Sunday, September 30, 2007

Money Exchange Rate

Chinese currency is " RenMinBi" 人民币 and the basic unit of the RMB is the "Yuan" , it is issued by the People's Bank of China. It comes in notes of RMB 100, RMB 50, RMB 20, RMB10, RMB 5 & RMB 1. The coin in denominations comes with one & two & five "jiao"
(Notes: the RMB unit "Yuan" is the similar with the unit called "dollar" )
(Notes: the RMB unit "Jiao" is the similiar with the unit called " sen" )

Most bills features a prominent portrait of Mao Ze Dong (was a Chinese military & political leader who led the Communist Party of China to victory in the Chinese Civil War, and he was the leader of the People's Republic of China.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Discover Shenzhen Districts

The city of Shenzhen (Chinese written as: 深圳) today are spearheading China's remarkable economic growth. Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of GuangDong province in southern China. Most people been travel to HongKong before, they mostly know that it was fast & easy to move into Shenzhen because it was just next to Hong Kong border. The location was chosen to attract industrial investments from Hong Kong since these two places are nearby to each other.

Bordering with Hong Kong, Shenzhen has become China's First Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in year 1980 & also one of the largest cities in the Pearl River Delta region, which has become one of the economic powerhouses in China.

Shenzhen, formerly known as 'Bao'an County ' (宝安县), was promoted to prefecture level, directly governed by Guangdong province, in November 1979. In May 1980, Shenzhen was formally nominated as a "special economic zone", the first one of its kind in China. It was given the right of provincial-level economic administration in November 1988.
The population in Shenzhen approximately 8.3 million people.




From the picture above, Shenzhen was actually municipality comprises into six (6) districts area which is called Luo Hu (罗湖), Fu Tian (福田), Nan Shan (南山), Yan Tian (盐田), Bao'an (宝安) & Long Gang (龙岗).

For your information, most tourists are easily travel & accessible to various parts of the town & most shopping area & major landmarks location of the above districts by Shenzhen Metro Rail way. see more related website: http://www.szmc.net/10station/index.jsp
But unfortunately, this website did not convert in english version.

Let us Look into Luo Hu District (罗湖)
It was located at the centre of Shenzhen, Luohu serves as an important immigration control between mainland China & HongKong. Luohu districts was established in year 1979, the size of LuoHu is about 76 km² , population around three hundred thousand of people staying here. Today, Luohu has become more commercial, trading and internet services centre compare with other districts.

The second is FuTian District (福田区)
FuTian was located next to the West side of LuoHu, as you can refer to the small map above, it comprising an area of 78.8 km², estimated population around 1 million of people staying here.