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June is the month I chose to go to China.

The temperature was mild and it wasn’t too hot yet.

I used AIR CHINA, which to my great pleasure is a very good company, with very good service and very pleasant flight attendants.

I arrived at Beijing airport before connecting to Shanghai which is in the south of the Chinese peninsula.

Beijing airport is extremely clean and very modern, there is even a portal that allows you to know your body temperature, in case you have a fever, to avoid any contamination of the rest of the population, you would be immediately removed.

To collect the luggage, you have to go down the stairs and take a fully automated and super well-organized shuttle, which takes you to the baggage terminal.

As a travel guide, I used an English guide DK eyewitness travel Beijing and Shanghai which is an excellent guide especially if you mainly want to visit these two cities.

In the introductory pages, there are some pages about history, religion, art and others, you will also find city maps and metro plans, this book is very good organizes.

 Lonely planet is also a very good guide

Beijing airport

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