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One of the planet's oldest cities, it also saw the world's worst-ever traffic jam. Traffic trying to approach the city tailed back for 62 miles and did not clear for 10 days! | Beijing | 86%
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A British colony until 1997, this financial centre has been the setting for many films including Enter The Dragon. | Hong Kong | 86%
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At over 3,600 metres in altitude, this Tibetan city is home to the Potala Palace, the world's highest palace. | Lhasa | 86%
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A Las Vegas style gambling resort, this former Portuguese colony has a 525-foot Eiffel Tower constructed in it. | Macao | 86%
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The well-known Tsingtao brewery is located here. An 8-lane, 26 mile long bridge was built here but gets very little traffic. | Qingdao | 86%
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The capital of Sichuan province, this huge city on the Jin river has a well-known panda conservation centre. | Chengdu | 71%
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Every winter, this far northern city hosts a festival with buildings and structures made of ice. The city is located on the Songhua River, the longest tributary of the Amur. | Harbin | 71%
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Mongolian and Mandarin are the two official languages of this city, located south of the Gobi Desert. | Hohhot | 71%
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A tower block toppled over here in 2009, landing on its side strangely intact; a few years later, 3,000 dead pigs were found floating in a river. This megacity is the world's busiest port and its name is also a verb in English. | Shanghai | 71%
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This city-oasis is located in Xinjiang in the far west. The nearby depression (deep valley) of the same name is one of the lowest points on Earth at −154 metres below sea level. | Turpan | 71%
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This lesser-known city in Hubei province is home to a gigantic 26-storey pig farm. | Ezhou | 57%
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Lying on the Yangtze, at the southern end of the Grand Canal, this city was the largest in the world for a time in the Middle Ages. It also served as China's capital. | Hangzhou | 57%
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After a spate of worker suicides, Foxconn installed safety nets on their building here. A mobile phone manufacturing centre, the city's rapid growth has caused it to reach the edge of Guangzhou to form the world's largest metropolis. | Shenzhen | 57%
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Situated on the Yellow River, this city in Henan province was the national capital no less than eight times. | Kaifeng | 29%
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Previously known as Mukden, it was the Manchu capital in the 1600s and is the seat of Liaoning province in the north. | Shenyang | 29%
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