Shanghai

Shanghai is one of China's three municipalities directly under the central government, with an urban population of 12,000,000 people. The city, built on the banks of the Yangtze River, is characterized by the Bund, an imposing row of attractive office buildings and hotels built early in the century by foreigners as palatial homes for the staff of the leading foreign-based businesses.

Shanghai, developed from a fishing village with more than 2000 years, today has become the largest industrial city in China, as well as the trade, information and  cultural center of the country.  It, however, remains a mixture of modern and traditional with many exciting attractions for the visitors.

TYuyuan Garden - It is a classical garden with a history of over 400 years. Halls, chambers, pavilions and tows, rockeries and steams all express the essence of the art of gardening of south gardens in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Jade Buddha Temple - It was built to enshrine the two jade Buddha statues brought back from Burma by Monk Huigeng, hence the name. The jade statue in sitting posture is 1.9 m tall. It was carved out of a single piece of white jade. The reclining statue is 4.6 m long.

Oriental Pearl TV Tower - The highest in Asia and third highest in the world, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower is 468m high. The tower combines sightseeing, catering, recreation, accommodation, broadcasting and TV transmission into one entity

Shanghai Museum - Shanghai museum is a large comprehensive art museum with a collection of 123,000 pieces of cultural relics in 21 categories. There are 10 exhibition halls classified according to special topics, one hall with collections donated by people and 3 temporary exhibition halls.

Beijing: As the capital of China, Beijing is one of the world's truly imposing cities, with a 3,000-year history and 15.3 million people (2005). Covering 16,808 square kilometers in area, it is the political, cultural and economic center of the People’s Republic.

Guangzhou : Guangzhou, often known as Canton, is the capital of southern China’s Guangdong Province. Long a major port city and commercial gateway to southern China, , it has an extensive history of foreign contact, reaching back to Arab traders of the Tang period, through British merchants of the 19th century and on to today’s multinational participants in the famous biannual Trade Fairs.

Guilin: The city of Guilin was founded in the Qin Dynasty in 314 BC as a small settlement on the Lijiang River. It became increasingly important following the construction of a canal joining the river with another further north, providing a transport link with the Yangzi. The imperial court could thus send food and provisions by water from the Yangzi plains to its armies in the far south.

Xian: Xi'an was one of the most important cradles of Chinese civilization. The famous “Silk Road” that linked China with central Asia and the Roman Empire starts in Xi’an in the east. The city served as the first capital of a unified China and capital of 11 dynasties periodically from the 11th century BC to the early 10th century AD.