Jilin Adoption Heritage Tour

List of Jilin Civil Affairs Departments/Bureaus in charge of receiving root-seeking application

Now adoption family who want to visit Orphanage(welfare institution) in Jilin can contact the following departments/bureaus directly, or ask help from us.

Services of Adventuretour & China for adoption family

• Help adoptive families to apply for visits to welfare institution
• Communicate with the adoptive family and welfare institution
• Provide translation and interpretation, as well as local guide services
• City Sightseeing Tour, familiar with hometown
• Chinese cultural activities
• Car rental service

Example itinerary of Orphanage (welfare institution) visit in Jilin

Day 1 Arrival in Jilin Province

Pick up from airport and private transfer to hotel.

Have a good rest today.

Day 2: Orphanage visit

a typical process of orphanage visit: Your family will be welcome by firecracker ceremony with hanging red banner(Written sentence meaning welcome for home return visit), then you will have a conversation with orphanage director and staff, after that it’s a limited visit of facilities the SWI and view the file of your child(if possible). Having lunch with orphanage director and staff, in the afternoon you will visit the “finding spot” of your child or doing the city sightseeing.

Please note that process of each orphanage is different, actually there is no standard process.

So activities of a typical orphanage visit could be:

• Visit facilities and surroundings of the Orphanage(SWI)
• View profile of your Child
• Meet the Nurse/Nanny of your child
• Meet the foster mother or family
• Conversation or with orphanage director and staff
• Meal with orphanage director and staff
• Visit the “finding spot”
• Gifts to orphanage directors, caregivers, foster families and children
• Donate to the orphanage

More and more chinese orphanages are now open to adoptive families for return visiting, but each province is different and has different regulations, No single person can 100% guarantee the permission to visit an orphanage. so please check with your Travel Advisor beforehand to see what you should expect when visiting your child’s orphanage.

We work closely with Social Welfare Institutes throughout China and Chinese Government department like Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau (CAB) and CCAB to arrange your orphanage visit. With great knowledge, experience and resource, by fully understanding the needs of both adoptive families and government, we have helped many families to visit orphanages of their adoptive children.

Day 3 sightseeing visit

Heavenly Lake / Pool in Changbai Mountain: The Deepest Lake in China – Changbai Shan Mountain’s ‘Heavenly Lake’ in Jilin Province is a lake that straddles the border between China and North Korea and is the source of the Songhua River. At 2,150 meters above sea-level it is often called the ‘Heavenly Lake’.

Rime Island: As it says ‘Watching the mist at night; enjoying the rime in the morning; appreciating the rime falling down as it gets closed to the noon’, it vividly describes the process of forming and disappearing of rime. The wonder of rime is a magnet for visitors. Jilin City of northeastern China’s Jilin Province is the most renowned rime-spotting place in the country.

Day 4  sightseeing visit

Changbai Mountain is situated in Antu County of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China, bordering the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the south. As a dormant volcano, it boasts rare animals, marvelous lakes, amazing hot springs, and forests that stretch to the horizon. There is splendid scenery during the four seasons, but it is especially beautiful in winter.

Day 5 Departure from Jilin Province

Private transfer to Airport or Train station