Attractions

Tiananmen Square is situated in the centre of Beijing City, and is the original gate of the Imperial Palace (more commonly known as the Forbidden City).

The square has borne witness to a great deal of modern history, from the demonstrations by students of the May 4th Movement against foreign powers in 1919 to the recent parades in 2009 marking the 60th anniversary of The People's Republic of China. Thousands of people visit Tiananmen Square everyday.

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The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.

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The Great Wall of China symbolises China's ancient civilisation and plays an important role nowadays in connecting the friendship between Chinese and foreign visitors.
The Great Wall stretches for more than 6,700 kilometers (4,000 miles) from Liaodong (Liaoning Province) in the east to Jiayuguan in Jiangsu Province in the west. It is the largest man-made construction on Earth and also considered as the longest cemetery in the world as over millions people died for the construction of it.

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Cuandixia Village is located in Zhaitang Town, Mentougou District about 90 kilometers from downtown Beijing. It has a history of about 400 years. The village, surrounded by mountains, stands on the northern gentle slope of the hills and, having being built in harmony with the terrain of the mountains, and it looks like a castle or a mountain city. The houses, which are in good order, have delicate gate piers as well as distinctive screen walls and, along with the stone, wood and brick carvings, reflect their ancient Chinese culture.

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