This weekend tour to the Imperial Mountain Resort Chengde

Highlight of the week:

Don't miss tonight's round Table Discussion on China Current Employment
 if you wish to know all about managing Chinese employment, expectations of Chinese employees, working conditions and requirements of different types of enterprises and organizations in China, join tonight's round table talk...

And be sure to make it to attend Thursday's Book Club: A Thousand Years of Good Prayer!; or join our Saturday Hiking: Cool Waterfall Valley or Night Tour of the Grand View Garden

Travel Program news

Two types of inner Mongolia grassland
CCC offers two types of Inner Mongolia grassland tours through all July and August: off-the-beaten-track Xilinguole Grasslands (visit one Mongol family and stay in authentic yurt, however no toilet and shower); and Huitengxile Grassland resort (same place where CCC organize its tour last year)

Upcoming longer trips:

7-day trip to Tibet (July 17-23)
7-day Yunnan Trip (Lijiang, Shangrila...) (August 7-13)
 

Sunday Hiking: Cool Waterfall Valley

4-day tour: Mount. Four Sisters at Sichuan August 3-6
6-day Silk Road Tour (September 7-12; 21-26)

Private tour service

CCC offers private classic tours around China, click here for details

Interpreting service

CCC is now offering interpretor and MC services based on its pool of language talents which is a reliable source of linguistic professionals who will suit your task. click for details



Upcoming events & tours

Beijing Tour

Friday, June 23, 9:30am-12:30pm
Walk: Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square
The 3-hour guided walk will not only cover history, architecture, fengshui and religion and ritual of the Forbidden City, but also the city planning of the whole walled capital (gates, walls, etc.) and the recent development (English narration is pro

Sat., June 24, 9am-1:30pm
Royal Canal Tour to the Summer Palace
Cruise along the imperial canal in a motorized canopy boat past the Beijing Zoo, the Beijing Aquarium and the Purple Bamboo Garden; appreciate the great views en route, and stroll in the garden to meet taichi practitioners beside lotus ponds and amat

Sat., June 24, 9am-6pm
Hiking: Cool Waterfall Valley
Drive to Miyun County, Beijing to see peach and apricot blossom, red leaves, waterfall, valley and part of Miyun Reservoir.

Hands-on: Peking Opera Makeup Thurs, June 22, 10-11:30am

Saturday, June 24, 6-9:40pm
Night Tour of the Grand View Garden
CCC organizes a night tour to a beautiful gardens in the southwest of Beijing: Laser Movie will be shown with the waterfall on the lake as the background; and dancers will appear on the lantern-lit boat. CCC guests will be sitting in the terrace (tea house)watching the movie and performance.

Monday, June 26, 4-6pm
Pedicab Hutong Tour


Beijing Events
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...

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

Pedicab hutong tour

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.


Monday, July 10, 4-6pm
Hands-on: Chinese Sword Play at Park
Learn Chinese swordsmanship with outstanding Chinese Martial Arts practitioner in Ditan park. All people, beginners or the advanced alike, are welcomed, just join us to stretch yourself after a long week sitting.

Wednesday, July 12, 8pm
Philosophy Lecture: "Ming" or Destiny
The CCC philosophy lecture series will talk in this session about Ming Yun - destiny, fate and lot. It is, of course, connected with the Chinese notion of the Tian-Heaven which can refer to God, morality, virtue, personal will, nature, and ...


Explore China
June 24-25
Weekend trip to Chengde Mountain Resort
Take CCC's comfortable coach to Chengde, 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 b

June 24-25

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

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 & Chaka Salt Lakes
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

July 8-9
Xilinguole Inner Mongolia Grassland
Compared to another Inner Mongolia Grassland tour to Huitengxile, which is a resort provideing concret yurt, this Xilingguole grassland tour will be the off-the-beaten-path tour in small groups, offering authentic yurts with real Mongol residents.

July 8-9

CCC youngest participant (2 years old) plucks little yellow blossom on the grassland (CCC last year' s inner Mongolia grassland tour)

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.

July 22-23
Huitengxile Inner Mongolia Grassland
It was worthwhile to visit the enchanting steppes & fantastic grassland! To find the less spoiled and touristy grassland with relatively full-up grass, and yet accessible for a two or three days excursion, CCC recommends the grassland Huitengxile

July 29-30
Xilingguole Inner Mongolia Grassland
Compared to another Inner Mongolia Grassland tour to Huitengxile, which is a resort provideing concret yurt, this Xilingguole grassland tour will be the off-the-beaten-path tour in small groups, offering authentic yurts with real Mongol residents.

August 7-13
7-day Yunnan Trip (Lijiang, Dali, Shangrila, Kunming)
Join CCC's trip to Yunnan (Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangrila, etc) to experience the dreamland and its diverse minority ethnic groups.

August 3-6
4-day tour: Four Sisters at Sichuan

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

August 5-6, Fri.10pm-Sun.9pm
Trip to Qingdao (beach and old buildings)
Joining the August Qingdao Beer Festival has been proven to be unwise by our CCC friends because of the extreme crowding; the festival is just like a Karaoke site and the hotel fees for all of August are tripled. Take Friday night train with CCC

August 12-13
Xilinguole Inner Mongolia Grasslands
Compared to another Inner Mongolia Grassland tour to Huitengxile, which is a resort provideing concret yurt, this Xilingguole grassland tour will be an off-the-beaten-path tour in small groups, offering authentic yurts with real Mongol residents.