Tiananmen and the Forbidden City · Jingshan Park and Beihai · Temple of Heaven · Summer Palace

The Bund · Yu Garden and the Old Town · Shanghai Museum · Former French Concession

City Wall by Bike · Big Wild Goose Pagoda · Shaanxi History Museum · Bell and Drum Towers

Mogao Caves · Singing Sand Dunes and Crescent Lake · Dunhuang Museum · Western Thousand Buddha Caves

The Forbidden City, seat of 24 Ming and Qing emperors, and the Qing palace in Shenyang.

The Qing imperial garden of Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill, a masterpiece of Chinese landscape design.

The Ming emperors' altar to Heaven, its round blue-roofed hall set in gardens and ancient pines.

The world's largest military structure, joined up under Qin Shi Huang and rebuilt by the Ming.

A harbourfront hotel that opened as the Regent in 1980 and returned to that name in 2023, with Lai Ching Heen, Nobu Hong Kong and a 7,000 sq ft Presidential Suite with a rooftop pool.

A rebuilt former Seagull Hotel on the North Bund, where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, with about 135 rooms, most facing the river and the Lujiazui skyline.

Fills the top of the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon, with guest rooms on levels 106 to 117 and a pool on level 118 that Guinness records as the highest in a building.

A beach resort on Hainan's south-west coast in Longmu Bay, with a private beach, a full-service spa and gardens laid out around fountains and water.