CHINACONTACT®
We’ll help you deepen your relationship with China.
Since 2002
WHO WE ARE
ChinaContact® was founded in 2002 to offer opportunities to get to know China in deeper ways.
We’ve worked side-by-side with business students and religious organizations, environmentalists and international adoptees and their families to open the doors and show the real China. Our ChinaContact® guests get the best of both worlds – trips to major landmarks such as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, but also personalized site visits to places and people relevant to their professional interests. We handle the logistics. You do the learning.
WHAT WE VALUE
Our mission is to promote mutual understanding between China and other cultures.
What makes us unique is our place in a long and storied tradition of Jesuit education, one that teaches us that true cultural engagement starts with friendship. ChinaContact® and The Beijing Center provide a unique environment for students from all over the world to begin their engagement with China.
Our Story
Every group we host learns that everything in China has a story, even the dumplings we make together. Here is ours.
By 2002, four years of semester students at The Beijing Center (TBC) had shown how much more people learn when they experience China directly, through TBC’s faculty, academic excursions, and daily life in Beijing. That year, TBC’s founder, Ron Anton, S.J., opened the same opportunities to short-term learners: professors, business people, high school students, and anyone without a full semester to spare. ChinaContact® was born.
In the two decades since, ChinaContact® has introduced more than 400 groups to the real China. For some, we are an annual tradition; for others, the first outstretched hand. For all, we hope to be where you learn more about the world, and about yourself.
WHAT WE PROMISE
No Chinese necessary
Take lessons throughout the trip, as a focus of the journey, or not at all: we’ve got you covered.
Complete Educational Tour Package
We plan from wheels down to wheels up and everything in-between.
Affordable
We’ll fit your program to your team’s budget and expectations.
Flexible
Each trip is customized to the theme of your program, wherever in China it takes you.
Immersive
Cultural touchpoints and site visits relevant to your industry: embassies, companies, factories, hospitals, and schools, just to name a few.
Educational Focus
We have university faculty for classes and location visits to give important insights.
Return on Investment
It’s not a holiday. From getting your board to understand Chinese work culture to enhancing the educational experience for your students, we will help you achieve your learning outcomes.
Our Culture
One thing we love doing is creating video recaps of trips for our groups.
Check back often to see the latest videos! Take a look at Australian Catholic University’s adventure below:
Our Partners
Meet the Main Team
ChinaContact®’s team has more than twenty years of experience helping visitors discover China.
ChinaContact® is the flagship short-term program of The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies (TBC).
Here are the main faces you’ll meet on your ChinaContact® journey.
Shuting Liu
ChinaContact® Curator
Shuting has been working in tourism and with international visitors since her sophomore year in college, but don’t remind her how many years ago that was! A Beijing local, Shuting loves to explore and find the best snacks.
Amber Wang
Associate Director of Academics
Amber is a graduate of University of Technology – Sydney, and has worked at international corporations and with large-scale businesses. She also loves to hike!
Olina Xu
Kunming Operations Officer
Olina is a Kunming native and has a bubbly personality to match the City of Eternal Spring. She has worked in administration and project management for over a decade, and spends most of her free time reading books.