Top 1 City: Xiamen Area: Gulangyu Islet
The wonderful little island of Gulangyu boasts delicate natural beauty, historic relics and colonial architecture. The island, with its famed Piano Museum, is regarded as China's most tastefully decorated site.
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Top 2 City: Suzhou Area: the Old Town Area
World famous gardens and an old city surrounded by a moat provide a glimpse of the very peaceful, cultured old world of China.

Top 3 City: Macao Area: Historic Center
The historic center of Macao embraces twelve priceless cultural heritage sites, including China's oldest church, a Christian cemetery, a lighthouse and western theater. All these have contributed to Macao's status as "the Beachhead of the Western World."

Top 4 City: Qingdao Area: Bad guan Area
The Bavarian Badaguan area, built by Germans who invaded China at the end of the 19th century, is perhaps Qingdao's proudest attraction today.

Top 5 City: Beijing Area: Shichahai Area
The Shichahai area has two sides: there is the new and trendy Shichahai boasting numerous up-market restaurants, bars and boutiques, making it a favorite nightlife choice for the city's young people and foreign expat population; and there is another old and peaceful Shichahai of still untouched lakeside hutongs, with benches mirrored in the waters at sunset and old men strolling leisurely with their bird cages.
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I just couldn't bring myself to choose.
They are all so beautiful.

All those green green cities, with authentic temples, pure air, clear skies and friendly locals.

yeh, and then you hear stuff like "in heaven they have paradise and on earth suzhou and hangzhou" and then you go there and you find wow, this is paradise.. I want to grow old here and listen to the brids and walk around this wonderful buildings all day long.

And then you hear Dengfeng is the cleanest city in China, and you go there and wow,.. its true.. you could lick your sharkfin soup from the floor.

.....

I think my uppers are wearing off...

i wouldnt lick the shark fin soup from the very bowl it came from in deng feng even if it was the last bowl of shark fin soup on earth!!!

GiveEmOpium wrote:I just couldn't bring myself to choose.
They are all so beautiful.

All those green green cities, with authentic temples, pure air, clear skies and friendly locals.

yeh, and then you hear stuff like "in heaven they have paradise and on earth suzhou and hangzhou" and then you go there and you find wow, this is paradise.. I want to grow old here and listen to the brids and walk around this wonderful buildings all day long.

And then you hear Dengfeng is the cleanest city in China, and you go there and wow,.. its true.. you could lick your sharkfin soup from the floor.

.....

I think my uppers are wearing off...

Some of your posts are really dangerous in combination with a mouth full of coffee.

Suzhou? Ha. Been here 6 years and guess what - most of those waterways you romantise about are polluted cesspools that will not support any aquatic life. The old buildings?? rebuilt over the last 5 years to resemble "old China". Birds? you must be seeing the same 10 birds that have built up resistance to the acid rain... get out into the country side and see the real China. Not many pretty cities ...but some stunning landscapes. That is until the blue trucks, construction workers and open sewers arrive......

Chinese visa is a permit issued by the Chinese visa authorities to those foreigners who want to enter into, exit from or transit through the Chinese territory. According to the applicants' identity, visiting purpose and passport type, the Chinese visa falls into four categories, namely, diplomatic, courtesy, service and ordinary visas.
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The ordinary visa consists of eight sub-categories, which are respectively marked with Chinese phonetic letters F, L, Z, X, C, J-1, J-2, G, and D.

Tourist visa—L visa
Issued to those who enter China temporarily for touring, family visiting or other personal affairs (multiple-entry is not granted for this category).

Business/visit visa—F visa
Issued to those foreigners who are invited to China for visit, research, lecture, business, scientific-technological and cultural exchanges or short-term advanced studies or intern practice for a period of less than six months.

Work visa—Z visa
Issued to foreigners who are to take up a post or employment in China , and their accompanying family members.

Study visa—X visa
Issued to those who come to China for study or intern practice for a period of six months or above.

Crewmember visa—C visa
Issued to crewmembers on international aviation, navigation and land transportation missions and their accompanying family members.

Journalist Visa (J-1) and (J-2)
J-1 visa is for journalists who are posted to China for at least one year. And the J-2 visa is issued to foreign correspondents on temporary interview mission in China.

Transit visa—G visa
Issued to those who transit through China.

Residence visa—D visa
Issued to people who are going to live in China permanently.
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Would you like to find the most comfortable living environment when you come to China? The following are recommended 10 best cities to live, which revive your family memories and bring enjoyable comfort to your busy job.
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Weihai
Weihai is a coastal garden city, which has beautiful natural sceneries, blue sea, soft sand and clean streets as well as small residential buildings with European and American style. Plants are cultivated around the building. There are a lot of statues on the street, which has a unique taste.

Qingdao
It has beautiful sceneries and pleasant climate here, with colorful tourist attractions and famous natural harbors. Red tiles, green trees, blue sea, blue sky are always the main theme of Qingdao. Long coastline, brilliant sunshine and blue sky, flirtatious cherry blossoms and lush plane trees, Qingdao Beers and small houses in fairy tales as well as elegant BA DA Guan and peaceful nights - all that constitute a romantic Qingdao.

Dalian
Dalian is connected with the green mountains and blue sea. When you enter Dalian, you will be surprised to find the city is like a charming young girl. Yes. From an unknown small fishing village 102 years ago to a famous to a well-known vital city now, Dalian has become a garden-like coastal tourist destination.

Xiamen
Xiamen's clean and beautiful environment and high degree of security civilization will make you have a sense of warmth at home.

Zhuhai
Zhuhai, which has first-class living environment, has won the "National Garden City", "National Environment Protection City ", "National Health City", " Model City for Zoology ", "China's outstanding tourist city" and "International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment” presented by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements.
Hangzhou
Hangzhou is well known for its beautiful West Lake. The old saying" Paradise in Heaven; Suzhou and Hanzhou on earth" best expressed people’s heartfelt praise to the beautiful city through ages. Hangzhou, which has a long history of 2200 years, is one of China's seven ancient capitals and also has various culture relics.

Chengdu
Chengdu, the land of abundance, is a city with beautiful sceneries and pleasant climate. Meanwhile, it is a cultural city with history of more than two thousand years and left behind many historical sites.

Guilin
Guilin is the world’s famous scenic tourist city with unique karst landform. The mountains soar above the horizon with varied types and poses, crystal-clear Lijiang River winds through mountains. There are holes in mountainous, in which odd rocks are everywhere, All of these proved the saying “Guilin scenery tops in the world.”

Suzhou
Suzhou is a famous historical and cultural city and tourist city. Its bridges, Old Streets and alleys, ancient towers and buildings and classic gardens and full-bodied Suzhou style, created a unique garden city.

Yangzhou
Yangzhou is quiet city with pretty relax lifestyle. Yangzhou gets many antique buildings. Walking down the street, you could see rows of willows at any time.
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huaseliuding2 wrote:
Qingdao
It has beautiful sceneries and pleasant climate here, with colorful tourist attractions and famous natural harbors. Red tiles, green trees, blue sea, blue sky are always the main theme of Qingdao. Long coastline, brilliant sunshine and blue sky, flirtatious cherry blossoms and lush plane trees, Qingdao Beers and small houses in fairy tales as well as elegant BA DA Guan and peaceful nights - all that constitute a romantic Qingdao.

Blue sea?

You mean green, right?

sometime white ?

Qingdao's nice. Jinan, nearby capital of Shandong is quite nice. Spent 2 years there. Everything is cheap and people are actually genuinely friendly. Just don't get too drunk in the KTV's.

Xi'an- hate it, but already mentioned that in the other thread.

Yangzhou is alright. Mrs. Skyline is from there. We go back every spring festival and it's a rather nice, quiet little city, in between the constant explosions of Spring Festival aerial bombardment.

skyline : what to see in yangzhou? where to stay? Thanks.