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 PRIVATE GUIDES OF China
Chenbo - My name is chenbo. I am 24.
Clarence - Hello,Wel come to Xi'an !My name is clarence guo,42 years old a taxi driver and tour guide in xi'an - the home town of terra-cotta figures for 16 years.I do a special tour to the qin terracotta warriors, cave dwelling village anda daoist temple.If you need tour guide service in Xi'an, please contact me. I will do my best to make your tours in Xi'an special and comfortable .Thank youClarence.
John - Open up a whole Beijing of entertainment with me. Make me your tour guide for all the exciting attractions that the Beijing has to offer.
Lily - Hello! Thanks a lot for having clicked on my page. It is great pleasure and honor for me to be your guide.
Mandy - I am ntellectual, Easy-going, Flexible,Humorous.Sunshine is my personality. I am graduate student in XiAn.I am a well-educated, good quality girl with a kind heart and a gentle spirit, enthusiastic, intellectual minded, friendly, easygoing, well-manned, accepting and giving, very patient as well as very considerate.
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PRIVATE TOURS IN China
Beijing & The Great Wall of China - Most of the wall here is in its original form, and is not reconstructed like some other sites.Just to look at the sights in Beijing is an enjoyment in itself. However you get so much more when you start to understand the history behind it, plus some of the reasonings why something was built in a certain manner.
Sunshine - Xi'an was called Chang'an in Han Dynasty. The connotation of "Chang'an" is "a place of permanent peace".
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OTHER TOURS IN China
Shanghai Day Classic and Night Highlights Tour. Shanghai. China - Shanghai is a vibrant and exciting city to visit. Start this tour in the middle of the day with a visit to Shanghai Old Street and Yu Gardens, classic 400 year old garden, then onto the former French Concession District.
Historic Beijing II - Summer Palace, Lama Temple Panda Garden. Beijing. China - This tour is part two of the Historic Beijing Tour and visits the Lama Temple, White Peacock Silk Carpet Factory, Panda Garden at Beijing Zoo and the Summer Palace. As for the Historic Beijing I tour, hotel pick up and drop off, lunch, English speaking guide and all admission fees are included, so book both tours for a great 2 days touring in Beijing!.
Zhouzhuang Water Village Half Day Tour. Shanghai. China - China is renowned for preserving their heritage and this tour takes you back in time to see that first hand. Visit a town built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, over 900 years ago, to the water village of Zhouzhuang.
Private Tour of Shanghai Today including Huang River Cruise. Shanghai. China - Take a tour around Shanghai and see one of Asias most progressive cities. Shanghai or Paris of the Orient has fast developed economically, culturally and socially.
Suzhou and Zhouzhuang Water Village Day Tour. Shanghai. China - Experience two picturesque towns, Suzhou and Zhouzhuang, each unique in the splendors they reveal. Suzhou highlights include Net Master Garden, Ancient City Wall, and Grand Canal.
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GENERAL DETAILS - China
 CAPITAL CITY OF China: Beijing
LANGUAGE OF China: Chinese
CURRENCY OF China: Yuan (CNY)
CLIMATE OF China: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF China: In late 1978 the Chinese leadership began moving the economy from a sluggish, inefficient, Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system. Whereas the system operates within a political framework of strict Communist control, the economic influence of non-state organizations and individual citizens has been steadily increasing. The authorities switched to a system of household and village responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted a wide variety of small-scale enterprises in services and light manufacturing, and opened the economy to increased foreign trade and investment. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978. Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, China in 2003 stood as the second-largest economy in the world after the US, although in per capita terms the country is still poor. Agriculture and industry have posted major gains especially in coastal areas near Hong Kong, opposite Taiwan, and in Shanghai, where foreign investment has helped spur output of both domestic and export goods. The leadership, however, often has experienced - as a result of its hybrid system - the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy and lassitude) and of capitalism (growing income disparities and rising unemployment). China thus has periodically backtracked, retightening central controls at intervals. The government has struggled to (a) sustain adequate jobs growth for tens of millions of workers laid off from state-owned enterprises, migrants, and new entrants to the work force; (b) reduce corruption and other economic crimes; and (c) keep afloat the large state-owned enterprises, many of which had been shielded from competition by subsidies and had been losing the ability to pay full wages and pensions. From 80 to 120 million surplus rural workers are adrift between the villages and the cities, many subsisting through part-time, low-paying jobs. Popular resistance, changes in central policy, and loss of authority by rural cadres have weakened China's population control program, which is essential to maintaining long-term growth in living standards. Another long-term threat to growth is the deterioration in the environment, notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table especially in the north. China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and economic development. Beijing says it will intensify efforts to stimulate growth through spending on infrastructure - such as water supply and power grids - and poverty relief and through rural tax reform. Accession to the World Trade Organization helps strengthen its ability to maintain strong growth rates but at the same time puts additional pressure on the hybrid system of strong political controls and growing market influences. China has benefited from a huge expansion in computer internet use. Foreign investment remains a strong element in China's remarkable economic growth. Growing shortages of electric power and raw materials will hold back the expansion of industrial output in 2004.
POPULATION OF China: 1,298,847,624 (July 2004 est.)
RELIGION OF China: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%
note: officially atheist (2002 est.)
COMMENTS ABOUT China:
China is a country in Eastern Asia
Cities : Beijing (capital), Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Kunming, Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou
Best places : Great Wall of China, Tibet, Silk Road, Hainan island
Electricity : 220V/50Hz (various plugs)
Calling Code : 86
Time Zone : UTC +8
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.
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Zhujiajiao is sometimes called Pearl Stream and is an ancient water town located in a suburb of Shanghai. This tour takes you back in time to see this well preserved town from the Ming and Qing dynasty - architecture, ancient bridges and houses. Also see Seven Treasure Town from the same dynasties, known for its cloth, yarn, carpentry and rice wine.