China has built the world's longest high-speed rail network and is continuing to expand it rapidly.
During my recent visit to Hongcun village, a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site in Huangshan city in East China's Anhui province, there were barely any vacant rooms in the family inn run by Wu Qing.
For Lin Shaobin, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, or XRL, that started operation last September is pushing him to visit Hong Kong, a shopping paradise, more frequently.
Since the Harbin-Mudanjiang high-speed rail line began operating in December 2018, it has carried over 2 million passengers.
After Chen Hongjun stops and parks his bike by the roadside, he takes out his mobile phone and snaps pictures of the natural scenery along Qinglyu Road, which translates as lovers' greenway in Chinese, in the southern metropolis of Zhuhai.
One of the best ways to explore Dali, in southwestern Yunnan province, is cycling.
A road along Chishui River in Chishui, Southwest China's Guizhou province, has become a tourism hot spot.
Yangshuo county, located in Guilin, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is mostly featured in ink paintings thanks to its karst mountains, winding rivers and beautiful scenery.
Lunang, a town in Nyingchi, Tibet autonomous region, which once depended on lumbering has transformed into a hot ecotourism scenic spot where tourists, who are suffocated by the crowds and chaos of cities, can enjoy its pastoral beauty and experience its traditional culture.
My altitude sickness mysteriously disappeared when I arrived in the city of Nyingchi, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, after a six-hour road journey from Lhasa, the region's capital.
The potential for market growth and ongoing government support are putting a rosy complexion on the Chinese cruise market, as bookings with surge ahead of the May Day holiday.
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