Only changes that affect your decision: opening rules, thresholds and fees, offers coming and going — plus what we re-verified and added. Every entry carries a date and a basis.
These are changes in bank, payment-provider or regulator terms — they can change whether you can open, what to bring, and what it costs.
We had followed third-party reporting of 60 days. Tencent's own terms say 90 calendar days (the campaign runs to 2026-12-31). This changes how long a foreign card can be used without the fee.
We previously wrote it as “Travel Card”. It is now the official “E-Money Card”, so you don't ask for the wrong product at the counter.
The earlier 6,500 / 65,000 figures were outdated. Both the article body and the FAQ now use the current official figures.
These are our own moves: new data, corrected wording, new tools. Listed so you can see the site is still being maintained.
The old toolkit's three tools are now one: two taps and you get a checkable, printable, exportable document checklist. No member code, open to visitors. /toolbox/ now 301s to /pass/.
Pick a direction, pick a goal, get the verdict up front: whether you can open, which institution, what to bring, and where people usually get stuck.
Report which bank, which city, which visa, whether it worked, and where it stalled — or report what actually landed from a cross-border transfer. Aggregated success rates are free to read.
Old-style /bank/?b=xxx links permanently redirect to /bank/xxx/. Faster and cleaner for visitors, and it stops the same bank being read as several duplicate pages.
Each of these sits right before or after opening an account, and each is a topic general AI commonly gets wrong. Every guide was checked against official sources, in Chinese and English.
English pages used to swap their headings at runtime, so crawlers and share cards sometimes picked up Chinese. Everything is now baked in as English.
The highest-risk group gets its own page: how often short-stay visitors actually succeed in mainland China, which branches are more likely to accept them, and what to use if they can't.
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Last verified：2026-11-06