Simple Tips To Travel Overseas

Today, travelling overseas has become easier, more reasonable and more enjoyable. Many people explore different places across the world for a holiday, career or business purpose. But while you make a move it is very important to consider so many factors which you might tend to ignore in your rush or excitement. There are social, cultural, climatic and certain other differences that you may fa...

Food Therapy to Treat High Blood Pressure

TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine stresses that building up one's health is the fundamental necessity. Food therapy is an important way to do this. Diet therapy, noted a Qing Dynasty doctor of Chinese medicine, is ready at hand, leaves no side effects and the food itself is enjoyable. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that high blood pres­sure is closely linked with the liver, as stated in Yello...

Tea, The Quintessential Chinese Beverage

Tea is an elixir. It invigorates, offers warmth, is calorie-free, has less caffeine per cup than coffee, and is the national drink of more than one country. Tea is also society, agriculture, and history. Above all, tea is quintessentially Chinese. Imagine olden days when traders trekked across Asia and the Arab world, the caravans beating gongs, and hoisting flags heralding drivers of diffe...

Life Starts with a Cup of Morning Tea

Yum Cha, literally “drinking tea”, is an ancient tradition in Guangzhou. The morning tea ranks their first choice and has become one of the important parts of their daily lives. When they meet in the morning, they usually greet each other with "Have you drunk tea?" Drinking tea has become a habit of Guangzhou residents. By drinking tea, Guangzhou residents mean to drink tea in the teahouse. The...

Mainland tourists to Taiwan surpass 2.14 million

Chinese mainland visitors traveling to Taiwan surpassed 2.14 million as of July, according to figures announced Monday during the 6th Cross-Strait Travel Fair in southeastern coastal province Fujian."Taiwan has become one of the most desired destination for mainland visitors," Chou Ching-hsiung, chairman of the Taiwan Visitors' Association, said at the opening ceremony. The fair runs from Monday...

China to be largest source of Asia Pacific tourists in 2 years

The latest survey results show that the confidence in the tourist market of the Asia-Pacific region is recovering and a decreasing number of respondents said their travel plans will be affected by economic uncertainties. The "Asia-Pacific Travel Intentions Survey 2010" conducted by Visa and Pacific-Asia Travel Association (PATA) shows that China will become the country with the largest number of...

Beijing volunteer group’s first show in Xinjiang

As part of the national cultural volunteers’ work in border areas, known collectively as the Spring Rain Project, the welcoming ceremony for the Beijing volunteer group was held in Xinjiang People’s Theater in Urumqi City on the evening of August 31st. The Beijing volunteer group put its first performance in Xinjiang after the welcoming ceremony. Related leaders of the Ministry of Culture, Beiji...

Beijing's Hutong

The rickshawsFor most of the tourists from abroad or China who wish to visit Beijing, there are some spots they can't miss ; all of them deserve a visit and the future tourists already know all of them : the Great wall, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, and of course the famous hutong, a peculiar place in Beijing. Well, let's go there ! These hutong, whose name in Ch...

Life starts with a cup of morning tea

Yum Cha, literally “drinking tea”, is an ancient tradition in Guangzhou. The morning tea ranks their first choice and has become one of the important parts of their daily lives. When they meet in the morning, they usually greet each other with "Have you drunk tea?" Drinking tea has become a habit of Guangzhou residents. By drinking tea, Guangzhou residents mean to drink tea in the teahouse. The...

Chinese VP pledges to enhance cooperation with Norway

Aug. 30 ,Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said here Monday China hopes to work with Norway to boost bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Xi told visiting Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere he hopes the two countries will expand cooperation in areas such as shipping, fisheries, energy, environmental protection and the Arctic. Xi said as long as the two nations resp...