Guides

Short answers first, detail after. Every guide shows its source and the date we last checked it.

• Can I visit Guangzhou on the 240-hour visa-free transit?
• Set up Alipay before you land
• Visa stay calculator — pick nationality, port and entry time, get your stay deadline.

Three first-timer mistakes

1. Trying Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in 3 days.
2. Arriving without Alipay set up.
3. No hotel address in Chinese for the taxi driver.