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DAY 01 DEPART USA Depart USA for Beijing DAY 02 ARRIVE BEIJING Arrive Beijing, China. After completing immigration and customs formalities you will be met by your guide outside the baggage claim area, who will escort you to a waiting vehicle for your transfer to the Raffles Hotel. At Raffles Hotel reservations for a Deluxe Room have been confirmed for the following 4 nights. Raffles Beijing Hotel occupies the site of the former Grand Hotel, opened in 1917 and once a famous venue for diplomats, debutantes, and celebrities such as Sun Yat Sen (republican China’s founding president) and Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Former Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping penned the calligraphy in the hotel’s name; it is still used in the Raffles logo. The hotel is located on popular Chang’an Avenue, about ½ mile from Wangfujing shopping street, the Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square. Beijing reigns both as an ancient capital of Imperial China and as the capital of present-day China. Beijing is at once the nation's political, economic, and cultural center. It is a city in motion with the drama of history in its streets. The future course of the world reverberates here while magnificently preserved palaces, tombs and temples stand as testaments to the past.