2.4.0.80006 - Disclosure - 1. Description of businesstruefalsefalse1false falsefalseFrom2013-01-01to2013-06-30http://www.sec.gov/CIK0000828878duration2013-01-01T00:00:002013-06-30T00:00:001true 1GCIH_DescriptionOfBusinessAbstractGCIH_falsenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsexbrli:stringItemTypestringfalse0Description Of Business2false 2us-gaap_NatureOfOperationsus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00<p style="font: 8pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">Great China International Holdings, Inc., (the &#147;Company&#148;) was incorporated in the State of Nevada on December 4, 1987, under the name of Quantus Capital, Inc. The Company, through its various subsidiaries, is engaged in commercial and residential real estate leasing, management, consulting, investment, development and sales in the city of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, in the People&#146; Republic of China (&#147;PRC&#148;).</p>falsefalsefalsenonnum:textBlockItemTypenaThe entire disclosure for the nature of an entity's business, the major products or services it sells or provides and its principal markets, including the locations of those markets. If the entity operates in more than one business, the disclosure also indicates the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination (for example, assets, revenues, or earnings).Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6927468&loc=d3e6003-108592 false01. Description of businessfalse1. Description of businessUnKnownUnKnownUnKnownUnKnowntruefalsefalseSheethttp://greatchinaholdings.com/role/DescriptionOfBusiness12