Anshun: City of Safety, Smooth Living and the Mighty Waterfall – China Travel

Photo shows the giant Chinese character "龙" appearing in a large-scaled cole flower field in Longgong Scenic Spot in Anshun City, southwest China's Guizhou Province on March 8.

a new iPad app that provides a smooth guide to Shanghai from ZhaoCards -- should be moving to other cities some time soon.

Travel to Tibet needn't be as complicated as it sometimes seems. No longer quite the remote and mysterious land it once was (the new Qinghai to Tibet train line is making sure of that), there are still a number of hoops to jump through in order to visit this vast and fascinating area (more so if you plan to head out farther than the Lhasa-Shigatse area).

After a long time fighting food shortages, China has been self-sufficient in food since 1995. But in the Action Plan on Food Safety published by China’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on August 14th 2003, the government classes the following current risks relevant to food safety in China as “very serious”:

Yaxue’s note: Before I knew Ge Xun, I came to know his Free Chen Guangcheng website when it re-published the CGC profile I wrote and posted here on Seeing Red in China in November. Later we met on Twitter and he invited me to volunteer for the site. So I did as a dozen others had or would. On Twitter he re-tweets me a lot to “promote” me the newcomer.

The only online guide to Chongqing available that provides both the English and Chinese (pinyin+characters) needed to help you navigate around the biggest city you've probably never heard of. Get tips for tourism, dining, nightlife, lodging, transportation...

This super-short guide to Mandarin pronunciation is for those that aim to quickly be able to pronounce the phrases in our travel phrasebook. We use ‘pinyin’, which is the standard alphabet for writing Chinese words with English letters.

There's a good reason why everybody tells you to visit the old portions of a Chinese city. Besides the fact that the modern parts of town can be repetitive and boring, the old sections are just so darn cool! Welcome to Kashgar's "Old City".

CBD is an important area that promotes Beijing’s economic development and reflects its modernization. Business consultants, cleaners, media people, parking lot cashier, restaurant waiter … … hundreds of thousands of people maintain CBD’s normal operation. Lunch, one basic trouble on “eating”, reflects the overall ecology of CBD and the city.