China Travel Apps: Step-by-Step Instructions for First-Time Visitors
This is the practical app chapter for the city guides on this site. It assumes that you are using a foreign phone number and an international bank card, and that you have never used Chinese travel apps before. Screenshot note: the pictures below are genuine developer-supplied App Store screenshots or an official government-published Weixin Pay guide, checked on 17 September 2026. They are not screenshots from your own phone. Menus can still differ by iOS/Android, app version, language, region, account eligibility, and verification status. Read the written path as well as the picture, and never scan a QR code copied from an untrusted guide. ...