and evolved. If the Fed had repressed stronger in the 1990s - say with strict margin requirements - a Nasdaq accident could have been avoided. Investors could have been punished less likely to overleverage in the decade that followed. In Beijing, the governor of the central bank Zhou Xiaochuan can not afford to make the same mistake.
The economic fundamentals do not drive this rally - political expediency is. Chinese growth slows - an early indicator of factory activity rose to a 11-month low in March - Beijing clamping down on credit and real estate market that seemed unstoppable once is in shock. This leaves room for China to satisfy their desire to get rich quick: actions. And recent policy tweaks are helping. In September, China has reduced costs by more than half for individuals and institutions to open share accounts. At the same time, the futures market has reduced the margin requirements for equity index contracts. Last month, it cut the amount of cash banks must hold loans by 50 basis points to 19.5 percent.
Not surprisingly, the outstanding value of margin trading or shares purchased with money borrowed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange rose to a record $ 158 billion in March 20. In fact, it was hitting new highs almost daily for weeks. In the finished March 6th week, mainland investors opened 662,000 new accounts to buy shares, the most since December, when the gauge Shanghai jumped 21 percent.
Obviously, a number of fast-growing Chinese buy for fear of missing out on the boom. With $ 3.8 trillion foreign exchange reserves, China can always bail out the market if an accident occurs. But before long, in addition to maintaining economic growth in the short 7 percent, the government will be shoring stocks, companies default on the stock of dollar-denominated loans (real estate developer Kaisa can be the first one) and suddenly public enterprises hungry liquidity. Intelligent Zhou and President Xi Jinping are is a lot to plug leaks at a time when they are also switching engines of growth in investment and exports of services.
The authorities need to crack down more forcefully on margin loans. The CSRC has been ignored once. A sinister coincidence, his earlier warning came on December 5, 18 years to the day Greenspan made his first sentence signature. China's regulator warned that stock prices for some listed companies were "relatively high" and that "there are about 700 companies in the stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen with a price-earnings ratio of more than 100." Three days later, investors have pushed the Shanghai Composite up 2.8 percent to over 3000. Today, it is 25 percent higher than it was on 5 December.
There are some plausible explanations why so many investors could leave logic at the door. First, the potential of the middle class in China and hopes for several initial public offerings blockbusters like Alibaba are overshadowing worries about deflation. Second, Beijing had until recently been directing its 1.3 billion pile savings in shares to support the market. Third, there is a genuine optimism that China is serious about transforming its economy.
But policymakers will regret willingly orchestrating this bubble. Making it easier for tens of thousands of small investors to bet on stocks to turn against terribly if the economic fundamentals do not begin to validate the exuberance of the market, and fast.
It was the second and largest invest-in-the-United States to put on the top by the US Department of Commerce, and the 150-member Chinese delegation among the 2,600 participants was clearly a main target, DONG LESHUO reports Washington.
Wearing a headset to listen to an interpreter, Li Zheng, a private entrepreneur in Sichuan Province in China, sitting at his table in a spacious ballroom of a hotel complex overlooking the Potomac River five miles from the US capital.
America is safer, stronger, smarter place to invest !
On a stage of 100 meters, the largest resident of the capital said Li and others around the world in 2599 why there has never been a better time to invest in the United States. "America is safer, stronger, smarter place to invest," said President Barack Obama the public. "Companies that invest in America have access to the largest market in the world - and this is a market that is strong and stable, and growing. "
Obama was the seller and the event was the second summit SelectUSA, the initiative of the United States Department of Commerce to promote and facilitate investment in the country. On Monday and Tuesday, 2,600 people gathered at the second summit Resort and Convention Center Gaylord National in National Harbor, Maryland. The number of participants was double the number at the first summit 17 months ago.
Besides Obama, the United States put forward a host of current and former US officials, including Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Secretary of State John Kerry, Ambassador US China Max Baucus and former US Ambassador to China Gary Locke, also a former commerce secretary. There was also prominent leaders of the US companies and a videotape message from the "Sage of Omaha" Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which prompted investors foreigners to join its successful business in the future. He noted that the US economy and the investment climate are tailwind for the company. "There is more to come. So join us. Berkshire Hathaway will do well in the coming years," said Buffett. He said Berkshire Hathaway has made much of its success, as it has been operating in the United States, and noted several advantages in the United States, including equal opportunities for innovative incentive and the rule of law.
Although the meeting was for business people from all over the world, there was a focus on China and his delegation of 150, the largest. At the bottom of where Obama spoke, representatives of states and companies to promote their attractiveness to foreign investors about 100 booths in an exhibition hall. The many Chinese-language brochures and billboards showed that the Chinese delegation was clearly a target - and rightly so. source
Most tours visit Shanghai but usually only for one day as an entrance or exit city to China. I use to think of Shanghai only as a large big city like Hong Kong or New York. However my opinion has changed in the last few years. Yes it is large and very busy but also exciting. The best museum in the country is located in Shanghai. The Yu Garden area is #1 in China along with the oldest Tea House on the Crooked bridge leading into the Yu Garden. The Tall Pearl of the Orient T.V. tower has the greatest view over Shanghai at the top. Often overlooked is the fantastic Museum in the base of the tower of the early 1900's designed like walking down an old street in Shanghai during that period. The Jade Buddha Temple, the old French Concession area, famous Shanghai Acrobats, Nanjing Road Mall, and a cruise on the river running through Shanghai are just a few of the sights worth seeing. The MagLev train from Pudong Airport takes only 7 minutes to get to the city and at speeds of up to 285 mph. The new fast trains also are located in Shanghai and can go to Beijing in less than 5 hours now leaving every half hour or less. Exciting is one word I use to describe Shanghai but many other places to visit and see are also there besides the excellent food of the city. For more information on Shanghai please feel free to contact me at interlak@eskimo.com My friends call me ChinaDave and I have a wealth of information accumulated over 25 years of travel all over China during my 50+ trips working with my Chinese associate partners.
This is not the best afternoon to enjoy the view from the top of the observation tower in Pattaya, Thailand. The sky is stormy and the sea is a uniform shade of sludge. Shun-Wen Tong, a 22 year old student from the Chinese city of Hangzhou, cranes his neck to look at the city 54 floors below: Hotel concrete blocks, heartbeat traffic and directly below it, half hidden in the tropical darkness, an amusement park called Funny Land. Time off season is just bad things about Pattaya - known resort of many as "Blackpool of Thailand", it is two hours outside Bangkok - but Tong savor every moment. "It's magic. I am very happy," he said, holding his camera in one hand and a free orange juice in the other. "Finally I see the world."
first trip abroad ever.
For him, it is an experience that changes the pulsating life. But for the rest of the world, it is not just any tourist. This is a Chinese tourist - it's a global phenomenon, an irreversible trend, a lucrative opportunity. International travel has been growing among the Chinese during the last decade, with increased prosperity at home and the relaxation of travel restrictions of the communist government. Now millions are on the move. "Chinese tourism," said CNN breath in April, "could be the biggest phenomenon to hit the global travel industry since the invention of commercial flight."
Chinese Tourists more than Germans
In 2012, the Chinese and the Germans reached Americans as the largest consumers of international tourism in the world, about 83m from traveling abroad and spending $ 102bn. In early 2015, according to the United Nations World Tourism, Chinese globetrotters have over 100m trips abroad. In 2020, this figure will double to an incredible 200m. In Thailand, the number of Chinese tourists jumped 107% this year, prompting Bangkok to London to become the most visited city in the world in the latest MasterCard survey.
A crowd of Chinese tourists applaud during the show of elephants, where the animals perform stunts such as football and painting, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden in Pattaya. Photo: Nana Chen for the observer Everyone is scrambling for a share of the spoils. In October, the UK government announced plans to simplify visa procedures for UK nationals from China, with the goal of tripling Chinese tourists to Britain in 2015. India launched Life Chinese language Pi Tours after the film was a box office in China, while Greece is promoting "honeymoon idyllic island" for the Chinese market. Even the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe is currently trying to negotiate a "prime tourist pact" with Beijing - despite diplomatic strains last year after police outside Harare arrested four Chinese migrant workers to have killed and eaten rare turtles.
With the proliferation numbers came the predictable feeling, but most of misplaced time that Chinese travelers have taken over as new Americans "ugly" tourists of the world. The trend for independent travel is strongly on the rise, especially among young Chinese. But nearly half of all Chinese tourists always travel in organized groups - a factor that increases visibility and boost their collective stereotypes and cultural ignorance on both sides. Many reports that Chinese tourists are loud and rude, or refuse to queue or give advice. Other complaints range from the practical to the surreal. In July, the inhabitants of the small Swiss town of Lucerne protested that up to 120 buses of Chinese tourists per day were paralyzed local traffic as they filed tourists who wanted to buy luxury watches. Then there was the bizarre reports received by the Chinese media, to compete with Chinese newlyweds fights in French lavender fields on the best place for pictures to capture a "moment Monet". A group of traveling to Korea North drew scorn to throw candy to children as if they were "Feeding the ducks', while a number of Chinese tourists in the Maldives have been taken to give white wedding documents for high-end resorts in order to get free dinners offered to honeymooners.
Honeymoon in Thailand
Yet the fact that these stories make headlines appears to reflect the current hypersensitivity to the Chinese attitude abroad more than anything else. In a recent survey lifestyle site LivingSocial, Americans were still rated the least popular five countries foreign tourists, including, significantly, by the Americans themselves. British and Germans have hardly done better. An elderly woman fans herself among other Chinese tourists. She had a whole hive for the duration of their stay. Photo: Nana Chen for the observer Thailand is at the tip of the arrow. With its mix of temples, beaches and duty-free shops, the "land of smiles" supposedly is the most popular destination for Chinese tourists after Chinese territories satellites Hong Kong and Macao. Tong is visiting Thailand with 35 others from Hangzhou city in southeastern China, including his young grandparents looking on a tour organized seven days. The tour costs £ 500 each, including flights. "I wanted to come here to see elephants and Buddha statues. It is a holy place, "he said. "But my family has chosen mainly because it is only a flight from China to four hours and we got a good deal." Pattaya is on the route of the Chinese tour almost every group. A former fishing village, it grew into a tourist playground during the Vietnam War, when US forces on R & R found its palm-fringed bay while virgin. Girly bars, theme parks and golf courses rapidly multiplied. Today it attracts about 8 million tourists per year, over a million of China. Yet Chinese tourists are curiously absent from the bustling city center and the main beaches. They are not hard to find once you know where to look. Parking jammed with coaches signal the massive presence of tour groups in many shows of elephants in Pattaya, crocodiles and snakes farms, Ladyboy cabarets and outlet malls. In Thailand, the proportion of Chinese tourists traveling in groups is 70%. Most visits are conducted in a standalone attraction to another, stopping only for lunch in Chinese restaurants (eating Thai food is generally a separate activity) before returning in the evening to their high-rise hotels. He left the Russians - the other great influx of tourists in recent years - to play chicken in the main bay screaming jet skis and haggle with the vendors on the beach sarongs polyester price.
Tiger Zoo
At Sriracha Tiger Zoo, which sees around 2,000 Chinese tourists per day, visitors can pose for pictures with one of the 400 tigers kept in dusty paddock. They can also "take advantage of the intelligence of pigs in the show pig" or shoot targets with air guns to the fall of meat in feeding troughs in the shooting RSS Tiger Arena 'N '. The zoo has existed for years amid controversy over whether the docile tigers are drugged or beaten, as well as its policy of racial stereotypes of hiring Africans to pose in loincloths - but Chinese tourists on a schedule not have time to think about it all. Chinese Ladyboy Life is a cabaret, a group of katoeys or ladyboys, poses with two Chinese tourists. Photo: Nana Chen for the observer Shu-Hsuan Chi and Wu Tzu-Chen, both in their 60's, are scuttling a tiger-feeding session. The two women in the northern port city of Dalian have worked in the same store. They celebrate their retirement with a 10-day tour of Japan, Korea and Thailand. Pattaya is their last stop. "We have no economic problems in China today and free time to travel," said Wu. She wears a beehive hairstyle she had specifically "to last the whole trip" to avoid having to visit a foreign show. "It was tiring but enjoyable. We have many things to tell our family and friends when we get back home. "
What Chinese tourists think
Another tourist, real estate developer 40 Min to the central province of Henan, also said he'll have plenty to talk about when he returns. But most of it will not be positive. "This is the first and last time I'll leave China," he said. He came from overseas "curiosity" but think Thailand is inefficient and far more dangerous than China. "Also, the local food smells and flavor is wrong. It is not suitable for Chinese people," said the burly bald man. The Chinese travel boom is similar to previous waves of mass tourism among newly wealthy middle classes. Thomas Cook essentially invented the package tour in the 1850s when he began taking British industrial groups in two weeks "large circular towers" of Europe, triggering a new leisure activity among the wealthy (who also grumbled about exotic foods). Americans followed with their loud voices and leisure harder abundant in the 1950s. Then came the Japanese, with their sun hats and cameras in the "bubble economy" for years 1970s and 80s. A major difference today is that the travel industry worldwide is much more developed and finely tuned to maximize profits. Provide "attractions" endless and services to attract tourists is now huge business, with tourism currently valued at 9% of global GDP. (The World armament industry, random hand, is valued at 2.5%.) Even when tourists do not travel in groups, fewer than Chinese do as time goes on, it is not easier for countries to find the right balance between outlawing their activities and allowing them to discover places for themselves. A marketing officer at the Tourism Authority of Thailand, admits as much: "We want visitors to authentic experiences of our culture and people, but it is not always possible because of the way the industry works. "
Chinese tourists excluded of UK
Chinese tourism has been slow to take off in the UK in part because Britain is not included in the Schengen program that allows travelers to visit most of Europe with a single visa - hence the George Osborne recently announced simplified visas. Only about 200,000 Chinese tourists visited Britain in 2012, while 1.4 million visited France. No effort is spared to promote British charms. In September, British Airways has launched its new direct flight between the western Chinese Chengdu hub at Heathrow by staging a surprise "Chinese panda flashmob dance" in a shopping center in Chengdu. About 50 people in panda costume were hired to stir disco music in a context Union Jack, some of them apparently dressed as famous British pandas such as David Beckham, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. There was even a panda Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with a baby panda George.
dancing pandas will not solve everything. Take Barnsley, for example. South Yorkshire The town is the birthplace of James Hudson Taylor, a missionary widely credited with the introduction of Christianity in China in the 1850s Some residents believe Barnsley could attract millions of Chinese pilgrims - there are about 70 million Christians China - and even become. "New Bethlehem" In August, however, the Barnsley Chronicle reported that a Beijing woman who has come to assess the potential of the city said that Chinese investors were "disappointed" with its conclusions. "Chinese Visitors like midnight races, karaoke and massage, no bars and drink," said 58-year Mary Him the newspaper. "But they can not find it here in Barnsley."
He suggested the city should consider opening a shopping center 24 hours, an "authentic" Chinese restaurant and a health center. But who is to say that the Christian spirit Chinese do not find some redeeming features Barnsley as it is? What investors really complain, it seems, is that there are not enough large commercial companies to make money from an influx of tourists. Wolfgang Georg Arlt of China Outbound Tourism Research Institute said investigations and inside China web forums repeatedly show that modern tourists are "more open". China and the West, he said, would do well to stop the use of stereotypes and find out what people really like. Such a stereotype of Chinese tourists as commercial obsessed buying the luxury shops of content. Many Chinese are buying luxury goods abroad - in the coming year, they should buy more luxury goods than all other nationalities combined. With the usual ambitious love status symbols, rights of up to 60% on these products at home partly explain the phenomenon.
Pattaya
Back to Pattaya, Angela Wu guide says shopping is rarely the sole reason for a trip abroad. Wu, 45, a native of Shanghai, is the chain-smoking in the lobby cabaret transvestite Miss Tiffany as her tour group loads watching the sparkling performance of the evening. "Most people travel because they want something they can not see in China," she said. "They are interested in historical sites and famous art in Europe, and natural landscapes America and Australia. " Pattaya Ladyboys spectacular are another example of something they can not see at home. (On the route a tour group, the Chinese word used to describe translated as "person-creatures.") After the show, the artists sequins adorned dominating caps crowded in the lobby to ask for pictures with tourists for an extra 40 baht (80p) a time. "Please inform management if artists misbehave," says a large sign warning about the potential overload. But this time it's some of the Chinese men who misbehave trying to squeeze Breast ladyboys in their photo shoots. "They think it's OK because the breasts are not real," CEO of Linkedin said wearily.
Wu, who worked as a guide for 20 years within and outside China, said to take his countrymen and women abroad is like "going into battle." "No decision is never easy. Everyone has an opinion that must be heard." But she does not believe that Chinese tourists deserve a reputation for big to be badly behaved. Like any nation, she said, "there are polite and rude people" and the most extreme cases of rude behavior are isolated incidents which should not tarnish all Chinese people.
There was outrage in May, for example, when it appeared that a teenager in the city of Nanjing has engraved his name on a 3500-year-old stone sculpture at Luxor Temple in Egypt. While the boy's parents apologized publicly, Chinese netizens pointed out that the ancient Great Wall of China is covered western graffiti. Other incidents occur, said Wu, following acute disorientation that people experience in a foreign environment. She cites an occasion when she took a group of Chinese provincial tourists in Sydney. "It was winter at home but summer in Australia, so I told them to go in the toilet when we got off the plane to turn into light clothing." When they arrived, Wu found many people stripping off their underwear at the arrivals gate, given the other passengers. "They would never do that back in China. People were just confused," she said.
However, aware of the image of the nation abroad, the Chinese government issued a 64-page manual for Civilised Tourism in October containing safety tips and etiquette for its citizens abroad. Along with some helpful tips booklet rules include: "Do not fly the aircraft life jacket", "Do not leave any traces on toilet seats", "Do not take more than you can eat buffet breakfast "and" Do not dry your smalls more shade from the hotel. " There are also some specific advice for each country, such as the alert travelers to the United Kingdom than asking the British people if they ate was "deemed impolite" and counsel women tourists wearing earrings while in Spain, otherwise "they will be considered naked". source No wonder some people are confused. Fortunately Shun-Wen Tong, a student I met at the top of the observation tower of Pattaya, was not one of them. He sent me when he came to Hangzhou to say that he had survived his package tour without dramas. It was not as convinced as before that Thailand was "100% a holy nation" after visiting a "sex show where the ladies shot tropical fruit their private parts," but he was impressed by the way "Spirituality and happy co-existed sexuality." Above all, he says, the experience gave him the confidence to organize their own trips abroad in the future. A few days later, Tong sent me a document of 10,000 words in English and Chinese called A Journal of my travels, all of his time in Thailand. "I hope you like it," he wrote. "This is just the first installment.
The Internet in China has various marketing techniques to the business owner notified. Video marketing is perhaps the most effective in China. You can use these videos to help you pass the world by creating and viewing videos. The tips in the following paragraphs will help.
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Effective video, the key to succcess ?
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Video Marketing is popular in China
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I have been traveling China for over 25 years. The first time I went with a friend who had business there in 1989. We went to Beijing, Xian and Chengdu. I saw a 3rd. World country at the time; but as a business person also saw a country posed for great growth. Wanting to go back and watch this growth besides being interested in the culture, I started a small business selling Goose Down and Feathers from Chinese suppliers to our largest producer of feather products in the U.S. right here in my home town of Seattle. That venture allowed me to visit some of the remote parts of rural China where people lived and worked the same way for centuries. Some still do using water buffalo to pull the plows and hand rice processing equipment. Over the years I watched the tremendous growth in the cities with sometimes a 100 or more cranes being used while they constructed large buildings and apartment houses. I have seen them go from our 1940's style trains to the ultra modern trains of today with speeds up to 200 mph. The over 50+ variety of cultures through out China each with their own customs and dress adds to the experience of visiting this ancient culture. Ancient artifacts, museums, temples and sights such as the Forbidden City, Terra Cotta Warriors and of course the Great Wall plus so many others add to the fantastic sights of China. I have visited areas where they had never seen people from the outside world, had no t.v., electricity, or running water. Some of these places still exist. In order to continue going to China to explore the country, with the help of Chinese Associate partners I started Interlake China Tours, Inc. of Seattle in 1992. Since then I have made over 50+ trips to China working with local contacts helping them develop their tourism industry. It has been extremely rewarding and I look forward to each and every trip still seeing sights that I have missed. I have shared the sights of China & Tibet with over 2,500 people doing private customized tours for individuals or small groups with special interests. My wife and I travel to other countries during the off season and enjoy many other cultures but China still remains my favorite with so much that is different from one area of the country to another. I hope I can share some of China planned just for you and your own interests. My web site is: www.interlakechinatours.com My friends call me ChinaDave and you can contract me direct at email: interlak@eskimo.com
The famous road of tea and horses, was borrowed for the first time there are 1300 years. It started from Pu'er in Yunnan Province in southern China, to reach Lhasa in Tibet. For centuries, the caravan tea, salt and horses have traveled this road, as well as great adventurers such as the Prince of Orleans, Joseph Rock or Alexandra David-Neel.
Discover fields China
The Tea Route played an important role in the development of China and is often compared to the Silk Road. The origin of this road dates back to the Tang (618-917) and Song (960-1279), when the Tibetan discovered tea of Yunnan and its virtues. The tea will quickly become indispensable to the entire population. Tibetan mostly go to the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan to exchange tea against cattle, yaks, but also horses, which for the Chinese, are necessary to protect their empire against the repeated attacks of nomadic peoples. Thus was born the Tea Route and Horses. Over the centuries many food commodities and animal, mainly tea and horses have circulated on this road. She then slowly given way to more modern road construction.
tea route !
But the Tea Route and Horses is more than just a trade route. With the passage of the caravan, it was the scene of meetings between ethnic groups, linguistic and cultural exchanges. This road is a testimony of China's cultural past. Many of ethnic villages are scattered along the Tea and Horse Road. Including Wenhai, a village of Naxi minority, which is a haven of peace, near the town Lijiang. We may also mention the village of Shaxi which experienced a prosperous era of the 15th to the 20th century with the caravans. There is also charming towns such as Jianchuan has kept the old and authentic houses. The Tea Route and horse lovers reserves of China, many surprises by its cultural treasures!
In winter there is not much activity. The tea bushes are still green. I felt a little let down by the experience. I suppose I was expecting too much! The road to the area was fascinating though, lots of ducks being dried on poles in the most unlikely places. At the plantation, there is a small area where they would...
Our favorite part of Hangzhou - we taxied just past the village to the fields, asked the driver to wait, and we walked around the tea flies. Very scenic, serene, fresh air... nice. Friends had told us to have lunch in the village, but in the end that didn't fit into our plans. So we just explored the fields a...
A beautiful setting out on the tea plantations. We visited the Dragon Well Tea Plantation with our tour group and had a tea presentation and tasting. Delicious, high quality tea but possibly overpriced. The shop on your way out is most certainly priced far too high and you need to haggle and bargain with the sales people.
The Yangtze River cruise is the best known cruise in China which is a 4 day experience you will not forget. However there is another river cruise that perhaps is not as well known. It is a One day cruise down the Li River with some of the most spectacular scenery in China. After a visit to Guilin with so many things to see, the cruise is one day down to the town of Yangshuo. The scenery includes the hay stack like hills all along the river which in ancient times was actually the bottom of the ocean. You will see farmers along the narrow river working their farms with water buffalo and fishermen fishing from their small bamboo rafts. Once arriving in Yangshuo there are many things to do and sights worth seeing. Hiking and Biking area available here as well as bamboo rafting. Lots of great shopping too. If you wish to have a cooking lesson there are full or half day cooking lessons available. If that wasn't enough, there is one of the best shows in China each night on the river. Over 900 local people are involved with animals, rafts, music and lights with the background of the hay stack like hills. The Producer also did the Opening Ceremony for the Beijing Olympics so it is very professional and very worth seeing. For more information on the Li River Cruise contact us at Email: interlak@eskimo.com Our web site is www.interlakechinatours.com We are just starting our 26th year in doing Tours to China and Tibet. Our Experience and BBB rating of A+ insures your security and great tour always being in Good Hands.
Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying chief urged residents to consider the rights of mainland Chinese to visit the southern city of China as well as economic impacts to restrict the influx of tourists. His statement Friday appeared to be a shift from Leung and Hong Kong other lawmakers promise to propose to change the political mainland Chinese visitors to the National People's Congress annual parliamentary meeting of China.
Hong Kong wants more Chinese buyers, just not the kind they are now getting.
"We have to balance the needs of the continent residents to travel to Hong Kong and their rights under the current policy with the livelihoods of the people of Hong Kong," said Leung sidelines of a meeting of the NPC , according to Reuters. "In addition, policy adjustments can not lead to a significant decrease in the number of tourists and thus affect the overall Hong Kong economy and employment."
Hong Kong residents have been demanding a change multiple visa to visit mainland Chinese have used to visit and buy goods in bulk in the city because of the lack of sales tax on certain products. Mainland Chinese buyers often clear boutiques daily necessities such as diapers and powdered milk. More recently, a protest broke out Sunday in the Yuen Long district, and chanting an estimated 400 demonstrators presented to the Chinese Communist Party to be overthrown and for consumers to return to China. Police used pepper spray on demonstrators and 38 people were arrested. Protesters took to call Chinese mainland buyers "locusts."
Over 40 million mainland tourists
Over 40 million mainland tourists visited Hong Kong last year, exceeding the 7.2 million population of the city. However, the number of inbound Chinese tourists fell for the first time in nearly 20 years during the holidays of Chinese New Year in February. "It's alarming," said Joseph Tung, the Travel Industry Council executive director of Hong Kong, according to Reuters. "Put yourself in their shoes. If you feel like people are not welcome you, why would you come to Hong Kong? If these things relate to ... the big spenders in China can simply go elsewhere like Europe. " Thinning are the crowds of Chinese visitors are pulling their Prada bags and Swiss watches in central Hong Kong as president Xi Jinping strengthens its campaign against corruption and extravagance. Growth numbers are called parallel traders who buy shampoo, milk powder and other consumer goods to sell at higher prices in China, where safety concerns of local products put a premium to those of abroad. That is put Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying head in a dilemma between luxury retailers in the city eager to see more Chinese buyers and angry residents who accuse visitors drive up the cost required. Leung said Friday in Beijing leaders are studying the issue after a discussion this week. "The pattern of overall spending Chinese tourists has changed," Raymond Yeung, an economist at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Hong Kong, said by phone. "The real question is how Hong Kong can cope with this change."
Luxury good plunged
Luxury goods sales have plunged 14 percent last year, when the city experienced its first annual decline in retail sales since 2003. The decline continued in January, total expenses decreased by 14.6 percent a year ago. With Chinese tourists constitute 78 percent of visitors to Hong Kong last year, the composition of their drive change on the economy and drag down luxury good companies, including Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. and Prada SpA.
Instead of flying high in China, the city is seeing a growing number of visitors with heavy luggage hoarding space in its subways, its buses and sidewalks. "Hong Kong is essentially losing market share" of wealthy Chinese, said Mariana Kou, an analyst at CLSA. Those go to Japan, South Korea and Europe, while tourists coming to Hong Kong today are spending less, she said. While spending on luxury items fell last year, medical sales, cosmetics and supermarkets have seen so much as a 9.3 percent gain, government data shows. This is helping companies like YATA Ltd, an operator of seven department stores, which saw Chinese tourists buy shampoo and groceries on its shelves, according to CEO Daniel Chong. The new shopping habits is so riling residents.
Yuen Long in the Hong Kong area, close to China, there were three marches in a month against parallel traders and day visitors from the neighboring Chinese city of Shenzhen. Limit visitors
Limit the number of visitors?
The solution is to limit the number of visitors who are here for just a day, according to Michael Tien, founder of clothing retailer G2000 Group. Those who come several times a year account for 50 percent of Chinese tourists, against 20 percent five years ago, he said. "These visitors do not stay the night and their contribution is very limited," said in an interview Tien in Beijing where he was attending the annual sessions of the top legislative body of China as a Hong Kong delegate. "I do not want to see continental Hong Kong in a negative way, but I hope that more people other than Shenzhen could go to Hong Kong."
Demonstration again Chinese Mainland
Police accused 12 people of 38 arrested during a demonstration on 1 March, and used pepper spray to break up clashes between demonstrators and their opponents, the South China Morning Post reported on March 3rd. Two thirds of the 743 respondents last month wanted the government to reduce the number of individual Chinese visitors, the Hong Kong Chinese University said March 4. More than three-fifths of respondents said that tourists have brought disadvantages for their lives. "We must find a balance that we do not want to see policy changes leading to a drastic decline in the number of visitors and thus hurt the economy," said Leung reporters in Beijing after attending the Chinese legislative sessions. "The central government to see how it can support the tourism industry in Hong Kong while at the same time does not impact on the daily lives of people."
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