Far off the Zhejiang coast, Zhoushan feels less like a single city than a working archipelago. Sea, shipping and salt air shape everything here; from the fishing docks to the temples on Putuo Mountain, the islands are still doing...
Taizhou is one of Zhejiang’s most practical cities, but it is also one of its most varied. It has long coastlines, island chains, deep mountain valleys and a private economy that has helped shape its place in the province’s...
High in the mountains of southwestern Zhejiang, Lishui does not try to look flat or easy. Here, forested slopes, river headwaters and scattered settlements mean distance has shaped habit and habit has shaped character; less polished perhaps, but more...
Set beside one of China’s great freshwater lakes, yet increasingly known for chips, cars and quantum dreams, Hefei is the sort of city that has spent just enough time being underestimated to turn reinvention into a civic habit there...
Crossing the Yangtze into Wuhu, many would not at first suspect they are entering one of Anhui’s most quietly consequential cities; a place where rice, river trade, old foreign links and modern industry have learned, rather neatly, to live...
Silvery by nickname and stubborn by history, Bengbu still carries the feel of a city pulled into being by water, pearls and railways; yet beneath that old industrial skin, the so-called Pearl City is busy teaching itself newer tricks.
以“珠城”为名的蚌埠，骨子里却并不柔弱。这座城市像是被河水、珍珠和铁路一路拉扯着长大的；而在那层旧工业气质之下，它如今也正悄悄学会一些更新的本事。
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Smoke-blackened in memory yet brighter in ambition, Huainan in Anhui Province is the sort of city that catches people leaning on old assumptions; file it away as coal country and it answers with tofu, tombs, philosophy and the stubborn...
Steel-hearted at first glance yet softer on second look, Ma’anshan in Anhui Province is a city that lives in two registers at once; one forged by blast furnaces and river docks, the other by poems, legends and Nanjing breathing...
