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43 cities

Shanghai

The China haircut city — Bund nights and French Concession walks.

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Beijing

Hutongs, TCM massage, and a Great Wall day with a clear meetup.

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Chengdu

Pandas, numbing-spicy hotpot, and China’s slowest big city.

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Xi'an

Hanfu photoshoots on the old-city streets, then the Terracotta Army.

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Hangzhou

West Lake, Longjing tea, and a first tea ceremony.

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Guangzhou

Dim sum mornings — the meal worth planning a day around.

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Shenzhen

Huaqiangbei electronics, a new skyline, and an easy stop from Hong Kong.

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Chongqing

Cyberpunk nights at Hongyadong, and hotpot hotter than Chengdu.

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Guilin

Karst peaks and Li River views — the landscape people come to photograph.

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Suzhou

Classical gardens and silk lanes — the water-town day from Shanghai.

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Nanjing

The city wall, republican streets, and Nanjing salted duck.

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Xiamen

Gulangyu island, seaside cafes, and a bowl of shacha noodles.

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Qingdao

Beer, the beach, and German-era streets by the water.

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Tianjin

Concession streets, a jianbing breakfast, and a Haihe night.

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Lijiang

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Naxi old town, and a slower Yunnan day.

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Urumqi

The Grand Bazaar, lamb skewers, and the Silk Road gate.

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Sanya

Tropical beaches and coconut chicken — the winter escape.

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Yiwu

The wholesale city: clear districts, small lots, no agent required.

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Shiyan (Wudang)

Tai Chi where it started — mountain temples and a quiet night.

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Zhengzhou (Shaolin)

Shaolin Temple and a real kung fu class, not only the show.

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Luoyang

Longmen Grottoes in the peony city of thirteen dynasties.

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Kaifeng

Song-dynasty night-market streets and Qingming Scroll Park.

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Xuchang

Pangdonglai — the supermarket people cross the country to see.

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Harbin

Ice and Snow World, Russian streets, and a winter people fly for.

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Kunming

Kunming is China's perpetual-spring highland capital: a lake city where winter Siberian black-headed gulls, a

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Wuhan

Wuhan is China's great River City: Yangtze meets Han across three towns — Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang — with Yellow Crane Tower and East Lake as the usual first stops.

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Changsha

Changsha is a mountain-isle city on the Xiang River: Mawangdui Han finds, Yuelu Academy, and Orange Isle for a walkable first day.

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Haikou

Haikou is the tropical port where Nanyang overseas Chinese came home: weathered qilou arcade streets still run

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Zhangjiajie

Zhangjiajie is the quartz-sandstone pillar forest behind film floating-mountain imagery — a UNESCO park of thousands of peaks plus glass bridges above the canyon.

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Yangshuo

Yangshuo is where Li River tower karst lands: Guilin cruises end at the old pier, then bamboo rafts continue on quieter Yulong River channels.

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Dali

Dali keeps a Bai-kingdom skyline: grey-tiled old town, Erhai lake loop, and Cangshan’s nineteen peaks in one walkable triangle.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the quiet Fujian capital most China itineraries skip: a walled Ming-Qing lane grid (Sanfang Qixiang)

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Shenyang

Shenyang is where the Qing dynasty was born and the 20th century began: an early-Qing Manchu palace second onl

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Dalian

Dalian is the northeast's breezy coastal port: a century of Russian and Japanese leased-territory urban planni

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Dunhuang

Dunhuang packs a desert oasis itinerary: book Mogao Caves early, then Mingsha dunes and Crescent Lake in the same town.

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Datong

Datong is where imperial Buddhist cave art began: the Northern Wei capital Pingcheng commissioned the Yungang

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Huangshan

Huangshan is the granite UNESCO dual-heritage mountain of cloud seas and pines, with Huizhou white-wall villages below the cableways.

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Shangri-La

Shangri-La is where a fictional paradise became a real Tibetan town: Jiantang, the 3,300m Tea-Horse trading se

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Jiuzhaigou

Jiuzhaigou is a 72,000-ha UNESCO valley of travertine lakes in impossible blues and greens, reachable only by

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Dujiangyan

Dujiangyan is the one-day trip where a 2,250-year-old dam-free irrigation system still waters the Chengdu Plai

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Kashgar

Kashgar is the living western Silk Road terminus: an inhabited adobe old town at the Pamirs’ foot, with Id Kah Mosque anchoring the bazaar streets.

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Tengchong

Tengchong is China's geothermal frontier on the Myanmar border: a county where 97 Quaternary volcanoes, a 96°C

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Yanji

Yanji is the Korean-Chinese (Chaoxianzu) homeland in China: a border city where every street sign reads in Chi

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