About China Cheat Sheet
Why this site exists
Most guides to travelling in China are written from the outside. They are built around attractions, tours, and rankings, and they stop at the point where a traveller actually needs help: the moment you land, unlock your phone, and discover that half your usual apps do not work the way you expected.
This site is built around that gap.
We focus on the practical, post-arrival problems that decide whether a trip goes smoothly:
- Which payments actually work with a foreign card, and where they fail
- Whether you need a VPN, an eSIM, or both — and in which order to set them up
- How the visa-free schemes really work, including the expiry dates most guides omit
- What to do when verification, registration, or booking screens reject you
Our premise is simple: the useful information about travelling China is the operational detail, not the list of famous places.
Who is behind this site
[TO CONFIRM: name / pen name]
[TO CONFIRM: one or two sentences on your background — e.g. how long you have lived in or travelled to China, what you do, why you started this site. Specific and verifiable beats impressive and vague.]
Contact: [TO CONFIRM: contact email]
A note on how this site is produced. Our research and drafting process uses AI tooling for speed, with facts verified against first-party government sources and every published figure traceable to a dated source. We say this plainly because you deserve to know how the content you are reading was made. What we do not do is publish policy claims we cannot source, or present untested steps as if we had tested them. Our method is documented in full on How We Test and Verify.
What we are rigorous about
| Area | Our commitment |
|---|---|
| Policy facts | Sourced from first-party government pages, with the source’s own date recorded and shown |
| Source conflicts | Flagged in public rather than silently resolved |
| Predictions | None. We do not forecast whether a policy will be renewed |
| Fees and limits | Read from official pages on the date shown, never estimated |
| Screenshots | From the real interface; captioned; never stock imagery presented as a real step |
| Commercial relationships | Disclosed; no partner gets editorial approval rights |
Full method: How We Test and Verify.
Coverage and language
This site is published in English for international visitors to mainland China.
Where a rule differs for a specific nationality — visa-free eligibility, transit schemes, reciprocal agreements — we say so per country rather than generalising. Getting this wrong is the single most common failure in China travel content.
What we do not do
- We do not sell tours. We are not an operator, and we have no inventory to move.
- We do not guarantee entry, visa approval, or policy outcomes. Only Chinese authorities can do that.
- We do not provide legal or medical advice. Our health and medical content is informational; our “How We Test” page states how it is sourced.
- We do not scrape or republish other publishers’ content.
Corrections and contact
If something on this site is wrong — an expired figure, a changed rule, a screenshot that no longer matches its article — please tell us. Corrections are welcome and are made in place, with the change dated.
Contact: [TO CONFIRM: contact email]
Legal
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- Privacy Policy — what data is collected
- Terms of Service — the terms of use