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Verified events across the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that a foreign visitor can actually attend — checked, translated, and honest about how hard each one is to get into. Densest in Guizhou, where we live.
Each city has its own page and its own calendar feed, so you can subscribe to just the place you are going to: Beijing (11) · Shanghai (8) · Danzhai (3) · Rongjiang (3) · Hong Kong (2) · Kaili (2) · Taijiang (2) · Taipei (2) · Zhenyuan (2) · Cengong (1) · Chengdu (1) · Chongqing (1) · Chuxiong (1) · Guangzhou (1) · Guilin (1) · Hangzhou (1) · Harbin (1) · Jinping (1) · Kaili, Leishan (1) · Kunming (1) · Leishan (1) · Majiang, Kaili, Leishan (1) · Pingyao (1) · Qianxinan Prefecture (1) · Shibing (1) · Tianjin (1) · Wuzhen (1) · Xichang (1) · Zhuhai (1)
Running today — if you are already in one of these cities, you can go.
Kaili City Basketball League (KBA) in Kaili.
Auntie Basketball Series in Leishan.
2026 Zhenyuan 3x3 Basketball Open in Zhenyuan.
Citywide 91-day Shanghai festival with 170 cultural programs, plus major Mawangdui and ancient Americas artifact exhibitions.
253 works by 190 artists on the China-Laos Railway, shown free at Yunnan Art Museum in Kunming.
2026 Jinping Mountain Bike Race in Jinping.
2026 Shuiwei Town Cycling Race, Cengong in Cengong.
Danzhai Taekwondo Invitational in Danzhai.
Folk dance troupes from across China gather in Guizhou's Qianxinan Prefecture for four days of grassroots ethnic dance performances.
Four-week tennis carnival in Beijing featuring WTA 1000, ATP 500 and ITF events with Sinner, Sabalenka and other stars.
Online track connecting female founders in Beijing with funding, workspace and policy support; competes for $8M+ global prize pool.
City-wide light art festival themed "City Light", with installations along the Bund, Expo waterfront and Suzhou Creek.
International speed climbing competition in Chongqing over three days, featuring speed qualifications, finals, mixed relay and relay events.
Latin music party at Wood Garden Sanlitun with DJs Arquitect, Chaulo and Johnny, marking two years and Latin Independence Day.
Indie-pop singer Galen Crew plays Beijing's OMNI SPACE on his 'Sleeping Beauty' 10th anniversary return tour.
Eight-day professional tennis tournament at Hangzhou's Olympic Sports Centre Tennis Centre; tickets 50-1280 RMB sold online.
Chengdu's top-tier ATP 250 tennis tournament, drawing world-class players, headlines a 43-event 2026 tennis calendar.
British indie rock band The Vaccines play their debut album in full for its 15th anniversary.
Jia Zhangke's festival in a Ming-dynasty walled city — 24–30 September 2026, and its ticketing site takes an email address instead of a Chinese phone number.
Three-day Strawberry Music Festival at Nansha with three stages and lineup including A Si and Gem.
Trail race through Guilin's Longji rice terraces, with 100K, 50K, 30K, 15K, 6K and two-day combo events.
International food stalls, cultural displays and community networking hosted at the Guyanese embassy in Beijing.
Family-friendly outdoor picnic with South African braai food, games, music and optional museum tour.
Chinese Athletics Association A-class half marathon around Tuanbo Lake in Tianjin's Jinghai District, 10,000 runners.
2026 Village BA National Finals in Taijiang.
2026 Tour of Guizhou International Road Cycling Race (Qiandongnan Stage) in Majiang, Kaili, Leishan.
2026 Village Super League National Day Friendly Matches in Rongjiang.
Danzhai Fight Championship in Danzhai.
Passion Guizhou Motorsport Series & Off-Road Vehicle Championship in Kaili.
Blues band Meng Meng plays a late-night set at BRICKS in Sanlitun, Beijing.
Ostermeier's Wild Duck, 25 productions from 10 countries, twelve theatres in a Ming canal town — 15–25 October 2026. Tickets are the hard part.
Bavarian Oktoberfest night at Kempinski's Paulaner Beer Tent with free-flowing beer, pretzels and accordion music.
2026 Zhenyuan Mountain Bike Classic in Zhenyuan.
2026 Rongjiang Half Marathon in Rongjiang.
Danzhai Hiking Walk in Danzhai.
China's biggest art-market week — West Bund Art & Design and ART021 running concurrently, plus citywide openings. November 2026, exact dates not yet announced.
Taipei's November film festival — 6–22 November 2026, with the 63rd Golden Horse Awards on the closing night. English ticketing interface, international cards accepted.
Ten-minute play festival with live performances of original scripts by local playwrights, staged in Beijing on November 7.
Mexican Embassy-presented Day of the Dead masquerade ball with masks, culture and party at Hyatt Regency Beijing.
2026 Guizhou Qiandongnan Xianglushan Marathon in Kaili, Leishan.
A city of illuminated ice buildings on the frozen Songhua River — December 2026 to roughly February 2027, opening date not yet announced (and last season it closed early).
Ink-Wash Clouds Shibing Winter Swimming Invitational & 9th Qiandongnan Winter Swimming Invitational in Shibing.
Global smash-hit pop musical SIX remixes Tudor history at Beijing Poly Theatre, December 3-20, 2026.
China's only full-scale international airshow, 30th anniversary edition — 7–13 December 2026 in Zhuhai, not the November dates still published across the English web.
Asia's largest design fair, back in the 1950s Shanghai Exhibition Centre — and unlike the fashion week, it sells tickets to anyone. March 2027.
Asia's flagship art fair returns to the Wan Chai convention centre 25–27 March 2027 — and you buy a ticket the way you would in Basel or Miami.
Nine Miao sub-groups in full embroidered dress and silver crowns, a procession kilometres long through a Guizhou county town — the third lunar month, which falls in late April 2027.
Three days of rugby and fancy dress at Kai Tak Stadium, 9–11 April 2027 — and in 2026 it sold 120,000 tickets before the gates opened.
Asia's biggest computing and AI hardware show — 1–4 June 2027 across four Taipei venues. Free for trade visitors who pre-register; the general public gets one day, and under-18s get none.
The Yi new-year fire festival — a torch-lit avenue built for a hundred thousand people in Xichang, and a fire-worship ceremony in Chuxiong. Follows the 24th day of the sixth lunar month, which falls in late July 2027.
Shanghai passed 10,000 coffee shops — more than any city on earth — and throws an open-air festival along the Huangpu each spring, around the May Day holiday.
Farmers, butchers and students playing league football in front of tens of thousands, in a Guizhou county town — a season that runs for months, not a weekend.
China's largest AI event — 1,100 exhibitors across four venues, and unusually for a conference of this weight, anyone can buy a ticket. Next edition not yet dated.
China's fashion capital week, twice a year — the runways are invitation-only, but the city around them opens up. Beware the wrong 2027 dates circulating in English.
Send a poster, a link, or just a name to hello@visitxingyi.com or message us on WhatsApp. Coming to one of these? We're the English-speaking team on the ground in Guizhou — we can help with registration, tickets and getting there.