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What you should have when travel in China and how to survive.

Must know about China travel and visit.

· Travel,English

Foreigner tourists and visitors could not be as easy as local Chinese people nowadays in china when they face increasingly developed china’s internet driven society. Because they neither have China SIM card and bank card nor would like(dare) apply for sim card and bank cards.

As personal life infrastructure in china, local internet data and online payment are two necessities to survive. Without local internet data, visitors cannot have travel information like real time of buses, trains, flights, maps, restaurants. Without local online payment, one cannot easily take buses and pay for frequently used facilities like some convenient stores, delivery, book a reservation of InterCitys’ transportation and hotels.

Therefore, to survive in China, mobile phone internet access is as important as money is. In a lot of cases, mobile phone internet access and payment is more important than Chinese cash.

If you don’t have them, you will not have freedom and convenience of action. Without them at most situations, you may not be able to buy or may not be able to be buy in time. In China, not every business has POS to accept your international credit cards like Master or Visa. even Unionpay, which is issued by China government is not accepted by all business persons. Wechat pay and Alipay, two major mobile phone payments are wildly accepted by Chinese people. You have them, you can act as freely as local Chinese do.

Wechat's logo and Alipay logo. China's biggest 2 smartphone payment tools

To have mobile phone internet access and payment and then act freely like a local Chinese, it is not difficult not expensive but with bothering procedure. You have to

1 Verify your identification at China telecom companies and China banks with your passport, acquire SIM card and China bank card.

The cheapest SIM card price can be only 50 RMB. It includes phone call and data. More important is that China mobile phone applications registration requires you have a China SIM card. In china, no matter what application you have, identification-certificate-based registration is compulsory. Because SIM card requires identification certificate registration, once you have a china SIM card. It equals that you have a legal identification in china internet society. When you register a mobile phone application or a China website, they always require you to connect your account with a SIM card and send verification number to your mobile phone. By inputting verification number and verification by that application, you can successfully register and use that.

If You have China banks card, your identification certificate is verified by China banks system and you are qualified on China online payment. China bank cards do not need money or require several RMB(less than 10) to get. I think one piece of China bank card is enough. Sometimes, you do need a real card, instead, a virtual card with card number and password is very important. When you pay online, card number and password are asked to input by mobile phone applications.

2 download Wechat or Alipay applications, register them with your China mobile phone number and verified with your China banks card. Then, you can pay by mobile phone.

Now, you just finished fundamental infrastructure for China personal life. You can get information of China restaurants, transportation, accommodations, you can book, buy, pay in China as you wish and fast.

In Beijing, for public transportation, several application is necessary, like 亿通行 and 北京公交 and Didi and Mobike. 亿通行 is used for taking subway. 北京公交 is used for taking bus. Didi is used for taxi, if you have Uber account, you may use uber account in China for Didi usage. Mobike is used for bicycles. 亿通行 and 北京公交 have no English versions. But no need to see those Chine characters, you just show you QR cord when you get in and get out of bus and train.

With full set of them, foreign visitor can be as easy as Chinese are.

Briefly speak as following.

Take passport to buy a china’s SIM card →set a China bank account and get card number and set card password →download Wechat, Alipay, and local transportation application and register them, verify with your China SIM card and bank card information. Then, you can as easy as a local Chinese.

No need to worry about you are monitored by someone. Because we are all naked before Big data and AI and government, if we are not interested by them, then, we can enjoy, just like China gays enjoy ignorance of the society.

Foreigner tourists and visitors could not be as easy as local Chinese people nowadays in china when they face increasingly developed china’s internet driven society. Because they neither have China SIM card and bank card nor would like(dare) apply for sim card and bank cards.

As personal life infrastructure in china, local internet data and online payment are two necessities to survive. Without local internet data, visitors cannot have travel information like real time of buses, trains, flights, maps, restaurants. Without local online payment, one cannot easily take buses and pay for frequently used facilities like some convenient stores, delivery, book a reservation of InterCitys’ transportation and hotels.

Therefore, to survive in China, mobile phone internet access is as important as money is. In a lot of cases, mobile phone internet access and payment is more important than Chinese cash.

If you don’t have them, you will not have freedom and convenience of action. Without them at most situations, you may not be able to buy or may not be able to be buy in time. In China, not every business has POS to accept your international credit cards like Master or Visa. even Unionpay, which is issued by China government is not accepted by all business persons. Wechat pay and Alipay, two major mobile phone payments are wildly accepted by Chinese people. You have them, you can act as freely as local Chinese do.

To have mobile phone internet access and payment and then act freely like a local Chinese, it is not difficult not expensive but with bothering procedure. You have to

1 Verify your identification at China telecom companies and China banks with your passport, acquire SIM card and China bank card.

The cheapest SIM card price can be only 50 RMB. It includes phone call and data. More important is that China mobile phone applications registration requires you have a China SIM card. In china, no matter what application you have, identification-certificate-based registration is compulsory. Because SIM card requires identification certificate registration, once you have a china SIM card. It equals that you have a legal identification in china internet society. When you register a mobile phone application or a China website, they always require you to connect your account with a SIM card and send verification number to your mobile phone. By inputting verification number and verification by that application, you can successfully register and use that.

If You have China banks card, your identification certificate is verified by China banks system and you are qualified on China online payment. China bank cards do not need money or require several RMB(less than 10) to get. I think one piece of China bank card is enough. Sometimes, you do need a real card, instead, a virtual card with card number and password is very important. When you pay online, card number and password are asked to input by mobile phone applications.

2 download Wechat or Alipay applications, register them with your China mobile phone number and verified with your China banks card. Then, you can pay by mobile phone.

Now, you just finished fundamental infrastructure for China personal life. You can get information of China restaurants, transportation, accommodations, you can book, buy, pay in China as you wish and fast.

In Beijing, for public transportation, several application is necessary, like 亿通行(Yi-tong-xing) and 北京公交(Beijing-gong-jiao) and Didi and Mobike. 亿通行(YI-tong-xing) is used for taking subway. 北京公交(Beijing-gong-jiao) is used for taking bus. Didi is used for taxi, if you have Uber account, you may use uber account in China for Didi usage. Mobike is used for bicycles. 亿通行(Yi-tong-xing) and 北京公交(Beijing-gong-jiao) have no English versions. But no need to see those Chine characters, you just show you QR cord when you get in and get out of bus and train.

With full set of them, foreign visitor can be as easy as Chinese are.

Briefly speak as following.

Take passport to buy a china’s SIM card →set a China bank account and get card number and set card password →download Wechat, Alipay, and local transportation application and register them, verify with your China SIM card and bank card information. Then, you can as easy as a local Chinese.

No need to worry about you are monitored by someone. Because we are all naked before Big data and AI and government, if we are not interested by them, then, we can enjoy, just like China gays enjoy ignorance of the society.

 

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