Xuancheng
PreeChina · City Guide Xuancheng The birthplace of Xuan paper — the most celebrated paper in Chinese cultural history, without […]
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Huangshan
PreeChina · City Guide Huangshan The mountain that defined Chinese landscape painting — where granite peaks rise through a sea
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
Mudanjiang
PreeChina · City Guide Mudanjiang Where a volcanic eruption 10,000 years ago created the most beautiful lake in northeastern China,
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
Jixi
PreeChina · City Guide Jixi On the edge of China’s largest freshwater lake, at the border with Russia, where the
Yanbian
PreeChina · City Guide Yanbian China’s Korean Autonomous Prefecture — where Changbai Mountain’s sacred volcanic crater lake straddles the border
Tonghua
PreeChina · City Guide Tonghua Where the ruins of a kingdom that shaped Korean and Chinese history lie scattered across