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Practical China travel guides

Choose the task in front of you. Every published guide leads with the answer, includes failure paths and shows when it was last checked.

China Travel Checklist 2026

Everything to prepare before your first trip, arranged by when to do it.

The four payment layers, what to set up before you fly, and the limits and fees we could date.

Install, verify, link and test your card before you fly.

The apps official guidance actually names, mapped to the job each one does.

Buying a SIM on a passport, how far eSIM support goes, and the prices nobody publishes.

Which document works in which channel, how identity verification really runs, and the refund and change ladders we could date.

The three official booking routes, the English setup, and the fares no official source confirms.

Which venues name a passport in their own rules, what the gate does with it, and where a discount quietly excludes you.

What actually fails, stage by stage, with the limits, fees and escalation routes we could date.