Chinese New Year in China falls on Saturday, February 6, 2027, the first day of the Year of the Goat, and the celebrations run until the Lantern Festival on February 20. It...

West Lake Hangzhou is free to enter. The city removed the park walls in 2002, so the shore, the causeways and the lakeside parks are open to walk, while a handful of...

The Summer Palace in Beijing costs CNY 30 to enter from April to October and CNY 20 from November to March, and the gates open at 6:00 in peak season. Most visitors...

Yu Garden Shanghai costs ¥40 for adults in the peak months and ¥30 the rest of the year, and it opens 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, closed on Mondays. Go on a...

Family trips to China work better than most parents expect, provided the itinerary is built around a few strong days rather than a checklist of famous sites. What goes wrong is rarely...

If you're picking dates for a first trip, the best time to visit China is spring or autumn, when most of the country is warm and dry. The harder question is which...

The fastest Shanghai to Beijing train is a high-speed G service that covers the 1,318 km in about four and a half hours; overnight sleeper trains do the same route in 12...

Forbidden City tickets have to be reserved in advance — turning up at the gate and paying on the spot isn't an option. A standard adult ticket costs 60 RMB in peak...

You can spend ten days in China without a visa. No application, no fee, no embassy appointment. Most travelers we talk to don't believe this at first. They remember the old China...

Shanghai sits in the middle of the richest day-trip territory in China. Within an hour of the city you can be walking a 500-year-old garden, drinking tea beside the lake that Chinese...

Search for a map of the Great Wall and you get a red line stretching 21,196 kilometers across northern China. That number is real, but it is also useless for planning a...

Most lists of things to do in Shanghai hand you thirty attractions and wish you luck. That is not how anyone actually travels. A person on a 24-hour layover, a family with...