China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. Covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles), it is the world's second-largest state by land area and third- or fourth-largest by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, it exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing) and the Special Administrative Regions Hong Kong and Macau, also claiming sovereignty over Taiwan. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower.
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he Chinese climate varies from region to region, since the country is so huge.
In the northeast, where Beijing sits, the summers are hot and dry and the winters are freezing cold.
The north and central regions, including Chengdu, have frequent bouts of rain, coupled with hot summers and cold winters.
In the southeast there is plenty of rainfall, semi-tropical summers and cool winters. Flooding can occur in the central, southern and western regions and the country in general can experience earthquakes.
Civil aviation provides warm, safe and high-quality services for tourist. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), a governmental department for administration of China's civil aviation and transportation services, takes charge of about 970 domestic regular flights. With Beijing as the center, an air transport network includes 44 local air routs and radiates to 130 cities around the country. In 2016, China had 218 airports in 214 cities(not including Hongkong, Macau, and Taiwan), and flights are available to major cities in every provinces, but many small cities don’t have airports. By the year end of 2017, the number of airports increases to 229, and the number of cities having airports amounts to 224. China has 3261 airplanes for civil aviation, airplanes of Boeing 737 series and A320 series account for 81.51% of the total number. All this data is increasing with development, more airports are to build in the future, more airplanes and flight courses are to be put into service. All aircrafts have reached the world advanced level and major airports are equipped with modern facilities.
Here are the reliable air companies in China
Air China International Corporation (US)
China Eastern Airlines (MU)
China Southern Airlines Co. Ltd. (CZ)
Xiamen Airlines (MF)
Consignment baggage
The weight of each piece of luggage shall not exceed 50 kg, and the volume should not exceed 40 × 60 × 100 cm
Chinese airlines offer free baggage allowance as follows:
40 kg for first-class passengers;
30 kg for business-class passengers
20 kg for economy-class passengers
passengers with tickets for child does not enjoy free baggage allowance.
Liquid items should not carry on an airplane
Items should not be consigned digital electronic products like lithium batteary
Notes: The volume of a cosmetic container carried on an airplane shall not exceed 100ml
Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, tracing back to thousands of years ago. Important components of Chinese culture includes ceramics, architecture, music, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy and religion.
Officially there are 56 recognized ethnic group-ethnic groups in China, Han Chinese being the largest group. Many ethnic groups, though they merge into the Han identity have maintained distinct linguistic and regional cultural tradition. Even within one ethnic group, there are probably diverse groups of people. Various groups of the Miao minority, for example, speak different dialects of the Hmong-Mie languages, Tai-Kadar languages, and Chinese, and practice a variety of different cultural conditions. Typically each minority group has their own costumes, festivals and customs. For example, various marriage customs are found amoung different minority groups. There is actually a museum that features marriage customs of ethnic groups-Guizhou Museum marriage customs. See more about our Minority Tours.
RELIGION-Confucianism and Taoism, later joined by Buddhist, constitute the "three teaching" that historically have shaped Chinese culture. There are no clear boundaries between these intertwined religious systems, which do not claim to be exclusive, and elements of each enrich popular or folk religion. Folk or popular religion, the most widespread system of beliefs and practices has evolved and adapted since at least the Shang and Zhou dynasties. During the period fundamental elements of a theology and spiritual explanation for the nature of the universe emerged. Basically, it consists in allegiance to the "Shen", a character that signifies a variety of gods and immortals, who can be deities of the natural environment of ancestral principles of human groups, concepts of civility, cultural heroes, many of whom feature on Chinese mythology and history. Recent surveys estimated that some 80% of the Han Chinese practice some kind of Chinese folk religion and Taoism; 10-16% are Buddihists; 3-4% are Christians; and 1-2% are Muslims.
