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Prepare your travel essentials
Documents, useful apps and offline backups. Check your own entry eligibility with the relevant authorities.
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Which entry route are you relying on?
Visa or ordinary visa-free entry
With a visa, check its validity, entries remaining, permitted stay and purpose. Ordinary visa-free entry depends on your nationality and the policy in force for your travel dates.
If this does not workUnsure about your passport or route? Ask immigration service 12367 and your airline before departure. Have nationality, passport type, flight sequence, ports and dates ready. Your admission and permitted stay are decided by immigration, not by this guide.
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Finish these before you leave home
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Step 1 · Confirm your entry basis for this exact itinerary
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Step 2 · Complete the free official Arrival Card
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Avoid paid or look-alike arrival-card sites
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Step 3 · Save your arrival details in Chinese and offline
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Step 4 · Choose and test your landing connection
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Step 5 · Set up Alipay while your bank is easy to reach
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Step 6 · Add a second payment route
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Step 7 · Install the small set of apps you will actually use
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Keep your home number active
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Prepare your own offline essentials
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Fix the common setup problems
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Test the phone tasks you will need when tired
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Check the next flight or train before packing
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