Nanjing
PreeChina · City Guide Nanjing Six dynasties made this their capital, the Ming Emperor built the world’s longest city wall […]
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Zhoushan
PreeChina · City Guide Zhoushan China’s only island-prefecture — 1,390 islands scattered across the East China Sea, where the sacred
Quzhou
PreeChina · City Guide Quzhou Where three granite pillars rise like ancient guardians above the Jiangshan plain, underground caverns of
Ningbo
PreeChina · City Guide Ningbo Where Asia’s oldest surviving private library has guarded its books for 500 years, a sacred
Jinhua
PreeChina · City Guide Jinhua Where China’s most celebrated cured ham has been made for over a thousand years, a
Chizhou
PreeChina · City Guide Chizhou Home to Jiuhua Mountain — one of China’s four sacred Buddhist mountains, where 99 granite
Anqing
PreeChina · City Guide Anqing Where granite peaks of extraordinary drama rise above the Yangtze plain, the melodies of Huangmei
Xuancheng
PreeChina · City Guide Xuancheng The birthplace of Xuan paper — the most celebrated paper in Chinese cultural history, without
Huangshan
PreeChina · City Guide Huangshan The mountain that defined Chinese landscape painting — where granite peaks rise through a sea
Maanshan
PreeChina · City Guide Ma’anshan The city of Li Bai’s final years — where China’s greatest poet drank wine at