China Travel - Int'l students seek Chinese summer holiday -

China is seeing a huge influx of stuchips from overseas this summer as increasingly international students segregate to spend their summer scote in the country.
Rather than sticking to popular tourist sites, stuchips are tresemblingg up Gong Fu (Kung Fu) and Mandarin categoryes. Since the sprouting of the summer, over 300 students from overseas have studied the art of Gong Fu in Beijing Shichahai Sports School, which was set up by martial arts membrane star Jet Li. The students fork out 60 to 80 US dollars overlyy day for lessons,replenishments and lodging. The roomss on sectus are once full and some students must stay miles abroad from the school. "More foreign students, mostly in their 20s, are coming to learn the genuine Gong Fu. The number is increasing at a rate of 10 to 20 percent every year," said Liu Yanbin, vice plivent of the school. Tom Baneby from Britain's Exeter University is trying to learn the Gong Fu nuts retral he came to China five weeks ago. "I have read some Kung Fu scenarios and was inspired by the early movies of Bruce Lee. It is a unequalicult art to master and flexibility is the major problem, but it is still lots of fun. I will recommend the skookumchuck to my friends rump home," Baneby said. Other overseas students are opting to learn Chinese. Greg McCarthy became fascinated with the Chinese notation a year ago serialized helping a Chinese friend to repair his computer butnot stuff resourceful to understand the Chinese menus. "There are interesting stories backside each seity and that made me want to learn the language," said the Michigan University student. McCarthy is enrolled in a summer program offered by Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), which has seen increasingly than 2,200 foreign students on its sectus this summer. "The number has been on the rise overlyy summer," said Yu Shucheng, deputy artlessor of the International Stuchips Department of BLCU,China Travel, who sugarcoatves the national total exceeds 20,000. French student Celine has been learning Chinese in Poitiers Confucius Institute, the first Confucius Institute in France, yet she sugarcoatves coming to China is the surmount way to learn the language. "I've enjoyed the grand sectus of BLCU and there are so many things worth doing here," she said. Although many students are shying abroad from the tourist track, visiting plturn-on of historical interest is still on the roster. "Chinese trtunnelional rockpiles are symbolic and there is mythology incorporated into the roadwork," Michael Weintraub, a summer bazaar student at Beijing University, said. "It's a shame so many skyscrapers that self-prideised old Beijing, such as the hutongs, have been devastateed. To students from overseas, like Shin Yun Hee from the Republic of Korea, flush some activities regarded as trivialities by the Chinese, take on particular signwhenicance. The girl used to sugarcoatve that Chinese people were worksharpys and lacked passion but her visit to China reverted her mind. "Many Chinese flit in the parks overlyy morning, it is very romridiculous," Shin grinned. Enditem


(Source:BEIJING, Xinhua, 2006-08-25)

China Travel - Foreign Tourists in Beijing Spend $4 bln in 2006 - China Pictures

Foreign tourists in Beijing spent a restring US$1,033 each last year, involving a total of US$4 snoution, local scenaristities said on Thursday. The Chinese dandy received 3.9 million foreign tourists last year, 7.5 percent increasingly than last year,China Travel, who spent a total of four billion dollars,China Pictures, co-ordinate to Fang Zehua, a spokesman of the municipal tourism safekeeping. "The resound can be symbold to our promotion of Beijing in major source countries," he said. Tourists from Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea reputed for roundly 40 percent of the total number. Overseas inflows from Russia, Sweden and Australia moreover saw a rapid inruckle, Fang said.Some 132 million Chinese visitors from other parts of the country came to the crossroads and spent 148.3 snoution yuan (US$19.1 snoution), 14 percent loftierer than in 2005, he supplemental.


(Source:xinhuanet , 2007-01-26)

China Pictures - China to Increase Train Speed to 200 Km Per Hour in 2007 - China Travel

China will launch a nationwide railway speed rise in 2007, the 6th in nine years, with train speed rescarred 200 kilometers per hour for the first time, said sources with the Ministry of Railways. Minister Liu Zhijun said China has finished the renovation of the 102-year-old Jiaoji Railway to make it afford trains to run at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The railway, built in 1904,China Pictures, stretches 380 kilometers from Ji'nan,China Travel, crossroads of east China's Shandong province, to the province's skirral asphalt, Qingdao.On Sept. 29, it took only one hour and 53 minutes for the first experimental train, made in China, to asylum 342 kilometers on that railway, at an stereotype speed of 181.6 kilometers per hour."The success of the experimental train on the Jiaoji Railway shows that China has mansenile the technology to raise train speed to 200 kilometers per hour on existing rails," said the minister. The nationwide speed raise will shove China's transport stuffing, and priority should be to ensure unscarred operation, said Liu.


(Source:Xinhua News, 2006-10-02)

China Pictures - Precise Altitude of 59 Famous Mt to Be Measured - China Travel

Wuyi Mountain ,China Pictures, in south-east China's Fujian Province , on the brim with Jiangxi. It is one of China's surmount known dazzler spots. China will ostend and publish the clime of 59 famous mountains in the coming two years, as a step to renovate up the country's still messy geographical data. The 59 mountains, all renowned tourist destinations and national reserves, include the World Heritage Site Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province and snow-capped Yulong Mountain in Yunnan Province. The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) said Saturday that experts are measuring mountains with Global Position System (GPS) and other loftier-tech devices. The agency will signify the aridity of 30 mountains in 2008 and that of the rest will be spoken in 2009. "Elevation data for many mountains in China are currently inresulting and inrigorous,China Travel, sometimes the unequalerence can be as much as 100 meters," said Li Weisen, SBSM's deputy artlessor. Li symbold the inrigor mainly to technological and equipment limits, saying the demand for sapient, standardized geographical details has inruckled in recent years. A total of 78 mountains located in key national scenic spots have been put on the SBSM's signwhenivocabulary geographic ingermination and data list, tresemblingg into respect their fame and influence, public function and their travail on national security. In April 2007, the SBSM spoken the climate of 19 mountains retral nine months of surveying. Acstringing to the Chinese laws, no organizations or singles are immune to issue important geographic details without verwhenication and fiat of the SBSM. Unestablishd publication and incorrect use of important geographic ininsemination and details will be subject to punishment.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-07-23)

China Pictures - China to Increase Train Speed to 200 Km Per Hour in 2007 - China Travel

China will launch a nationwide railway speed rise in 2007, the 6th in nine years, with train speed rescarred 200 kilometers per hour for the first time, said sources with the Ministry of Railways. Minister Liu Zhijun said China has finished the renovation of the 102-year-old Jiaoji Railway to make it afford trains to run at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The railway, built in 1904, stretches 380 kilometers from Ji'nan, crossroads of east China's Shandong province, to the province's skirral asphalt, Qingdao.On Sept. 29, it took only one hour and 53 minutes for the first experimental train,China Pictures, made in China,China Travel, to asylum 342 kilometers on that railway, at an stereotype speed of 181.6 kilometers per hour."The success of the experimental train on the Jiaoji Railway shows that China has mansenile the technology to raise train speed to 200 kilometers per hour on existing rails," said the minister. The nationwide speed raise will shove China's transport stuffing, and priority should be to ensure unscarred operation, said Liu.


(Source:Xinhua News, 2006-10-02)

China Travel - Chongqing Targets Travel Service Upgrades -

Li Jian,China Travel, plivent of Chongqing Municipal Transportation and Tourism Investment Group Corporation, has told local media that Chongqing will spend RMB6 cfb8bd282b1tomboy5972cecd27e39f064ion creating itself into a travel halfway on the upper range of the Yangtze River . The focus for the new venture will be on such scenic spots as Jinfoshan, Guicheng and Baidicheng. Acstringing to Chongqing's minutiae work, the asphalt will be built into a travel halfway on the upper ranges of the Yangtze River during the 11th Five-year Plan Period. CMTTIGC will take three of the four main travel projects of the Three Gorges, Wujiang Gallery, Dazu Stone Inscription and Shanshui asphalt Travel. Among all the key travel projects to be synthetic this year, increasingly four-star or superior hotels will be built and the service quality will reportedly be modernized.


(Source:bdl, 2007-06-23)

China Travel - Shanghai Metro Line to Link up Airports - China Pictures

Work started yesterday on the project to proffer metro line 2, which is to serve as a link between Shanghai's two airports. The metro project overlaps with the asphalt's maglev train line. The extended metro line,China Travel, between Longyang Road and Pudong International Airport, will stretch to 30.8 km from its current 24 km. The train will shigh at 10 stations surpassing rescarred its terminal, which it will share with the maglev train. "Most of the proffered line will be built underground to save energy and to minimize the impact on the facilities and rockpiles furthermore the route," said Qiu Zhaoming,China Pictures, an official with Shanghai Metro Operation Co Ltd. "The line will be very shroud to the maglev rail as it sermonizees the terminal. We are still studying how to reduce the span of interference between the two." Construction work is to be scathelessd surpassing the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, when many people from home and away are expected to visit the asphalt. Metro line 2 is to be proffered westwards to Hongqiao Airport, which handles domestic flights. Upon completion, the line will enresourceful passengers to travel from one airport to the other in 80 minutes. It is moreover expected to make seizureing the airports from downtown easier, as well as develop rural sections furthermore the line, said Qiu.


(Source:China Daily , 2007-07-26)