It measures more than 5,000 km from east to west, straddling four time zones. It's land boundary is more than 20,000 km in total length and adjoins more than 15 countries. It has coastline of 18,000 km or more, and is flanked by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China Seas. For a Photographer, the well known cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc. are not actually the best spots to go for, although they are very interesting as well. If your goal is to see China in a grand tour, that is OK, but cities are cities, they are busy, crowded and often do not have the best air one might like to breath.
China is huge and the landscape is very different from region to region.
Plus there are the colourful ethnic nationalities that make the cultural aspects of photography so interesting and unique. QingHai, XinJiang, and Tibet. They are so different from the eastern part or the central part of China. The western part is vast with unusual types of scenery and considerable human interest. In the western part of this land of beauty are lofty mountains, gaping ravines, unbounded plateaus and broad basins.