Things to do and what to see in Beidaihe are offered here in Beidaihe Guide. Beidaihe is located in the northeast of Hebei Province and closes to Beijing and Tianjin. It is an important city as well as one of the 10 tourist cities in China between the Mt. Yanshan on the north and the Bohai Sea on the south. With a monsoon climate and four distinct seasons, the springs tend to be dry and windy while being hot and humid in summer. Since 1898, when the Qing government opened up the city to foreigners, it has become a famous tourist site closes to the capital of the China. The city is a coastline city with convenient transportation, which provides an easy access to get there. The city is well known for the Summer Resort which is still used by the national leaders till now. The beaches cover with the yellow sand with a distance of around 100 meters to the sea in this area. The most famous tourist site in this area is the Great Wall, since the Laolongtou (Old Dragon Head) is the eastern origin of the Great Wall and the Shanhaiguan Pass is the first pass at the east of the Great Wall. Mao Zedong, the founder of the Communist Party also came and stood there and wrote the widely acclaimed poem "Langtaosha Beidaihe".