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Shenzhen has gained popularity with international tourists, logging a high number of visa-free entries in 2025. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Shenzhen

Foreigners flock to China’s Shenzhen as visa-free entries surge 160%

Visa-free policies have helped the southern tech hub become a popular destination for overseas tourists, particularly from elsewhere in Asia.

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Asia travel

Why Shunde in southern China is heaven for Cantonese food lovers

Asia travel

4 rail journeys in modern-day China; a true 21st-century experience

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: A mother-son art duo and Philippines’ surfing capital

Explore a mother and son’s shared passion, the rise of Siargao’s surf scene, Hong Kong’s historical shops and unusual China train routes.

Rosamond and Ben Brown, at Ben’s house in London, on the cover of this week’s print issue. Photo: Jack Orton
Asia travel

Cigarette factory puts a Chinese city on the map for tourists

Yuxi has a growing tourist industry centred on its tobacco and cigarette production, showing how hard it is for China to curb smoking.

US-China trade war

The duty-free island trying to lure Chinese shoppers amid the trade war

Hainan, a tropical island in southern China, has special customs policies allowing shops to maintain low prices even amid sky-high tariffs.

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Tourism

What Labour Day tourism, spending say about China’s economic activity

The five-day holiday saw a sharp rise in tourism, and consumers took advantage of a trade-in programme, as China leans more heavily on its domestic market.

Passengers wait for trains at the Tianjin West Railway Station on Monday, the last day of the five-day Labour Day holiday period. China’s railway system transported more than 100 million passengers over the holiday. Photo: Xinhua
China airliners

Joy Air’s joyless pilots forced to deliver food as Chinese airline faces crisis

Aviators have taken up work in the gig economy to make ends meet, as regional firm plunges into debt amid intense competition.

Accidents and disasters in China

10 dead, 70 in hospital after 4 boats capsize in southwest China

More than 80 people fall overboard as tourist boats overturn on a river in Guizhou province.

China's economic recovery

‘It’s devastating’: Chinese graduates in UK face bleak outlook amid job crunch

Some young Chinese struggling even to secure restaurant work due to Britain’s tough labour market and tightening visa rules.

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Chinese graduates are struggling to find work in the United Kingdom, where youth unemployment remains stubbornly high and the government is tightening visa rules. Photo: SCMP
Being Chinese

Being Chinese | Once a Chinese frog in a well, I’m now living my travel dreams

When China opened up and millions went abroad, it influenced everything from fashion and cuisine to values and perspectives.

A Chinese tourist throws wheat while dressed up as a bride for a traditional Serbian wedding experience in Gostoljublje, a village near the Serbian town of Kosjeric, in 2019. The year before the pandemic hit, Chinese tourists topped the world in outbound spending. Photo: AFP
Tourism

How one man’s globetrotting tour was waylaid in Hong Kong

Thor Pedersen thought his quest to visit the world’s 203 countries consecutively without flying would take four years. He was wrong.

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China consumption

China’s Labour Day travel boom bodes well for spending, but box office fizzles

Visa-free entries and generous tax refunds for inbound travellers are helping to shore up tourism at a time when the economy needs a jolt.

US-China trade war

Chinese flight bookings to US in summer decline amid tariff war

Cancellations of flights from China to the US in June have been outnumbering new bookings, according to China Trading Desk CEO.

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Passenger numbers on China-US flights have been declining. Photo: AFP
Tourism

Russian tourists lift China’s beach resorts as visits surge

Sanya, long a favourite of Russian tourists, saw visits soar elevenfold last year as China’s visa-free policies begin to pay off.

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The number of Russian nationals visiting the southern Chinese resort city of Sanya has soared over the past year. Photo: Xinhua
Asia travel

Shanghai’s riverside promenade The Bund offers perfect stopover stroll

An extended stopover on the way to your destination can be an exciting experience in itself, and China’s most European city is no exception.

Asia travel

Hiking in Guangdong geopark, with its panoramas and phallic rock

Dramatic cliffs, panoramas and suggestive rock formations are the reward for hikers in Danxia Shan, an easy weekend getaway from Hong Kong.

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Asia travel

China’s salt capital was built on the white gold, as was its cuisine

The spiciest city in spicy Sichuan, Zigong was once home to an empire of salt and has a history of high- and low-end cuisine, starting with ‘Toilet Rabbit’.

A salt drilling field near Zigong, Sichuan, photographed by Arnold Heim in 1929. Photo: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Image Archive
Chinese tourists

Chinese tourists plan stops to smell the cherry blossoms on holiday weekend

Ching Ming Festival trip bookings were up this year compared to last, travel platforms said, with particular interest in ‘flower tourism’.

Profile

The influencer from China who speaks exactly like Donald Trump

Chen Rui, a Chinese marketer who went viral for his spot on Trump impressions, teaches English through his social media.

China consumption

‘Vast untapped market’: how China’s elderly are transforming global tourism

Over-65s make up a fast-growing segment of China’s vast outbound travel market – and they tend to be big spenders.

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Retirees make up a fast-growing segment of China’s vast outbound tourism market. Photo: EPA/STR
Trending in China

Young Chinese man embarks on 3,300-km Lhasa trek, emerges looking like 50-year-old

Hiker endures blizzards, wild wolves, accidents which left him hobbling in epic journey over mountain ranges during which he hardly bathed.

A young man who hiked 3,300 kilometres across China has emerged looking much, much older. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong, Macau residents can apply for temporary mainland travel permits via app

Anyone who loses their standard travel permit on the mainland but needs to catch a train or plane will no longer have to visit public security authorities.

Hong Kong tourism

Hong Kong Jockey Club partners with China Travel Service to boost racing tourism

Partnership aims to promote the city as the ‘events capital of Asia’ and highlight equestrian sport in the Greater Bay Area.

Tourism

Shanghai’s new plan to lure foreign tourists: mega-events and Peppa Pig

The Chinese city has outlined a three-year strategy to boost inbound tourism that aims to move beyond its historic landmarks.

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Tourists pose for photos on the Bund in Shanghai. The city has outlined a three-year plan to attract more inbound tourism. Photo: Xinhua
China society

Video | Senior skydiver takes the plunge

Elderly skydiver in China breaks record in Hubei
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Asia travel

5 of the best things to see in Jiangmen, in China’s Greater Bay Area

Jiangmen, under two hours from Hong Kong, has historical sites, natural scenery and streets you will have seen on film.

Asia travel

Wine tours through China’s answer to Napa Valley

The harsh plains of Ningxia may seem an unlikely home for award-winning wine, but visitors can now explore the region’s vineyards to see how it’s made.

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