About these China travel guides
China Travel Guides is the English-language site attraveldiscoveryhub.com. It is a set of city pages — attractions, a three-day shape, food, and the catches — not a booking engine and not a reprint of a paper guidebook.
Who it is for
English-speaking travelers planning a first or second trip inside China, who already know they are going to a named city and need a source-checked outline: what is actually there, how the days fit, what to confirm before buying a ticket. It is not written for domestic Chinese weekenders, and it is not a hostel blog.
How a city page is made
Facts that can be dated — founding years, heritage listings, climate figures, the size of a hall — are checked against public encyclopedia entries, usually the Chinese Wikipedia page for the city and each sight, sometimes the English page when the Chinese extract is a stub or a disambiguation. Where the same page disagrees with itself (an infobox number versus the body), the guide says so instead of picking a winner. Each city page ends with a Sources list naming those entries.
After the facts are checked, a human editorial pass shapes the page: which day-splits matter in that city, what to drop when time is short, and which tradeoffs (Mutianyu vs Badaling, Bund vs Pearl, river day vs cave day) belong near the top. The shared skeleton — when to come, getting in, places, food, route, confirm, FAQ, sources — is a checklist, not a license to clone the same paragraphs across cities. Planning sections are rewritten per city so the advice is local, not template filler.
City-guide photographs are from Wikimedia Commons, used under each file's CC license, with the author in the caption. Attraction write-ups prefer photos from the Ctrip sight page; Commons is only the fallback when a whole article has no usable image. Captions say what is in the frame and where the file came from. We do not scrape Google or Baidu image search, and we do not invent trip photos.
Ticket prices, opening hours, and reservation rules change. The pages tell you the sight is paid or free and that the official notice wins. They do not invent a yuan figure that will be wrong next season.
What we do not claim
These are not first-person trip diaries. We do not invent "I walked here at sunrise" stories, fake hotel stays, or anonymous eyewitness color. The voice is researched and editorial: public sources plus human judgment about structure, pacing, and tradeoffs. If a detail is unverified, it stays out, or it is marked as a disagreement in the sources list.
How updates work
City pages carry a lastModified date in the page metadata. When transport hubs, museum hall layouts, or heritage listings change in the public record, we revise the affected section and bump that date. Seasonal crowd and weather notes are refreshed when a city is re-edited, not on a fixed calendar. Ticket amounts still defer to official notices rather than a frozen yuan number in the article. A Sources list that still points at the same encyclopedia entries may keep its retrieval note until those facts are re-checked.
How to use the site
If you have not picked cities yet, start with thetwo-week itinerary— Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai — then open each city guide for the days you keep. Long attraction pages live underAttractions. If you already have a city, the city indexis grouped by region. Province and region pages are orientation, not extra articles.
Coverage
The site adds cities that English-language travelers actually search for, and the neighbors that make a rail loop, rather than walking a complete list of prefectures. Beijing and Shanghai are in because they are the usual landing and leaving points. A missing prefecture is usually a choice, not an oversight.