# SetJetChina

> Turn your watchlist into a journey: Curated itineraries to China's iconic filming locations.


## Posts

- [Black Myth Wukong Locations: 27 Sites, One Room](https://setjetchina.com/black-myth-wukong-locations/): The game used 27 Shanxi sites, but nothing was filmed. They were scanned. Xiaoxitian, the hall a whole chapter is named after, is 169.6 square metres.
- [Qingdao Film Studio: 40 Sound Stages, No Tours](https://setjetchina.com/qingdao-film-studio/): China's largest film studio is 376 hectares. Its 40 sound stages sit behind a fence, and the 148-yuan ticket everyone quotes is the amusement park next door.
- [Full River Red Filming Locations: The 2021 Ancient City](https://setjetchina.com/full-river-red-filming-locations/): Dehua Gate, the south gate of Taiyuan Ancient City, photographed in June 2025.
- [The Bad Kids Filming Locations: Zhanjiang, Minus a Mountain](https://setjetchina.com/zhanjiang-filming-locations/): The city is real. The mountain is not there.
- [Kaiping Diaolou Guide: Where Let the Bullets Fly Was Shot](https://setjetchina.com/kaiping-diaolou-filming-locations/): A diaolou at the edge of a rice field in Zili Village, Tangkou town.
- [Hainan Filming Locations: Where Lost in the Stars Was Shot](https://setjetchina.com/hainan-filming-locations/): The Hainan filming locations question has a strange answer, and the strangest part of it is that we got it wrong first.
- [Chengde Filming Locations: The Eight Outer Temples Are Not Eight](https://setjetchina.com/chengde-filming-locations/): Chengde exists because the Qing court needed somewhere to go in July, and Chinese television exists in a world where the Forbidden City is largely closed to cameras.
- [Daocheng Yading Filming Locations: The Airport Is Almost the Summit](https://setjetchina.com/daocheng-yading-filming-locations/): There is one film scene shot in Yading, and it lasts about four minutes.
- [Wuzhen Filming Locations: The Drama That Didn’t Make This Town Famous](https://setjetchina.com/wuzhen-filming-locations/): The most famous water town in China appears in almost none of the dramas that made people book flights to China, which makes the Wuzhen filming locations question a short one.
- [Zhangye Filming Locations: The Rainbow Mountains With the Wrong Name](https://setjetchina.com/zhangye-filming-locations/): Four feature films and one television series have used this place as another world. Zhang Yimou shot two of them here.
- [Zhangzhou Filming Locations: The Village the Movie Renamed](https://setjetchina.com/zhangzhou-filming-locations/): There is a village in Fujian that took a film’s name. For roughly six hundred and fifty years it was called 长教.
- [Enshi Filming Locations: The Canyon That Played Xiangxi](https://setjetchina.com/enshi-filming-locations/): The drama is called The Wrath of Time: Xiangxi. Xiangxi is in Hunan. Almost none of the landscape in it was filmed there.
- [Jingdezhen Filming Locations: Two Eras, One Valley](https://setjetchina.com/jingdezhen-filming-locations/): Most Chinese cities end up on screen because of what they look like.
- [Wulanbutong Filming Locations: China's Grassland Backlot](https://setjetchina.com/wulanbutong-filming-locations/): Wulanbutong is the reason a Qing dynasty can be shot in Inner Mongolia without building a palace, a steppe battle can be staged without CGI, and a director who needs “the grasslands” can stop looking at a map.
- [Dalian Filming Locations: The City That Plays Other Cities](https://setjetchina.com/dalian-filming-locations/): Dalian does not usually play itself. That is the first thing to understand about the Dalian filming locations.
- [Wuyishan Filming Locations: The 1986 Journey to the West, Scene by Scene](https://setjetchina.com/wuyishan-filming-locations/): In 1985 a Chinese television crew carried cameras up a river gorge in northern Fujian and filmed a monkey god being rescued from under a mountain.
- [Wuyuan Filming Locations: Huangling, the Tiankeng Library and Fifty Years of Chinese Cinema](https://setjetchina.com/wuyuan-filming-locations/): China has been filming Wuyuan for more than fifty years. In 1974 it was The Sparkling Red Star, with a boy on a bamboo raft drifting down the Xing River.
- [Yinchuan Filming Locations: Zhenbeibao and the Films of the Western Desert](https://setjetchina.com/yinchuan-filming-locations/): Almost every famous Chinese film you can quote was shot in the same dusty corner of the north-west.
- [Datong Filming Locations: Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple](https://setjetchina.com/datong-filming-locations/): Datong is the city Chinese period drama keeps pretending to be.
- [Dunhuang Filming Locations: Goodbye My Princess and the Gobi Desert](https://setjetchina.com/dunhuang-filming-locations/): Dunhuang is the desert that Chinese film and television keeps borrowing — and, unusually for this site, it is a place where the cameras actually went.
- [Luoyang Filming Locations: Longmen Grottoes and the Tang Ruins](https://setjetchina.com/luoyang-filming-locations/): Luoyang is the city that Chinese television keeps rebuilding.
- [Zhangjiajie Filming Locations: Avatar's Mountains, Journey to the West and the Glass Bridge](https://setjetchina.com/zhangjiajie-filming-locations/): There is a range of mountains in China that the rest of the world has already seen without knowing its name.
- [Guilin and Yangshuo: Filming Locations, the Li River and the 20-Yuan Note](https://setjetchina.com/guilin-and-yangshuo-filming-locations/): There is one landscape that every Chinese person knows before they ever set eyes on it, because it is printed on the money in their pocket: the limestone towers of Guilin and Yangshuo in Guangxi, on the back of the 20-yuan note.
- [Changchun Film Studio: The Cradle of Chinese Cinema and Its Filming Locations](https://setjetchina.com/changchun-film-studio/): Every national cinema has an origin point, and for China it is a brick complex on Hongqi Street in Changchun, the capital of Jilin province in the north-east.
- [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Filming Locations: Anji's Bamboo Sea and Hongcun](https://setjetchina.com/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-filming-locations/): In 2000, Ang Lee took a 1930s wuxia novel and turned it into the film that carried Chinese-language cinema onto the world stage.
- [Raise the Red Lantern Filming Locations: The Real Qiao Family Compound and Pingyao](https://setjetchina.com/raise-the-red-lantern-filming-locations/): In 1991, Zhang Yimou took a novella by Su Tong about a concubine in a rich man's house and turned it into the film that made his name abroad.
- [Harbin Filming Locations: The Ice City Behind Chinese Films and Dramas](https://setjetchina.com/harbin-filming-locations/): Most Chinese cities get one screen identity. Harbin (哈尔滨) got two, and they pull in opposite directions.
- [Escape from the Trilateral Slopes Filming Locations: The Real Xishuangbanna Behind 边水往事](https://setjetchina.com/escape-from-the-trilateral-slopes-filming-locations/): Escape from the Trilateral Slopes (边水往事) is a twenty-one-part crime drama set in a country that does not exist.
- [A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower Filming Locations: The Real Chengdu Behind 摩天大楼](https://setjetchina.com/a-murderous-affair-in-horizon-tower-filming-locations/): A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower (摩天大楼) is a sixteen-part noir about a woman found dead in a luxury high-rise — and the high-rise does not exist.
- [The Long Season Filming Locations: The Real Kunming Behind 漫长的季节](https://setjetchina.com/the-long-season-filming-locations/): The Long Season (漫长的季节) is a story about a frozen steel town in China's far north-east — and almost none of it was filmed there.
- [Forever and Ever Filming Locations: The Real Xi'an Behind 一生一世](https://setjetchina.com/forever-and-ever-filming-locations/): Most set-jetting guides chase a drama to a city you had never heard of.
- [The Bond Filming Locations: The Real Nanjing Behind 乔家的儿女](https://setjetchina.com/the-bond-filming-locations/): Most of the dramas on this site are filmed in a place you can point at on a map.
- [All Is Well Filming Locations: The Real Suzhou Behind 都挺好](https://setjetchina.com/all-is-well-filming-locations/): Most of the dramas on this site are filmed in a place you can point at on a map.
- [The Knockout Filming Locations: The Real Jiangmen Behind 狂飙](https://setjetchina.com/the-knockout-filming-locations/): Most of the dramas on this site were shot in a place you can name and book a ticket to. The Knockout is the same, with one twist.
- [My Altay Filming Locations: The Real Xinjiang Behind To the Wonder](https://setjetchina.com/my-altay-filming-locations/): Most C-dramas on this site are built somewhere you can point at on a map and book a ticket to.
- [The Love You Give Me Filming Locations: The Real Shenzhen](https://setjetchina.com/the-love-you-give-me-filming-locations/): Most C-dramas on this site end at a studio gate. The Love You Give Me does not.
- [Will Love in Spring Filming Locations: The Real Quanzhou](https://setjetchina.com/will-love-in-spring-filming-locations/): Most C-dramas on this site end at a studio gate. Will Love in Spring ends at a bus stop.
- [Fireworks of My Heart Filming Locations: The Real Ningbo](https://setjetchina.com/fireworks-of-my-heart-filming-locations/): There is no backlot in Fireworks of My Heart.
- [The Best Thing Filming Locations: Where It Was Really Shot](https://setjetchina.com/the-best-thing-filming-locations/): Most dramas build a world and then hide where they built it. The Best Thing (爱你) did the opposite.
- [Love Like the Galaxy Filming Locations: Where It Was Really Shot](https://setjetchina.com/love-like-the-galaxy-filming-locations/): Love Like the Galaxy (星汉灿烂) is set in a dynasty that never existed — and that is exactly why its locations are worth chasing.
- [Pursuit of Jade Filming Locations: Where It Was Really Shot](https://setjetchina.com/pursuit-of-jade-filming-locations/): Pursuit of Jade (逐玉) looks expensive without trying to, and the reason is geographic.
- [Hengdian's Ming Qing Palace: The Forbidden City You Have Actually Seen](https://setjetchina.com/hengdian-ming-qing-palace/): You have seen the Forbidden City a hundred times. Not the real one.
- [A Dream of Splendor Filming Locations: Lake Tai, Not West Lake](https://setjetchina.com/a-dream-of-splendor-filming-locations/): There is a line early in A Dream of Splendor about throwing money into West Lake.
- [Nirvana in Fire Filming Locations: Finding the Real Langya Mountain](https://setjetchina.com/nirvana-in-fire-filming-locations/): There is a real Langya Mountain in China.
- [Chasing Fan Xian Across China: The Joy of Life Filming Locations](https://setjetchina.com/chasing-fan-xian-joy-of-life-locations/): I still remember the exact moment I got hooked.
- [Finding the Real Cloud Recesses: The Untamed in Guizhou](https://setjetchina.com/the-untamed-cloud-recesses-guizhou/): "The world is vast, but I only want to return to Gusu."
- [The Untamed in Hengdian: A Scene-by-Scene Photo Guide](https://setjetchina.com/the-untamed-hengdian-photo-guide/): This is a scene-by-scene photo guide to The Untamed in Hengdian — every location below is inside the studio, and every one is walkable.
- [Blossoms Shanghai Walking Route: A Self-Guided Tour Through 1990s Shanghai](https://setjetchina.com/blossoms-shanghai-walking-route/): If you have been swept up in the golden-hued nostalgia of Blossoms Shanghai (繁花) — the critically acclaimed 2023 TV drama directed by Wong Kar-wai — you are not alone.
- [Blossoms Shanghai Filming Locations: The 1990s City That No Longer Exists](https://setjetchina.com/blossoms-shanghai-filming-locations/): Blossoms Shanghai (繁花, Fán Huā) is a period piece about a period that is still within living memory — Shanghai in the late 1980s and early 1990s — which makes its Blossoms Shanghai filming locations unusually complicated.
- [Meet Yourself Filming Locations: The Real Dali Behind the Slowest C-Drama](https://setjetchina.com/meet-yourself-filming-locations/): Meet Yourself filming locations are the C-drama settings that made a generation of viewers want to quit their jobs and move to Yunnan.
- [Joy of Life Filming Locations: Fan Xian's China You Can Actually Walk](https://setjetchina.com/joy-of-life-filming-locations/): Joy of Life (庆余年, Qìng Yú Nián) does something rare among C-dramas: it puts its hero in places that look lived-in.
- [The Untamed Filming Locations: Every Real Place Fans Can Visit in China](https://setjetchina.com/the-untamed-filming-locations/): The Untamed filming locations begin with a specific moment every fan remembers, and it is almost never the plot.
- [Swords Into Plowshares Filming Locations: The Real Wuyue Kingdom (太平年)](https://setjetchina.com/swords-into-plowshares-taipingnian-filming-locations-zhejiang-travel-guide/): I came to Swords Into Plowshares (太平年) expecting a palace drama.
- [Rose Story Filming Locations: Chasing Liu Yifei Across Beijing and Shanghai](https://setjetchina.com/rose-story-filming-locations-beijing-shanghai/): I'll be honest with you. I didn't plan a trip around Rose Story (玫瑰的故事). I was already going to Beijing.
- [Lost You Forever Filming Locations: The Real Places You Can Visit (长相思)](https://setjetchina.com/lost-you-forever-filming-locations-travel-guide/): The Lost You Forever filming locations are real — but finding them can turn into a three-hour Douyin rabbit hole.
- [10 Essential Tips for Your First C-Drama Pilgrimage to China](https://setjetchina.com/10-essential-tips-for-your-first-c-drama-pilgrimage-to-china/): You have the visa, you have Alipay installed, and you have a list of filming locations. The hard part is done.
- [From Screen to Scene: Why I Started SetJetChina](https://setjetchina.com/from-screen-to-scene-why-i-started-setjetchina/): Let's be honest: once you fall down the C-drama rabbit hole, there is no climbing back out. This is how that happened to me — and why I built SetJetChina.

## Pages

- [China Filming Locations Dataset: 19 Series, 17 Destination Records](https://setjetchina.com/china-filming-locations-dataset/): This China filming locations dataset connects 19 named series with 17 editorial destination records across 12 province-level regions.
- [Which Chinese Drama City Are You?](https://setjetchina.com/which-drama-city/): Most “which Chinese drama city are you” quizzes sort you by vibe.
- [Corrections & Fact-Check Policy](https://setjetchina.com/corrections/): Every guide on this site carries a “Last verified” date and a list of sources.
- [C-Drama Route Planner: Build Your China Itinerary](https://setjetchina.com/route-planner/): Most China trip planners start from a city. This China drama route planner starts from the dramas you have actually watched.
- [The SetJetChina Newsletter](https://setjetchina.com/newsletter/): SetJetChina publishes new drama routes, filming-location guides and fact-check updates as they happen.
- [First Time in China: The 12 Worries, Answered](https://setjetchina.com/first-time-in-china/): Almost nobody planning their first time in China is afraid of the scenery.
- [Hangzhou Filming Locations: The Best Thing and the City That Plays Itself](https://setjetchina.com/places/hangzhou/): Some cities have to be dressed for the camera. Hangzhou has spent a thousand years dressing itself.
- [China's Ski Resorts: Where Ski into Love Was Filmed](https://setjetchina.com/places/china-ski-resorts/): China has skiing that almost no foreigner knows about: 800 metres of vertical in the northeast, and — in the far north-west — the largest lift-served drop in the country, on snow that squeaks.
- [Qingdao Filming Locations: The City That Plays Every Chinese High School](https://setjetchina.com/places/qingdao/): This is a guide to Qingdao filming locations. Qingdao is the only Chinese city we have found that publishes its own drama-location trail.
- [Wuxi Film Studios: China's First Film-Tourism Base](https://setjetchina.com/places/wuxi-film-studios/): Wuxi film studios are not where the famous Chinese dramas were made — this is where the idea of a Chinese film studio that tourists pay to walk around was invented.
- [Yandang Mountain (雁荡山): Which of the Eight Scenic Areas to Choose](https://setjetchina.com/places/yandang-mountain/): Yandang Mountain is the strangest famous mountain in eastern China.
- [Hengdian vs Xiangshan vs Wuxi: Which Chinese Film Studio to Visit](https://setjetchina.com/places/best-film-studios-china/): This is the Hengdian vs Xiangshan question — and Wuxi. Almost every historical C-drama you have watched was filmed in one of three places.
- [Xiamen Filming Locations: Hidden Love and the Island City](https://setjetchina.com/places/xiamen/): Xiamen is the rare C-drama city that is easier to love than to explain.
- [Chongqing Filming Locations: The First Frost and the 8D City](https://setjetchina.com/places/chongqing/): Most set-jetting trips run one way: you fall for a show, then go looking for the place. Chongqing ran the experiment backwards.
- [Site Updates: Fact-Checks and Change Log](https://setjetchina.com/updates/): This is the site updates log. Prices, opening times and booking rules in China move faster than most guides admit.
- [How Many Days Do You Need for a C-Drama Filming Location Trip?](https://setjetchina.com/plan/how-many-days/): Every drama guide on this site ends with an itinerary, and every one of them assumes you have already decided how long you can travel.
- [The Zhejiang Film Route: Hengdian, Xiangshan and Jinyun in Five Days](https://setjetchina.com/plan/zhejiang-film-studio-route/): Most people visit one filming location and stop.
- [Jinyun Xiandu: The Cliffs Behind Joy of Life and Lost You Forever](https://setjetchina.com/places/jinyun-xiandu/): Some filming locations are built.
- [Beijing Filming Locations: Where C-Dramas Are Really Shot](https://setjetchina.com/places/beijing/): Most set-jetting guides send you to a purpose-built film town.
- [Xiangshan Film City: The Other Half of Joy of Life's Capital](https://setjetchina.com/places/xiangshan/): Everyone writes about Xiangyang.
- [Copyright & Takedown Policy](https://setjetchina.com/copyright/): SetJetChina publishes travel guides to the real-world filming locations of Chinese dramas.
- [SetJetChina Terms of Use](https://setjetchina.com/terms/): These are the SetJetChina terms of use. By using setjetchina.com you agree to the terms on this page.
- [SetJetChina Affiliate Disclosure](https://setjetchina.com/affiliate-disclosure/): This is the SetJetChina affiliate disclosure. Some of the links on this site earn us a commission.
- [Duyun Guizhou Filming Locations: The Untamed's Real Mountains](https://setjetchina.com/places/duyun/): This is the leg that separates a casual visit from a real pilgrimage.
- [Xiangyang Tang City: Joy of Life and Legend of the Demon Cat](https://setjetchina.com/places/xiangyang/): Xiangyang is the least obvious stop on the C-drama map and, for many fans, the most rewarding.
- [Dali and Shaxi Filming Locations: The Real Meet Yourself in Yunnan](https://setjetchina.com/places/dali/): Meet Yourself did something unusual for a C-drama: it made the location the point.
- [Shanghai Filming Locations for C-Drama Fans](https://setjetchina.com/places/shanghai/): Shanghai is the easiest filming-location city in China and the one most dramas return to.
- [Hengdian World Studios: Tickets, Zones & Transport](https://setjetchina.com/places/hengdian/): Hengdian World Studios is not one film set with one all-access ticket.
- [The Best Time to Visit China for Filming Locations](https://setjetchina.com/plan/best-time/): Filming locations are outdoor sets. Weather decides whether you get the shot you came for.
- [How to Book Train Tickets in China: A High-Speed Rail Guide for Foreigners](https://setjetchina.com/plan/trains/): High-speed rail in China is the single best thing about travelling here.
- [Essential China Travel Apps for Foreigners: A Short, Honest List](https://setjetchina.com/plan/apps/): You do not need twenty apps. You need five that work, installed and logged in before you land, with offline data downloaded.
- [How to Pay in China as a Foreigner: Alipay & WeChat Pay](https://setjetchina.com/plan/payment/): China is close to cashless. A street vendor selling grilled skewers outside Hengdian will hand you a printed QR code, not a card machine.
- [China Visa for Foreigners: Entry Rules for C-Drama Travellers (2026)](https://setjetchina.com/plan/visa/): This is the one thing you cannot fix on the ground. Get your entry status wrong and the whole pilgrimage ends at the check-in desk.
- [China Travel Planning: Plan Your Trip](https://setjetchina.com/plan/): Travelling in China as a foreigner is easier than it has ever been, and harder than the guidebooks imply. The difficulty is never the sights.
- [C-Drama Filming Locations in China by Region](https://setjetchina.com/places/): Some fans start with a drama. Others start with a place they have always wanted to see, and work backwards to find out which show was filmed there.
- [Browse C-Drama Filming Locations by Show](https://setjetchina.com/dramas/): You did not watch these shows for the geography.
- [C-Drama Filming Location Map](https://setjetchina.com/drama-map/): This C-drama filming location map/index covers seventeen destinations across twelve provinces and municipalities, grouped by the region you will actually travel through.
- [About SetJetChina](https://setjetchina.com/about/): About SetJetChina: an independent, English-language guide to the real places behind Chinese dramas — and to the practical work of getting there.
- [Home — C-Drama Filming Locations in China](https://setjetchina.com/): The C-drama filming locations behind the shows you love — where they were shot, how to get there, what it costs, and what nobody tells you before you go.
- [SetJetChina Privacy Policy](https://setjetchina.com/privacy-policy/): This is the SetJetChina privacy policy. SetJetChina is a travel guide for international fans of Chinese drama.

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