Snow and ice give way to azaleas in Arxan, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, as spring arrives.
The breathtaking scenery of rapeseed flowers in Hanzhong has seldom failed to pack in travelers from far and wide over the years.
Spring usually arrives early in the south of the country. This seems especially true for Liuzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
April is the best time for people to appreciate peony, widely acclaimed as the noblest of Chinese flowers. With a long history of cultivation, Heze, East China's Shandong province, is the country's major peony base with more than 1,200 varieties available.
Imagine you are walking on some parts of a 330-hectare apricot orchard at the base of a hill, with the fragrance of ripened fruit in the air. Such an experience would be available in two months or so if you pay a visit to Huaibei city in East China's Anhui province.
As one of China's top ten famous tea varieties, biluochun is renowned for its five outstanding characteristics: Its unique shape, fruity fragrance, floral aroma, white feathery appearance and early picking season.
Around Wuyi Mountain in south China's Fujian province, April marks the beginning of tea picking season, a period that lasts more than a month and a time when visitors from all over the country come seeking what they consider to be the best tea.
Huangshan maofeng is one of the most pricey and sought-after green tea varieties in China. Despite its name, which literally means fuzz tip from Yellow Mountain, a mountain range with an area of 160 square kilometers in east China's Anhui province, it remains a controversy which part of the mountain, characterized by its oddly-shaped peaks, pines and clouds, boasts the best produced example of the tea.
If being newly crowned as one of the 28 must-visit destinations for the year of 2019 isn't enough to visit Fanjing Mountain in Southwest China's Guizhou province, there is one more attraction that might lure visitors - its green tea named cuifeng, meaning emerald-colored pinnacles in Chinese.
Our family recently went to holy hell in Beijing - and it was a heck of a good time.
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
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