Recently, videos of foreign bloggers visiting Chinese cities and catchwords such as “city 不 city” have gone viral on domestic and foreign social media platforms. “China travel” has been on everyone’s lips, drumming up enthusiasm among tourists to travel to China, since China expanded the scope of its 144-hour visa-free transit policy last year.

On August 26, the US Time published an article — 144 Hours in China: What to See and Do in Jiangsu in which cities including Suzhou, Yancheng and Nanjing were introduced and measures taken by Jiangsu Province to facilitate tourism for foreign tourists were elaborated on.

The Yancheng National Reserve for Rare Birds hosts about 600 wintering red-crowned cranes yearly. Last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom passed through here, naming a lively young red-crowned crane “California” after the bird approached him before leading him and his party back to their car. In addition to being a winter roost for red-crowned cranes, Yancheng is also home to a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site: Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I). This intertidal mudflat system is an “international airport” for birds and a bird-watching paradise for humans. More than 400 species of birds nest and breed here every year.