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China: How to travel independently – even if you don’t speak the language

Travelling independently in China has become easier. All you need to do is pluck up the courage, says Gill Charlton By Gill Charlton I am sitting on board “Harmony”, one of China’s new generation of superfast trains, as it hurtles through the factory belt stretching almost unbroken from Shanghai to Jinhua in Zhejiang province. “It is surprising how a sunny …