TRAVELLING IN CHINA

The travel situation
vis-a-vis China is
becoming more flexible
though it is still
best to see China as a
guided tour.The
Chinese are still
dominated by a fairly
strict Communist regime
-the last in the world
apart from Cuba and
North Korea and as a
result the government
is still a little
suspicious of the
west.

Facts and figures:

UK address:
Embassy of the
Peoples Republic
of China,
49-51,Portland Place,
London W1N 3AG
Tel:071-636-5726

Pop:1,037,000,000

Capital:Peking
(Beijing)

Language:
Official language
is now "Modern
Standard Chinese"
based on the
dialect of the North
Chinese.There are
an enormous number
of other dialects
and English is also
widely spoken by
tour guides.

Time:GMT+8

Electricity:220volts

Pasport/visa
Full UK needed
Visas are required by
all

Money: Yuan(Ren Min Bi)

Credit cards:Accepted
in major establishments.

Health:
Precautions are advised
for Yellow fever,
Malaria and Typhoid/Polio

Air travel:
national airline is
China Airways -
daily flight from UK

Main airports:
Beijing
Shanghai
Guangzhou/Canton

Sea:
Principal ports
are Qingdao,Shanghai
Canton

Rail:International
services run twice weekly
to Moscow and Korea(N)

Car hire:Car rental
is available in the major
cities.

Hotels:these are usually
pre-arranged by your
tour organiser however
accomodation is easy to
find and very cheap by
European standards.Each
town has hotels desig-
nated for foreigners.
These are in special,
regular and economy
categories.All have
full en suite bathrooms
and also Post Office
and other facilities.
Air conditioning is
rare.
Some hotels do offer
Western food.

RESORTS AND EXCURSIONS

Beijing and North-east

Beijing and Forbidden
city
Beidaiha
Chengde
Dalian
Harbin
Hohhot
Shenyang

Eastern:
Fuzhou
Hangzhou
Nanjing
Shanghai
Suzhou
Wuxi
Jinan
Qingdao

Southern:
Changsha
Guangzhou
Guillin
Kunming

Central:
Chengdu
Wuhan
Xi'an
Luoyang

Northern:
Lanzhou
Dunhuang
Turfan
Urumqi

Tibet:
Tibet(Xizang)
Lhasa

Climate:
Chinas enormous size
causes major 
climatic variations
within the country.
The NE experiences
hot and dry summers,
and bitterly cold
winters.The central
and north has
continuous rainfall
hot summers and cold
winters.The SE has
tropical rainfall
with hot summers and
cool winters.


		
							

