Chizhou
PreeChina · City Guide Chizhou Home to Jiuhua Mountain — one of China’s four sacred Buddhist mountains, where 99 granite […]
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Xuancheng
PreeChina · City Guide Xuancheng The birthplace of Xuan paper — the most celebrated paper in Chinese cultural history, without
Fuyang
PreeChina · City Guide Fuyang On the broad Huai River plain where ancient Yingzhou culture flourished, where Huai River wetlands
Hefei
PreeChina · City Guide Hefei The capital of Anhui — where China’s fifth-largest freshwater lake laps at the city’s southern
Lu’an
PreeChina · City Guide Lu’an Where the Dabie Mountains rise in dramatic granite ridges above ancient revolutionary bases, the most
Chuzhou
PreeChina · City Guide Chuzhou Where Ouyang Xiu wrote the most celebrated pavilion essay in Chinese literature, the forested ridges
Heihe
PreeChina · City Guide Heihe China’s northernmost river city — facing Russia across the Heilong River, where aurora borealis dances
Harbin
PreeChina · City Guide Harbin The Ice City — where the world’s most spectacular ice and snow festival transforms a
Yichun
PreeChina · City Guide Yichun China’s Forest City — where granite peaks rise from an ocean of birch and spruce,
Khingan
PreeChina · City Guide Daxing’anling China’s last true wilderness — six million hectares of primeval taiga where the northern lights