Do Not use Gmail when you travel in China

Do Not use Gmail for your email service when you travel in China, because Gmail and google were blocked by Chinese internet, we can Not access Gmail nor google when you arrive in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou. reported by ChinaTour.

Internet has been popularized in China for many years. Internet service is available in most hotels in China. The service may be free of charge or cost some money according to different hotels. If you have a cellphone or laptop using WiFi, it would be very easy to access the Internet. WiFi is available in some restaurants, public places in major cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai,Xian etc.

Because of some particular seasons in China, some websites are blocked in China, which means you cannot access these websites within the territory of China. The blocked websites includes some famous websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and etc. The easiest way to solve this problem is to use VPN. You can buy the service from an VPN provider.

The following is a few popular websites which are not available in China.

1. Facebook

2. Twitter

3. YouTube

4. Instagram

5. Flickr

6. Blogger

7. Dailymotion

8. Picasa

9. Hellotxt

10. Dropbox

11. Most of Google products including Google Search Engine, Gmail, Google Play etc. (Google map is available for now.)

Since Google is not available in China, people may use other search engines such as Bing, Yahoo etc.

The following is a few search engines available in China.

http://www.bing.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.ask.com

http://www.search.com

http://www.hotbot.com

http://www.excite.com

http://www.lycos.com

WiFi service in public places in major cities:

Beijing

Free WiFi at Beijing Capital International Airport

Passengers can put the passport on the WiFi Self-service Machine. After the machine scanning the passport, the passenger will get a free WiFi account. If passengers have a Chinese cell phone number and is able to read Chinese, they can get a account through the airport main page.



Free WiFi service has been available on most public buses in Beijing since December 2nd. The name of the WiFi link is “16WiFi”. Passengers may have to download an app named “e路WiFi” and then register. Then you can begin to service the Internet.

Shanghai

Shanghai has been taking effort to build a free network in most public places including waiting area of the bus stops, commercial areas, parks, tourist attractions, waiting areas of hospitals, stadiums and etc. The name of the WiFi link is “i-Shanghai”.


Google NOT Available in China