CCC youngest participant (2 years old) plucks little yellow blossom on the grassland (CCC last year' s inner Mongolia grassland tour). CCC has recently found a Mongol family  with authentic yurts to stay overnight Small group tours and private tours will be organized throughout July and August.

Highlight of the week:

The weekend tour to Mount. Lushan National Park is going to depart this Friday night, take the last two days to try to visit this famous summer retreat; And the next weekend trip (June 24-25) to Xilinguole Grasslands (Inner Mongolia) has only a few spots left, book this tour to visit a local Mongol family and stay overnight in their authentic yurt...((This grassland is much further north than Huitengxile (where CCC's group went to last year), and less touristy.

And be sure to make it for for this Wednesday (June 14) evening's Lecture: Chinese Population or next Wednesday (June 21) evening's Around Table Discussion: China Current Employment

China Tour News

1. Private tours
CCC offers private tours to some classic destinations such as Xi'an, Tibet, Yunnan, Silk Road, Guilin, Datong...
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2. Tibet, Silk Road and Yunnan
CCC has scheduled some classic long tours in the summer and fall. Please mark them in your calendar and book them at your earliest time. (Check CCC calendar for several tours to Tibet, Silk Road and Yunnan from July to October)

CockCrow Post Town, an endangered village in Hebei, will be the spot of this Saturday tour of CCC

Events & Tours in details

Beijing Tours

Saturday, June 17, 9am-6:30pm
Day-trip: CockCrow Post Town
Cockcrow Post Town (Ji Ming Yi or Station of Rooster Crows) was recently listed for the second time by World Monuments Fund (WMF) in the 2006 World Monuments Watch List of world 100 most endangered sites. (It was firstly listed by WMF in 2004).

Sun, June 18, 3-5pm
Tour: Lama Temple & Lamaism
This is a guided tour to the famous Lama Temple in Beijing. CCC expert (English narration) will explain all the architectural details of the temple and share the knowledge of Lamaism (Tibetan sect of Buddhism).


Beijing Events
Wednesday, June 14, 8pm
Lecture: Chinese Population
How did the China's population reach its present level and its One-Child policy come about? What are the real facts with regard to sex ratio at birth, the labour force, population aging, the urban and rural population distribution and their implications..

Thursday, June 15, 2-4pm

Learn to tie Chinese knots with s CCC artist (Thursday, June 15)

Hands-on: Tying Chinese Knot( macramé)
Learn to make the auspicious knots (Chinese style macramé) from a CCC folk artists, and work out your own knots (knots, butterfly or lily shoes, and other patterns of crafts), and hang them up on your neck or your handbag

Wednesday, June 21, 8pm
Around Table: China Current Employment
Millions of new graduates are struggling for jobs by the end of June. So what are the expectations of these young graduates and requirements from the recruiting companies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a state-owned bureau

Thursday, June 22, 7:30pm
Book Club: A Thousand Years of Good Prayer!
The book chat of the month will be A Thousand Years of Good Years by Yiyun Li,a recipient of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers. Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breatht

Thurs, June 22, 10-11:30am
Hands-on: Peking Opera Makeup
CCC will invite one veteran Peking Opera artist to teach how to do the spectacular while complicated opera makeup. For this workshop, the artist will particularly focus on how to do the make-up for jing role--enterprising warriors and wild men.


Explore China

Two-day panda tour at the Wolong Panda Natural Reserve in Sichuan (July 8-9)

June 17-18
Weekend Trip:
Mount. Lushan one of the favourite mountains of Mao and Li Bai (most famous Tang Poet), After 1949, it became famous as a favoured meeting place for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Listed by UNESCO as world Heritage site

June 24-25
Weekend trip to Chengde Mountain Resort
Take CCC's comfortable coach to Chende, Hebei Province to see the Summer Mountain Resort (Bishushanzhuang) and its Outlying Temples. The size of Chengde Summer resort is as big as the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace combined. It is surrounded by

June 24-25
Xilinguole Grasslands (Inner Mongolia)
Xilinguole National Nature Reserve lies in the boundaries of Xilinguole City, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Covering a total area of 10,786 square kilometers, Xilinguole National Nature Reserve was established in 1985,

July 1-2
Qinghai Lake & Birds Island
It is the largest salt water lake in China, and rank No.1 of the top ten best lakes in China -- large, high, salty, and stunningly blue. Yellow reep blossom will be all over the region. Over 100,000 birds migrate from the Indian Ocean feed on spawn

July 1-2
Datong Trip (Grottoes & Hanging Monastery
Join this weekend tour to see the second-largest of the nearly 51,000 sandstone statues of Buddha in 53 Yungang grottoes. Buddhist cave art began here in Datong, 160 miles west of Beijing, in the fifth century, by Xianbei minority, which ruled North

Gyantze, one top of CCC 7-day Tibet tour  July 17-23 and Sep. 4-10

July 8-9
Xilinguole Grasslands
The Xilinguole Grassland is vast and grandiose.Located in Xilinguole League in the middle of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it is a typical prairie of temperate zone ecological system.

July 8-9
Sichuan Pandas and Leshan Giant Buddha
Visit the Panda center at Wolong Natural Reserve, taking photos with the giant Pandas or even holding a panda; visit the famous Le Shan Giant Buddha, world's largest Buddha statue in the World

July 17-23
7-day trip to Tibet

July 15-16
Ancient Xi'an Town (Terracotta Warriors)
Take weekend trip to visit the famous Terracotta Warrior Site; walk on the ancient walled City, Shaanxi Museum; Great Mosque and Muslim Street; Wild Goose Pagoda, etc.