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Choose the city where you land first

Start with the city that has to work on day one: entry handoff, airport or station arrival, payments, Chinese addresses, recovery cards, and the next move.

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First Move

Choose the city guide by what has to work first.

Trip Intent

Match city coverage to your first move

Complete First-Day Guides

Core city readiness guides

These city pages have full arrival context, transport snapshots, recovery handoffs, address presets, and city checklist contexts.

P0 · Complete guide

Beijing

北京

high arrival

A practical Beijing arrival and first-day guide to help you handle PEK, PKX, metro, ride-hailing, payment backup, Palace Museum booking, Great Wall logistics, and Chinese address cards.

EntryTransit handoffPaymentmediumBookinghighPackArrival + snapshot
First tripBusinessStudyGateway

P0 · Complete guide

Shanghai

上海

high arrival

A Shanghai arrival and first-day guide to help you handle PVG, SHA, metro, Maglev, foreign-card transport payment, 240-hour transit planning, museum reservations, and Chinese address cards.

EntryTransit handoffPaymentmediumBookingmediumPackArrival + snapshot
First tripTransitFamilyBusinessGateway

P0 · Complete guide

Xi'an

西安

medium arrival

A Xi'an arrival and first-day guide to help you handle XIY airport, Xi'an North Railway Station, metro or taxi decisions, payment setup, Terracotta Army ticket rules, and Chinese address cards.

EntryEntry handoffPaymentmediumBookinghighPackArrival + snapshot
First tripStudyGateway

Planned and Watchlist

Future city coverage stays honest

These cities are tracked as demand and evidence candidates. They are not published as full guides until transport, booking, address, and recovery evidence is ready.

P1 · Planned

Chengdu

成都

medium risk

Panda, Sichuan food, and southwest gateway demand continues to appear in inbound travel signals.

SurfaceFull city readiness guide after source pack is completeEntry fitmediumUpgradePublish when the city has transport fact pack, booking risk cards, address presets, and checklist context.
  • TFU and CTU arrival facts
  • Chengdu East rail station handoff
  • Panda Base booking and address presets

P1 · Planned

Guangzhou

广州

high risk

Southern gateway, Canton Fair, and family travel demand make it a high-value next city.

SurfaceFull city readiness guide with Greater Bay Area route handoffEntry fithighUpgradePublish when mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao route boundaries are explicit and source-backed.
  • CAN arrival paths
  • Guangzhou South station handoff
  • Canton Fair and Chimelong booking risks

P1 · Planned

Guilin / Yangshuo

桂林 / 阳朔

medium risk

Classic karst landscape itineraries appear repeatedly in English-language China trip planning.

SurfaceCombined city and countryside arrival guideEntry fitlowUpgradePublish when the guide can support rural transfer, address card, and weak-network fallback needs.
  • Airport and rail transfer facts
  • Li River and Yangshuo transfer fallbacks
  • Weak-network and cash backup evidence

P1 · Planned

Zhangjiajie

张家界

high risk

International recognition is high, but weather, gates, tickets, and transfers make readiness risk high.

SurfaceFull guide after ticket, gate, and weather fallback evidence is readyEntry fitlowUpgradePublish only after scenic-gate and ticketing claims are source-backed and conservative.
  • Scenic area gate names
  • Ticket and cableway fallback paths
  • Airport or rail to hotel transfer facts

P1 · Planned

Shenzhen

深圳

high risk

Tech, business, and Hong Kong-adjacent routes create frequent route-boundary questions.

SurfaceGreater Bay Area city card first, then full guideEntry fithighUpgradePublish when port, rail, and cross-boundary guidance cannot be mistaken for entry permission.
  • SZX arrival paths
  • Mainland and Hong Kong port handoffs
  • Rail and metro payment boundaries

P1 · Lite planned

Hangzhou

杭州

medium risk

Shanghai extension demand is strong, especially for short East China trips.

SurfaceShanghai side-trip card before full guideEntry fitmediumUpgradePublish a full guide only when side-trip R0 handoff and transport evidence are ready.
  • Shanghai side-trip permitted-area boundary copy
  • Hangzhou East station handoff
  • West Lake address and transport presets

P2 · Watchlist

Chongqing, Kunming, Lijiang, Dunhuang, Lhasa, Harbin

high risk

Interest exists, but maintenance cost and special-case risk are higher than P0/P1 city coverage.

SurfaceSearch and feedback capture onlyEntry fitmediumUpgradePromote one city at a time after repeated user demand and source readiness.
  • Demand tags from search
  • Official source matrix
  • Permit, season, altitude, or weather boundaries where relevant

P2 · Watchlist

Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhuhai, Sanya, Changsha, Yiwu

medium risk

These cities appear in inbound travel signals but do not yet justify full readiness pages.

SurfaceHub card or search landing after demand is provenEntry fitmediumUpgradePromote when repeated searches or feedback identify a concrete readiness blocker.
  • Search zero-result trend
  • City-specific transport facts
  • Booking or business-event risk evidence

Route Boundary

Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are route context here

Use them when checking the route before or after Mainland China, especially for transit visa-free planning. Mainland city guides do not turn these regions into ordinary city pages or entry conclusions.

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Offline Backup

Open city packs before travel.

A city guide can help only if you load or copy the material before weak data, airport Wi-Fi, or app login problems get in the way.

  • City Arrival Packs can be saved on this device or copied into your own notes.
  • Address presets are starting points for confirmed place names; hotel addresses still need your booking source.
  • Entry-sensitive routes must go through the Entry Wizard with a concrete port, not a city-name guess.

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