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HOW TO
MAKE RESERVATION?
You can make a reservation on Hotel,Airticket & Tour by
E-mail, Fax or Phone. Our office hours: 08:30-18:00(GMT+08:00).
Because of the time difference, it would be better to reserve
by email or message board out of our working hours. Each of
your requests will be respond promptly. You can get our contact
information in our website. Once the tour is confirmed by both
of us, the reservation is made. At the same time, a deposit
is required, and the amount depends on what tour you plan.
The balance you can pay us, upon you arrive Beijing. |
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China
has been a major travel destination of the
world and attract more and more tourists from
all over the world.China will be more important
to the 2lst century. Fascination with Chinese
past, Chinese present, and Chinese future… |
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China Development
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Since 1949 there have been many stand-offs between
China and Taiwan characterized by Taiwan's continued assertion
of its independence, threats of Chinese invasion and disputes
over the ownership of the Taiwan Straits. In March and
April 2004 there were huge protests as pro-independence
candidate Chen Shuibian won the presidential election in
Taiwan. Peace talks have begun again if somewhat tentatively,
and the President's stance on independence may be softened
following the defeat of his party in the December 2004
Taiwan parliamentary elections. In 2005 the Taiwanese opposition
leader, Lien Chan, made an historic visit to the Chinese
mainland; the first by a Nationalist leader since the retreat
to the island in 1949.
During the first half of 2005 there were anti-Japanese
protests in both China and Korea over a controversial Japanese
textbook that whitewashes Japanese aggression towards the
two nations before and during World War II. Tensions have
been further aggravated by continued visits to the Yasukuni
Shrine - which commemorates Japanese war dead - by the prime
minister, Junichiro Koizumi. |
China's human rights record is abysmal and there are
constant calls by human rights groups to impose sanctions
and to suspend China's right to hold the Olympics in
2008.
On June 4th 1989, during protests sparked by the
death of liberal party leader Hu Yaobang, between 100
and 3,000 people were massacred in Tiananmen Square,
Beijing. The international outcry was immense but failed
to change the attitude of China's government which reacted
with more stringent clampdowns on freedom of expression.
Surprising signs of rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang's reputation
in 2005 could signal a change of government attitude
towards Tiananmen; although some perceive a ploy to reverse
Hu Jintao's increasing unpopularity.
The departure of former President Jiang Zemin in
2003 raised hopes that China's human rights practices
would improve but to no avail. Charges of almost every
headline abuse are laid at China's door - strict controls
on expressions and associations, free speech and the
media, suppression of religious freedom, continued torture
and ill-treatment of prisoners, a serious lack of judicial
independence and due process, arbitrary detention, massive
use of the death penalty, political discrimination against
ethnic minorities and their religious and political beliefs,
violence against women, and abduction and trafficking
of women - all still continue. And China's intensive
development has led to forced evictions in both urban
and rural areas – Beijing's Olympic construction programme
is a much cited example. |
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The longstanding "one child" policy
designed to control population growth has distorted the
natural gender balance at birth and encouraged violations
against female children. Although any form of pre-birth
selection is illegal, traditional preference for a male
child is reflected in the statistics.
Other examples of human rights
abuse widely known outside China include Falun Gong and
Tibet. Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese meditation and
exercise which was adopted by so many people that the government
perceived the gatherings to be of a political and religious
nature and banned the "movement" in
1999. The situation in Tibet continues to be of world concern.
The government continues to encourage Han Chinese to migrate
to Tibet whilst continuing to close and demolish Buddhist
monasteries. |
| With revived economic development and the arrival of
the Internet in the 1990s, Chinese media has become more
diversified. By 2003, over 400 kinds of daily newspapers
were issued in China and the print run reached 80 million,
the highest of any country in the world. However, vigorous
government censorship controls the output of all media
and China remains firmly at the bottom of international
press freedom rankings. The limited access granted to the
press to cover the visit of President Bush in 2005 provided
further illustration. |
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| By June 30, 2003, China had 470,000
Internet websites and 68 million Internet users and it
is estimated that, by 2005, there will be as many as 40
million computers in China connected to the Internet, and
200 million users of data, multi-media and the web. However,
access to external sites is strictly controlled - all OneWorld
pages are blocked and the Chinese language version of Google
compromises Western concepts of Internet freedom. Indeed,
increased internet surveillance and censorship have led
to a rise in arrests of those expressing political opinions
on the web. |
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