Your complete travel toolkit.
Everything you need for your first trip to China — from visas to daily survival, all in one pocket-friendly guide.
- Mobile version
- Works offline
- Updated
Useful at every stage of the trip
Visa, flights, hotels, payments, eSIM & VPN — everything before takeoff
Customs, airport transit, check-in, registration and your day-one checklist
Subway, Didi, high-speed rail, buses and maps — stress-free from A to B
+ Culture & Lifestyle and Traveler's Toolkit
Free tools
Plan every part of your China trip.
Ten practical tools cover planning, entry, payments and staying connected. No account needed.
Frequently asked questions
Simple answers before you buy.
Right after checkout, we email your access link to the address you used at purchase. Open it on any phone, tablet, or computer — your guide is ready to read, with nothing to download or manage.
You can access and read the guide seamlessly on any smartphone, tablet, or computer (both iOS and Android, Mac and PC).
We offer a 7-day, no-questions-asked refund. If the guide isn't right for you, just email support@chinatripplans.com within 7 days of purchase and we'll refund you in full — no hassle.
Yes — and better than paper. The entire guide, all 69 pages plus 20+ interactive tools, is also a full offline web app. Before you fly, open chinatripplans.com/offline on your phone and add it to your home screen; then the whole guide keeps working with no signal — subway, mountains, anywhere. Printable taxi, allergy and emergency cards are built in too.
You are purchasing the edition current at the time of order. While this edition does not include free lifetime updates, each version is meticulously updated prior to release to ensure all 2026 policies, app setups, and transit info are 100% accurate for your trip.
We strongly recommend starting with China Travel Essentials 2026! It covers all the critical foundation setups you need before landing—such as foreign credit card payments (Alipay/WeChat Pay), eSIM/VPN setup, and high-speed rail booking—making it the essential foundation before exploring our specific City Guides.
Yes, absolutely! Feel free to share the guide with your travel companions for your trip. If you find our guides helpful, we'd deeply appreciate it if you could share our website link (chinatripplans.com) with fellow travelers or on social media to help more people experience hassle-free travel in China!