One-day itineraries to discover the best of every city, airport by airport.
Capital of the Guangxi Autonomous Region, Nanning remains the starting point for the famous karst landscapes and terraced rice paddies of southern...
The ideological birthplace of Maoism and capital of Hunan, Changsha combines a thousand-year academic past with one of central China's most...
The only major Chinese city directly traversed by the Yellow River, Lanzhou was for centuries a mandatory crossroads of the Silk Road.The center...
Chengdu claims a slower pace of life compared to China's coastal metropolises, summed up in a local saying that invites people to 'enjoy tea'...
One of the oldest and busiest ports in China, Ningbo houses the oldest surviving private library still in existence in East Asia.The center,...
Capital of Shanxi with over twenty-five hundred years of history, Taiyuan remains the starting point to reach the ancient walled city of...
A gateway to Western trade for over a thousand years, Guangzhou preserves beneath the skyscrapers of the Pearl River Delta neighborhoods that tell...
Prefectural capital among karst mountains, Guiyang is the gateway to Huangguoshu Waterfall, among the largest in Asia.Tourist buses connect the...
Capital of the Qing Dynasty before the conquest of Beijing, Shenyang holds the only other Chinese imperial palace besides the Forbidden City.The...
A fishing village forty years ago, today one of the most vertical metropolises on the planet: Shenzhen has grown so rapidly that it has almost...
A former Russian and then Japanese concession, Dalian remains one of the greenest and most elegant coastal cities of northern China.The center,...
Capital of six Chinese dynasties and the Republic of China before 1949, Nanjing preserves beneath its identity as a university city one of the...
Known for centuries as the 'city of springs' for its seventy-two natural water fountains, Jinan remains a historic cultural center of Shandong.The...
A German concession until 1914, Qingdao preserves red-brick villas and Bavarian-style churches along its bay, as well as the beer recipe the...
Built on a steep peninsula at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, Chongqing literally climbs on top of itself: stairs, cable cars,...
The city farthest from any ocean in the world according to official geography, Ürümqi has been a hub of exchange between Turkic, Chinese, and...
A former port divided into foreign concessions at the turn of the 20th century, Tianjin preserves quarters in European style alongside a modern...
Built in the late nineteenth century as a base for the Russian railway in Manchuria, Harbin still preserves Russian Orthodox onion domes...
Isolated by mountains for centuries, Wenzhou developed a unique dialect and entrepreneurial spirit, becoming the cradle of many Chinese emigrants...
At over 3,600 meters elevation, Lhasa houses the Potala Palace, the former winter residence of the Dalai Lamas, a UNESCO site among the highest...
Birthplace of the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1927, Nanchang also houses one of the Three Great Towers of southern China, celebrated by poets...
