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East China ShanghaiEast China A fishing and weaving town of a few thousand people until 1843, forced open to foreign trade and turned into Asia's largest… Ancient TownsHeritageJiangnan Gardens North China BeijingNorth China Six centuries of imperial power, the world’s greatest palace, and a street-food culture that thrives in the shadow of ancient… LandscapesHeritageGreat Wall South China Hong KongSouth China The Pearl of the Orient, where Victoria Harbour separates Hong Kong Island's vertiginous skyline from the dense urban mass of… HeritageLandscapesSkyscrapers & Bridges South China GuangzhouGuangdong · South China The Flower City and South China's great gateway, where Cantonese cuisine reaches its most refined expression in teahouses open… ShoppingHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs Southwest China ChengduSichuan · Southwest China Pandas eat bamboo at dawn at the breeding base north of the city. HeritageAncient TownsGrade I Museums South China ShenzhenGuangdong · South China Shenzhen is the city China built on purpose, a fishing village of 30,000 in 1979, a city of nearly 18 million today, and the… ShoppingLandscapesGrade I Museums South China MacauSouth China Portuguese Baroque churches face Chinese temples across squares paved in black and white mosaic. HeritageMuseums Northwest China Xi'anShaanxi · Northwest China The ancient capital where China's history begins in earnest, where the First Emperor's 8,000-strong terracotta army has stood… HeritageMuseumsImperial Palaces & Tombs Southwest China ChongqingSouthwest China Built across the ridges where the Yangtze and Jialing rivers converge, Chongqing has no flat ground to speak of, monorail… LandscapesAncient TownsKarst & Peaks Northeast China HarbinHeilongjiang · Northeast China Harbin runs two cities a year. LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs East China NanjingJiangsu · East China Six dynasties made this their capital, the Ming Emperor built the world's longest city wall around it, the Republic of China… HeritageMarketsImperial Palaces & Tombs East China QingdaoShandong · East China German-era villas step up the wooded hills above the harbour, the granite of Laoshan drops straight into the Yellow Sea an… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums East China HangzhouZhejiang · East China China's most poetic city, where mist-draped pagodas rise from a UNESCO lake, ancient tea plantations carpet the hillsides, and… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums East China XiamenFujian · East China Gulangyu is a car-free island of colonial mansions eight minutes offshore by ferry, and the university campus facing it is the… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums South China DongguanGuangdong · South China The city that transformed from the world's manufacturing capital into a Greater Bay Area innovation centre, where Songshan… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas East China FuzhouFujian · East China Where the most perfectly preserved Tang and Song Dynasty residential district in China survives in the heart of a modern… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums Southwest China LhasaTibet · Southwest China At 3,656 metres on the Tibetan plateau, the thin air changes the light itself, which is part of why the Potala Palace's white… LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs Central China ZhangjiajieHunan · Central China The landscape that convinced the world China's nature was unlike anything else on Earth, thousands of quartz sandstone pillars… LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks Northwest China DunhuangGansu · Northwest China Monks cut and painted caves into the cliff at Mogao for a thousand years, 492 of them still carry murals, roughly 45,000… HeritageLandscapesDeserts South China GuilinGuangxi · South China This is the view on the twenty-yuan note: the Li River bending between hundreds of rounded limestone towers. LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs East China HefeiAnhui · East China The capital of Anhui, where China's fifth-largest freshwater lake laps at the city's southern edge, the mansion of the Qing… LandscapesMarketsGrade I Museums North China TianjinNorth China China’s most European city, where nine foreign concessions left behind a skyline of Baroque cathedrals, Victorian mansions,… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall Northeast China DalianLiaoning · Northeast China Northeastern China’s most glamorous city, where the Yellow Sea meets the Bohai Gulf at a dramatic rocky peninsula, European… LandscapesAncient TownsGrade I Museums East China SuzhouJiangsu · East China Founded more than 2,500 years ago on the shores of Lake Tai, Suzhou packed nine UNESCO-listed gardens and a network of canals… Ancient TownsHeritageJiangnan Gardens Southwest China KunmingYunnan · Southwest China China's eternal Spring City, where the 1,900-metre elevation keeps temperatures mild year-round, where black-headed gulls… HeritageLandscapesKarst & Peaks East China ShaoxingZhejiang · East China Where Wang Xizhi wrote the most celebrated calligraphy in Chinese history beside a mountain stream, where Lu Xun grew up in… HeritageLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs East China WuxiJiangsu · East China Where China's third-largest freshwater lake frames a city of remarkable scenic beauty, the world's tallest bronze Buddha rises… HeritageAncient TownsJiangnan Gardens East China NingboZhejiang · East China Where Asia's oldest surviving private library has guarded its books for 500 years, a sacred Buddhist island rises from the… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums South China SanyaHainan · South China China's most fully realized tropical resort city, at the southern tip of Hainan, the same latitude as Hawaii and Cancún, with… LandscapesHeritageTheme Parks Northwest China UrumqiXinjiang · Northwest China Roughly 2,500 kilometres from the nearest coastline, Urumqi is the most landlocked major city on Earth, capital of a region… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums Northwest China JiuquanGansu · Northwest China The prefecture at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, where the Mogao Caves, the Han frontier passes and the Tang-era ruins… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall East China YangzhouJiangsu · East China Li Bai wrote a friend off down the river to Yangzhou in the third month, and Chinese schoolchildren still learn the line. HeritageLandscapesJiangnan Gardens South China ZhuhaiGuangdong · South China The Pearl River Delta city that built itself along its own shoreline, the Fisher Girl stands mid-way along a 28-kilometre… LandscapesHeritageSkyscrapers & Bridges Central China ChangshaHunan · Central China The Star City on the Xiang River, where a two-thousand-year-old Han Dynasty noblewoman survived in perfect preservation, the… HeritageMarketsGrade I Museums East China QuanzhouFujian · East China The city Marco Polo called the greatest port in the world, where mosques, Hindu temples, Manichaean shrines, and Buddhist… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums East China JinanShandong · East China The City of Springs, where 72 named natural artesian springs have surged from the earth for over 2,700 years, turning an… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall East China WenzhouZhejiang · East China Where dramatic volcanic peaks shelter thousand-year-old temples in sheer cliff faces, the Nanxi River winds through ancient… HeritageLandscapes Northwest China KashgarXinjiang · Northwest China Where the Silk Road's northern and southern routes converged, Kashgar's mud-brick Old City is the largest surviving old… LandscapesHeritageSilk Road Southwest China LeshanSichuan · Southwest China Where the world's largest stone Buddha sits above the confluence of three rivers, a 71-metre Tang Dynasty masterwork carved… HeritageLandscapes South China FoshanGuangdong · South China Foshan is where a lot of what the world calls Cantonese came from: a thousand-year temple, a five-hundred-year dragon kiln,… Ancient TownsHeritageGrade I Museums East China NanchangJiangxi · East China Where a Tang Dynasty tower has presided over the Gan River for fourteen centuries, where the shot that launched modern China… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums Northeast China ShenyangLiaoning · Northeast China The proud capital of Manchuria, where the Qing Dynasty was born in a palace that predates the Forbidden City, imperial tombs… Ancient TownsMarketsImperial Palaces & Tombs North China OrdosInner Mongolia · North China Where the mausoleum of the world’s greatest conqueror rises from the grassland, the Kubuqi Desert glows gold at sunset, and… Ancient TownsLandscapesDeserts Central China WuhanHubei · Central China The Han meets the Yangtze here, the Yellow Crane Tower stands above the junction, and the Hubei Provincial Museum holds a set… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums Southwest China LijiangYunnan · Southwest China Dayan old town sits below the snow with cobbled lanes and willow-lined canals running through it, and the thirteen peaks of… LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs East China HuangshanAnhui · East China The mountain that defined Chinese landscape painting, where granite peaks rise through a sea of clouds, ancient pines cling to… Ancient TownsHeritageGrade I Museums Central China ZhengzhouHenan · Central China The gateway to Henan and the heart of Chinese civilisation, where the Yellow River shaped five thousand years of history,… Ancient TownsHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs South China HaikouHainan · South China Hainan's capital, where Southeast Asian shophouse architecture, a dormant volcanic field, and the island's most important… HeritageMarketsGiant Pandas Central China LuoyangHenan · Central China Capital of thirteen dynasties, birthplace of Chinese Buddhism, and home to the peony, China's flower of national prosperity. LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs Southwest China DaliYunnan · Southwest China The Bai people's ancient capital between mountain and lake, where Erhai's crescent waters mirror the nineteen snow peaks of… HeritageLandscapesTulou & Folk Dwellings South China HuizhouGuangdong · South China Where Su Dongpo spent three years of exile composing poetry that made the West Lake famous, where the coast folds into the… LandscapesHeritage North China TaiyuanShanxi · North China Taiyuan is the Shanxi capital and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in China. Ancient TownsHeritageGrade I Museums South China ZhongshanGuangdong · South China The city named after Sun Yat-sen, born in Cuiheng Village in 1866, where roasted pigeon has been perfected over generations… LandscapesHeritage North China ShijiazhuangHebei · North China Shijiazhuang was a village until two railway lines crossed at it in the 1900s, and it became the provincial capital in 1968,… Ancient TownsHeritageGrade I Museums Northwest China LanzhouGansu · Northwest China The city where the Yellow River runs through the heart of the provincial capital, where the world's most celebrated noodle is… HeritageAncient TownsGrade I Museums East China YantaiShandong · East China Where the legendary Isle of Immortals has drawn pilgrims and emperors for two thousand years, where China's first modern… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums East China ChangzhouJiangsu · East China Where the tallest wooden Buddhist pagoda in China rises above a thousand-year-old temple complex, dinosaur fossils from the… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas Northwest China ZhangyeGansu · Northwest China The city that holds the most visually astonishing geological formation in China, 24 million years of mineral sediment carved… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall Northeast China ChangchunJilin · Northeast China The capital of Jilin Province and the last imperial capital of China, where the Puppet State Palace reveals the final chapter… Ancient TownsLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs Southwest China GuiyangGuizhou · Southwest China The Guizhou capital's own charm is a Ming pavilion on a river rock and a bowl of sour soup fish, but its real job is putting… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums South China NanningGuangxi · South China The Chinese provincial capital closest to Southeast Asia, greenest by measurable fact rather than slogan, and heartland of the… LandscapesAncient TownsGrade I Museums North China BaodingHebei · North China Baoding ran Zhili through most of the Qing, which put the senior provincial governor in the empire a day's ride from the… Ancient TownsHeritageGreat Wall Central China KaifengHenan · Central China The Northern Song Dynasty's imperial capital, once the largest and most cosmopolitan city on earth, immortalised in Zhang… HeritageMarketsImperial Palaces & Tombs Central China AnyangHenan · Central China Where Chinese writing was born, the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, whose oracle bone inscriptions scratched three thousand… HeritageLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs South China ShantouGuangdong · South China The capital of Chaoshan culture and one of China's great overseas Chinese homelands, where Gongfu tea is brewed with a ritual… MarketsHeritage South China BeihaiGuangxi · South China Silver Beach runs 24 kilometres of white quartz sand along the Beibu Gulf; Weizhou Island, 21 nautical miles out, is a… LandscapesMarkets East China XuzhouJiangsu · East China Where the Han Dynasty was born from the struggle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, where jade burial suits from 2,000-year-old… HeritageLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs South China LiuzhouGuangxi · South China China's snail noodle capital, where the Liu River curves through karst hills, Miao villages preserve stilt-house culture in… LandscapesMuseumsGiant Pandas East China JinhuaZhejiang · East China Where China's most celebrated cured ham has been made for over a thousand years, a limestone cave system shelters an… Ancient TownsLandscapesTheme Parks South China ChaozhouGuangdong · South China The cultural centre of the Chaoshan people, the Guangji Bridge has crossed the Han River for eight centuries, Gongfu tea is… HeritageLandscapesSkyscrapers & Bridges North China DatongShanxi · North China Where a Northern Wei emperor carved fifty thousand Buddhist figures into a sandstone cliff 1,600 years ago, and where a… HeritageMuseumsGreat Wall East China LinyiShandong · East China Where the mountains that sheltered China's greatest revolutionary base area rise above seas of morning cloud, where Wang Xizhi… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas East China ZhoushanZhejiang · East China China's only island-prefecture, 1,390 islands scattered across the East China Sea, where the sacred Buddhist island of Putuo… LandscapesMarkets East China TaizhouZhejiang · East China Where volcanic rock peaks of extraordinary drama shelter one of Buddhism's most important ancestral mountains, an intact Song… LandscapesAncient TownsGiant Pandas East China NantongJiangsu · East China China's first public museum opened here in 1905, built by a man who had come top of the imperial examinations and then gone… HeritageAncient TownsGrade I Museums Northwest China HotanXinjiang · Northwest China An oasis on the southern rim of the Taklamakan, where river-bed jade has been gathered for thousands of years and caravans… HeritageLandscapes Central China FenghuangHunan · Central China Fenghuang, Where Shen Congwen Was Born and Buried. Ancient TownsLandscapes South China JiangmenGuangdong · South China The homeland of the global Cantonese diaspora, where UNESCO-listed watchtowers rise from the rice paddies in a hybrid of… LandscapesHeritageTulou & Folk Dwellings East China JiaxingZhejiang · East China Where Wuzhen's ancient canal town glows gold in lantern light, where the Chinese Communist Party held its founding congress on… HeritageAncient Towns East China HuzhouZhejiang · East China Where Nanxun's ancient canal town preserves the most refined merchant architecture in Jiangnan, Moganshan's forested summit… LandscapesAncient TownsJiangnan Gardens East China ZhenjiangJiangsu · East China Where the White Snake legend was born on a flooding island monastery, where Zhuge Liang chose the strategic hills above the… HeritageLandscapesYangtze & Three Gorges East China GanzhouJiangxi · East China Where the world's greatest Hakka heritage, Song Dynasty city walls and pristine mountain wilderness converge, southern China's… LandscapesHeritage East China PutianFujian · East China The birthplace of Mazu, the Goddess of the Sea worshipped by over 300 million people across Asia, where the world's largest… LandscapesHeritage North China HohhotInner Mongolia · North China Gateway to the world’s greatest grassland, where the steppe stretches to the horizon under skies that have not changed since… Ancient TownsHeritageGrade I Museums North China HulunbuirInner Mongolia · North China Grass to the horizon, rivers that have not been built on, and a sky that is genuinely the largest thing most visitors have… Ancient TownsLandscapes Northwest China XianyangShaanxi · Northwest China The Qin dynasty's capital and the burial ground of Han and Tang emperors, across the Wei River from Xi'an and the place where… HeritageAncient TownsImperial Palaces & Tombs Northeast China DandongLiaoning · Northeast China A river-border city where the Yalu runs between China and North Korea, with a bombed bridge, a Korean War museum and the… Ancient TownsLandscapesGreat Wall North China BaotouInner Mongolia · North China An industrial city on the northern bend of the Yellow River, with steelworks, rare earth mines, Tibetan Buddhist monasteries… Ancient TownsHeritageGreat Wall Northwest China TurpanXinjiang · Northwest China A Silk Road oasis in a basin below sea level, where a thousand-year-old irrigation network of underground canals still feeds… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums East China ZhangzhouFujian · East China Where UNESCO-listed Hakka earthen fortresses rise from valleys of rapeseed gold, a 200-tonne boulder balances impossibly on a… HeritageAncient TownsTulou & Folk Dwellings South China YangjiangGuangdong · South China A Southern Song merchant ship lies in a tank of seawater on Hailing Island, still half-buried in the mud that kept it whole… LandscapesHeritage Central China ChangdeHunan · Central China A Dongting Lake city in northern Hunan, linked by tradition to the Peach Blossom Spring and home to one of the oldest walled… LandscapesHeritage East China JingdezhenJiangxi · East China For over a thousand years the porcelain capital of the world, where imperial kilns produced the blue-and-white vessels that… HeritageShoppingGrade I Museums South China ZhaoqingGuangdong · South China Where seven karst peaks rise from Star Lake in a landscape compared to Guilin since the Tang Dynasty, where Dinghu Mountain's… LandscapesHeritage Northeast China QiqiharHeilongjiang · Northeast China China’s Crane City, where the world’s most endangered crane breeds in vast reed wetlands, the Daur people maintain a horseback… HeritageParksGreat Wall East China ShangraoJiangxi · East China Wuyuan's villages sit in valleys of rape blossom in early spring, white walls and black tiles against yellow fields. Ancient TownsHeritageTulou & Folk Dwellings Northwest China JiayuguanGansu · Northwest China A walled fortress on the narrowest point of the Hexi Corridor, where the Ming Great Wall ends against the snow ridges of the… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall South China WuzhouGuangxi · South China The gateway city between Guangdong and Guangxi, where the West River carries two thousand years of trade past arcade shophouse… HeritageLandscapes Central China NanyangHenan · Central China Where Zhuge Liang farmed before history called him, where China's greatest physician wrote the treatises that still guide… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums East China LianyungangJiangsu · East China Huaguo Mountain is where the Monkey King comes out of the stone egg in the first chapter of Journey to the West, and the… LandscapesHeritage Northeast China YanbianJilin · Northeast China China’s Korean Autonomous Prefecture, where Changbai Mountain’s sacred volcanic crater lake straddles the border with North… Ancient TownsLandscapes Northeast China AnshanLiaoning · Northeast China A mountain of several hundred granite peaks with Taoist and Buddhist temples scattered through it, a jade-carving county to… Ancient TownsParksGiant Pandas East China WeihaiShandong · East China The Yellow Sea runs clear against granite here, ten thousand whooper swans winter on one lagoon at Rongcheng, and Liugong… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas East China WuhuAnhui · East China Anhui's most energetic Yangtze River city, where ancient iron painting masters hammer black iron into landscapes of… LandscapesMarketsTheme Parks Northwest China AltayXinjiang · Northwest China Where the Altai Mountains form China's border with Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Siberian taiga forest spills into Chinese… Landscapes5A Spots Northwest China XiningQinghai · Northwest China The last major city before the road climbs onto the Tibetan Plateau, where China's largest lake turns electric blue against… HeritageMuseumsGrade I Museums Northeast China PanjinLiaoning · Northeast China Home to the Red Beach, the world’s largest and most vivid crimson wetland, where Suaeda plants ignite in scarlet each autumn… LandscapesAncient Towns East China YanchengJiangsu · East China Home to the largest coastal wetland in Asia and a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, where the tidal flats of the Yellow Sea… LandscapesHeritage North China TangshanHebei · North China A city reborn from the earth, gateway to China’s most magnificent imperial tombs, wild Bohai coastline, and a ceramic… Ancient TownsHeritageGreat Wall Central China XuchangHenan · Central China Xuchang, Cao Cao's Capital and the World's Wig Factory. HeritageLandscapes North China ChengdeHebei · North China Where Qing emperors built a world in miniature, a mountain valley containing China’s largest imperial garden, eight… LandscapesHeritageGreat Wall Southwest China XishuangbannaYunnan · Southwest China China's tropical paradise at the bottom of Yunnan, where the Dai people's Buddhist temples make the border with Southeast Asia… HeritageLandscapes Southwest China NyingchiTibet · Southwest China Moist air from the Bay of Bengal pushes up the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge and turns this corner of Tibet green, conifer forest,… LandscapesHeritageTibet & Tibetan Buddhism Southwest China BaoshanYunnan · Southwest China Tengchong sits on live geology: boiling springs, walkable volcanic craters, and a village built with money earned in Burma and… HeritageLandscapes Southwest China YibinSichuan · Southwest China Where the Yangtze begins its ten-thousand-li journey to the sea, the First City of the Yangtze guards a bamboo sea of… LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks East China BengbuAnhui · East China Bengbu, a Railway Town on a Neolithic Riverbank. Ancient TownsLandscapes North China QinhuangdaoHebei · North China Where the Great Wall walks into the sea, a city of golden beaches, fresh-caught Bohai seafood, and one of the most dramatic… HeritageMarketsGreat Wall North China CangzhouHebei · North China Cangzhou, an Iron Lion Cast in 953. Ancient TownsHeritageGiant Pandas Southwest China AnshunGuizhou · Southwest China Huangguoshu is 101 metres wide and a walkway runs behind the falling water. LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks Southwest China ShigatseTibet · Southwest China Shigatse, Where the Road to Everest Passes Old Monasteries. LandscapesHeritageTibet & Tibetan Buddhism South China ZhanjiangGuangdong · South China China's southernmost mainland city, where a volcanic basalt coast meets the South China Sea, China's largest mangrove reserve… LandscapesHeritage North China HandanHebei · North China One of China’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, where Warring States earthen palaces still rise from the plain, the… Ancient TownsHeritageTheme Parks South China ShaoguanGuangdong · South China Where UNESCO-listed Danxia Mountain's crimson cliffs gave all red sandstone landscapes their Chinese name, where Nanhua Temple… LandscapesHeritage Northeast China FushunLiaoning · Northeast China Fushun, Where the Qing Dynasty Started Out. Ancient TownsHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs East China LongyanFujian · East China Where the Hakka people built the most extraordinary communal dwellings in Chinese history, circular earthen fortresses housing… Ancient TownsHeritageTulou & Folk Dwellings East China WeifangShandong · East China The kite capital of the world, where the sky fills with colour each April, where Cretaceous dinosaurs emerge from the earth in… LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums Southwest China LuzhouSichuan · Southwest China Southern Sichuan's most characterful city, built around a 450-year-old baijiu fermentation tradition and the confluence where… LandscapesHeritage Northeast China HeiheHeilongjiang · Northeast China China's northernmost river city, facing Russia across the Heilong River, where aurora borealis dances above the frozen border,… HeritageLandscapes Southwest China Shangri-LaYunnan · Southwest China Shangri-La, Where the Yunnan Plateau Turns Tibetan. LandscapesHeritage Central China YichangHubei · Central China Gateway to the Three Gorges, where the Yangtze River cuts its most dramatic passage through the mountains of central China,… LandscapesHeritageYangtze & Three Gorges Northwest China YinchuanNingxia · Northwest China A city on irrigated ground between a desert range and the Yellow River, capital of an empire the Mongols erased so thoroughly… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall East China JiningShandong · East China The birthplace of Confucius and Mencius, where the philosophy that shaped two thousand years of Chinese civilisation and… HeritageLandscapesGrade I Museums Central China HengyangHunan · Central China The gateway to the Southern Sacred Mountain, where Nanyue Hengshan's forested peaks shelter Buddhist and Taoist temples side… LandscapesHeritage East China ZiboShandong · East China Where the ancient Qi State forged Chinese civilisation over five centuries, Pu Songling wrote the ghost stories that defined… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall North China ZhangjiakouHebei · North China Zhangjiakou, Where Molten Iron Is Thrown at a Wall. Ancient TownsLandscapesGreat Wall Central China XiangyangHubei · Central China China's premier fortress city, where the Han River bends around walls that have held for two thousand years, where Zhuge Liang… LandscapesHeritage South China QingyuanGuangdong · South China Qingyuan, Yao Ridge Villages an Hour from Guangzhou. LandscapesHeritage Central China ShiyanHubei · Central China Gateway to China's greatest Taoist mountain, where Wudang's 72 peaks rise from the mist above the Han River basin, and the… LandscapesHeritage East China LishuiZhejiang · East China Zhejiang's last great wilderness, where primeval forest covers mountain ranges untouched since the last ice age, ancient… Ancient TownsLandscapesTulou & Folk Dwellings East China JiujiangJiangxi · East China Where the Yangtze River meets China's largest freshwater lake, ancient poet exiles wrote their greatest works, and the… LandscapesHeritageYangtze & Three Gorges Northwest China Yan'anShaanxi · Northwest China Yan'an, Where Cave Dwellings Line the Loess Valleys. HeritageLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs Northeast China BenxiLiaoning · Northeast China Liaoning’s hidden treasure, where Asia’s longest underground river cave glitters in perpetual darkness, ancient maple forests… LandscapesParksImperial Palaces & Tombs East China QuzhouZhejiang · East China Where three rock pillars rise like ancient guardians above the Jiangshan plain, underground caverns of mysterious origin… LandscapesAncient Towns South China YulinGuangxi · South China A trading city in southeastern Guangxi where most of what is good happens at a stall rather than a site, beef brisket noodles… LandscapesHeritage Northeast China DaqingHeilongjiang · Northeast China Daqing, an Oil City Standing in Wetland. LandscapesAncient Towns Southwest China Pu'erYunnan · Southwest China The city that gave its name to China's most collected tea, post-fermented, meant to change after you buy it, with a price… LandscapesHeritage South China ShanweiGuangdong · South China Shanwei, an Hour from Shenzhen and Facing the Open Sea. LandscapesHeritage Northeast China JiamusiHeilongjiang · Northeast China Jiamusi, Where China Sees the Sun Opening. LandscapesAncient Towns North China AlxaInner Mongolia · North China Home to the world’s most mysterious desert, where 144 lakes lie between sand dunes that rise about 460 meters, singing as the… Ancient TownsLandscapesDeserts South China MaomingGuangdong · South China Western Guangdong's coastal gem, Fangji Island's coral in water clear enough to see from the beach, China's longest natural… LandscapesHeritage Northwest China AksuXinjiang · Northwest China Aksu, Where Buddhism Entered China Through Kucha. LandscapesHeritageGreat Wall Northeast China MudanjiangHeilongjiang · Northeast China Lava dammed the Mudanjiang river here and the water backed up behind it into a lake. LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs Central China ShaoyangHunan · Central China Shaoyang, Danxia Peaks and the Book That Moved Japan. HeritageLandscapes Central China EnshiHubei · Central China Western Hubei's crown jewel, where karst stone pillars pierce the cloud sea above canyons of breathtaking depth, and Asia's… LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks North China LangfangHebei · North China Langfang, the Gap Between Beijing and Tianjin. Ancient TownsHeritage Central China XinxiangHenan · Central China Gateway to the South Taihang Mountains, where vertical limestone canyon walls plunge hundreds of metres to emerald streams… HeritageLandscapesGiant Pandas Southwest China YuxiYunnan · Southwest China An hour from Kunming, holding two things of genuine international significance, China's deepest lake and a… HeritageLandscapes East China AnqingAnhui · East China Where granite peaks of extraordinary drama rise above the Yangtze plain, the melodies of Huangmei opera have filled the river… LandscapesHeritage Central China JingzhouHubei · Central China The ancient Chu capital on the middle Yangtze, where the most complete city walls in central China have enclosed this… LandscapesHeritageTheme Parks Central China XinyangHenan · Central China Xinyang is the part of Henan that is not northern. LandscapesHeritage Northeast China JinzhouLiaoning · Northeast China Jinzhou, Where a Liao Hall Still Holds Seven Buddhas. Ancient TownsHeritage Southwest China ZigongSichuan · Southwest China The salt city and the lantern city, and the two are connected. HeritageAncient TownsGrade I Museums East China Ji'anJiangxi · East China Where the mountains that sheltered the birth of modern China rise above seas of dawn cloud, Song Dynasty potters invented… Ancient TownsLandscapes Northwest China HanzhongShaanxi · Northwest China Hanzhong, the Place the Word Han Comes From. HeritageLandscapesSilk Road North China ChifengInner Mongolia · North China Where the jade dragon that awakened Chinese civilization was found, volcanic crater lakes reflect birch forests, and the… Ancient TownsLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs East China BozhouAnhui · East China Bozhou, Where China Buys Its Medicine. Ancient TownsHeritage Northeast China YingkouLiaoning · Northeast China Yingkou, the Port Old Maps Call Newchwang. LandscapesAncient Towns East China NingdeFujian · East China Where Taimu Mountain's granite monoliths rise from a sea of clouds above the East China Sea coast, where the world's largest… LandscapesAncient Towns East China FuyangAnhui · East China On the broad Huai River plain where ancient Yingzhou culture flourished, where Huai River wetlands shelter migratory birds by… HeritageLandscapes Northwest China BaojiShaanxi · Northwest China Baoji, Where the Word China Was Initial Written. LandscapesHeritageGrade I Museums North China TongliaoInner Mongolia · North China Tongliao, Horqin Grassland and the Sand It Became. Ancient TownsLandscapes North China LinfenShanxi · North China The legendary cradle of Chinese civilization, where Emperor Yao founded his capital 4,000 years ago, the Yellow River erupts… Ancient TownsHeritage Southwest China DiqingYunnan · Southwest China Where the Tibetan plateau's southern edge meets Yunnan, the Three Parallel Rivers cut through the Hengduan Mountains, and a… LandscapesHeritageTibet & Tibetan Buddhism Northeast China Jilin CityJilin · Northeast China Jilin City, Where a Dam Grows Frost on Willows. Ancient TownsLandscapes Southwest China NgariTibet · Southwest China Ngari, Where Four Religions Circle the Same Mountain. LandscapesHeritageTibet & Tibetan Buddhism Central China ChenzhouHunan · Central China Chenzhou, Where Cold Water Makes a River Smoke. LandscapesHeritage Northwest China KaramayXinjiang · Northwest China Karamay, a City Named After Black Oil. Landscapes5A SpotsDeserts Central China YueyangHunan · Central China Where the Yueyang Tower has watched over Dongting Lake for fourteen centuries, where a prose poem inscribed its view into… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas South China MeizhouGuangdong · South China The World Hakka Capital, where distinctive fortress houses rise from the rice paddy valleys, where salt-baked chicken and… Ancient TownsLandscapes North China JinchengShanxi · North China Where a Qing Dynasty chancellor built the most magnificent private fortress in China, ancient coal mines drove the world’s… Ancient TownsHeritage South China WenchangHainan · South China The Hainan city whose name is synonymous with the country's most famous poultry dish, and whose coast now launches China's… LandscapesHeritage East China Tai'anShandong · East China Gateway to Mount Tai, China's most revered of the Five Sacred Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where emperors offered… LandscapesHeritageTerracotta Army Southwest China TongrenGuizhou · Southwest China The gateway to one of China's most extraordinary sacred mountains, where Fanjing Mountain's twin rock summits pierce the cloud… HeritageLandscapes Central China ZhuzhouHunan · Central China Zhuzhou, an Ancestor's Tomb and a Locomotive Works. LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs East China NanpingFujian · East China Where UNESCO-listed red sandstone peaks rise above the most celebrated tea-growing landscape in China, bamboo rafts glide… HeritageAncient Towns Northwest China BayingolinXinjiang · Northwest China Bayingolin, Where One Prefecture Is Larger Than Sweden. LandscapesHeritage Southwest China MeishanSichuan · Southwest China Meishan, the Town That Produced Su Dongpo. HeritageLandscapes Northwest China QingyangGansu · Northwest China Qingyang, Where the Loess Lies Deep in the World. HeritageLandscapes Northwest China YushuQinghai · Northwest China Yushu, Where Three Great Rivers Begin. LandscapesHeritageTibet & Tibetan Buddhism North China ChangzhiShanxi · North China Perched on the ancient Shangdang plateau at the heart of the Taihang Mountains, a city of Song and Jin Dynasty temples, wild… Ancient TownsHeritage North China UlanqabInner Mongolia · North China Ulanqab, Volcanoes Two Hours from Beijing. Ancient TownsLandscapesGiant Pandas Northeast China YichunHeilongjiang · Northeast China Yichun, a Logging City That Stopped Logging. LandscapesAncient Towns South China HechiGuangxi · South China Northwestern Guangxi's most culturally extraordinary prefecture, the White Trouser Yao's unbroken bronze drum tradition,… LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks Southwest China ZunyiGuizhou · Southwest China Where Chinese history pivoted in January 1935, where UNESCO Danxia red cliffs meet bamboo seas at Chishui, and where Maotai,… LandscapesHeritage Central China ShennongjiaHubei · Central China Central China's last great wilderness, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where primeval forest has survived unbroken for millions… LandscapesParks Northwest China PingliangGansu · Northwest China Pingliang, Where an Early Text Puts the Yellow Emperor. Heritage5A Spots Central China YongzhouHunan · Central China Yongzhou, Where Women Wrote in Their Own Script. HeritageLandscapes North China YunchengShanxi · North China Yuncheng, Where Guan Yu Was Born and Yuan Painters Worked. Ancient TownsLandscapes Central China XiangxiHunan · Central China Xiangxi, Where Stilt Houses Lean Over the Tuo River. LandscapesAncient Towns Central China HuaihuaHunan · Central China Where China's most complete ancient commercial city preserves the merchant world of the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the… LandscapesHeritage South China JieyangGuangdong · South China Jieyang, Where the Yingge Dancers Come From. LandscapesHeritage Southwest China Ya'anSichuan · Southwest China Gateway to giant panda conservation, home to the world's oldest documented tea garden, and the place where a glacier descends… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas East China ChizhouAnhui · East China Home to Jiuhua Mountain, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains, where 99 granite peaks shelter ancient temples and the… LandscapesHeritage Central China PingdingshanHenan · Central China Ru ware was fired here. LandscapesHeritage Central China HuanggangHubei · Central China Su Shi was exiled to Huangzhou, now Huanggang, in 1080. LandscapesHeritage East China LiaochengShandong · East China Liaocheng, a Ming Square City Inside a Lake. Ancient TownsHeritage Southwest China GuangyuanSichuan · Southwest China Where the cliffs of Jianmen Pass have guarded the gateway into Sichuan for two thousand years, and China's only female emperor… HeritageLandscapes East China PingxiangJiangxi · East China Where soaring alpine meadows float above the clouds, ancient Chan Buddhist monasteries cling to misty granite peaks, and the… HeritageLandscapes Northeast China LiaoyangLiaoning · Northeast China Liaoyang, Continuously Lived In for 2,300 Years. Ancient TownsLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs Central China ShangqiuHenan · Central China One of China's oldest continuously inhabited cities, the capital of the Shang Dynasty's ancestral state, birthplace of Chinese… HeritageLandscapes East China TonglingAnhui · East China Tongling, Copper for Three Thousand Years. Ancient TownsLandscapes East China HuainanAnhui · East China Huainan, Where Tofu Is Said to Have Started. Ancient TownsLandscapes Northwest China LongnanGansu · Northwest China Longnan, Where Gansu Turns Green and Grows Olives. LandscapesHeritage East China ChuzhouAnhui · East China Where Ouyang Xiu wrote the most celebrated pavilion essay in Chinese literature, the forested ridges of Langya Mountain… HeritageLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs Southwest China ChamdoTibet · Southwest China Chamdo, Where Salt Pans Terrace the Upper Mekong. HeritageLandscapes South China HezhouGuangxi · South China Huangyao kept its stone streets, its old banyans and its river while comparable towns across Guangxi were rebuilt; Gupushan… LandscapesAncient Towns Southwest China QujingYunnan · Southwest China Eastern Yunnan's most visually spectacular destination, 13,000 hectares of golden rapeseed bloom set against karst cone hills,… LandscapesHeritage Northwest China AnkangShaanxi · Northwest China Ankang, Upstream of Beijing's Drinking Water. LandscapesHeritage Northeast China JixiHeilongjiang · Northeast China On the edge of China’s largest freshwater lake, at the border with Russia, where the Sanjiang wetlands shelter the rarest… HeritageLandscapes Northwest China TianshuiGansu · Northwest China Tianshui, Where Clay Buddhas Cling to a Cliff Face. HeritageAncient TownsSilk Road Southwest China NanchongSichuan · Southwest China Northern Sichuan's silk capital, where Langzhong's Tang and Song street grid forms one of China's four best-preserved ancient… HeritageLandscapes South China ChongzuoGuangxi · South China Guangxi's great border prefecture, where Asia's largest transnational waterfall thunders across the China-Vietnam boundary and… HeritageLandscapesKarst & Peaks Northwest China WuweiGansu · Northwest China Wuwei, Where a Bronze Horse Runs on a Swallow. HeritageLandscapes Central China XiangtanHunan · Central China Xiangtan, Shaoshan's Home County. HeritageAncient Towns Southwest China ZiyangSichuan · Southwest China Ziyang, Where a Hundred Thousand Carvings Sit in Farmland. HeritageLandscapes North China XilingolInner Mongolia · North China Xilingol, Where Xanadu Actually Is. Ancient TownsHeritage Southwest China AbaSichuan · Southwest China Jiuzhaigou's lakes run from clear through turquoise to deep blue and change with the hour. HeritageLandscapesGiant Pandas Northeast China BaichengJilin · Northeast China Where China’s most important crane sanctuary spreads across a vast wetland mosaic, Mongolian grassland meets the Songnen… Ancient TownsLandscapes South China BaiseGuangxi · South China Leye County holds the largest cluster of karst sinkholes in the world; Jingxi, on the Vietnam border, has the Tongling canyon… LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks Northeast China BaishanJilin · Northeast China Baishan, the Quiet Side of Changbai Mountain. Ancient TownsLandscapes North China BayannurInner Mongolia · North China Bayannur, a Plain the Yellow River Waters by Hand. Ancient TownsLandscapes Southwest China BazhongSichuan · Southwest China Northeastern Sichuan's most rewarding autumn destination, a deciduous forest that rivals New England's, Tang Dynasty Buddhist… LandscapesAncient Towns Southwest China BijieGuizhou · Southwest China Northwestern Guizhou's most geologically and botanically spectacular prefecture, a rhododendron forest visible from aircraft,… LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks South China DanzhouHainan · South China On the volcanic coast of western Hainan, salt workers have flooded the same hand-carved basalt pans at Yangpu for over a… LandscapesHeritage Southwest China DaochengSichuan · Southwest China Daocheng, Where Three Sacred Peaks Ring a Glacial Valley. Landscapes Northeast China Daxing'anlingHeilongjiang · Northeast China China’s last true wilderness, six million hectares of primeval taiga where the northern lights dance above birch forests in… Ancient TownsHeritage Southwest China DazhouSichuan · Southwest China The part of Sichuan people drive through on the way to somewhere else, until you taste the beef sliced thin enough to read a… LandscapesHeritage East China DongyingShandong · East China Where China's second-longest river completes its 5,464-kilometre journey to the sea, building new land as it goes, turning the… HeritageParks Southwest China DujiangyanSichuan · Southwest China Dujiangyan, Where a River Was Split Without a Dam. LandscapesHeritage Southwest China DuyunGuizhou · Southwest China Southern Guizhou's most graceful highland city, terraced tea gardens, the world's largest radio telescope, and China's only… Landscapes Southwest China EmeishanSichuan · Southwest China Emeishan, Where a Pilgrim Path Climbs Above the Clouds. HeritageLandscapes South China FangchenggangGuangxi · South China China's most distinctive border city, where the Jing people maintain the country's only marine ethnic minority culture, the… LandscapesParks East China Fuzhou (Jiangxi)Jiangxi · East China The cradle of Chinese literary genius, birthplace of the playwright Tang Xianzu, the statesman Wang Anshi, and a tradition of… LandscapesHeritage Southwest China GanziSichuan · Southwest China A Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the size of the United Kingdom on the eastern edge of the plateau, three sacred peaks, a… LandscapesHeritage Southwest China Guang'anSichuan · Southwest China Deng Xiaoping was born here in 1904. HeritageLandscapes South China GuigangGuangxi · South China Eastern Guangxi's most historically layered city, a thousand-year Buddhist mountain temple, the village that sparked the… LandscapesHeritage Northwest China HaixiQinghai · Northwest China Haixi, Where Salt Lakes Mirror an Empty Sky. LandscapesHeritage North China HengshuiHebei · North China North China’s hidden wetland gem, where vast reed marshes shelter rare migratory cranes, craftsmen paint entire landscapes… Ancient TownsHeritage South China HeyuanGuangdong · South China Where South China's largest reservoir gleams emerald green, protected for sixty years because it supplies drinking water… LandscapesHeritage North China HingganInner Mongolia · North China Where volcanic craters hold turquoise lakes, the Greater Khingan taiga forest blazes gold in autumn, ancient hot springs rise… Ancient TownsLandscapes Southwest China HongheYunnan · Southwest China Where the Hani have cut rice terraces into the Ailao slopes for thirteen centuries, Jianshui kept its Ming street plan and its… LandscapesHeritage East China Huai'anJiangsu · East China The birthplace of Premier Zhou Enlai, the hometown of Wu Cheng'en who wrote Journey to the West, and the city where the Grand… HeritageLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs Central China HuangshiHubei · Central China Huangshi, Three Thousand Years of Digging the Same Hills. LandscapesHeritage Northeast China HuludaoLiaoning · Northeast China Huludao, a Ming Fortress People Still Live In. Ancient TownsHeritageGreat Wall Northwest China IliXinjiang · Northwest China Ili, Where the Wild Ancestor of Apples Grows. LandscapesHeritage Southwest China JianshuiYunnan · Southwest China Jianshui, Where Old Wells Still Supply the Lanes. HeritageAncient Towns Central China JiaozuoHenan · Central China Where the Taihang Mountains meet the Central Plains in their most dramatic form, Yuntai Mountain's crimson gorges and… HeritageLandscapes Central China JingmenHubei · Central China At the heart of ancient Chu culture, where the world's most important pre-Qin philosophical manuscripts were unearthed from a… LandscapesHeritageImperial Palaces & Tombs North China JinzhongShanxi · North China Home to China’s best-preserved ancient walled city, the grandest merchant mansions ever built, and a vinegar tradition so old… HeritageAncient TownsTulou & Folk Dwellings South China LaibinGuangxi · South China Central Guangxi's most culturally layered prefecture, a thousand-year Yao mountain forest, a river carved red through karst… HeritageLandscapes Northeast China LiaoyuanJilin · Northeast China Liaoyuan, Socks by the Billion and an Imperial Deer Park. Ancient TownsLandscapes Southwest China LiboGuizhou · Southwest China A World Natural Heritage site in southern Guizhou, where an old seven-arch stone bridge crosses water so turquoise most people… Ancient TownsLandscapes Southwest China LincangYunnan · Southwest China Southwest Yunnan's most layered destination, ancient tea trees rooted for a thousand years, cliff paintings recording three… HeritageLandscapes South China LingshuiHainan · South China A Li Autonomous County on Hainan's eastern coast that rewards visitors who look past the resort strip, protected reef diving,… LandscapesAncient Towns Northwest China LinxiaGansu · Northwest China Linxia, Where Minarets Rise Above the Yellow River. HeritageLandscapesSilk Road Southwest China LiupanshuiGuizhou · Southwest China China's self-proclaimed "Cool City", a highland escape from summer heat, one of the country's deepest river canyons, and… LandscapesHeritage East China Lu'anAnhui · East China Where the Dabie Mountains rise in dramatic granite ridges above ancient revolutionary bases, the most elegant green tea in… LandscapesHeritage North China LüliangShanxi · North China Lüliang, Cave Villages Above the Yellow River. Ancient TownsHeritage East China Ma'anshanAnhui · East China The city of Li Bai's final years, where China's greatest poet drank wine at the Yangtze River's edge, where the Battle of Red… LandscapesHeritageYangtze & Three Gorges Southwest China MangshiYunnan · Southwest China China's most tropical border prefecture, golden Theravada pagodas, a border crossing into Myanmar an hour away, and a Dai New… HeritageParks Southwest China MianyangSichuan · Southwest China The birthplace of Li Bai, China's most beloved poet, and the site of some of the country's most sensitive scientific research,… LandscapesHeritageGiant Pandas Northeast China MoheHeilongjiang · Northeast China Mohe, Where China Ends and the Nights Turn White. HeritageAncient Towns North China PingyaoShanxi · North China Pingyao, Where a County Seat Kept Its Whole Wall. Ancient TownsHeritage Southwest China QiandongnanGuizhou · Southwest China Qiandongnan, Where Miao and Dong Villages Still Sing. LandscapesAncient TownsKarst & Peaks Southwest China QiannanGuizhou · Southwest China Qiannan, Where the World's Large Radio Dish Listens. LandscapesHeritageKarst & Peaks South China QinzhouGuangxi · South China Where a resident group of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins works the shallows of Sanniang Bay all year, where Nixing potters… LandscapesHeritage East China RizhaoShandong · East China Rizhao, Green Tea Grown Farther North Than It Should Be. Ancient TownsLandscapes Southwest China RongjiangGuizhou · Southwest China A Dong county in southeastern Guizhou where drum towers have stood over stilt-house villages for six centuries, and a village… Ancient TownsLandscapes East China SanmingFujian · East China Where UNESCO-listed red sandstone cliffs rise 400 metres from emerald lake gorges, a Song Dynasty monastery balances… Ancient TownsLandscapes North China ShuozhouShanxi · North China Shuozhou, Where a Wooden Pagoda Has Stood Since 1056. Ancient TownsHeritageGreat Wall Northeast China SipingJilin · Northeast China Siping, the Clan the Qing Empresses Came From. Ancient TownsLandscapes Northeast China SongyuanJilin · Northeast China A lake that is fished under two feet of ice with horses and a two-kilometre net, a black-soil plain that grows a large share… Ancient TownsLandscapes Central China SuizhouHubei · Central China Suizhou, Where the Bells Came Out of the Ground. LandscapesHeritage East China SuqianJiangsu · East China The birthplace of Xiang Yu, the most tragic hero of Chinese history, the general who defeated the Qin but lost the empire to… HeritageLandscapes Southwest China TengchongYunnan · Southwest China Tengchong, Where Volcanoes Meet the Old Burma Road. Ancient TownsLandscapes Northeast China TonghuaJilin · Northeast China Where the ruins of a kingdom that shaped Korean and Chinese history lie scattered across mountain forests, the southern slopes… Ancient TownsLandscapesImperial Palaces & Tombs South China WanningHainan · South China Eastern Hainan's surf capital and culinary heartland, home to Riyue Bay's world-class waves, the Hele mud crab, Xinglong's… LandscapesParks Northwest China WeinanShaanxi · Northwest China Weinan, Where Mount Hua Rises Above the Tang Tombs. HeritageAncient TownsImperial Palaces & Tombs Southwest China WenshanYunnan · Southwest China Southeast Yunnan's quietly spectacular border prefecture, a karst lake carpeted in summer lotus, a village accessible only by… LandscapesHeritage East China WuyishanFujian · East China Wuyishan, Where the World's Initial Black Tea Was Made. Ancient TownsHeritage East China WuyuanJiangxi · East China Wuyuan, Where Rapeseed Yellow Floods the Huizhou Villages. Ancient TownsLandscapes Central China XianningHubei · Central China China's osmanthus capital and South Hubei's great escape, where the Three Kingdoms' most decisive naval battle was fought on… LandscapesHeritage North China XingtaiHebei · North China Xingtai, White Porcelain and a Calendar Ahead of Its Time. Ancient TownsHeritage East China XinyuJiangxi · East China Xinyu, Where China's Great Technology Book Was Written. Ancient TownsLandscapes North China XinzhouShanxi · North China Home to Wutai Mountain, one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a plateau… HeritageLandscapesGreat Wall East China XuanchengAnhui · East China The birthplace of Xuan paper, the most celebrated paper in Chinese cultural history, without which classical calligraphy and… HeritageLandscapesTulou & Folk Dwellings North China YangquanShanxi · North China Yangquan, a Coal Town Where the Three-Body Problem Was Written. Ancient TownsHeritageGreat Wall South China YangshuoGuangxi · South China Yangshuo, Where Karst Peaks Rise Straight From the Fields. Ancient TownsHeritage East China Yichun (Jiangxi)Jiangxi · East China Where granite peaks float above seas of cloud, mineral hot springs warm the mountain mist, ancient Chan monasteries guard… HeritageAncient Towns East China YingtanJiangxi · East China Where UNESCO-listed red sandstone cliffs rise from jade-green river water, the celestial masters of Taoism held court for two… HeritageLandscapes East China YiwuZhejiang · East China Yiwu, Where Seventy Thousand Booths Supply the World. Ancient TownsMarkets East China ZaozhuangShandong · East China Where China's most complete Grand Canal ancient town glows with lantern light above stone arch bridges, where a 1938 battle… HeritageLandscapes Southwest China ZhaotongYunnan · Southwest China Northeastern Yunnan's great undiscovered destination, no karst, no rice terraces, no Tibetan culture, and still impossible to… LandscapesHeritage Northwest China ZhongweiNingxia · Northwest China A desert edge that was engineered rather than admired. HeritageLandscapesDeserts Central China ZhoukouHenan · Central China Where Chinese civilisation begins, the birthplace of Fuxi, creator of the Eight Trigrams, and Laozi, author of the Tao Te Ching. HeritageLandscapes Central China ZhumadianHenan · Central China Southern Henan's great natural secret, where mist-covered lakes mirror forested hills, bizarre granite peaks rise from… LandscapesHeritage