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Choose your travel apps, stay connected, prepare your payments, and find places and dishes worth the journey. Browse the nihaonana China notebook, from practical reading to local flavours.
Essential apps
A practical mainland China app kit for payments, maps, rides, trains and offline translation. Set up overseas-number verification, cards and saved Chinese addresses before you fly.
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Read the essential China apps guideConnectivity
Understand overseas routing, provider app-access claims and prepaid data. Check the exact plan rather than assuming an eSIM guarantees access.
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Read the China eSIM guidePlaces to visit
From the Great Wall and Jiuzhaigou to Shanghai, Chengdu, and the Three Gorges. Explore the full collection of photographs, introductions, and planning notes.
Explore all 15 placesIncludes Hong Kong and Macao sightseeing introductions. Their entry, payment, and mobile arrangements differ from mainland China.
Food & local flavours
Explore eight classic regional cuisines by province. Learn Chinese dish names, pinyin and flavour notes, then keep useful ordering phrases handy.
Explore the regional food guideRead the guidance for your card network and Alipay operation. These are scoped references, not guarantees for a particular card or transaction.
The reviewed China payment guide says Visa cards can be added to Alipay. This is network-level guidance and does not confirm that a particular issuer or card will link successfully.
The reviewed guide describes using Alipay to pay a merchant by scanning the merchant QR code or presenting a payment code after adding a bank card. It does not guarantee that every Visa issuer or merchant will accept the transaction.
The reviewed China payment guide says Mastercard cards can be added to Alipay. This is network-level guidance, not an issuer or transaction guarantee.
The reviewed China payment guide describes Alipay merchant QR payment and lists UnionPay cards among the cards that can be added. Merchant and issuer conditions still apply.
Keep your preparation together. Use the trip workspace for dates, source-linked preparation tasks, and your own lists.
