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The Huangmaohai Cross-Sea Corridor at dusk, the 31-kilometre bridge opened in 2024 that cut the Zhuhai-to-Taishan drive to about 30 minutes.
Practical Guide Roots Travel

Getting Around Wuyi: Trains, Buses, and Hiring a Driver for Your Roots Trip

Getting Around Wuyi: Trains, Buses, and Hiring a Driver for Your Roots Trip The Railway the Villagers Built, the Railroad That Brought Them Home For 150 years, the story of Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì) — the five counties of Kaiping, Taishan, Enping, Xinhui, and Heshan that form Guangdong's great qiaoxiang (侨乡, qiáoxiāng), the "overseas Chinese homeland"…
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Historic Kaiping diaolou watchtower in Zili Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site built by returning overseas Chinese in the early 20th century
Practical Guide Roots Trip Planning Wuyi Heritage

Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There

Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There The Five Counties (五邑, Wǔyì) of Wuyi — Taishan (台山), Kaiping (开平), Xinhui (新会), Enping (恩平), and Heshan (鹤山) — sent over two million people overseas between 1840 and 1940, creating one of the largest sustained migrations in modern history. Today, an estimated 1.3 million…
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