The five cities we are visiting in China are marked with a star. From north to south: Daqing, Harbin, Beijing, Jinan, Shanghai.
All of these cities are in eastern China. Here is just that part of China.
(This map is dated 1996, and shows Hong Kong as being a possession of the U.K. and Macau as being a possession of Portugal. Hong Kong was handed over to the Chinese in 1997, and Macau in 1999.)