Shaoxing looks like a place of canals, wine jars and old scholars; in practice it is also a hard-working commercial city that ...

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

It has long been a place of family firms, overseas links, hard-edged manufacturing and a coastline that has pushed the city ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Set beside one of China’s great freshwater lakes, yet increasingly known for chips, cars and quantum dreams, Hefei is the ...

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