In two days we’ll say goodbye to the rabbit year of 2011 and enter the dragon year of 2012 which starts from Jan 23, 2012. Before turning to the new page to write our new history, we at tour-beijing.com look back at the passing year of 2011 with a light heart. The year 2011 fell into a dormant…
Today, Jan 19, 2012 Beijing Xinhua International Tours Head Office holds its annual gala dinner to celebrate the past year 2011. As one of the oldeast travel agencies based in Beijing, Beijing Xinhua Tours has survived many twists and turns along its 23 years’s path. In the year 2011 Beijing Xinhua has made steady…
If you plan a Beijing tour during the Chinese new year, you would have an opportunity to see how Chinese people spend their new year. Chinese new year or Spring Festival gives Chinese people a week-long holiday, this year from Jan 22, the new year’s eve to Jan 29, 2012. This Chinese new year is coming…
Plan your Beijing tours? You may enquire about the present vegetable prices if you are interested in the price comparison of vegetables between Beijing and your resident country. The vegetable prices in Beijing like anywhere else fluctuate with the market demand and the weather concerned. With the Chinese new year 2012 approaching, traditional retail…
The city of Beijing has four levels of administraton division, namely the local city government, districts, subdistricts and communities. Under Beijing Government we have 14 districts; under each district we have several subdistricts; under subdistricts, we have residential communities or neighbourhoods in Beijing. Beijing also has two counties under its administration. Subdistricts are the smallest…
Chinese Lunar New Year (popularly known as Chinese Spring Festival) 2012 is around the corner, which falls on a 7-day holiday Jan 22 – 29, 2012. One way to jazz the festive atmosphere, is to stick paper cuts to windows. Chinese paper cutting decorates windows, are also colloquially called “Chuang Hua”, literally meaning”Window Flowers”. Paper cuts crafters cut paper with scissors or knife. Paper cutting…
China has a rich eating culture. One important aspect of the eating culture is its networking function. To close a deal, we eat; to negotiate, we eat; after a meeting or conference, we eat; family or friends getting together. we eat and the eating list could be much longer. Chinese people have a rich variety of reasons…
Fruit picking in Beijing has become more and more popular with the improvement in ordinary people’s living standards. Of a rich variety of fruits picking, Beijing strawberry picking tops the fruit picking list, the only fruit picking in Beijing which people could experience in winter. The strawberry picking period lasts from late December till next June in Beijing. Strawberries are an easy…