China travel tools
Tools for the messy parts of China travel.
Build a trip profile, then resolve entry, payments, phone, lodging, route, arrival, and source checks.
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library tools
Recommended path
Start free, check entry, then test payments before you depend on your phone.
Start with the trip profile
Build the profile first, then decide whether the offline PDF is worth carrying.
China Trip Readiness Builder
Generate a personalized, source-checked plan for entry, payments, internet, hotel registration, transport, food needs, and emergency cards.
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Personalized Trip PDF
A low-cost offline China toolkit generated from your saved profile, source-checked actions, Chinese cards, and evidence links, with a 10-day refund if it is not useful.
Open toolSample Personalized Trip PDF
A public, redacted sample showing the paid PDF structure, risk matrix, Chinese cards, and evidence ledger.
Open sampleResolve arrival blockers
Check the risks that usually cause first-week friction: entry, payments, phone setup, and lodging.
China Entry Path Checker
Classify a route as possible visa-free, possible transit-without-visa, ordinary visa likely, or official verification needed, with source links and a copyable route brief.
Open toolChina Payment Readiness Checker
Check Alipay, WeChat Pay, linked cards, second-card fallback, RMB cash, data, SMS, battery, first-ride risk, and a payment failure sequence.
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China Connectivity Readiness Checker
Check roaming, travel eSIM, local SIM, backup data, SMS recovery, offline kit, group channel, and the first-day phone failure sequence.
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China Accommodation Readiness Checker
Check first-night hotel readiness, foreign-passport check-in, private-stay registration, Chinese address, booking proof, and backup hotel coverage.
Open toolMatch route and context
Choose the tool by route, traveler profile, city arrival, or situation-specific playbook.
China Itinerary Routes
Match a practical China route by trip length, city, pace, and traveler type, with day-by-day logistics, booking checks, failure plans, and source links.
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China Trip Playbooks
Scenario plans for first-time trips, business visitors, families, dietary needs, medicine, rail routes, late arrivals, and transit checks.
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China Readiness by Market
Start with a source-checked page for U.S., India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK, Canada, Australia, or business visitors.
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City Arrival Playbooks
Start with a source-checked first-90-minute arrival plan for Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi'an.
Open toolCarry the useful parts
Use these when departure is close and you need cards, saved actions, and source checks.
China Arrival Kit
Turn your plan into printable Chinese cards, a departure timeline, and arrival-day failure flows.
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My China Trip Board
Return to your saved readiness score, action lanes, source freshness, Arrival Kit, and verification triggers.
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China Travel Source Watch
See the checked claims, official sources, provider sources, and recheck dates behind the planner and arrival pages.
Open toolFree reference tools
Filter apps, checklist items, and packing tasks without starting the planner again.
Apps You Need in China
Filter essential China apps by task: payments, maps, translation, ride-hailing, messaging, booking, and pre-arrival setup priority.
Open toolChina Travel Checklist
A practical China trip checklist for payments, internet, apps, documents, arrival setup, backups, and common first-day failure points.
Open toolPacking List for China
A focused China packing list for phone power, documents, payments, medication, weather, walking days, and arrival-day backups.
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