Wei Chen

Wei Chen covers China and the Silk Road for Always Packed: the high-speed rail networks, megacities, and old towns of China, and the caravan cities of Central Asia beyond. His guides specialise in the practical intelligence these trips demand: visas and entry rules, rail booking systems, payment and connectivity realities, and how to pace a route measured in thousands of kilometres. Wei writes about the region as the centre of the map it has always been, not an edge of someone else's. This profile is an Always Packed editorial desk, a named collection of editors and researchers publishing under a shared beat and voice.