Updates
Latest travel-readiness updates
Check what changed on policy-sensitive, payment-sensitive, and setup-critical pages before your trip.
Visa
Entry checker now shows official rule basis
Entry readiness results now show the official rule basis behind each pass or block, including source-backed port, route, stay-length, cumulative-stay, freshness, and Arrival Card readiness checks.
2026-05-15Visa
Entry readiness guidance clarified
The entry checker now asks Thailand and Malaysia mutual-exemption users for recent visa-free stay days so it can enforce the verified 90-days-in-180-days cumulative limit, and near-miss results now show the specific condition to fix before you rely on a visa-free path.
2026-05-15Visa
Entry readiness coverage strengthened
Entry readiness now includes verified Thailand and Malaysia mutual visa-exemption paths, requires the 240-hour transit document-validity check, and runs generated coverage tests for ordinary visa-free countries, 240-hour transit countries, ports, stay areas, and 24-hour direct-transit convenience airports.
2026-05-15Release
Newsletter unsubscribe suppression added
Newsletter and Trip Pack beta requests now have an unsubscribe page backed by JSONL suppression records. Future signups from an unsubscribed email are blocked before new capture records are written.
2026-05-07Readiness
Core readiness category pages upgraded
Visa, payments, internet and apps, and transport category pages now show the primary action, saved-materials snapshot, next-page handoffs, core guides, and what to verify before relying on a path.
2026-05-07City Guides
City guides now show source-backed verification
Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi'an guides now include public-source verification status, arrival playbooks, source links, and explicit gaps for missing screenshots, foreign-passport booking walkthroughs, and on-the-ground transfer timing tests.
2026-05-07Transport
High-speed rail and DiDi source layer strengthened
High-speed rail and DiDi guides now use stronger public sources, including China Railway 12306, 12306 FAQ, Beijing train-ticket guidance, the national expatriate ride-hailing guide, and Beijing transport guidance. Both pages remain clear about missing live screenshots and field-test records.
2026-05-07Editorial
Article verification levels added
Article pages now show whether guidance is official-source verified, public-source verified, hands-on tested, or still needs hands-on testing, with evidence gaps such as missing screenshots, app-version notes, or field-test records listed openly.
2026-05-07Release
Privacy and beta capture disclosures synchronized
Privacy, Terms, Disclaimer, and release-checklist docs now reflect the current newsletter and Trip Pack beta capture flow: consent, JSONL storage, email hash dedupe, honeypot spam filtering, and JSONL suppression unsubscribe handling before a production email provider is connected.
2026-05-07Readiness
Payment, internet, and transport readiness guidance upgraded
Payment P0 guides now include clearer Alipay and WeChat Pay setup steps, failure conditions, fallback options, and verified public sources. Internet, app, map, cash, metro, and airport-transfer guides no longer use internal placeholder sources.
2026-05-07Visa
Entry readiness policy data expanded
Entry policies now model ordinary visa-free entry, Singapore mutual visa exemption, 55-country 240-hour transit, 65 supported ports, 24 permitted stay areas, and freshness blocking.
2026-05-06Payments
Payment setup guidance reviewed
Payment guides emphasize Alipay, WeChat Pay, foreign card variability, and backup cash.
2026-05-04City Guides
City guide template launched
Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi'an guides now include arrival, payment, transport, itinerary, and Chinese address sections.
2026-05-05Tools
Checklist data structure published
Checklist sections are stored in JSON for non-code updates.
2026-05-05