Cyrus Janssen on China

Music, dance and exercise ... First film is at TaoRanTing Park; the second at TianTan Park.

Shangri-la (XiāngGéLǐLā) was a semi-fictional paradise depicted in the book 'Lost Horizon' by James Hilton. This town in YunNan province, with a great likeness to the fictional paradise that Hilton depicted, was renamed from ZhongDian to Shangri-la in 2001.

Futuristic office, retail and leisure spaces, on HuaiHai Road in central ShangHai, by XinTianDi 新天地.

Filmed in May 2011.

90 kilometers (55 miles) north west of Beijing city, LongQing Gorge offers boating, hiking and more; plus an ice festival in winter. LóngQìng Xiá reminds one of the natural, soaring scenery around GuiLin and YangShuo ...

From GuangDong province / the Greater Bay Area. 震撼开场！张也携手杨宗纬、钟镇涛、夏利奥唱响《我的祖国》，两岸三地共庆新年 | CCTV「2021新年音乐会——扬帆远航大湾区」

Emei Shan (Emei Mountain, 3,099 m / 10,167 ft) is one of the four Chinese Buddhist sacred mountains. Emei Shan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (together with the nearby LeShan Giant Buddha) as "an area of exceptional cultural significance as it is the place where Buddhism first became established on Chinese territory ... The first Buddhist temple in China was built on the summit of Mount Emei in the 1st century CE ... Mount Emei is also notable for its exceptionally diverse vegetation, ranging from subtropical to sub-alpine pine forests. Some of the trees there are more than 1,000 years old." Included in this beautiful film : the summit of Mount Emei, WanNian Si Temple, QingYin Ge and BaoGuo Si Temple.

GuìZhōu is a mountainous province in south China known for its ancient rural villages and diverse ethnic minority groups, including the Miao, Bai and Dong. ZhaoXing village and YinTan village * JiangBang rice terraces * GaoHua village * XiaoWeng village * BiaSha village * ZhanLi village * LangDe village * JiDao Miao village * ShiQiao village * PaiMuo village *

From the Himalayas to the Gobi Desert ...

A flashback to October 2004 ...

With ErMi ChuiYan ... Bonus film - kiwi wine ...

YànQī Hú lies about 60 kilometers north of Beijing city, near Huáiróu.