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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forests cover 59.34 percent of its land, which helps explain why Xuancheng is often described in terms of mountains, water, ...

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 ...