What you see
214 A-level scenic areas
Every area by grade and prefecture, 16 of them rated 5A. The national rural-tourism villages sit on the same list, by name.
Photo sg.gov.cn
SpringLongji rice terraces in green, GuangxiApril
Every line below is transcribed from a government register — and dated.
- 359national 5A areas
- 214A-level areas in Guangdong
- 513records across five layers
- 0facts without a source
Business desk · Guangdong
Four businesses. One record of who a company is.
Local services, manufacturer profiles with the evidence behind each capability, forwarders profiled by role and route evidence, and the inspection work that happens after you find the factory. We do not lobby, and we do not promise an approval.
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First three categories: CNC machining, robotics components, automation components — Dongguan, Shenzhen, Foshan.
01Season
The same month, four different countries.
Observed monthly means from China Weather, for the month named.
Spring
April · Longji rice terraces in green, Guangxi
Mohe 0°C → Sanya 28°C
32°F → 82°F
Summer
July · Sanya Bay, Hainan
Urumqi 16°C → Changsha 31°C
61°F → 88°F
Autumn
October · Five Flower Lake, Jiuzhaigou
Mohe -2°C → Sanya 27°C
29°F → 80°F
Winter
January · Yabuli, Heilongjiang
Mohe -28°C → Sanya 22°C
-18°F → 72°F
02Coverage
One province built out end to end.
Guangdong is the only province built out so far — every prefecture, every A-level scenic area (16 of them 5A), every graded rural stay, the food names the state protects, and the hospital registers two cities actually publish. The other 30 provinces carry entry, safety and health rules for now, and the guide names that gap instead of papering over it.
Guangzhou32
Guangzhou
Qingyuan18
Qingyuan
Foshan16
Foshan
Meizhou14
Meizhou
Jiangmen12
Jiangmen
Shaoguan12
Shaoguan
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Plan a trip first
All 21 prefectures, with scenic areas, stays and villages listed by name.
03Inside a guide
Five layers, one document.
The guide is assembled per trip, not per page. Each layer is written from a named register, and each chapter repeats its own source and the day it was read. Photographs carry the page they came from, the same way the records do.
What you eat
42 dishes, filmed where they are eaten
No register of dishes exists, so this layer points at the people filming them — one card per dish, one link to the original video, across all 21 prefectures.
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Where you sleep
171 graded rural stays
The province's 2025 grading, four tiers. Names and addresses stay in Chinese, because that is the string on the booking app and the taxi screen.
Photo pc.nfapp.southcn.com
Getting in
Four schemes, 65 ports
Visa-free routes, arrival ports and onward-ticket rules solved against your dates. Then the airport, the high-speed station and the metro — the three you will actually use.
Photo gbiac.netofficial
Where you are treated
35 hospitals listed
Two city registers with ownership where it is published, FCDO health text verbatim, and Hainan's international clinics. Access and facilities — never diagnosis.
Photo mbd.baidu.comPhotographs illustrate the layer, not an individual record — except on the Guangdong atlas, where each 5A card carries a photo of that scenic area. Every image is credited to the page it was published on, and the rights stay with that publisher.
04How it is made
Three rules the build enforces, not the copy.
Anyone can write "we only use official sources". These three are the ones a test suite fails over.
Rule 01
Traceable is a data structure
Every record carries a source, a URL and a retrieval date. The type system requires it, so an unsourced row fails the build instead of quietly going live.
Rule 02
No model fills a gap
Where a register is missing, the page names it and says why. The intangible-heritage layer is empty, and stays empty, because an invented village name is worse than a named hole.
Rule 03
Official text, quoted verbatim
The FCDO, the Chinese Embassy and the National Immigration Administration are transcribed, not paraphrased. Rewording safety advice is how a guide starts being wrong.
05Sources
Every record, and the day we read it.
No content is generated. Each line below points at the government page it was transcribed from.
- 214 A-level scenic areas checked 2026-10-29 Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism — A-level scenic areas register (as of 2026-08-31) · source page
- 171 graded rural hotels and homestays checked 2026-10-29 Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism — 2025 rural hotel and homestay grading results · source page
- 42 dishes, each with a video shot locally checked 2026-11-01 Bilibili video search — local cooks and eaters, not a register · source page
- 35 hospitals in the provincial capital checked 2026-10-29 Dongguan Municipal Health Commission and Guangzhou Municipal Health Commission · source page
- 1,597 national key villages and towns checked 2026-10-29 Ministry of Culture and Tourism + National Development and Reform Commission — four batches · source page
- 21 prefecture-level cities checked 2026-10-29 Ministry of Civil Affairs — 2023 administrative division codes for China · source page
What this is not. Not legal advice, and not a substitute for the port's decision. Grades and listings are the issuing authority's assessment, not our recommendation or ranking.