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 Beijing's Four SeasonsThere is clear distinction of the four seasons of Beijing. Spring and autumn are quite short. Spring is from the beginning of April to mid of May with an average temperature of 17 centigrade. Summer is from June to mid of September with an average temperature of 33 centigrade. Autumn is from the end of September to mid of October with an average temperature of 25 centigrade. Winter is from November to March of the next year. The lowest temperature could amount to -9 centigrade. Beautiful Beijing exhibits different features for its clear distinction of four seasons. To have a better understanding about the distinctive characteristics of different seasons will bring you different fresh feeling by enjoying the special tour of four seasons. Time for TravelThe best time for traveling in Beijing is in spring and autumn. Summer is the busy tourism season. You'd better avoid traveling in this period if time permit. Park scenic spots in Beijing are usually open from 9:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon. Every big mall usually will not close until 9:30 at night. The close time is usually prolonged in summer. Business hours of companies and banks are from 9:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon. From 12:00 to 1:00 at noon is lunch time. Banks and malls are not close in Saturday and Sunday. VoltageThe voltage in Beijing is 220volts. China's CurrencyThe currency in China is called Renminbi. It is issued by the national bank--the People's Bank of China. The unit of Renminbi is Yuan. The fractional currency is Jiao and Fen. One Yuan is ten Jiao. One Jiao is ten Fen. There are paper currency of Yuan, Jiao and Fen and there are also nickel coins of Yuan, Five Jiao and Fen. Face value of Yuan is ranged from 1 Yuan, 2 Yuan, 5 Yuan, 10 Yuan, 20 Yuan, and 50 Yuan to 100 Yuan. Face value of Jiao is ranged from 1 Jiao, 2 Jiao to 5 Jiao. Face value of Fen is ranged from 1 Fen, 2 Fen to 5 Fen. The abbreviation of Renminbi is RMB. NewspaperBeijing Evening Newspaper is 0.5 Yuan for each. Life Style is 1 Yuan for each. The large content of these two kinds of newspaper could help you understand relevant information about news, entertainment information, shopping guide etc. News stalls also sell other types of comprehensive and professional newspaper. The English China Daily and Beijing Weekends are sold in every post office. Waiters are responsible to deliver newspapers to the room in hotels at high level. Guests in general hotels could pick up for free reading in the front hall or at the newspaper display of the floor. MagazineBeijing This Month Magazine and Business Beijing-Special Edition of Beijing This Month Magazine sponsored by Beijing Municipal Government and the Tourist Bureau of Beijing are worth reading carefully. In addition to detailed introduction to basic condition of Beijing and traveling knowledge in Beijing, the newspaper also delivers the newest information of eating, drinking, entertaining and shopping. You can pick it up for free reading in the in-and-out hall of international airlines at the airport and the front office of hotels. MapThe quality of maps is bad as well as good in the market. It is recommended to you to buy maps in newspaper retail shop or bookshop. You could keep the well-printed map of reasonable price as souvenir for your Beijing tour. You'd better choose to buy the map sponsored by the government, which has more authority and exactness, such as Beijing All in-one Map for Tourism. The map has detailed information with excellent pictures and essays. A well-designed map with exact information is a best friend in your tour. Broadcast TelevisionChina Radio International broadcast to the world over in 39 languages and the four local languages of Chinese everyday. It could receive programs of CCTV (16 channels), programs of BTV (10 channels) and part of satellite programs of other provinces and cities in Beijing. It could also receive programs of CNN, NBC and Hong Kong Satellite Television in star hotels. NetworkSurfing in the Internet is not an adventure any more. It is still a good approach of killing time. If you come to Beijing by yourself and want to meet family members or friends in the distance for a short while or piffle or playing chess with them, you will have no time to feel lonely here. Post OfficePost office operates through the week. Telegraph, telephone and tele-printing business are in business through 24 hours a day. Letters posted within the city need to stick a stamp of 60 Fen and letters posted within the country need to stick a stamp of 80 Fen. According to the region and weight every international airmail letter costs over 5.4 Yuan. Letters posted to Hong Kong and Taiwan needs 2.5 Yuan. There are post-boxes for delivering international and domestic letters in every restaurant and hotel. Post service offices are even established in some of the places. The green post-boxes could be found everywhere in the street. The post-boxes with yellow top deliver more quickly than the green ones and need not more stamps. The international post office locates at Yabao Road, Jianguomen North Street. It operates the following business--to receive and post international and domestic letters, parcels and express mails, to make out invoice, cash draft and telegraphic draft, domestic and international telegram, long-distance call and local call. There is the working body of the Customs. It is convenient to transact the customs procedure. Global Express Cash Delivery ServiceXilian Remit and China Express Service Company cooperate to establish express cash delivery offices in eight big cities-Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Dalian, Xi'an and Urumqi to provide express cash delivery service. The cash delivery process is safe and secret, which takes several minutes only. (Add: No. 7 Qianmen East Street) Express Delivery Service Agency• House Emergency Delivery Provide express delivery of goods in the city (round-the-clock service) South of Wangjing - Add: Chaoyang District - Tel: 64362244-11185 (customer service center) • Beijing Express Mail Service (EMS) - Add: No.7 Qianmen East Street - Tel: 65129948-11185 • Overseas Courier Service - Add: No.2 Shangsi Road, Tuanjie Lake, Chaoyang District - Tel: 65944980, 65944981 • China International Transportation DHL Express Delivery Service - Add: No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District - Tel: 64662211 • UPS United Parcel Service - Add: No.1 Jianguomenwai Street, Chaoyang District - Tel: 65055005 • FedEx Federal Express - Add: Floor 3, Gaolan Building, No. 32 Liangmaqiao, Chaoyang District - Tel: 64685566 TelephoneThere is IDD telephone in general hotel rooms. 10% extra service fee is charged at the hotels under four-star level. 15% extra service fee is charged at hotels of four-star and five-star level. The fee shall be charged with the accommodation fee together when you check-out. One could also make collect international call in Beijing. You could make call to 2094 places of China directly by using the direct distance dialing. Please dial the trunk code of the city you want first (dial "0" first, dial "176" for inquiry), and then dial the number. The extra-charged fee standard is the same as dialing international call. Domestic long-distance call of China Telecommunication is charged 0.07 Yuan every 6 seconds. Long-distance call of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan is charged 0.2 Yuan every 6 seconds. International long-distance call is charged 0.8 Yuan every 6 seconds. Domestic long-distance call is charged by 60% from 00:00 to 7:00 every day. The international long-distance call dialing to the following 15 countries is charged by 60% from 00:00 to 7:00 every day-Japan, United States, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, France, Great Britain, Italy, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, Canada, Philippine, Indonesia, Korea. The fee for using public telephone in the city shall be charged by abiding by the charging standard of public telephone strictly. You can dial complaint telephone (96108000) to report in case of overcharge. The ordinary public telephone watched by person in the city is charged 0.4 Yuan every 3 minutes. Every minute is charged extra 0.2 Yuan after the first 3 minutes. Domestic long-distance call is charged 0.8 Yuan every minute and international long-distance call is charged 8.2 Yuan every minute. There are many telephone boxes by using IC Card in subway, bus stations and streets in Beijing. The magnetic card could be bought at the news stalls and news pavilions along the street, supermarkets, shops, hotels and restaurants. Fees of local call are charged 0.5 Yuan at the first 3 minutes and extra 0.2 Yuan every minute after the first 3 minutes. Domestic long-distance call is charged 0.7 Yuan every minute. The half-price regulations for using at holidays, festivals and night shall not apply in public telephones. Unicom 193. IP1790, card have been accepted generally in Beijing and could be used in most of the public telephones. Lost and FoundIf you lost something when traveling in Beijing, where should you look for the things you lost? Try your luck in the Lost and Found. The things you lost may be brought there by kind person. The telephone number of the Lost and Found is 66176274. Beijing DialectThe last thing need to be mentioned is the colloquial expression of Beijing. Tourists of other places usually complain that they don't understand what Beijing native said. Beijing natives speak fast with a lot of colloquial expressions. Never mind. Here is colloquial expressions of Beijing, which will give you great help. Che dan(nonsense), Zan men(we), Tong lou zi(to make a sleeping dog), Bie jie(don't do that), Wan er qu(no; I don't agree), Bai le(broken up), Pin zui(talkative; like to speak nonsense), Bei er hao(very good; best), Lao jia(to ask for help or express one's gratitude), Cishi(stout; solid), Kan da shan(piffle; to chat ferrly), Chi xin(over sensitive), Da na(expert), Dian le(to run away), Gai le(very good), Nen(lack experiences), Gao(low quality), Huang le(haven't succeeded), Tao ci(to scrape up an acquaintance with), Dou le(to play joke; to fleece; to cheat others), Meizhe(to have no way of), Guo(to have a meal), Gao le(to drink too much), Pen le(to vomit), Tu bie(yokelry), Zhao chou(to ask for beating), zi ge er(alone; be oneself), Xie cai(be over; be finished), Chu tuo(fear; be afraid of; feel embarrassed), Tuo er(cheat who stands in the same side with the seller), Zai ren(to fleece; to cheat others), Pao tang(be over; be broken up; to make a mess of), Shuan ren(don't keep promise; to play a joke with sb), Mao er ni(to have secret). Foreign Currency ExchangeExchangeable foreign currency includes the following 13 kinds-Great Britain Pound, Eurodollar, U.S. Dollar, Swiss Franc, Singapore Dollar, Sweden Crown, Denmark Crown, Norway Crown, Japanese Yen. Canana Dollar, Australia Dollar, Philippines Peso, Thailand Currency. In addition checks with the face value of Eurodollar and Spanish Peseta are also exchangeable. The circulation of foreign currency is forbidden and the valuation and bill payment shall not use foreign currency within the People's Republic of China in accordance with the Exchange Control Regulations currently in effect of our country. In addition to accept exchange business of traveler's check of foreign currency and foreign credit card, Bank of China and other authorized banks for dealing in foreign exchange also accept exchange business of 22 kinds of foreign currency and new Taiwan currency in order to provide money-using convenience for foreign guests and country fellowmen of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan traveling in China. In addition, some hotels, restaurants and shops could also accept foreign exchange business in order to provide convenience for foreign currency holders. Renminbi, which isn't used up after exchange, could be exchanged to foreign currency by holding the foreign exchange bill valid in six month. The exchanged foreign currency could be carried out of the country. Different quote price shall be used in different exchange condition. Buying rate shall be used when exchanging traveler's check, credit card and remittance. Selling exchange rate shall be used when exchanging money to foreign currency including exchange money into foreign currency cash. Price of buying foreign cash shall be used when buying foreign cash. Accepted Foreign Credit CardsAt present main credit cards, which could be transacted by agent in China, are as follows: 1. Master card 2. Visa Card 3. American Express Card 4. JCB Card 5.Diners Card |
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