Work in China: about the country i am going to

A vast country with the largest population in the world and, now perhaps, the most reliable currency, backed by goods and services. For the passing tourist, it might seem simple: the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall of China… However, step a little off the standard tourist route and a whole separate world opens up to you, full of peculiarities and secrets. And stumbling upon them unexpectedly for yourself means uncovering ever new mysteries, encountering astonishing new puzzles and being completely baffled by things that at first glance seem simple… Everything is different here. Maybe because over millennia little has changed in their worldview… Perhaps this is the greatest mystery — the things left unsaid that you should try to unravel? This is exactly what you can try to do during your Chinese internship. By the way, here are a couple of simple secrets: you probably know that paper, gunpowder and the compass were invented in China. What about ice cream? And pasta? Yes, ice cream was first made here about 4,000 years ago, and pasta — which we traditionally consider to have originated in Italy — was also invented in China.

«Life and work in Beijing — this has truly been an incredibly valuable experience for both my personal and professional growth. For me, this program became a combination of challenges, opportunities and new perspectives, and it helped me better understand Chinese culture».

Rachel, USA

«This is a huge dragon, whose glittering body, in the form of an endless succession of mountain ridges and watchtowers of the Great Wall of China, stretched between the world of China and another realm, dividing it into two parts… both for life and for understanding».

Sergey Djan Sha