it is difficult to fancy more original, mysterious and attractable country. Here contrasts in all and continually: burning all alive heat of the Asian deserts, raging of tropical woods of Southern China both a perpetually cold and silence of icehouses of a roof of the world - Tibet; luxurious quarters of Beijing with blazing mirror-image buildings of banks and huts from the bamboo caulises, covered with palm leaves; respectable young employees of joint ventures and the banks, freely speaking English, and million peasants which presume to itself hot nutrition only once a day, and meat - on feasts; The thousand-year crop, attenuatous philosophy and crowds of people in the streets, very much working as elbows to make the way to the autobus or in a subway car. And still, despite all exotic, there is in China something very close, familiar and clear to Russians, maybe, the general socialist past. Knowingly the Russian tourists feel in this country as at home.