China is known as a country with great tourism opportunities. Here peaceful rural landscape gives way to the majestic skyscrapers of big cities. The landscape has been brought to China not for nothing that the glory of the country's striking contrasts - from wild to idyllic, from the lifeless plains of the Gobi desert and the sparkling slopes Chomolungma to unusual karst landscape Yangshuo. Country is so great that can meet the needs of the knowledge of how completely inexperienced traveler and an experienced traveler.
China's history goes back five millennia. It has the longest, continuous and documented history of existence and development. History of China is composed of a series of board of numerous dynasties and emperors, replacing each other. Each of them contributed to the development of cultural and historical heritage and the formation of this country's image.
LastgoverningQing Dynasty(reign 1644 -1911) was overthrown bya revolutionaryof the FederalLeague, led by Sun Yat-sen. December 29, 1911in Nanjing,the provincialrevolutionary committees,delegateselected theprovisional president ofSun Yat-senRepublic of China. On February 12, 1912the last emperorPu Yiabdicated.AndOctober 1, 1949, Mao Zedong from the tribuneof the palacetoTiananmen Square,proclaimed thePeople's Republicof China.
China is the third largest (9.6 million sq. km.) Country in the world after Russia and Canada and is almost equal to the whole of Europe.
The distance between the northern and southern border is 5500 km, from west to east - 5200 km. So on the east and south China goes to the Pacific Ocean - the coastline is 18 thousand kilometers - and here there are extensive lowlands in the west of China are vast deserts, the world's highest plateau and mountain ranges in the north of the territory of China covers the boundless Mongolian steppe. More than two-thirds of China's present occupied by mountains.
Chinashares land borderswith almost allmajor countriesof East Asia, much of itis in Russiaand Central AsianCIS countries -Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. China'sneighborsarealsoin the westof Afghanistan,India, Nepal, in the south- Bhutan, Myanmar, LaosandVietnam, and in north-east - North Korea. China sea borderswith Japanand the Philippines.Inthe territorial watersof Chinathere are about5000islands, among which Taiwanand Hainan.
Throughout ChinaPekingvalidtime. The time differencewith Moscowin the winter+ 5hoursand + 4 hoursin summer.
The population ofChinais known to befar ahead ofall othercountries.NowChina has more than3 billionpeople, representing 20% of the world's population. In thepast two decades,the PRC authoritiesare pursuing a policyof strictbirth control,whichdoes not apply tonational minorities.
Official language-Chinese.There are also manydialects.The basis ofChinese writingarespecial signs-characters.
The basis of thespiritual lifeof China isthe philosophicalteachings,which are not formallyreligious,buttheyare not inferiorin strength tothe souls of men. The most commonare Confucianism(200-300millionadherents), Buddhism (over 300million)and Taoism(20 million).
Most of the territoryis locatedina temperate climatewith hot summers andmild winters.In the south-west China andthe southern island ofHainan is thetropicalclimate. The coldestwinter isin the north-eastern China.
Chinese cuisine isextremelyvaried andrather specific. It is recommendedto visit therestaurantsthat havea special license forservicing of foreign tourists, which is postedon the doorandis written in English.
