China, province by province

We have field-verified destinations in 27 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions — 191 places in total, covering 326 attractions that require an advance real-name reservation. Each province page lists its cities, what needs booking there and which sights accept a foreign passport, with the verification date attached.

A province appears here only when we have verified at least two destinations in it, so this is an index of what we actually checked rather than a map of China. 30 of our 221 destination guides sit outside it: 4 belong to municipalities rather than provinces, and 26 carry no province we have resolved from a source we trust — mostly mountains, scenic areas and canal towns (Hengshan, Wuyishan, Jiuzhaigou, Wuzhen) that our sources locate by landscape, plus Xi'an. We would rather leave a place ungrouped than file it under the wrong province, which is exactly the mistake this data layer was built to stop making.

Provinces and autonomous regions

  • Sichuan

    15 destinations · 32 attractions need advance booking

  • Hunan

    12 destinations · 22 attractions need advance booking

  • Guangdong

    12 destinations · 18 attractions need advance booking

  • Zhejiang

    12 destinations · 20 attractions need advance booking

  • Jiangsu

    11 destinations · 22 attractions need advance booking

  • Guizhou

    9 destinations · 14 attractions need advance booking

  • Gansu

    9 destinations · 12 attractions need advance booking

  • Xinjiang

    8 destinations · 13 attractions need advance booking

  • Henan

    8 destinations · 22 attractions need advance booking

  • Guangxi

    8 destinations · 14 attractions need advance booking

  • Yunnan

    8 destinations · 11 attractions need advance booking

  • Jiangxi

    8 destinations · 15 attractions need advance booking

  • Anhui

    7 destinations · 8 attractions need advance booking

  • Shanxi

    7 destinations · 10 attractions need advance booking

  • Hubei

    7 destinations · 13 attractions need advance booking

  • Shandong

    7 destinations · 15 attractions need advance booking

  • Shaanxi

    6 destinations · 11 attractions need advance booking

  • Liaoning

    6 destinations · 10 attractions need advance booking

  • Fujian

    6 destinations · 13 attractions need advance booking

  • Hebei

    5 destinations · 8 attractions need advance booking

  • Jilin

    4 destinations · 8 attractions need advance booking

  • Inner Mongolia

    4 destinations · 1 attraction need advance booking

  • Tibet

    4 destinations · 7 attractions need advance booking

  • Hainan

    2 destinations · 3 attractions need advance booking

  • Heilongjiang

    2 destinations · 3 attractions need advance booking

  • Qinghai

    2 destinations · nothing recorded as booking-required

  • Ningxia

    2 destinations · 1 attraction need advance booking

The four municipalities

Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing sit directly under the central government. They are cities in their own right, not provinces with cities inside them, so they have a city guide instead of a province page.

Every destination in one alphabetical list is at all cities. Every sight we have verified as needing an advance reservation is in the booking index, and the release-time tracker is Reservation Radar.