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Foreigners traveling in China
"I am addicted to West Lake tea. I drink almost two liters of tea every
day," Frenchman Pierre proclaimed. Although growing up with coffee, he
fell in love with Chinese tea at his first try. Every year, before the
Qing Ming Festival, he goes to a tea garden in Suzhou and picks tea
leaves. All he can see is a beautiful scene of tea leaves being picked by
tea girls in the garden. Each time he buys a lot of best West Lake tea;
enough to last a year. The tea leaves picked just before the Qing Ming
Festival are known as "pre-Qing Ming tea," the best West Lake tea
available throughout the entire year. In Beijing, we meet a number of
foreigners, like Pierre, who are attracted to the old, but growing China.
They are looking for a spiritual home in this mysterious land. (Click
for full article.)
80 percent of foreign tourists
prefer Great Wall
By People's Daily Online June 11, 2007 -
Which places of
historical interest and scenic beauty in Beijing do foreigners prefer?
Recently, Feng Huiling, vice-president of the Renmin University of China (RUC)
announced research findings at a joint meeting held by the Beijing Social
Sciences Association and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology
Commission. The research shows that 80 percent of foreign tourists prefer
to visit the Great Wall. Within a large project about the Beijing Olympic
Games, Feng Huilin supervised a large scale overseas investigation
conducted on the "subject rank of the Beijing Olympics, and the national,
cultural image of China." The investigation included socially affluent
politicians and entrepreneurs from more than fifty countries, and almost
3,000 foreign media reports were consulted for this research. In terms of
China's cultural specifics, the overseas population is most interested in
food culture, approximately thirty-six percent of those surveyed. Of all
the places of historical interest and scenic beauty, the Great Wall is the
preferred destination for the overseas population, 80.8 percent of those
interviewed. Following the Great Wall in popularity are the Imperial
Palace, Tiananmen Square, Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven. In the
traditional arts field, the overseas population is more interested in
Chinese characters, making up 35.9 percent of those surveyed.
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