China economy, China business, China trade, China tour

The economic development and growth from China is going to be one of the main origins to the world's economic growth, time to know more about China. The touring industry is one of the main revenues of China economy. Due to the long history of China, there are many valuable sight seeing places representing the Asian culture.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Photo tells the living style in Shen Zhen China

Shen Zhen is one of the first grade city from China where the GDP is above USD10,000. The GDP above USD10,000 is an important index showing the place is in front of the door of being the developed country level. In China, only few cities meet such level, there are Beijing, Shanghai and Groug Zhou. The problem is the living style of the local people do not match with the style where the GDP 10,000USD people supposed to live.

The following photo was taken from Shen Zhen metro where a person taking the local metro:
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It's not the specific case, it's common in Shen Zhen. People are still not matured in living in city or get educated of the proper manner of living in city too.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How Hong KOng and Taiwan people see China

It was changed for 5 times in the past 30 years after China open the door to the world.

Before 1990, China was the factory base for the Hong Kong and Taiwan secondary industry.

From 1990 - 1995, China was the market for Hong Kong and Taiwan to export and develop the domestic demand.

From 1995 - 2000, China was the talent store for Hong Kong and Taiwan secondary industry again for investing the R & D.

From 2000 - 2005, after China joined the WTO, China was the casino for Hong Kong and Taiwan to involve into the crazy stock market and property market.

After 2006, China was the capital origin of Hong Kong finance market and Taiwan single biggest clients earning up to 45 billion USD annually and even export the capital and tourists there.

From 2008, China was never poor anymore

2008 was the year where the China GDP climb to be USD3,000. Some of the higher developed cities such as Shen Zhen, Shanghai and Beijing are even more than USD10,000. And the real figure is even much more than that, it's due to the calculation from China legal system is different.

1. The land value was never counted. Since in China, all the land are belonged to the government, people own only the development right for 70 years. After 70 years, the government can take it back without paying anything.

2.The private asset was never existed the legal identification. Only after 2007, the law allow the private asset claimed as the legal asset. Before that, all were counted to be the temporarily rented from government.

3. Underground banker aka China Private Equity Fund, their scale is even matched the state-scale economy and even trade a lot of the foreign currencies. And they are never counted into the GDP.

4. Hidden transaction, there are many non-invoice or cash transaction in China, such as shops, village economy, and all government accommodations. Especially the government commendations where are claimed to be the free, so, never counted into the asset.

When we invoice such indexes into the GDP, there are at least 30% more than the existing GDP. So, from 2008, China was never poor, the problem is from the unbalance of the fortune distribution.

The salary of China worker are not cheap, it start to match with Hong Kong and Taiwan

A sales from a China factory can drive a Volkswagen to see the customer and his official income is only RMB2,000, around USD290. The question is there are many hidden income to him.

Such as:
1. The factory pay for the food for free
2. The factory provide the apartment for free
3. The factory provide high commission base on the payment collect from his.
Those are the hidden cost in China. For a salesman working in the IC factory or reseller company, he/she can gain around RMB6,000 monthly. So, his net income is RMB8,000 due to no food and apartment cost.

Such way are common in China, since the worker and the factory can pay less tax. And the fixed payment of the factory is also lower.

And for that salesman, his net-expense power is even higher than the developed countries people.

The China Private Equity Fund means the money from the underground bank

It's just name in China call the Private Equity Fund, the backside of those Private Equity Fund are from the underground bankers. And they provide around 30% annual return to the people involved. They mainly load to the small and medium size enterprise. Since most of the official bank do not want to load to those enterprises.

And secondly, they provide also the underground currency exchange too, one phone call and easily arrange for million cash. In Hong Kong, there are many currency exchange shop for Hong Kong dollars and RMB, they provide better rate than bank and no exchange limitation.

Since such Private Equity Fund are as big as a state-scale economy, the central government cannot use the legal way to bit it down, otherwise, it harms also to the normal economic activities. Now, the government use the Private Equity Fund way to let them raise to the "sum" and make the capital flowing legally.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

How the international brands use the investing in Hong Kong to capture the Mainland China consumers

In Hong Kong, the retail volume is around USD30 billion. If it serves only the Hong Kong market, there are not possible to meet such scale. It serves also the people from south side of China. It does not mean the touring people from the south side of China, it's the regular consumer come from the south side of China to shop in Hong Kong.

The traditional famous products are LV, GUCCI, ZARA and most of the European brands and Japanese digital electronics or ipod. And from few years ago, people also come to Hong Kong regularly for buying the mile powder and daily kitchen use stuffs such as wine, sol, palm oil, chocolate etc. since those non-china made stuffs are much more cheaper in Hong Kong and more stable of the source. If buy in Hong Kong, they can fell calm of buying the right products.

It means the trading area of the Hong Kong retail are extending to whole delta pearl. The investing in Hong Kong does not mean of serving Hong Kong consumer, it means for China market too. Some of the success brands such as city super (local high-end super market), maning, watson's (personal care products) are highly benefit from it. And even the European and American restaurant are highly benefited from it too due to the style in Hong Kong cannot have the same in China.

The second advantage is that, the people come from south side of China are the middle class people. Such mechanism indirectly filter the people with buying power to Hong Kong. So, the international brand investors can maintain the low tax and legal environment in Hong Kong and serving the China consumer. Some of the place in Hong Kong, such as International Fiance Centre, are typically doing it.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

5 cases China are undering doing for surprising the world in the coming 10 years

China is doing a lot of the works for moving the country to be as strong as 300 years ago. Certain of the works that the America or Europe would not do and even cannot do.

1. Allow the foreigners to enter the government bureau, in Beijing, some of the government post are taken from the foreigners who own only the working VISA.

2. IN 2020, 50% of the cars in China will be the electric-driven, such project accept many investors to go, such as Ford. And China will replace Japan to be the single biggest car output country in the world.

3. China has rented a city in Mexico for 50 years which is for the purpose of serving the North America market by removing the China lowest production cost there and get the North America market. The same project will do in Turkey and Poland.

4. Else of using 1.35 billion USD to buy the IBM PC business, China is under seeking the next targets which will be 1 or 2 American leading technology firm. For the finance industry, China have entered such as Blackstone, China use USD3

5. Taiwan start to dissolve into Mainland China. An food enterprise call Wang Wang was from Taiwan and got almost collapsed in Taiwan due to their competitor United dump them. Wang Wang move to Mainland to operate, in 10 years later, Wang Wang get strong and go back to Taiwan buying up United. More similar cases are happening in China and Taiwan. And the next step is the China capital flow to Taiwan for the M & A.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The serious problem from Taiwan economy

In 2008, all Taiwanese expect the more income from their new president, Ma Ying Giu after the 20 May 2008. 1 year has gone, the economy of Taiwan is still hard. It's not just Ma's problem. Since after their Chang president, Taiwan are no longer come out the visionary leader who or his team are capable to see the vision of Taiwan. From Chen president, overall Taiwan was like a cultural revolution. All countries in the world focus at economy, only Taiwan focus at politics. After that, most of the visionary Taiwan enterprise or the export enterprise move to China.

Now, the new government launch the 12 big infrastructures for fighting the economy of Taiwan trying to compare as Chang's contribution. And such investment may not help Taiwan. Since Chang's infrastructure were for synergy Taiwan's resource for exporting in 30 years ago. Now, Taiwan is a matured economic community, such infrastructure cannot contribute a lot for them. It needs the vision of leading Taiwan to innovation industry.

10 years ago, Taiwan had the opportunity if building an info land or letting most of the overseas info to pass Taiwan to land to China as well as he Asian info operating centre. And due to the internal political fighting, China raise up of it and build the network with the world directly and welcome the foreign enterprises to China directly too.

In the past 10 years, many countries and cities are changed their models. Singapore change to be the capital of ASEAN where monopoly most of the capital from ASEAN. Hong Kong change to be the China's New York and Florida. Macao change to be the China's Las Vagues. Korea change to be an R & D countries and outsource production to China. And Taiwan? Still waiting for the re-positioning.

10 years ago, China loved Taiwan experience a lot. Now, Taiwan experience is just one of China's resources. The competition of Taiwan is no longer from China, it's from the regional state of China such as delta pearl, Shanghai economic zone, Beijing economic zone etc. If Taiwan are willing to accelerate the moving to China, it can still be the second biggest share holder of China next to China communist party. Since the R & D power, international personnel network, technology sense, languages are still leading China for at least 10 years. If doing nothing, then, 10 years later, Taiwan is just one of the state from China likely Texas in USA.

The strange suitation of Hong Kong famous brand retail store

IFC (International Fiance Centre) is the heart of Hong Kong finance, The Hong Kong foreign currency authority and a lot of the finance firms are operating there. And of course, in the ground floor till 5 floor, there are the shopping center selling the famous brands, such as ZARA, GUCCI, LV, ARMANI etc.

And we can find that the customer usually the one do not speak the Hong Kong local language, more than 50% speak Manderine or English. So, in Hong Kong, there is a proverb "serve the Cantonese speaker first". Because they are the one will shop and not window shopping.

Due to the high import tax, VAT for the international brands to sell to China directly, the Mainland people living in the south side of China go to Hong Kong to shop the brand famous brands. The another areas is the PC and digital electronics. Most of the traditional chain stores provide also the Manderine training for their staffs too.

The China Sovereign Wealth Fund

Such fund is started the investing in Hong kong as a testing of flowing to "ocean". The ocean means the global finance market. The China government accept that it cannot base on the production or industry to gain the hard-earn money, it needs the finance way to earn money too. For example, Singapore. The population is around 3.5 million. And that country set up their own Sovereign Wealth Fund to invest globally and every year gain the money for feeding their people, even there are almost no industry in Singapore, such money can still allow that country to survive.

The China Sovereign Wealth Fund own around 200 billion USD, as compare with Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund own around 625 billion, Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund 325 billion, Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund own 322 billion, Kuwait own 213 billion, Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund own 128 billion, that money is a middle scale. And as compare with the big funds, such money is even in small scale only. And in China, it's due to not enough of international talent to operate such Sovereign Wealth Fund, so, it also cannot run in big scale.

The first stop of landing the Sovereign Wealth Fund in Hong Kong is due to Hong Kong is a deep-water pool and comes with security guard to see the market. People have excellent connection in Hong Kong where allows the fund to run in high transparency and low risk.

The China Sovereign Wealth Fund was ever rejected the invitation of some USA big fund firm. The join only Blackstone fund currently. Since the finance company is like a design company, the talent is the only asset, if the talents move out, the company is just a shell. So, the Sovereign Wealth Fund is a very conservative investment and still a the learning and "saving" info period, China do not want the Sovereign Wealth Fund finally change to be like the Japanese fund buying the American useless building and lost big money.

How crazy of the China property market?

An 200 square meter apartment sell at 4 million US dollars in Shanghai and Beijing. For that money, it can buy a farming village in USA, buy a casstle in Europe, buy a beach in Asian countries. And such 4 million USD apartment not own any land, it's just an apartment with the using right for 50 years.

The problem is , people still buy it. And now, get crashed. Before 2008, the property market was too hot and the people expect higher price without knowing the worldwide property price and the quality of China economy.

The development of the economy from Japan, Europe or USA are from the private businesses and base on the knowledge and innovation to develop it. And in China, it bases on the investment from the government to put into the fixed asset such as highway, airport etc. And also rely on the foreign enterprises to invest in China to move and usually such investment are not the high-valued added business. It means it serves the "rest-value" from the foreign enterprises. Sooner or later, the value of the market will get discount if the global economy get problem.

However, in China, most of the people do not see it. Since almost all people believe that their next generation will live better than them. So, they keep of putting the money in the "not-worth" finance products such as property and fund to buy their asset which cannot internationally flowing.

The re-writing of China econmy

Before 2009, there were recorded annually 10% economic growth from China economy and it was even as hot as the government need to cool it down. It was due to 2 reasons, one of the joining of the WTO and the globalization where more and more jobs and capital and production move to China. And second was due to the too hot of the property market. Property market lead the further expand of home appliance, building materials, furniture, telecom, etc., there are near 50 industries growth due to property.

On 2008, the global crisis harm to the export and highly reduce the capital flow into China. Property get cool down automatically. Then, the internal economic growth engine discount the power. The export economy get even recessive.

The harmful of that crisis is even bigger than the 1997 Asian finance crisis. 1/3 of the factories in the south side of China get collapsed or collapsed alike. Even few of the publicly-listed company are collapsed too especially the garment, toys and mechanical industries.

The bigger problem is that the economic growth of China must maintain 85 growth a year, otherwise, a lot of the social problems will come out, such as jobless, government income and asset, banking system, foreign currency trading etc. Fortunately, the leverage rate from the bank or the fund companies in China are very small, the damage would not as big as USA.

Is it worth to take a MBA degree from China?

There are a lot of the MBA degrees providers from China, probably it's the second biggest in the world. MBA start from 8 April 1908 from Harvest. In China, the annual MBA graduate are 14,624 people and in 2007, there are totally 127 universities provide the MBA degree.

Currently, 25% of the fortune 500 CEO own the MBA, 40% of high level management own the MBA, in wall street, 50% of the people own the MBA too.

In China, there is a hidden rule, any one want to promote to be the general manager grade, who must own an MBA. However the problem found from the market is that most of the MBA course skills are far from the real world demanding skills. Else of the famous university likely Beijing University, the MBA are for the networking likely a commercial club. The rest MBA are out of the market wants. The another problem from China MBA is that it employ the foreign star-grade people for the professor or even the MBA principle, such people come to China maybe only 1 month in a year and even do not know in-depth about the China market, it cannot provide the right training for the market. MBA is only for earning money instead of education. It also look like fast-food restaurant too.

Because it teach the skills, system, theory, comment ability etc, there are not enough for encouraging the ADVENTURE. It's the time for China MBA to re-focus the niche on providing the training of entrepreneur.s such as innovation, politician alike leadership.

All over China are working for the super capitalism even their capital

The new capitalism is a super power who owns only small capital, but own the a lot of talents and labs.

The super power of that super capitalism is from the R & D, copyright, pattern, distributing channels and networks etc. Such as most of the famous multi-national company, they have the engineers more than labor, more labs than factories, they have the sales and marketing professionals more than clerks. It makes them leverage a lot of the resources such as capital, labor, rare natural resources etc.

Currently, China own a lot of the capital probably, it's even more than Japan, and the problem is China is highly rely on the foreign investment especially in the south side of China. Their capital are working also for the foreign enterprise. For example, the garment industry, almost all of them make the credit of 120 days for the buyers. The buyer take their credit (money) for the advertising, establish the retail chain, distributing network, branding etc. And the finance industry even the government use the money to buy the finance products from the super capitalism. And the labor use the low income for making the low price stuffs to export to the world too. Even some other countries are cheaper than China in labor cost, the offer from China to the super capitalism is still much expensive, since China is also open the door for the foreign enterprise to come to earn money, others are not.

Production and capital are no longer the element for capitalism or making money, they are just the resources for leveraging. China need to invest in the own innovation, branding, distributing channels, education etc. otherwise, China can only produce the "rest-value" of the capitalism and all the economy are highly relied on the "offer" from the super capitalism.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

How to make a quality visiting in China

There are many famous travelers in the world who travel many places and many times. The problem is the quality was never high before. Usually, when we go some place for touring, we would search online and determine what places to visit and how long of the time. The problem is such way of visiting are for going there to prove what we read from the book or TV programs introducing about the sight seeing place. Even in Europe or Japan, the regional developing status are different. If China, such different can be "crazy".

The right way of joining the sight seeing in China should not join only the fixed group touring. It needs also the free time to sight seeing around. Since in China, the visitor places are usually very good and polite. However, when out of the sight seeing landmarks, it can be likely Africa.

And when you need to see the real faces of a countries, it needs to "move-in" the local people's life, then, you can receive their emotions about the place as well as stimulating the mind of getting more impressive about the world. It's not just in China, it's even whole Asia is like that.

Friday, April 17, 2009

The value of Asian people especially the Chinese about their weak democratic sense

In Asia, there are many cartons expressing the value of the life, for example, the youth JUMP, from Japan, which explain the friendship, winning and get blessings from the parents (seniors). Since it explains in the "small circle" of winning, which makes most of the teenagers learn the value of winning means win the heart of a beautiful girl from a party or go to resort beach with girlfriend means the lucky of the life and rich sense of the life.

The more serious social problem is that they also get learnt to limit their eye on "small circle" too. For example, if there is a serious traffic jams from a secondary road, they would not compliant to the government nor advising the improvement to their mayor. They try to seek for any lane to park or buy a map to seek any other short cut, or use motor-bicycle, or use very slow speed to wait in the street for long time.

They vote the government, they can and should report to the government about the improving of the road. It should not go for seeking anything secretly to occupy the other social resources.

Besides, most of the Asian countries also start to turn old now for the average age. The old people would come out for voting, so, most of the parliament members or the government would fix their policy as priority. Since the young generation would not vote, so, most of their benefits are delayed for any voting time. Even some of the parliament member try to launch the youth entrepreneurs fund for them, people never buy it. And conversely wishing to have any free lunch from it. If such situation keep of happening, the social policy would get more trend to the old generation and finally it will damage the dynamic of the countries.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The China devil 20 years career life

30+ is a critical age in China for anyone's career. People start to label themseleves old and make the excuse that they need t take care the children and scrafice the career. The worst thing is that they believe the listen to the senior is a sort of saint.

The common things happened is that: we should ask the boss or senior if we can say this to the customer or will the boss or senior want to say others to the customer? In fact, they never think that whenever the trust conducted or fund from the work, just say directly. People dare not say it due to build up the sense of wanting to living in the company instead of wanting to live in the market.

Especilly for the person who is after 30+, they forget their expectation of the life after the school and the initailly 5 years of entering the career life. For them, it means the maturity of the life, however, for the economy, they are the loser.

Big demand of the adult training in China

The age between 35 - 50 years old in China are the group where grow up with "yes-man". They start to lost the independent thinking ability after left the school due to need to suit for the environment where listen to the senior and wait for the time of getting the promotion. What they learn from the career is the skill of living in the organization and the relation with other mates.

In their coming 10 - 15 years, they need to face the important change of the life, since the market get more and more open, they are either create their business or live in the organization with their global competitive skills.

The problem is in the market, there are still lacking of the real training lesson helping them to globalize. There are a lot of the MBA in China university and most of them are focusing at developing the local market and teach the people about the behaviour of the local style. Which block the globalization of China and the own export power. Since near 50% of the export from China are from the foreign enterprises who set up the factory in China and export so.

The training market is demanding which is due to their is existed of a hidden rule that anyone need to promote to be the general manager grade who must have a MBA. So, whenever anyone who is ambition on the career who must get the MBA as a milestone of their career.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

The new touring resources of Goung Dong province, China

Goung Dong is one of the fastest developed province in China where the GPS is even more than USD5,000 which is above the national average level of USD3,000. People start to demand for the entertainment industry. Gound Dong is no longer just a manufacturing province, it's now also one of the biggest entertainment province. And the percentage of the entertainment industry will be one of the pillars of that province. There are 10 best entertainment resources from that province.

They are:
1. Disco, an ordinary disco is around 20,000 - 30,000 square meters where the involving people is even much more than the rave party from America.

2. Restaurant, it can eat anything from that province, it's not just the ordinary different countries food, even some of the forbidden food, such as dog, cat, snake, wild pig, monkey, etc. Some of the people from come there for only the purpose of tasting such food.

3. Hot spring, there are more than 20 5 star grade hot spring hotel from that province. Some of them are even better than the four seasons resort hotel. It build in the forest area. And the price is around USD200 for 2 people.

4. Massage and Spa, where is uncountable of the massage place, it usually includes the Spa too. Whenever Thai style or Chinese style can find there.

5. Chinese Herbal Meal, which is for the medical purpose from eating the food which comes with the Chinese traditional medical treatment. The healing is typically good for any anxiety, digestion problem and overall weak of the body.

6. Golf, it sounds strange of playing golf in China. The point is that which is probably the cheapest in Asia. The place is still cannot match like Japan, America or middle east, the competitive point is from the low price, where 1 hour cost around USD20.

7. Finger nail and food nail painting, which is quite cheap and comes a lot of the shops doing it. The facial care is still not ok yet and the price is even higher than Hong Kong, finger nail and foot nail painting is the one should recommend.

8. Old temples, if anyone love to study the China history or any China culture, the temples are the main resources to study it. It's no longer a political taboo in communism China, it's even encouraging from the government to learn the ancestor wisdom. Some of the temples are even up to many hundred years.

9. China village, the village from Goung Dong is very ok, the farmers are no longer poor, they start their own business of welcoming the guest for eating the organic food there and take the nice dinner or lunch in their farming lands where the selling point s the closing to the natural environment. The other provinces are still not ok yet, since their income is still too low.

10. The road and people, it sounds also strange of it. The picture is that there are too much people in the street, it's around 5 or 10 times more than the usual amount of the people in the street from the developed countries. It's all the time crowd and feel stress from so much people. And the road building or highway building is also too much. The length of the highway in China is still much shorter than the developed countries, the problem is that most of the highway are build within a city. So, the city's highway is very crowd too and always jam. If anyone want to feel traffic of cars and people, it can see there!

Photo says all: the development difference of China, exist New York alike city and Africa alike city too




China develop fast which is truth, and in the same time, the unbalance development is even more truth. Due to the limited resources from the country such as energy, talent, budget, raw materials, education etc. Which makes China can only focus at developing few of the cities first and let few of the people get rich first. We can see the difference from the road of the grade A city and the lower grade city and even the village.

When we talk about exporting to China, it's about the export to the grade A and grade B cities. The rest of the cities and the village market is still as "virgin" as Africa. When we talk about the strong power of the China economy, it needs to consider the serious unbalance of people's income and relatively lower than the international level. China is even not yet a middle developed country yet.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

the China innvated advertising option


The price of advertising in China central channel TV cost more than USD100,000 for 5 second due to it's the only channel broadcasting all over China. There is another option from China using much less money to broadcasting your brand all over China too and can be for long long time: the name of the stadium.

In 2008, all people see the Olymic game took in Beijing Bird Net stadium. Due to the too heavy of stadium's operating cost, the city government cannot afford in long time. So, the name of the bird net are open to sell now. Any brands can provide RMB70,000,000 annually for the maintanence of the stadium, then, that bird net stadium can use their name. As per government announced, Addidas and Reebok are started to apply it. When such name is taken by anyone, which is surely the national news broadcasing in China and keep for long time advertiisng purpose too.

Such advertising option is probably the first case in the world. It needs to overcome a lot of the political blocks for selling it especially in China. However, it can still do so and even publicly open for any brands even they are not the domestic brands. If success, it helps to all the city governments from the world to increase their asset. Since the name of any stadium can be an asset too.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Huangguoshu Waterfall Tour in Guizhou China

















Cart 1 Guiyang urban areas, seen everywhere along the karst formation of the mountain, much like the Guilin mountains, very beautiful.

Seeing the beauty of the scenery along the way, it was soon gone. Car has not arrived Huangguoshu scenic areas, have heard the sound of water skirr came from a distance.

Huangguoshu Falls is the first Great Falls, but also Asia's largest waterfall. Its gap 74 meters wide, 81 meters, the river from the cliff top and the next volley, are dumped into the next ... ... a very spectacular.
Water stone with shock, the issue of running noise, smoke a flight, then shake the majestic days of moving to the momentum, it is soul-stirring. Only stirred the mist falls,

Up to few tens of meters, floating all over the sky to fly around in the rain are. We have taken the time, cameras have been the wet.
Falls after "Water Curtain hole" quite wonderful, 134-meter-long cave has six-hole windows, 5hole Halls, three-hole spring and a waterfall inside the cave. Visitors walk through the hole,

In holes outside the window watching fly streaming down waterfall; look halfway up the upper reaches of people are entering "Water Curtain hole" it!

In the "on the 3rd day without sunshine" Guizhou, hard hope eyes a sunny space, we too a few days ago the "wet body" not enough, went to drilling "Water Curtain hole", apart from retaining raincoat to place, thoroughly wet all of the following thighs, his face are all about water. Peers are reluctant to demonstrate their advanced camera, I had no choice but to sacrifice your own camera. Finally gone into the trip, how can we not shoot?

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Shenyang Imperial Palace Tour in China



















Because the relationship between the work of Shenyang go, so go have a look in passing in Shenyang, one of the famous tourist attractions: the National Palace Museum in Shenyang.

Shenyang Imperial Palace is the well-preserved Imperial Palace, one of the two, needless to say another is the Imperial Palace in Beijing, while Beijing, Shenyang Imperial Palace is not large, there is no well-known in Beijing, Shenyang Imperial Palace but in strict accordance with the pattern design, is the epitome of the National Palace Museum, as walls are golden roofs, are the same hall courtyard, Shenyang Imperial Palace building in 1625, the Manchu people are set up early Qing regime Palace. Qing capital Beijing in 1644, after amendment, has become the emperor's palace at the northeast patrol.

Shenyang Imperial Palace the main part of the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji period (1627 - 1643 years) of the palace, with a strong Manchu geographical features and architectural features of northeast China.


This is mainly because to work, so time is very tight, only just walk, take a look at, easy to take some photos ... ...

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Wutai Mountain Tour in Shanxi China




















Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province are one of the Chinese Buddhist holy places, and Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang, Sichuan Emeishan,Anhui Jiuhuashanand known as the four major Buddhist mountains in China. Although I do not know the Buddhist culture, but was Wutaishan infected Buddhist Aura. Religious and cultural beliefs are compatible. Faith and cultural communication are human folk. Folk are embodied in the essence of national culture, we can only meditation mind, practicing virtue. The hearts of the Buddha has

Wutaishan mainly dedicated to Manjusri, the Manjusri represents intelligence and career.


First look of the attractions are: "Buddha Top" . Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province is located in "Buddha Top" Jiufeng Spirit, the magnificent, colorful, with the Imperial Palace characteristics are Wutaishan Lama's largest monasteries.

See further down a number of lamas in one long class Service Desk knock the Big head, it looks like devout people can not be underestimated, the donation could not help some.

Out too far after the "Buddha Top" baita see one standing in the distance, that is, Temple Tower courtyard, but we did not enter that place, because the tour guide said that lack of time, and this is with the corporation benefits.

The next place to go to the Temple are significant pass. Daxian Tong Temple Mount are the first temple, built in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is one of China's earliest Buddhist temple.

Impressed me most are in the significant pass after Temple Takadono Department, has assembled a bronze casting of pure metal from the buildings, known as "pass Copper Dian significantly." The resplendent architectural Let me dazzled, it is China's only one of three Copper Dian. The other two blocks, one of the Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang, one of the Emei Mountain in Sichuan.

This is a night to live in damp Wutaishan on sleep are very much stable.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tar Monastery Tour of Qinghai China
























I will be their trip to Qinghai (Tar) dedicated to the feelings of everyone to share ... ...

As Qinghai, one of the most famous attractions, is the Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in Qinghai first temple, originally named Tap abuse Temple, the temple gets its name from Daikin watts Memory Tsongkapa inside the Pagoda of China's Tibetan Buddhism Gelugpa (commonly known as the Yellow Sect), and the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, founder of the Tibetan Yellow Sect, one of the six major monasteries.

Tar is due to the birth of Guru Tsongkhapa and his followers aspire to become famous for the Holy Land. Historically, third, fourth, five, seven, thirteen, fourteen Dalai Lama and six, nine, Master Panchen had been in residence here. At the same time, it has been ages attach great importance to the central dynasty. According to records, from the Qing Emperor Kangxi, the court on many occasions to give gifts Tar, has plaque, objects, statues, scriptures, pagoda and so on. Monastery of the Aga, race Chek, la, color and more, Shannon Savimbi, Messina, but the West, such as Living System, money or time has been called Connaught who Qutugtu Khan.


Tar is the most famous:SuYou Flower,DuiXiu, murals.
1,SuYou Flower are mostly Buddhist stories, the general necessary Celsius below freezing in the winter production, a large can create dozens or even one or two hundred vivid god Buddha.
2, divided into cloth mural paintings, wall paintings and paintings of three colorful pages, thousands do not fade, I have a painting rare.
3,DuiXiu is colored cotton cloth, silk cut paste from the well-heap, and now has in the Monastery can be difficult to build into a three-dimensional DuiXiu lost.

Tar is not only the monasteries as well as Tibetan Buddhist monks of the school, which the distribution of the king, Tantric, when round out the four medical colleges and underdeveloped Palestinian grwa-tshang, study Buddhism and Tibetan language, writing, astronomy, calendar count, medicine, dance, sculpture, painting, architecture and other areas of knowledge,

Temple has a longer than linden tower, said to this tree for hundreds of years immortal, but the tower closed, no way of knowing true. The tour guides speak very fast also tells us that outside Tar another tower in a tree and the tree root is the same mother tree, really magical.

Most temples are built on hillsides, a total of 25 large and small halls, hate more than 9000 homes, the aromatic leaves Flower Temple, curtain, roof corridor system Buddha, gods, ghosts, demons and the World of Ultimate Bliss and geographical mural, in the mythology and art walk.

Early impression of the Qinghai Lake of China






























Because it is too busy recently, so no time to update. Just a little empty today, I upload went to the Qinghai beautiful picture to share with yours now!!!

December 2, 2008 morning 6:30 K915 train our people and his party pulled Maryland 12. A train station, we eat a bowl of steaming hot beef noodles, and then take the bus from Lanzhou starting to Qinghai Lake.

Lanzhou to Xining along the highway on both sides of the land, hillsides are yellow. Hill not only did not soil the tree, and even grass are few and far between, and occasionally see traces of the artificial tree, but only a handful survived. On the bare slopes of the roof from time to time to see a Block solitary mountain temple is erected. Observatory built by farmers and herdsmen in the house with no rules to the.

According to tour guides, the flat-topped houses of the Tibetan and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is drought adapted to the climate, the architectural features of these houses is that the wall whip Ma. Local farmers and herdsmen to build a house in time to whip Ma grass dried, chopped, and the mud to make walls. Whip Ma plateau grass is a common perennial herb, with decompression, moisture absorption, the role of earthquake for building houses, which local farmers and herdsmen is a typical example of local materials. After toll booths in the sun when we first saw the mirror in the sun under the towering snow-capped mountains spectacular.

Mountain had one car, entered the pastoral areas, pasture is becoming more and more broad, see more cattle and sheep flocks. Because it is early winter season, a golden prairie, like a big golden carpet. Yak one black leader in the golden years solidification. Not far away, scattered with several white tents. Car in the road course, and often may inadvertently stopped, and then you will see, or a horse, or a few yaks, or a flock of sheep slowly across from our front of the vehicle to cross the road. Encountered such a scenario, the car must be parked in the road and so they walked.

Think we may be the atmosphere of the car not active, and tour guides gave us talking about the Tibetan custom. It is said that Tibetan girls here to marriageable age, will be away from their families in a family of big white tents not far from living in small tents, or passers-by who can discuss the name of live-in water overnight, until to an annual output of sub-after family members will find a husband for her. Guides that can have such customs have been handed down, first, because the nomadic habits of the four movements, the family becomes very important population; Then and advocating Tibetan fertility since ancient times, and consider only the fertility of female personnel have been able to marry. After listening to tour guides introduce surprising, many men have been ready to make the mind and no longer visit the prairie where flocks of yaks, but always ask: "how this kind of tent did not see it?" A great friend of the late hate Italy. But tour guides said that by the Han Chinese culture, in the vicinity of Qinghai Lake, this small white tents have been gone.

Beautiful Qinghai Lake

More and more straight roads, more and more flat grasslands, mountains gradually to more distant places, the highest Peak covered with snow, from the Peak, rising one after another from the vagaries of Baiyun.

Qinghai Lake is the first time I see, I do not know how others like my heart is really excited one. It appeared in front of us the way it is beyond my expectations. Unexpectedly, a large lake in Connaught arise, such as suspended in the sky between the earth and a shiny blue ribbon. This dark blue ribbon in the distant horizon, in the place of heaven and earth handover suddenly leap. Then accompanied by the rotating wheels, lines more and more wide, and finally, the sea posture to reveal themselves, and finally, the endless blue sea-level alternative to the dry yellow horizon. Qinghai Lake to!

Down from the highway about 20 minutes away, you can touch the Qinghai Lake, the lake was salty, cold penetrate to the bone. Which looks a deep blue lake, vast ripple continuous, across the snow-capped mountains color scene in structured; surrounded by barbed wire, not far from the shore, you can see some water birds, which some in the free swimming, and some leaned on each other , cheerful kiss; near look crystal clear, large and small pebbles of different colors in the sun's shining mapping the changes of water ripple; wind gently tapping the lake shore, the issue of "Sha La La ... ... "sound, this scene is very attractive ...

Because it is low season, hawkers were together lazily basking in the sun.

Return trip through the window and see snow-capped mountains.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Ningxia Shahu trip in China



















Ningxia is located in the "Silk Road", the history of east-west traffic was an important gateway for trade.


Shahu Scenic car to car parks, the first thing the eye is the door to the top of Jiang Zemin inscribed the "l." two powerful characters. Interestingly, the inscription "sand" to the right of a point less. Locals said humorously, Jiang, general secretary of the sand here is to make "little" ah!

(Shahu Scenic gate, Jiang Zemin inscribed the "l.", "sand" less words)

Is already at 13:30PM, the tour guide arranged for us to scenic restaurant lunch. Guide told us that came to Shahu, Shahu here have no choice but to eat the head. Shahu outlets in the big fish have N home stores, general selling 50 yuan a pound. We and his entourage of 12 people, it would take a 9 kg weight of fish. In fact, this big fish is the bulk of big fish but the lake is said to be eating up the root of the reed, fish smell is not heavy soil. Shahu do not know is the head is indeed delicious, or because we came to the Northwest tourism Shanghai fresh food for several days because, since we are wiped out.
(Gordonia Shahu delicious fish)

After a meal, tour guides arranged for us to take a speedboat Lake. Standing on the lakeside pier, looking ahead, the lake is linked blue sky, blue sky shining on the lake, it can be described as "total Qiushui sky color"; the vast lake, white water-fowl in the play chase; a golden reed films, such as hydroponic bonsai, scattered in the lake, it is good-looking.

Surf in plaster reed maze, through Shadow Mountain in the lake, such as the airship will take us into the magical realm of fantastic.

After about 20 minutes, we arrived at the other side of Dune. Presented to us is the sand dunes of the desert scenery and camels. In Shapo, a few camels lying there, rest, there are few tourists riding camels being toward the desert sand dunes. The reeds on the shore breeze blowing under the non-stop swing, ethereal mellow.

Down from the boats, that is, the Mu Us Desert. From the lake to the desert, there is no pause, no transition, some feel unprepared. Shapo stand on the one hand is the long yellow sand, sand dunes and downs, Camel Bells jingle; the other side is a sparkling, reed patches. Northwest rough desert south of Yangtze River and the delicate so perfectly together.

Desert and water, has always been contradictory. But here, it is symbiotic, then naturally, then harmony. Sage words indeed exquisite incomparable: the world is the unity of opposites is the unity of contradictions. Shahu not is a proof of it?

Xi'an Huaqing Pool Tour in China















Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang Hua Qing Hot Spring from the traffic is very convenient, but also not far.

Huaqing Pool is located in Xi'an, Seongdong 30 kilometers Lintong region south Lishan, north Weishui, with natural hot springs naturally good fortune. Historical documents and archaeological evidence, Huaqing Pool with hot springs in 6000 and in 3000 the use of the history of the imperial garden architectural history. Setting sun in the sunset, the Li Shan Hongxia million
Shape, particularly CMV, known as the "Eight Guanzhong" one. Qing Hua is the Tang Dynasty tangxuan
Tianbao six cases (AD 747) to build, is Xuanzong and Yang play, bath
Place. Lishan Huaqing Pool hot springs, water temperature maintained at 43 degrees all the year round, known as the "and
The sun with the flow, not profit is true "is the Tour and bathing resort.



Central Park - the Xi'an Incident, when Chiang Kai-shek the hotel.

Chiang Kai-shek's office and conference room.

Huashan Mountain Tour in China











Dongfeng huashanica sunrise Phi ... In this way the sun in the rock on Dongfeng.
Howard brave brother this way before the half-length hanging over the edge ^ ^ look at the sun to the valley what color dye.

The provisions of the team in the foot before 10:00 concentrated,

Has to leave a number of separate time

Now do not intend to ride the cable car down the mountain peak in the North, and now will have to make a U-turn down the mountain,

This is down from time to time how much easier than the mountains,

Huashan this route, especially to circumvent dependencies Huashan Road, a little careless, is not strange thing to pieces.

Huashan Road downhill to circumvent dependencies absolutely do not see themselves at the foot of the way, the fact that the slope is 70 degrees, 82 degrees most have had;

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Xi'an Bell Tower, Drum Tower Tour

















Buying upstairs. The first is that the mouth eyes clock. Seventeen years thought the motion Ming Hongwu (AD 1384), the bell endless here, so I spent a few pieces of silver scornful beat up. Hit the ancient bell for the time, and now hit bell for economic, I think it is better for the economy.

To the past, is on South Main Street, far Yongning Gate and South Gate of hope, South busy street, stream, those who like a taxi cockchafer only. Standing there, can not help feeling the time such as water, always recall the past. Went up slowly, you can see the floor, so tall in fact the whole body or wooden structure based architecture ride tenon structure knot of calculation may be reinforced concrete materials ratio almost ah fine. I am a layman can only look at the craftsman then sighed.

This is below the south tower Yuanwang Yongning Gate ... ...


Listen to old people, the bell, Gulou locks below the one-stop, leading in the Clock Tower, the tail of the Drum Tower. Dead of night, they also can be heard leading chains issued when sloshing sound, but I never listen to the middle of the night when the sound of chains. I thought it was just a legend of Xian Ping'an expectations.

Now the clock has been linked Gulou 1, revised from a square, around the clock tower of shops, restaurants, snack Hui Gulou side street, the night was ablaze with lights and a sea of people.