New China Tours | Spotlight Experiences of Morden China
"New China" is an exclusive series of experiences to show you what is happening now in the technology scene in China.
There is more to discover behind the piles of critics and regular tourist spots.
We've captured some of the most interesting scenarios for you. These trips are designed to offer deeper insights into a new China.
New Beijing
Beyond the forest of ancient palaces, Beijing is now transforming from an imperial walled capital to a modern metropolis where people are living a faster and smarter life.
Hotpot, Fun and Robots
Duration: 2~3 Hours
Ever wonder how a robot kitchen run the top hotpot chain in China? Discover China's first AI hotpot restaurant in Beijing with us.
Before feast your palate on the tasty soup, learn to know how the smart manless system works smoothly from allocating, serving to cleaning to make a dream kitchen. By the way, they're also good at taking care of hungry waiting diners, you may find some fun and surprises there.
Your guide, who is a local born and bred Beijinger, will uncover the profound changes on social life during the past decades and mind-blowing achievements nowadays.
Join in and discover the new Beijing under its medieval skin.
New Shanghai
As a muse for a capital of the future for many directors and scriptwriters, Shanghai shows the rising side of China's aesthetic ideas and technological potential.
Cutting-edge Drones and the World's Biggest Starbucks Reserve Roastery
Duration: 2 Hours
With century-old lanes on the left and the planet's second highest skyline on the right, the magic of Shanghai is like sci-fi scenes coming to life.
Learn how Shanghai has become a fertile ground for China's independent startup industry, by visiting DJI and having fun with the world's leading drone. Get to know about a China unicorn's road to success and their cutting-edge technology (a unicorn is a startup valued at $1B).
After that, transfer to the world's biggest Starbucks Reserve Roastery, where via phone you can watch an animated version of what is inside the cask before they are whisked through copper pipes to the coffee bars.
Starbuck's first in-store augmented reality experience is jointly developed with Alibaba's AI lab. Your guide will show you more surprises and tell you the stories behind the two company.
Discovery China's Industry Giants in the Front Line
Duration: 2 Hours
Shanghai is a fertile ground for China's independent enterprises. Get deep insights into and firsthand factory experience of industry giants.
BYD Auto Factory Visit (90 minutes): Throughout years of rapid growth, BYD has established over 30 industrial parks across six continents and has played a significant role in industries related to electronics, automobiles, new energy and rail transit.
Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation Visit (90 minutes): Baosteel group is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in the Baosteel Tower in Pudong. It is the most competitive steelmaker in China.
SAIC Volkswagen Factory Visit (60 minutes): As Volkswagen's first joint venture in China in 1984, Shanghai Volkswagen, now SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) Volkswagen is now the largest auto manufacturing base in China, charting China's auto industry's development from small to large.
Note that it will be group tour, there are specific conditions of visiting time (weekends and public holidays) and visitor numbers. Inquire for more details.
New Shenzhen
Transforming from a rural fishing village to China's silicon valley in an incredible speed, Shenzhen is more than an urban Cinderella tale, it is the microcosm of China's thriving.
The 4th Tallest Building and Largest Electronic Market in the World
Duration: 2 Hours
Nowhere else has quite as potent a combination of low manufacturing costs, anything-goes attitude entrepreneurs and sheer speed. Visiting the world's largest electronic market will give you a glimpse of the city's potentials.
The market sells everything from the tiniest screws to a complete set of devices, fake of US products and latest cutting-edge creations. You could buy all you need here to build your own smartphone, or thousands of them. Go inside this high-tech dazzle and find out what $50 can buy, get inspired and communicate with some of the best mind in the country if you want.
Discover how this place attracts the most inventors like a magnet and learn to know how it is changing the new china from copycats to innovation.
New Hangzhou
Besides the west lake and water town, Hangzhou as the home to Alibaba and a city without cash is now its new name card. Living in Hangzhou in many ways is like living in the future.
Alibaba and Its Future Empire
Duration: 2 Hours
When Alipay's trend of no-cash sweeping over the world and its founder Jack Ma become a household name, you should see what is really happening to the nest city where Ali dream are made of. One of Alibaba's innovations was that they truly building an ecosystem for a range of industries:
Ali set up series of smarter and faster stores including future hotel, supermarket and book store in Hangzhou. Today you will visit Ali's self-construction mall and shop in its offline retail store Hema, which functions through robots, apps and overhead conveyor belts.
They launched smart "ET Brain" in aviation, healthcare, manufacturing, and traffic and city management. Capture some funny facts and learn how the brain works to reduce the time from accident to hospital by 15% and improve traffic.
This tour may give you the down-to-earth facts that how Ali is changing its home, Hangzhou and China.
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The tour was of The Greta Wall of China
The tour was excellent. Selinda was very knowledgeable about all the aspects of our tour. Selinda was very interesting and knew so much Chinese history more
Mar 2024, Alice W
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Beautiful Beijing with Ethan & Mr. Chen
Ethan, our wonderful guide, whose praises we can not sing loudly enough, was compassionate, caring, and overall endearing! His sense of ease and familiarity with each sight, which were unfamiliar wonders to us, provided a sense of peacefulness that facilitated full enjoyment - helped too by his punctuality and attention to detail. more
Feb 2024, apisn2023
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The Highlights and High Life of Beijing with Ethan & Mr. Chen
Ethan, our wonderful tour guide, made our entire trip an absolute joy for us as he was extraordinarily caring, considerate, and generous. Having had the pleasure of taking in the sights of Beijing previously with another lovely guide, Angela, it was spectacular not only to show the family how fantastic the city is but also how high the quality of services provided by China Highlights are. Each day unveiled a new treasure, helpfully detailed by Ethan, and punctuated by delicious and varied local food. Our driver, Mr. Chen, was also a delight, and was equally as key to the overall experience as he was both attentive and almost mystically punctual! more
Feb 2024, Apis
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Great Time in Beijing
Our 4-day experience in Beijing was unforgettable. Our guide, Selinda, opened the doors to the city's millennia-old history and culture with her knowledge, kindness, and courtesy. We discovered magnificent places, tasted delicious food, and stayed in clean hotels, all accompanied by safe and reliable transportation service. We recommend traveling with China Highlights. more
Feb 2024, Nicola B
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3rd time the charm, is being charmed for the 3rd time.
This is my 3rd tour of Beijing in the last 18 months and I think that speaks a little to the quality of service you get with China Highlights. Each time the sites are the same but each tour guide managed to present them in new and wonderful ways. Also some attractions that were undergoing renovations have been completed, so there were new things to see as well.A big thanks to Mr. Michael, our tour this time around. He was very gregarious and knowledgeable about all the sites. more
Feb 2024, Jonathan Mueller
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3rd time the charm, is charmed for the 3rd time
The sites stay the same but each time we have done this tour, the tour guides manage to make it feel like it is the first time you are experiencing it. And, with the constant renovations, this time we were able to see previous areas that were unavailable the last time we came. more
Feb 2024, Jonathan M
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Great trip and experience!
From beginning to end, China Highlights was very courteous, responsive and attentive in planning and executing a great trip!Aspects and execution of the trip was as discussed and was an overall great experience. Our guide, Michael, was very kind and knowledgeable throughout the tour and would address all questions and help us take lots of photos. Would definitely travel with China Highlights again! more
Feb 2024, Karol
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3rd the charm is charmed for the 3rd time
This is my 3rd tour of Beijing in the last 18 months and I think that speaks a little to the quality of service you get with China Highlights. Each time the sites are the same but each tour guide managed to present them in new and wonderful ways. Also some attractions that were undergoing renovations have been completed, so there were new things to see as well.A big thanks to Mr. Michael, our tour this time around. He was very gregarious and knowledgeable about all the sites. more
Feb 2024, jkjmueller
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1 Day in Beijing
Nice views, Not too much people, Jessi (guide ) so friendly and she have a great service & she knows the answer of all your questions more
Feb 2024, Fernando J
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Fabulous day!
Jesse He ,she is a nice tourist guide patience and take good care for us. We had a wonderful time in Beijing,we did the forbidden city and greatwall We love everything ! more
Feb 2024, Charon R
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Private trip in Beijing and Luoyang
We spent 3 days in Beijing with Helen as our guide. We went to TianAnMen, Forbidden City and MuTianYu Great Wall to name a few. Helen took great care of us and is very attentive as I travel with my 60+ years old parents, from asking whether we need restroom breaks to making sure that our lunch were all according to our dietary needs more
Jan 2024, Iriana Iriana
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An excellent day with Linda
Linda (Ling ling)is a great tour guide,provide a lot of knowledge and history of the great wall,and took us to taste very delicious food too,we had a very good time with her!highly recommend her! more
Jan 2024, Angeline Lim
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Great time in Beijing with Bruce
We stayed in Beijing for three days altogether. We went to the summer palace. the Tian'an'men square, the Forbidden City,the Temple of heaven and the Great Wall. Our tour guide Bruce is very friendly and speaks English fluently. He explained every scenic spot to us patiently and humorously. my family are very satisfied with his service. more
Jan 2024, Mayra C
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Bucket List Trip to China
My first stop in China was Beijing. Ethan was my guide there. Daily, they would pick me up and take me to the spots on the itinerary. He helped me plan outside activities like a Chinese acrobat show. He even walked me to my seat in my theater so I could easily find my correct chair. What was most helpful was Ethan waiting with me at the train station and even helping me on to my seat and giving the train attendant my meal order. Very little English was spoken by the train attendant. more
Jan 2024, Megan Sandbothe
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Great Wall at Jinshanling
We went to the Great Wall at Jinshanling which is a very beautiful place which is not that busy. In fact most of the time it felt like we were alone on the wall.The tourguide (Jack) was very knowledgeable and very friendly.A big thumbs up more
Jan 2024, Onno
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Private trip in Beijing and Luoyang
We spent 3 days in Beijing with Helen as our guide. We went to TianAnMen, Forbidden City and MuTianYu Great Wall to name a few. Helen took great care of us and is very attentive as I travel with my 60+ years old parents, from asking whether we need restroom breaks to making sure that our lunch were all according to our dietary needs. We had great 3 days in Beijing.We also visited Luoyang. Our travel advisor arranged a Business class seat for our high speed train to Luoyang. We were picked up at the station by our guide in Luoyang, Lisa. We then visited Dengfeng to see Songyang academy, shaolin temple, Luoyang grottoes. She also took care of us very well and very knowledgeable about the history. more
Jan 2024, lriana lriana
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Beijing 2024
We traveled to Beijing with China Highlights in January 2024. Our tour guide Ethan was organized and knowledgeable which made our trip seamless and very interesting!! He helpfully suggested additional activities if we had time in the evenings and assisted us in booking tickets for them. Visiting the Mutianyu Great wall of China was a big highlight of our time in Beijing! more
Jan 2024, Lydia
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Beijing 2024
We traveled to Beijing with China Highlights in January 2024. Our tour guide Ethan was organized and knowledgeable which made our trip seamless and very interesting!! He helpfully suggested additional activities if we had time in the evenings and assisted us in booking tickets for them. Visiting the Mutianyu Great wall of China was a big highlight of our time in Beijing more
Jan 2024, Explore49612084715
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Beijing
Fantastic couple days in Beijing. Thank you to my guide Mark who eloquently relayed stories about China history and culture. more
Jan 2024, Steve P
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Jack is an excellent guide
Jack is an excellent guide, very patient, punctual, wonderful command of english. I recommend him any day. more
Jan 2024, Brahma
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