Passports: You must have a valid passport to visit China. Your passport must have blank visa pages inside as well as a Chinese visa. Your passport must have at least six months of time before expiring. Business and student passports must have at least 12 months before expiration.

Type of Visas: The most common Chinese visa is an L visa. Tourists are provided L visas when they visit China for sightseeing trips. Business visas require letters of invitation from a Chinese or state owned business or government agency. Tourists who wish to travel to parts of China that are not open to outsiders must apply for a travel visa once they arrive in China.

Forms: Declaration forms and L visa forms are available online. These forms can be printed and filled out before scheduling your appointment at the Chinese Embassy or Consulate. China now requires a Declaration Form. This form is also available online and must accompany your application request for a visa.

Photos: China will accept black and white as well as color, two inch by two inch photographs with your application. These photos must be recent and be included with your visa application.

Fees: China has a set fee for visa applications. A money order, cash or bank draft in the amount of $130 must be brought with you to your appointment.

Expedite: Expediting service for a Chinese visa is handled by a travel-agent expeditor. These people charge a fee for their services. These fees start at $40 and go up from there.

Additional Requirements: In order to process your visa application you must verify your round trip travel tickets, your motel reservations and check your application and declaration form. You must provide your own pre-paid mailing envelope. The Chinese government states that Express Mail, UPS and FedEx are the companies that they prefer to use when returning your documents. Most importantly you will need to include a cover letter that states you are requesting a visa, what is included in the pre-paid return mailing envelope and has your name, address and telephone numbers included.

If you find you are having problems with China visa requirements you can call the embassy or consulate. They will be glad to help.

China at an international level of trade provides various products, it has got a potential to produce each and every product with a brilliant man power. This results in a very good output forcing them to throw it away in the international market. Moreover, due to its cheaper products companies do get attracted and forced to have a contract with them in order to compete in the international market. The portfolio managers easily create their client through out the world in order to have a grip towards the international trade and increase their own market.

Moreover, Asia continent has got number of developing nations. Multinational companies seeking over this nation can easily get goods by China Sourcing. Apart from that, being geographically located in Asia, China business travel has a very good scope for expanding its market in its neighbor developing nations and acquiring chief place in such markets. It has a very good command over the electronic goods parts, materials made up of plastics, some of the ingredients of the drinks and lots more. China Business Sourcing has proved to be value for money with a wide range of variety not only for itself, but has also become one of the best international traders amongst the developed countries in the World.

There are several risks in the business and the insurance agency helps and provides assistance to the china trade industry. There can be risk also of a political nature like sudden war and civilian agitations and restrictions in the smooth flow of cash. Insurances are made to organizations directly dealing with exporting formalities, independent private banks who lend funds to global buyers also avail Insurance facility. Some small-scale China business sectors are free of premium payments and can keep paying as per their cash-inflow.

In the course of the present selection of the low-cost countries for global sourcing, China Business is one region that has received utmost consideration and attention. Hence, it is critical to recognize, understand and have a study of the characteristics that drive China Business as the principal resource of supply in the international trade.

As China global sourcing and trade with the rest of the world has intensified, its composition and geographical outline has also undergone a noticeable shift in the global sourcing scenario. Its share of overseas trade to industrialized economies has also shown an improvement and become more diversified.

This is a trend (global sourcing) which is raising high in the developed countries so as to manage the business which involves maintaining multiple firms around different geographical locations. This helps to meet two main challenges:

The temple was based in 495 AD during the prevail of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386 to 534 AD). Batuo and American Indian Buddhist monk who arrived in Luoyang, the capital of the dynasty, called for to spread Buddhism. Accidentally, Emperor Xiaowen was an admirer and a worshiper, he decided to build a temple in the Songshan Mountains of Batu live here, the Buddhist monk interpreted numerous books and has a loyal abiding by. Monk of the Shaolin Temple was made a soldier, who is still attacked. Twice it was severely damaged. However, the greatest destruction by Shi Youse, a warlord who was set on fire to the temple in 1928 and destroyed most of the buildings to be made.

Today you can see, over 300 ancient stone inscriptions and 232 of the pagoda of various dynasties. The oldest temple dates from the Tang Dynasty. The pagodas are the tombs of notables of the Shaolin monks. There is also a large mural in the hall of Qianfo time of the Ming Dynasty. They are all still good for scenery. It is a good Idea to spend china holidays with your family.

China’s capital city, Beijing, is a must-see. As one of the world’s great ancient capitals, it is home to some of the finest remnants of China’s imperial past. China Highlights provides a range of tours to explore China’s capital city. Follow the link for the most popular tour packages.

Beijing has many places of historic interest and architectural/scenic beauty, including: the Forbidden City, the largest and best preserved ancient architectural complex in the world; the Temple of Heaven, where Ming and Qing emperors performed solemn rituals for bountiful harvests; the Summer Palace, the emperors’ magnificent garden retreat; the Ming Tombs, the majestic mausoleums of 13 Ming Dynasty emperors; and the world-renowned and genuinely inspiring Badaling section of the Great Wall.

The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is the best preserved imperial palace in China and the largest ancient palatial structure in the world.

It is recognized as one of the most important five palaces in the world (the other four are the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in the UK, the White House in the US and the Kremlin in Russia). The splendid architecture of the Forbidden City represents the essence and culmination of traditional Chinese architectural accomplishment.

The Temple of Heaven

The Temple of Heaven is a worthwhile visiting place in Beijing. It is much bigger than the Forbidden City and smaller than the Summer Palace with an area of about 2,700,000 square meters. The Temple was built in 1420 A.D. during the Ming Dynasty to offer sacrifice to Heaven. As Chinese emperors called themselves ‘The Son of Heaven’ ,they dared not to build their own dwelling,’ Forbidden City’ bigger than a dwelling for Heaven

The Temple of Heaven is enclosed with a long wall. The northern part within the wall is semicircular symbolizing the heavens and the southern part is square symbolizing the earth. The northern part is higher than the southern part. This design shows that the heaven is high and the earth is low and the design reflected an ancient Chinese thought of ‘The heaven is round and the earth is square’.

The Summer Palace

Situated in the western outskirts of Haidian District, the Summer Palace is 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from central Beijing. Having the largest royal park and being well preserved, it was designated, in 1960 by the State Council, as a Key Cultural Relics Protection Site of China. Containing examples of the ancient arts, it also has graceful landscapes and magnificent constructions. The Summer Palace is the archetypal Chinese garden, and is ranked amongst the most noted and classical gardens of the world. In 1998, it was listed as one of the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

The Great Wall

The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was enlisted in the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years, some of the sections of the great wall are now in ruins or even entirely disappeared. However, it is still one of the most appealing attractions all around the world owing to its architectural grandeur and historical significance.

The history of the Peking roast duck can be traced back to as early as the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368) when it was listed among the imperial dishes in the Complete Recipes for Dishes and Beverages, written in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchen. Details regarding the cooking process were also described in this early cookbook.

In the early 15th century, when the Ming Dynasty capital was shifted from Nanjing to Beijing, roast duck remained one of the famous dishes on imperial court menus. According to the local history, the earliest roast duck restaurant in Beijing was the old Bianyifang Restaurant, which opened during the Jiajing reign (1522-1566). ( info for your China travel and vacations ) Distinct from the method in which the duck is hung from a hook in the ceiling of the oven and roasted over and roasted over burning wood, the Old Bianyifang Restaurant roasted its ducks with radiant heat. The walls of the oven were first heated with sorghum stalks whereupon the duck was placed inside and cooked by the heat given off by the walls. A duck roasted in this manner is crisp to the touch and golden brown in appearance; its flesh is both tender and tasty.

There are literally dozens of restaurants that serve roast duck, but perhaps the best known are Quanjude and Bianyifang. Each of the two has a different method of preparation, but each produces a delicious result. Quanjude roasts their ducks over burning wood while Bianyifang roasts its ducks using radiant heat from the oven walls.

(1). Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant ( Since 1864 ) :

Nowadays, if you talk about the Peking roast duck, everyone will mention the Quanjude roast duck. It is like the representative of the Peking roast duck. Quanjude has several stores in Beijing and the most famous one is the Qianmen (Qian gate) Quanjude. The Qianmen Quanjude is not only a restaurant to eat roast ducks, but also a place of tourist attraction now. The furnitures here are very “Traditional Chinese” and you can feel the charm of the Chinese culture here. There are 30 VIP rooms and 1 president room in this restaurant. ( info for your China tours and vacations ) The president room is the place where the Chinese leaders accommodate the foreign leaders. Many famous people have been here. One interesting thing I found is that you can write some Chinese charaters in the body of the duck with a Chinese writing brush before it is roasted. These charaters will then appear in your finished roast duck. Pretty funny!   There is an old shop in this Quanjude restaurant and you can find the look of the Quanjuede in 1930 there. Lots of people think this is the best place for the travellers to find the “Old Beijing feeling”. You can even find the map of the old Beijing Hutongs here. The roast ducks are very delicious in Quanjude for sure, but what attracts so many people here is the history and traditional Chinese culture of this old restaurant. Here is the address: 32 Qianmendajie Street, Beijing. Tel: 010 – 67011379.( Cost is about 110 rmb for one person ) To get here, you can take the Line 1 subway to the “Qianmen” station.

(2).  Bianyifang ( Since 1416) :

The history of Bianyifang is even longer than Quanjude ( more useful China vacations info at Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM ) . The Chinese characters for Bianyifang has two meanings: one is “cheap restaurant” and the other is “convinient restaurant”. At first, I thought the name means cheap.   Lots of people made the same mistake. Actually the “Bianyi” here means “convinient”, not “cheap”. The cost of Bianyifang restaurant is about 70 – 80 rmb for one person. Address: 87 Tiantanlu Street, Chongwen District, Beijing. Tel: 010 – 67014281.

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