Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into beds and parking overnight at service stations, scenic car parks and even hotel grounds, ...

A typhoon made landfall near Shantou at nine o’clock at night on 2 August 1922, with its lowest recorded pressure at 932 hectopascals and winds reaching around 100 miles an hour; the storm surge that ...

Jiangmen’s government banned pet dogs from public places across its three urban districts in August 2011, after rabies had killed 42 people in the preceding three years; officials set aside a 13 acre ...

A Sino-British salvage team searching for a completely different, Dutch East India Company wreck stumbled instead in 1987 upon a Song dynasty merchant ship that had lain buried beneath the seabed off ...

China’s best-known early human, Peking Man, vanished in December 1941 while his fossils from Zhoukoudian, now part of Beijing, were being shipped abroad for safekeeping on the eve of the Pacific War; ...

Shop signs, road signs and official seals across Yanbian, in China’s north-east, must carry both Korean and Chinese, and local rules say that when the two are set side by side the Korean comes first, ...

Ningbo overtook Dongguan as China’s fourth-largest exporting city in 2024, shipping ¥945.5 billion of goods abroad against Dongguan’s ¥889.7 billion, ending a run of more than a decade during which ...

Two railway stations stood about two kilometres apart from 1907, one run by Russia and one by Japan, because the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth had divided control of the railway between the two empires at ...

Shenzhen takes its name from the water channels that once crossed the area’s farmland; in the local Hakka and Cantonese dialects, the character zhen refers to a ditch or drain cut through the fields.

Guangdong officials in 2011 created a special cooperation zone from four towns in Shanwei’s Haifeng county. Shenzhen subsequently planned to relocate some 4,000 lower-end industrial projects there as ...

Siping was a village called Sipingjie until 1902. That year the railway between Changchun and the port of Dalian was completed. A station opened, traders arrived and within a generation the village ...

Craftsmen cast Cangzhou’s great iron lion in 953, during the Later Zhou dynasty, covering its hollow belly with text from the Diamond Sutra. Why they made it remains uncertain; one enduring local ...