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After meeting your experienced tour leader in the airport, you will be transferred to your hotel for refreshment. Beijing is the political and administrative center of modern China. It is also the greatest single repository of monuments and treasures from the imperial era. Served as the capital of the country, Beijing is one of the world's most impressive and vibrant cities. As the host of the 2008 summer Olympic game, the city greatly improved its infrastructures. Many impressive modern buildings were built in the past few years Including National Grand Theater, National Stadium and New CCTV Tower. Tonight dinner is on your own.
During each winter solstice, the Ming and Qing emperors would perform rites and make sacrifices to Heaven praying for good harvest for their empire. You can also find locals doing all kind of morning exercise in the park. You will feel to touch the people. Lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch, visit Tiananmen Square, the largest public square in the world, capable of holding a million people. Stroll across its vast expanse. 
An assortment of historical buildings, Communist monuments and huge museums, including Chairman Mao's Mausoleum, the Monument to the People's Heroes, and the Great Hall of the People - home of the National People's Congress, flank the Square. Walk through the Gate of Heavenly Peace, under the famed portrait of Chairman Mao, to enter the Forbidden City, a 9,999-room compound, where the 24 emperors of the Ming and the Qing Dynasties ruled the Middle Kingdom for nearly 500 years (1420-1911). Experience the architectural splendor of the palaces, ceremonial courtyards and private quarters. Enjoy a welcome Peking duck dinner in the evening. (B L SD) 
continued for centuries, eventually linking up the walls of the former independent kingdoms. The Great Wall meanders through China’s northern mountain ranges from the Yellow Sea to the Gobi 
In the morning, visit Summer Palace---a cool garden for Chinese emperors to spend their summer days. You will find a huge man made lake and mountain in side. Lunch in the local family near the Hutong. After lunch fight to Xi’an .Upon arrival, we will head to the old part of the city where many Chinese Muslims inhabited. As the starting point of the famous Silk Road, the city attracted traders from West since this commercial way started in 1st century B.C. During the 8th century AD, Xi’an was the largest city in the world with over one million inhabitants, among which one third of them were foreigners. The ancestors of these Muslims could be tracing back to that time. This part of the city is a fascinating area where you can find exotic food, interesting people (some of the residents are still look like their Arabian cousins). We will first heading to a centuries-old mosque. This mosque is quite different from most visitors’ imagination but a wonderfully serene place to escape the hustle and bustle city life. (B, L, D) 
This morning, we will take you to modern China’s greatest archaeological discovery – The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, which silently guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor for over 2200 years. In 1974, a local farmer uncovered the first of three massive earth and timber vaults, while digging a well. The extensive excavation, still in progress, has yielded over 6000 life-sized terra cotta warriors, each individually sculpted, with the physical characteristics of the humans they were modeled after. Archers, infantrymen, horses and bronze chariots have also been unearthed. A Circle Vision documentary is available on site. The tour also includes a work shop where local people are making jade wares. On the way back we will discover the largest Chinese herbs market in China. Tonight we will have the dumpling dinner and Tang Dancing Performance.( B ,L, SD)
In the morning we will fly to Shanghai. Shanghai, once a small fishing village became an important trading port for tea and silk after the Opium War. In 1920s, the city was called “Paris of the Far East.” Nowadays Shanghai undergoes one of the fastest economic expansions that the world has ever seen. It is now a leading business city in China which remains retain deep links with its colonial past. Upon your arrival we will go to hotel if possible , after lunch we will enjoy a walk along the Bund, the elegant riverside promenade which symbolized European and foreign influence and affluence in the 1930s. See the ships and barges on the Huangpu River, en route to the sea or going upstream to the interior of China. The modernistic Oriental Pearl TV tower looms in the background redefining the skyline. The so called Pudong Development zone has transformed from once fertile farmland, this new area is rapidly becoming the symbol of modern China with its world class hotels, international financial institutions, and commercial centers. From Bund, you will enjoy some free time to walk in the famous shopping street---the Nanjing Road. And Yu Yuan Garden. (B, L,)