China is a populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000 km of coastline. Capital Beijing mixes modern architecture with historic sites such as the Forbidden City palace complex and Tiananmen Square. Shanghai is a skyscraper-studded global financial center. The iconic Great Wall of China runs east-west across the country’s north.

China is one of the cradles of civilization, with its known history beginning with an ancient civilization – one of the world’s earliest – that flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain.

Most visiting places in China:

• Tibet
• Yunnan
• Guilin
• Chengdu
• Xi’an
• Beijing
• Hongkong
• Huangshan
• Suzhou
• Zhangjiajie
• Hangzhou
• Shanghai

Top attractions in China:

1. The Great Wall of China
2. The Terracotta Army in Xi’an
3. The Forbidden City in Beijing
4. The Li River in Guilin — Watery Wonder
5. The Yellow Mountains — a Top National Park
6. Giant Pandas — Their “Hometown” is Chengdu
7. The Potala Palace in Lhasa — Symbol of Tibet
8. The Bund, Shanghai — International Architecture
9. Victoria Harbor — Here is Hong Kong!
10. West Lake in Hangzhou — Paradise on Earth