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The plans we actually travel with.

Short, specific, printable guides for the parts of a China trip that generic advice gets wrong — payment setup, rail booking, and the transit-visa paperwork. Written in Hangzhou, re-verified before every edition.

Best sellerOctober 2026

The exact 12-app setup and payment walkthrough I send to friends before their first China trip — with screenshots, QR fallbacks and an offline PDF.

  • Step-by-step Alipay and WeChat Pay setup for foreign cards (with the screens foreigners get stuck on)
  • The 12 apps worth installing before you fly — and the four you can skip
  • Offline map, translation and eSIM setup that survives the Great Firewall
  • A printable one-page checklist for the airport queue

PDF · 48 pages · instant download

$9.90USD

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New edition 2026October 2026

A day-by-day 14-day route by 350 km/h rail, with train numbers, seat classes, hotel neighbourhoods, booking windows and the swaps we use when it rains.

  • Day-by-day plan with real train numbers, departure stations and seat-class advice
  • Neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood hotel picks for four cities, with price bands
  • Booking windows and the exact apps/ticket desks that work with a foreign passport
  • Rain-day swaps, crowd-avoidance timings and a printable rail-day checklist

PDF · 62 pages · instant download

$19.90USD

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September 2026

Which nationalities qualify, which ports actually process transit without a visa, and the paperwork that clears immigration in under 20 minutes.

  • Eligibility tables by nationality and by port, checked against the latest 2026 notices
  • The onward-ticket rule explained, with the two booking formats immigration accepts
  • Port-specific arrival walks for Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Xi'an
  • A printable form pack and an emergency script if an officer questions your routing

PDF · 36 pages · instant download

$12.90USD

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Why travellers buy these instead of a guidebook

Written on the ground

Every route, price and queue time comes from a trip taken in the last twelve months — not from a publisher’s update cycle.

Re-verified, with dates

Immigration rules and payment onboarding change constantly. Each guide states when it was last checked and what changed.

Made to be used

A printable A4 layout, a phone-readable version, and no filler chapters on shopping malls you will never visit.

How it works

  1. 01

    Pick the guide that matches this trip

    Every listing tells you exactly what is inside, how many pages, and when it was last re-verified. No upsell ladder, no “buy the whole library”.

  2. 02

    Pay once, securely, via Lemon Squeezy

    Card, Apple Pay or PayPal through Lemon Squeezy — the merchant of record handles VAT and receipts. We never see or store your card details.

  3. 03

    The PDF lands in your inbox in under a minute

    Download it to your phone before you fly: it works offline, prints cleanly on A4, and every future edition is emailed to you free.

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Will it work offline on my phone?

Yes. Each guide is a single PDF designed for phone reading, tablet annotation and A4 printing. Download it before you board — it opens with no signal, which matters more in China than anywhere.

Are the guides kept up to date?

Every guide carries a “last verified” date. When a rule changes — visa-free transit, payment onboarding, rail booking windows — we re-check the guide and email the revised edition to everyone who bought it, free.

What is the refund policy?

If a guide is not useful to you, email hello@visitchinahub.com within 30 days and we refund the full amount. We would rather have a reader than a reluctant sale.

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Not yet. Bundles are in the works — newsletter subscribers hear about them first, and existing buyers get the difference credited.

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