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China is a country in East Asia and the world’s most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
China emerged as one of the world’s earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China’s political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC until 220 AD, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass, along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa. Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when the republic replaced the Qing dynasty. The Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949, when the Communist Party of China established the People’s Republic of China, a unitary one-party sovereign state on majority of China, while the Kuomintang-led government retreated to the area of Taiwan. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed.
Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China’s economy has been one of the world’s fastest-growing with annual growth rates consistently above 6 percent. According to the World Bank, China’s GDP grew from $150 billion in 1978 to $12.24 trillion by 2017. Since 2010, China has been the world’s second-largest economy by nominal GDP and since 2014, the largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). China is also the world’s largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world’s largest standing army and second-largest defense budget. The PRC is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as it replaced the ROC in 1971, as well as an active global partner of ASEAN Plus mechanism. China is also a leading member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), WTO, APEC, BRICS, the BCIM, and the G20. China has been widely characterized as a global superpower, rivaling the United States.
The cost of living in China is lower than in France. And, although it is gradually increasing, the country offers very attractive prices for travellers.
Thus, you should plan a budget of about 80€ per day. If you have a small budget you can manage to organize your trip at less than 25€ per day. If you are looking for a more comfortable trip, plan on 180€ per day.
China offers a wide range of quality services, from very basic dormitories to exceptional palaces. And the prices therefore vary greatly depending on the range. It is therefore better to anticipate the expected level of quality.
For large, attractive cities like Beijing and Shanghai, prices can be 50% more expensive than in the rest of the country. If you want to save money, it is better to reduce the length of your stay.
Flights to major Chinese cities from France range from 500€ to 620€ depending on the city you are flying from.
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 Paris – Beijing | 600€ |
I spend close to the same amount of time choosing and planning what to paint as I do executing a painting. I’m often surprised by what I end up painting, because some unexpected image will leap out at me and I will be immediately inspired. Such was this one.
I’ve always loved old doors and I am infatuated with the doors in Kashgar’s Old City. In fact I love them so much that one time in our home in NW China, I heard a lot of noise at the base of our apartment building. A maintenance man was in the process of tearing off the ancient, paint-peeling-off-everywhere, burned-by-the-neighborhood-boys-in-a-prank-gone-wrong battered, green doors. I ran downstairs and rescued the 2 doors, to the bemusement of the maintenance crew. Over the next several months I transformed one into a new desk, repainted the other and affixed a traditional Kashgar door knocker and set it in a corner of our home. I still own those doors, and they represent more than just doors to me. They signify everything I love about Uyghur culture.
What grabbed my heart with this yellow door was how this simple door depicts the little details that make up a normal, everyday life. Arithmetic and names scribbled by children, phone numbers of the water delivery and the electric company, even a word of encouragement in Chinese “加油” written on the door. The artistry of the carved wood, the intricacy of the metal pieces characteristic of Kashgar doors, the multiple colors chosen for the doorframe: these all speak to something I love about traditional cultures, something without which the world would be a much more dull and ugly place. When the “modernized” world gave up artistic craftsmanship of ordinary objects for mass produced and cheap-to-replace stuff, it makes me question whether that wasn’t much more of a loss than a gain.
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