welcome to china. : )

xie4xie4!! :D

I am a native chinese however just been to Beijing for four times . For me I think it's a good place to travel especially for foreigners but if you wanna live I prefer you try some place else not Shanghai , Beijing , or HongKong these big cities . if you want to know more about china try some small city , some place not that famous you know .But that just my opinion . hope you enjoy your time in China and welcome! PS: I live in Dalian now will be glad to meet you here ^^

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Had a great time in Beijing in 98-99. If you go, the subway in Beijing is exceptionally easy to travel on for a foreigner. Most cities have weird place names for the stops. The subway in Beijing runs along the lines of the old city wall and all the stops are names after the old gates. You only need to know about 15 characters to be able to read all of the subway stops, because they are all named things like "East Gate". I'm sure they've added routes since then, but the central loop will still be the same and will get you very close to anywhere you want to go. The only difficult part of riding the subway is making sure that you are getting on the subway going the right direction. All you have to do is point in the direction you think is right and ask someone "(Subway stop name), ShiBuShi?" and they'll tell you. Shanghai is beautiful, Chinese couples like to honeymoon there. Beijing was pretty dirty, but I know they cleaned it up before the Olympics.