The Chinese language：General speaking is
Han Language
which are the language of major nationality of Han people, Speakers
approx 1.2 billion. Chinese characters are one of the earliest written
languages in the world with a history of 6,000 years.
Yongle Encyclopedia: complied during 1403-1408 in the Ming Dynasty by more than 2,000 scholars. It consists of 22,937 volumes.
Tian'anmen Square：Located at city center of
Beijing, founded from Min Dynasty, and build up more larger during a
few hundreds years until now, It covers an area of 40 hectares.
Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal: The canal was first
built in the 5th century BC and was substantially extended twice during
the Sui and Yuan dynasties. The canal begins at Tongxian County in
Beijing in the north and ends in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province in the
south and is 1,801 kilometers in length.
Imperial Palace (also known as the Forbidden City):
in Beijing. It was imperial palace of both the Ming and Qing dynasties.
It was first completed in 1420 and covers an area of 720,000 square
meters.
Great Wall： It climbs and descends on the ridges
of mountains in northern China and has a total length of more than
6,700 kilometers. It was first started during the Spring and Autumn and
the Warring States periods.
Panda:
The Giant Panda
of China is one of the rarest animals in the world. Giant pandas live in remote
high mountains in Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces.
They are a surviving species of the Fourth Ice Age and are known as a
"living fossil".
They are regarded as China's "national treasure".Panda’s
major food is bamboo. An adult panda eat bamboo shoot around
20-30 pounds daily.Panda has a diet which is 99%
bamboo, but may eat other foods such as fish, boney, eggs
and yams. They belong to Carnivora, classified in the bear family.
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Peace Speaks:
Olympic Games derive
from ancient Greece at Olympia. First ancient games were held on 776 B.C.
Begin reason is the war constantly
between numbers of states, People needed suitable health & strong physic
for the war; at same time, people desired
peace. Athletics skills won people’s cheers, and brought people joy and peace.
There were unwritten statutory at
that time: whatever city-state or region taking place of games, no one should
start war at the Mediterranean region, and must
stop the war even on pitched battle; not allowed to carry weapon enter
gymkhana. Olympia became inviolable holy
land, and the games became embodiment of peace. The winners of competitions
would gain olive garland - the symbol of the peace. Since then, once every 4 years, total of 293 games were held, until 393 A.D. Rome Emperor Theodosius
decreed discontinued Olympic
Games what
called “pagan cults”, and burn down the buildings. In 552 A.D,
the earthquake covered
ancient ruins.
Along with modern
sports came in vogue, Greek were restart the games, and held 4 times from 1859
-1889. Then, French
educationist P. de suggested regains Olympic Games in 1888. On June 1894, International
Olympic Committee founded in Paris. In 1896, the first Olympic
Games of the modern era were held in Athens. Olympic
games continuely as once every 4 years
held by different countries. The
Games have always brought people together in peace to respect universal moral
principles. The upcoming Games will feature athletes from all over the world
and help promote the Olympic spirit.
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Talking about Beijing:
Beijing is facing the sea to the east and
linking up with Taihang Mountains at west; adjacent
to the Inner Mongolian Grassland by the northwest while she gazes into the
North China Plain in the due south. Near at hand, Beijing is embraced on three
sides by high mountains with peaks towering in the vicinities to help form a
little plain in the middle, which shaping like a bay is known as “Beijing Bay”. Flowing in the bosom
of the bay are the three watercourses: the one on the west being called
Yongding, the other by the east known as Chaobai while that flowing in the
middle is the Wenyu River.
Beijing covers an area of
16,800 square kilometers. Beijing accounts for 0.175
percent of whole territory of the country. The elevation of the city of Beijing proper is 43.71
meters. Beijing has population around 11 million where are in 18 districts and counties
under its jurisdiction. The 8 districts of Dongcheng, Xicheng,
Chongwen, Xuanwu, Chaoyang, Fengtai, Haidian Shijingshan are in the city proper
and the near suburbs. Others are in the outskirts.
Beijing, known as Beiping for
a short period before 1949, was so addressed after the Kuomintang removed the
government office from Beijing to Nanjing in 1928. Actually, Beijing or Beiping it all
began to be so called in the early days of the Ming Dynasty. During a very long
time before the Ming Dynasty, Beijing was called Youzhou at
earliest ancient times, setting up as capital by Yellow King. Then King Wu of
the Western Zhou, atter his subjugation of the Shang in 1122 BC, offered the
offspring of King Yao to a place called Ji, which is Beijing city original located.
Since then up to the “Spring and Autumn period” Beijing had been known as Ji. Later
each Dynasty changed this capital city
as different names, but most of name with Ji, Yan or You. Until 1403, Emperor
Chengzu of Ming Dynasty, moved his capital from Nanjing to Beijing and name was
finalized. The rudimentary from of the present –day Beijing came by and large into
being in the very period.
Beijing located at the North Temperate Zone, has a typical
continental, but affable monsoon climate. Through it has distinctive four
seasons, the time for spring and autumn is relatively short while that for
summer and winter is much longer. The yearly mean temperature is 11.6 °C, The
hottest days are in July and the highest temperature averages 25.8 °C. The
coldest days are in January with a mean temperature at - 4.6 °C. The best time
in a year is in later August, September and October, the Golden season for making
tours in Beijing.
Beijing has historically been
one of China’s ancient capitals. Beijing as a capital, already has
over 800 years history from the Jin Dynasty. Beijing has a history onwards
of 3,000 years, from the overthrow of the Shang Dynasty (around 16th
-11th century B.C.) to the region of Yan, called Ji as capital. Or
so far as its history concerned, it can be traced back to the time of “Peking
Men” of some 500, 000 years ago. At that time, Chinese ancestors already began
to live in and around the present-day Zhoukoudian area of Beijing.
Beijing Map: http://en.beijing2008.cn/emap
World Time:
Canada (Vancouver) 04:00 USA (New York) 07:00 UK (London) 00:00 China (Beijing) 20:00
Summer time as 05:00 Summer time
as 08:00 Greenwich – noon One time inside
China
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About list of trading companies:
The list of trading companies is top 100 of Import and Export (million) in China on 2005.
About Business:
China 24 companies are 2007 Global 500
China list at 6th , after The United States 162 lays claim to the most
global giants, followed by Japan 67， France38，Germany37，England 33.
