Welcome to China’s ‘Dalifornia’

Young Chinese are flocking to the picturesque mountain town of Dali to escape the cutthroat competition and suffocating political environment of the country’s megacities. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

TO find the dance circle in the bed-and-breakfast’s courtyard, drive north from the bedsheet factory converted into a crafts market toward the vegan canteen urging diners to “walk barefoot in the soil and bathe in the sunshine”.

If you see the unmanned craft beer bar where customers pay on the honour system, you’ve gone too far.