For many western patients, a flight to China for medical work, dental treatment or an eye procedure costs less than at home.

Hangzhou is one of the few Chinese cities with three World Heritage properties. The Grand Canal runs through the city as part ...

Smoke-blackened in memory yet brighter in ambition, Huainan in Anhui Province is the sort of city that catches people leaning ...

Jiuhuashan is the reason many people know Chizhou at all. It is one of China’s four famous Buddhist mountains and one of the ...

The map explains a lot. Ningbo lies in north-eastern Zhejiang, facing Zhoushan across the sea and separated from Shanghai by ...

West Anhui’s Lu’an sits where the Dabie Mountains begin to soften into hills and plains. It is a large city with a practical ...

Suzhou sits in northern Anhui with a very practical kind of confidence. It is close to the border with Jiangsu, linked to the ...

Steel-hearted at first glance yet softer on second look, Ma’anshan in Anhui Province is a city that lives in two registers at ...

June’s 618 shopping season is back in its favourite role as China’s annual retail loudhailer. The number attached to it may still flirt with ¥1 trillion, but the real story is less about the headline ...

Memory walked through Paris on Saturday as a small but determined crowd crossed the city in tribute to the victims of the ...

Wenzhou is one of Zhejiang’s best-known cities, but it is not famous by accident. It has long been a place of family firms, ...

According to Chinese-language government and heritage material, Bozhou’s strongest identity is medicine. The city is widely ...