About AI Workshop (AI智工坊)

What this site is

The China Travel blog exists because most English-language information about visiting China is either outdated, written by people who have not been there recently, or quietly wrong about the things that actually matter on arrival: whether you can use an International Driving Permit, how the 240-hour transit rule is counted, whether your hotel can legally register you, what happens if your train is cancelled by a typhoon.

So we write the pages we wished existed. Each guide is built around the questions travellers actually ask, with the operational detail in tables: prices, time windows, document checklists, city-by-city differences, and the failure modes that cost people a day.

How we research

Our editorial rules are deliberately boring:

• Primary sources first. Where a rule matters, we go to the National Immigration Administration, the foreign ministries, railway operators, tax authorities, municipal government guidance or the original policy document — not to another travel blog's summary of it.
• No invented numbers. If a figure cannot be traced to a source, it does not go in the article. Where official guidance is genuinely unclear, we say so rather than smoothing it over.
• Local examples labelled as examples. China's rules are national in principle and local in practice. Where a processing time or a fee comes from one city, we label it as that city's example instead of promising it nationwide.
• Dates on everything. Policies change. Every guide carries an update date, and the ones most prone to change — visas, tax refunds, payments, transport — are rewritten when the rules move.
• City and regional coverage. We deliberately cover destinations beyond the standard Beijing–Shanghai–Xi'an triangle, because that is where the interesting trips and the thin information both are.

What else we do

The studio behind this site builds AI systems for small businesses and independent sellers:

In other words: the same automation we use to run this blog every day is what we sell. If a guide here reads as though it was assembled by a system that actually checks its own sources, that is not a coincidence.

How to use this site

• Start with the blog index, newest first.
• For entry paperwork, begin with the digital arrival card and the 240-hour visa-free transit guide.
• For money, the payment apps setup guide is the one that saves the most time at the airport.
• For getting around, see the rail guide and the self-drive and car-rental guide.