A Brief Of History First of all, Beijing means The Capital of the North. Beijing is of course the Capital of China, with nearly 21,500,000 inhabitants, Beijing is the second most populous city in the...
HANGZHOU is in the Zhejiang region southwest of Shanghai about 170kms, between 2h-2h30 by road. To go to Hangzhou I took the train from Shanghai station (HongQia) and it cost me 77.50 Yuan (about 10...
The famous Great Wall of China is 8850km long. This wall was built for 3 different reasons. The first was to protect China’s northern border against possible Mongol and Manchu invasion. Which...
The history of the concession The former French concession dates from the French colonial era in the 19th century, at the time the concession began at the edge of the old town up to HAIG (HUASHAN)...