Articles about: China
How to activate an eSIM for China: step-by-step setup guide
Install your VamosData China eSIM before you fly, activate it the minute you land, and avoid the one Apple rule that catches travellers out at the gate.
Hong Kong or Macao into mainland China: border-crossing connectivity tips
Hong Kong and Macao run their own mobile networks, so crossing into mainland China changes everything on your phone. How to cross already connected.
China travel tech checklist: 7 things to set up before you board
Wallets, Amap, offline packs, power banks and a VamosData eSIM — the seven jobs that take ten minutes at home and cost you an afternoon in China.
Does Google Maps work in China? Best navigation and translation apps for tourists
Google Maps and Google Translate fail on a Chinese local connection. Which apps work instead, why Amap wins anyway, and how to land with yours already live.
How to use WeChat Pay and Alipay as a foreigner in China
Link a foreign card to Alipay or Weixin Pay step by step, and see why a taxi, a metro gate and a noodle stall all need your phone to have data.
In China your wallet is an app, and the app needs a signal
Foreign cards now link to China's big wallet apps, so your money sits behind a QR scan. What that asks of your data connection, and the fallback to pack.
A work trip to China is a different connectivity problem from a holiday
The 140th Canton Fair runs 15 October to 4 November in Guangzhou. Why a business traveller's connectivity checklist looks nothing like a tourist's.
China's Golden Week: 800 million people moving at once
National Day Golden Week runs 1–7 October 2026 and the whole country travels at once. Why your data problem that week is logistics, not blocked apps.
Everything to set up before you fly to China in 2026
China runs on apps, and most of them want an SMS code. Set up Alipay, WeChat, DiDi and Amap at home so your VamosData eSIM handles the rest on arrival.
Do you need a VPN in China in 2026?
China's 2026 crackdown changed which VPNs survive and who gets fined. What travellers report still connects, and the setup that skips the tunnel.
China's Great Firewall: what's blocked, and why a VPN isn't a plan
What China's Great Firewall actually filters, why VPNs are a fragile workaround, and how a VamosData eSIM routes around the problem entirely.
How to get internet on your phone in China
Getting online in China takes a little planning: which apps are blocked, why a VamosData eSIM sidesteps the firewall, and what to set up before you fly.