Where to go?

Depends on trip length. Seven days = 2 cities max (Beijing + Shanghai is the classic, or Beijing + Xi'an for history-heavy). Ten days = 3 cities + one UNESCO day trip. Fourteen days = 4 cities or 3 cities + Yangtze cruise. Three weeks = all 5 cities + cruise, or 4 cities + Yunnan, Tibet or Karst Guangxi (Guilin + Yangshuo). The city-hub pages each suggest a 2-3-5 day itinerary for that specific city; the Yunnan regional hub uses a 5/7/10-day toggle because Yunnan itself is a multi-base region rather than a single city.

Yes, and here's the editorial bias: the founder lives in Chongqing, so the coverage runs deepest there. Objectively, Chongqing offers an entirely different aesthetic (8D cyberpunk megacity, Yangtze cruise launch point, distinct numbing-spicy hot pot style) and connects to Chengdu via 1.5-hour HSR. The two-city pairing is one of the best in southwest China.

Yes — the /cities/xian/ hub shipped 2026-05-22. It is a 6-tab landing page (things to do, getting in and out, getting around, where to stay, what to eat, practical essentials) sitting above 10 Xi'an guides: the 5 attraction articles (Terracotta Army, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, City Wall bike ride, Hua Shan day trip, Muslim Quarter food) plus the 2026-05-22 cohort — where-to-stay, Xianyang Airport, Xi'an North Station, the metro guide and a food guide. It is the fifth city hub, after Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Chongqing.

Yes — /cities/guangzhou/ is the sixth city hub. It is a 6-tab landing page for Guangzhou (the city the West called Canton): things to do (Canton Tower, Shamian Island, the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, the Pearl River night cruise), getting in and out (Baiyun Airport, Guangzhou South HSR, Hong Kong and Shenzhen by rail), getting around, where to stay, what to eat (Guangzhou is the home of Cantonese food and dim sum) and practical essentials, above the full Guangzhou guide cohort.

Yes — /cities/hangzhou/ is the seventh city hub. It is a 6-tab landing page for Hangzhou, the lake-and-garden capital of Zhejiang: things to do (West Lake, Lingyin Temple, the Xixi wetland, the Qinghefang old street, the Longjing tea villages), getting in and out (Xiaoshan Airport, Hangzhou East HSR, Shanghai in 45-60 minutes by train), getting around, where to stay, what to eat (Hangzhou cuisine and Longjing tea) and practical essentials. It ships with a full cohort — where-to-stay, the West Lake and Lingyin Temple guides, and the airport, station, metro, things-to-do and food guides.

Yes — /cities/suzhou/ is the eighth and newest city hub. It is a 6-tab landing page for Suzhou, the canal-and-garden city of the Yangtze delta: things to do (the UNESCO Classical Gardens of Suzhou, Tiger Hill, the I.M. Pei-designed Suzhou Museum, the Pingjiang Road and Shantang Street canals, Hanshan Temple, the water-town day trips), getting in and out (Suzhou's railway stations — Suzhou has no airport of its own — and Shanghai 23 minutes away by train), getting around, where to stay, what to eat (Suzhou cuisine and Biluochun tea) and practical essentials. It ships with a full cohort — where-to-stay, the classical gardens and Suzhou Museum guides, and the station, metro, things-to-do and food guides. Suzhou completes the Jiangnan day-trip triangle with Shanghai and Hangzhou.

Yes — /cities/zhangjiajie/ is the ninth hub. Zhangjiajie is the outlier: not a city but the 'Avatar mountains' of Hunan, a major nature draw in the dataset. The 6-tab landing page covers things to do (the National Forest Park and Wulingyuan, Tianmen Mountain, the Grand Canyon glass bridge, Yellow Dragon Cave, Baofeng Lake and the Bailong Elevator), getting in and out (Hehua Airport, Zhangjiajie West HSR station, and arriving via Changsha), getting around a park with no metro (the multi-day park ticket, the shuttle network and the cable cars), where to stay (Wulingyuan town vs the city vs inside the park), what to eat (Tujia and Hunan cooking) and practical essentials. It ships with a full cohort — where-to-stay, the Tianmen Mountain and glass-bridge guides, a things-to-do listicle, the airport and station guides, a park-transport guide and a food guide — above the existing Zhangjiajie National Forest Park article.

Yes — /cities/guilin/ is the tenth hub and the first paired-destination hub: one landing page covers BOTH Guilin and Yangshuo because the data proves they are one trip (`guilin yangshuo` 1.6K US / 12.9K global / KD 28 / 423 variations, plus shared KWL airport and the Li River running from one to the other). The 6-tab page covers things to do (the Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo — the marquee, the ¥20-note landscape — plus Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill, Moon Hill, the Yulong River bamboo raft, Xingping ancient town, Xianggong Mountain at sunrise, Impression Liu Sanjie and the Longji rice terraces), getting in and out (Guilin Liangjiang Airport KWL — the airport for both bases — and one combined railway guide covering Guilin North on the Guiyang-Guangzhou HSR line, the central Guilin Station and Yangshuo Station), getting around the no-metro Karst landscape (inter-city HSR + bus, river boats, the Yulong bamboo raft, the famous Yangshuo e-bike country and DiDi), where to stay (Yangshuo West Street, the Yulong River countryside, Guilin city centre, Xingping), what to eat (Guilin rice noodles, Yangshuo beer fish, Zhuang minority cooking, Liuzhou snail noodles) and practical essentials. It ships with a full cohort — the Li River cruise marquee, Reed Flute Cave, the Longji rice terraces, the combined things-to-do, where-to-stay, airport, station, getting-around and food guides.

Yes — /cities/yunnan/ is the twelfth and newest hub, and the site's FIRST REGIONAL hub: one landing page covers FOUR bases (Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La) because the data proves they are one trip. The `yunnan` regional seed (14.8K US / 127.2K global / KD 45) is larger than any individual city sub-seed, and the Kunming-Dali-Lijiang high-speed railway (opened in two phases, 2018 to Dali and 2023 to Lijiang) physically connects three of the four bases. The 6-tab page covers three marquees (Lijiang Old Town UNESCO 1997, Tiger Leaping Gorge — one of the world's deepest gorges, and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain at 5,596 m — the cohort's highest-CPC affiliate target), two UNESCO supporting deep-dives (Stone Forest UNESCO 2007 as the Kunming day trip and the Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces UNESCO 2013 as the photographer's marquee in the deep south), Dali Old Town and Erhai Lake on the central loop, Songzanlin Monastery and Pudacuo National Park on the Tibetan-edge Shangri-La side, plus the regional `getting-to-yunnan` (Kunming Changshui as a 240-hour transit port, Lijiang Sanyi and Diqing Shangri-La airports, the Kunming-Dali-Lijiang HSR), `getting-around-yunnan` (the inter-city HSR spine, the Lijiang-Shangri-La road, the Yuanyang access from Kunming and Jianshui, the Kunming metro and the all-important altitude reality), a 4-base where-to-stay, a Yunnan-cuisine food guide anchored on Crossing-the-Bridge Noodles and the wild-mushroom hot pot and Pu'er tea, and an Emergency Essentials section that surfaces Kunming's unique Southeast-Asian consular cluster (seven SE-Asian consulates) and the consular-routing reality for Western nationals (no Western consulate anywhere in Yunnan — route via Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou). 5/7/10-day itinerary toggle because Yunnan is a multi-base region, not a single city.

City hubs (/cities/[name]/) are tab-organized landing pages with attractions, transport, food, and where-to-stay sections — designed for someone deciding whether/how to visit that destination. Individual guide articles (/guides/[slug]/) are deep-dives on a specific topic (one attraction, one comparison, one day trip). Hubs link to guides; guides cross-link to hubs.