China City Guide
| Beijing | Chengdu | Chongqing | Guangzhou | Guilin | Hangzhou | Hong Kong | Kunming | Lhasa | Nanjing | Sanya | Shanghai | Urumqi | Xi'an|
Beijing City Guide
Beijing, a city in northern China, is the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was formerly known in English as Peking or Peiking. Beijing is also one of the four municipalities of the PRC, which are equivalent to provinces in China's administrative structure. Beijing Municipality borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality to the southeast…
Chengdu City Guide
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province, China's second most populous with over 90 million people. There are 15 ethnic groups in Sichuan and it is common to see Tibetans, Uigurs, Miao, and Yao. Although Chengdu's population is only about two million, it is all a question of where one draws the city lines, and to get a sense of the city a better figure is its population density, which is nine times greater than New York's…
Chongqing City Guide
Chongqing Municipality, 334km (208 miles) SE of Chengdu, 1,346km (836 miles) S of Xi'an, 1,000km (620 miles) upstream of Three Gorges Dam If other major cities in China are undergoing face-lifts, Chongqing is having radical reconstructive surgery: In 1997, it became the fourth city to achieve the status of municipality (after Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai). With summers so hot it's been dubbed…
Guangzhou City Guide
Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in southern mainland China. The city was formerly known internationally as Canton City or simply Canton, after a French language transliteration of the name of the province in Cantonese. It is a port on the Pearl River, navigable to the South China Sea. As of the 2000 census, the city has a population of 6 million, and a metropolitan population…
Guilin City Guide
Guilin,capital of Guangxi Province,one of the most-visited Chinese cities,the scenery of Guilin has been called the finest under heaven.Guilin located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guilin City is South China's shining pearl , with verdant mountains , elegant waters , magnificent crags and fantastic caverns. It has a total area of 2,000 sq.km. and a population of 680.000.Though there are a few hills in the city…
Hangzhou City Guide
Hangzhou is one of the important tourism cities in China, famous for its natural beauty and historical and cultural heritages. Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province. It is the political, economic and cultural center of the province as well. It is one of the 15 vice-provincial level cities in China.Hangzhou is located on the low reaches of Qiantang river in southeast China, with a distance of 180 kilometers to Shanghai…
Hong Kong City Guide
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. It is commonly known as Hong Kong, which is often written Hongkong in older English-language texts. The Hong Kong Government officially changed the name of Hongkong to Hong Kong on 3 September 1926. Hong Kong is on the eastern side…
Kunming City Guide
Kunming, the "Spring City",which is situated in central Yunnan and north of the Dianchi Basin, is skirted on three sides by mountains, with one side opening onto the Dianchi Lake. The city is nicknamed City of Spring due to the fact that it is covered all the year round with the rich verdure of trees and plants. Endowed with a pleasant climate, Kunming is world-famous for its abundance of camellias, orchids, azaleas and Primula malacoides…
Lhasa City Guide
Lhasa is the religious and political heart of the Tibetan world, Lhasa sits on the north bank of the Kyi Chu, surrounded by colossal mountain ranges to the north and south. The first hint that you are entering the traditional capital of Tibet is the red and white palaces of the Potala, home to Tibet's spiritual and temporal leaders, the Dalai Lamas, since the 17th century. Most Western visitors, however…
Nanjing City Guide
Nanjing, lacated at the eastern part of China, is the first nation's capital in the early years of the Míng dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), then the capital of the Republic of China from 1911 to 1937, and now capital of Jiangsu Province which is developed in economy in China and an important central city on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtse River. the bustling city of 6 million is left off many China itineraries…
Sanya City Guide
It has beaches and modern hotels and is being touted as a "Chinese Hawaii". You meet European tourists there and see a lot of Russians .Sanya is a popular escape from Russian winters. There are also many Chinese tourists. During the Chinese New Year in February it is quite busy and expensive. Fireworks are heard around the clock during that time. There are four main areas in Sanya. Sanya Bay, Sanya city, Dadonghai, and Yalong Bay…
Shanghai City Guide
Shanghai , also named "Hu" or "Shen" in short, is situated at 31"14' north latitude and 121"29' east longitude, and in the middle of China's east coastline. It occupies a total area of 6,341sq.km. (of which Pudong new Area occupies 523sq.km.), with a total resident population of 16,000,000. It has a pleasant climate, with four distinct seasons. The average temperature is around 18oC and the annual precipitation is 1,240mm…
Urumqi City Guide
No city in the world is more distant from the sea than Urumqi, which lies 2249km (1,397 miles) away from the nearest ocean. The city's name means "beautiful pastures" in Mongolian, but urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonormous Region, is a modern industrial metropolis with a population of 1.5 million, and all its beautiful meadows lie well outside the city limits. Urumqi is the most Chinese of the Silk Read cities…
Xi'an City Guide
Xi'an is a museum city dotted with the historic relics of past dynasties, from the restored city walls to the majesty of the Terracotta Warriors. Xi'an will delight travelers today, as it did centuries ago as the starting point of the famed Silk Road.Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, has over 3,000 years of recorded history, with human habitation present here as early as the Neolithic times, as discovered…