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Jingzhou

PreeChina · City Guide Jingzhou The ancient Chu capital on the middle Yangtze — where the most complete city walls […]

Zhengzhou

PreeChina · City Guide Zhengzhou The gateway to Henan and the heart of Chinese civilisation — where the Yellow River

Kaifeng

PreeChina · City Guide Kaifeng The Northern Song Dynasty’s imperial capital — once the largest and most cosmopolitan city on

Anyang

PreeChina · City Guide Anyang Where Chinese writing was born — the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, whose oracle

Luoyang

PreeChina · City Guide Luoyang Capital of thirteen dynasties, birthplace of Chinese Buddhism, and home to the peony — China’s

Tai’an

PreeChina · City Guide Tai’an Gateway to Mount Tai — China’s most revered of the Five Sacred Mountains, a UNESCO

Jining

PreeChina · City Guide Jining The birthplace of Confucius and Mencius, where the philosophy that shaped two thousand years of

Nanjing

PreeChina · City Guide Nanjing Six dynasties made this their capital, the Ming Emperor built the world’s longest city wall

Changchun

PreeChina · City Guide Changchun The capital of Jilin Province and the last imperial capital of China — where the

Tonghua

PreeChina · City Guide Tonghua Where the ruins of a kingdom that shaped Korean and Chinese history lie scattered across

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