About SetJetChina
About SetJetChina: an independent, English-language guide to the real places behind Chinese dramas — and to the practical work of getting there.
SetJetChina is a travel resource for international fans of Chinese dramas — for the people who watch a scene shot on a misty mountain ridge or a rebuilt Song-dynasty street, and immediately start wondering how to stand in the same place.
We cover two things side by side. On one side, the drama itself: which series filmed where, what a given scene actually shows, and how faithful the on-screen version is to the real location. On the other, the logistics that decide whether a trip happens at all — tickets, opening hours, high-speed rail connections, payment apps, visa rules, and the months worth travelling in.
Most of that information already exists somewhere: scattered across Chinese-language forums, fan wikis with dead links, and auto-generated listicles that recycle the same three facts without ever checking them. Our job is to replace it with something you can actually plan a trip around.
What we cover
- Drama guides — per-series breakdowns of every filming location we can verify, scene by scene, with notes on what is still standing and what was a set that has since been struck.
- Location guides — profiles of the places themselves: how to reach them, what a ticket costs, when they open, and what they look like once the cameras have gone.
- Trip planning — the unglamorous essentials: visas, mobile payment, high-speed rail, eSIMs, etiquette, and the best season for each region.
- Drama Map — a filterable map of filming locations across China, grouped by province and by series.
How we research
Every guide on this site goes through the same process before it goes live.
- Primary sources first. Official scenic-area and studio websites, municipal culture-and-tourism bureaus, production announcements, and transport operators. We do not cite other travel blogs as evidence, and we do not treat a search-result snippet as a source.
- The two-source rule. Anything you could act on — a ticket price, an opening time, a train connection, a visa rule — has to be confirmed by at least two independent sources before it appears on a page. When credible sources disagree, we publish the range and explain the discrepancy instead of quietly picking the tidier number.
- We write down what we do not know. If the exact location of a scene is disputed, or a site is closed for renovation, the page says so. A confident wrong answer costs you a wasted day; an honest gap costs you nothing.
- We date our work. Guides are reviewed on a rolling schedule and carry the date they were last checked. When a price, a schedule or an access rule changes, we update the page and note the change.
How we use AI
We use AI tools in our production process — for drafting, for translating Chinese-language source material, and for structuring data. Every page is then reviewed by a human editor, and the factual claims are checked against primary sources before publication.
We are stating this plainly because “written with AI” and “unchecked AI output” are not the same thing, and you deserve to know which one you are reading. If a page here is wrong, that is our error, not the tool’s.
Our photo policy
- We use our own photography where we have it, openly licensed images with visible attribution where we do not, and images used with the permission of their owners. Where an image cannot be attributed properly, we do not publish it.
- We do not publish official promotional artwork, posters or key art from drama productions. Those belong to the studios and streaming platforms that commissioned them, and a site being about a show does not make republishing them fair use.
- Where we show a screenshot, it is limited to identification and commentary, and it is credited to the production. We do not use screenshots as advertising or affiliate material, and we remove any that a rights holder asks us to remove.
- If you own an image that appears here and want it removed or credited differently, write to us and we will act on it.
About SetJetChina: who runs this site
SetJetChina is edited by a small team. Research, writing and fact-checking are done from China; photography and first-hand reporting come from contributors who travel to the locations we cover. Guides that include first-hand reporting are labelled as such — we do not dress desk research up as a trip report.
If you have been somewhere we have written about and the details have changed, that is genuinely useful to us. Corrections are worth more than compliments.
How we make money
SetJetChina is free to read and has no paywall. We earn a commission when readers book accommodation, train tickets, tours or travel services through some of the links on this site. It costs you nothing extra, and it never determines what we cover, what we recommend, or how we rank things. Where a link is an affiliate link, we say so.
The full wording is in our Affiliate Disclosure.
Corrections and contact
Found something out of date, wrong, or missing? Tell us which page you were reading and what needs fixing. We read every message, and corrections go to the front of the queue.
Email: aimervoyage@gmail.com
Start here
- The Untamed filming locations — Guizhou’s cloud-wrapped mountains, Duyun and the Hengdian sets.
- Joy of Life filming locations — the Xiangyang studio complex behind the series.
- Meet Yourself filming locations — Dali, Erhai Lake and the Cangshan range.
- Blossoms Shanghai filming locations — the Huangpu waterfront and the city’s period streets.
- 10 essential tips for your first C-drama pilgrimage — what to sort out before you fly.
- Why I started SetJetChina — how one shot in one drama turned into a site about the places behind them.