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Liaoyang (辽阳) makes a bold claim that happens to be true: it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in China, with a recorded history running past 2,300 years….

Fuxin (阜新) is not on anyone’s highlight reel, and that is precisely the interesting part. It is a former coal capital of Liaoning that ran out of easy coal, closed…

Chaoyang (朝阳) is the kind of Chinese city that surprises people who bothered to look. In the northeast of Liaoning, it sits where the Yan Mountains tail off into the…

Golmud (格尔木) is the town most foreign travelers pass through without meaning to. It is the last real city before the Qinghai–Tibet railway climbs onto the roof of the world,…

Most foreign travelers who make it to Qinghai stop at Qinghai Lake and call it a trip. We’ve sent clients far past that line, and the ones who went all…

Xinyu (新余) is the kind of Chinese city that rarely appears on foreign itineraries, which is precisely why it works as a relaxed stop. A mid-sized industrial city in central…

Here is the first thing every client needs to hear: this Suzhou (Anhui) travel guide is not about the canal city near Shanghai. That famous Suzhou is in Jiangsu. The…

Most foreign travelers have never heard of Lu’an (六安), and that is exactly why we send clients there. Tucked into the western foothills of the Dabie Mountains in Anhui province,…