Zhejiang Adoption Heritage Tour

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

Now adoption family who want to visit Orphanage(welfare institution) in Zhejiang 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 Zhejiang

Day 1 Arrival in ZheJiang 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 Adviser 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

Tea cultural experience (Tea Village visit): With its hills carpeted with rolling tea plantations, its crisscrossing alleys dotted with countless tea houses and one of its most serene mountains housing the biggest tea museum on earth, Hangzhou is the best place to demystify tea culture through real life experience.

Dim sum lunch: A style of Chinese cuisine (particularly Cantonese but also other varieties) prepared as small bite-sized portions of food served in small steamer baskets or on small plates.

West Lake: ‘Sunny water waves its glow,

Misty rain tricks the hill.

Plainly or gaily decked out like Xi Zi,

West Lake is always alluring.’

These are the words composed by the famous Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo (960-1127). In this poem, he compared the West Lake to Xi Zi, one of the four beauties in ancient China.

Day 4 sightseeing visit

Master of Nets Garden:  It is the smallest of the Suzhou residential gardens, yet it is the most impressive because of its use of space which creates the illusion of an area that is much greater than its actual size. Even more than the architectural achievement is the mood of tranquility and harmony that it embodies.

Tongli Water Town: It is one of the six famous ancient towns to the south of the Yangtze River along with Zhouzhuang, Yongzhi, Xitang, Wuzhen, and Nanxun.

Day 5 Departure From ZheJiang Province

Private transfer to Airport or Train station