Planning & Tips

Malaysia and China have a mutual visa-exemption agreement — Malaysian ordinary passport holders can enter China for tourism, business, family visits or transit and stay up to 30 days without a visa. No application, no fee, no letter of invitation. You just need a passport valid for at least 6 months and a return or onward ticket.

If you're planning China and worried about food, here's the good news: China is home to a Muslim community of around 20 million people, and halal food is genuinely available — you just need to know where to look. The country's northwestern provinces (Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia) and cities with historic Muslim quarters have deep halal food cultures, and even large eastern cities have long-standing Muslim neighborhoods.

A traveler about to visit China wrote to us last week. He'd booked a tour through an agency offering a striking deal: many cities, several provinces, and a price that seemed impossibly low. He'd already bought his international flights. Then came the message — the tour was cancelled because not enough people had joined.

National Day (国庆节) celebrates the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, and in 2026 the holiday runs October 1–7 — seven days that trigger the biggest domestic travel wave of the year. Hundreds of millions of Chinese travelers hit the road, rail and skies at once.

In 2026 the calendar hands travelers something rare: Mid-Autumn falls on September 25–27 and National Day runs October 1–7, with only three working days (September 28–30) in between. Take those three days off and you get a 13-day stretch from September 25 to October 7 — a window that fits a serious China trip in one shot.

China's high-speed rail is the backbone of Golden Week travel — and during Mid-Autumn (September 25–27) and National Day (October 1–7, 2026), the popular routes sell out in hours. The difference between a smooth festival trip and a chaotic one is almost entirely decided by how you handle train tickets.

Picture this: you want to wander Beijing's hutongs at your own pace, spend an extra hour at the Xi'an Terracotta Warriors if you feel like it, and eat where the locals eat — but you also don't want to spend your trip panicking over train platforms, hotel check-ins and taxi directions in a language you don't speak.

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In December 2025, Chinese-American creator Sherry Zhu (Zhu Xuirui / 朱溪瑞) posted a one-minute video on TikTok with a line that detonated across the platform: "If you're seeing this video, you're Chinese. I know it sounds scary, but resistance is now pointless." The clip crossed 3 million views in days; hashtags #Chinamaxxing, #BecomingChinese and #VeryChinese then spread like wildfire across TikTok and Instagram. By early August 2026, cumulative views on Chinamaxxing-related hashtags had surged p

On 2 August 2026, China National Radio's Global Information Broadcast aired a segment that was quickly syndicated across Chinese media: Irish travel creator Travis Lyons (full name Travis Leon Price) ziplined across a giant sinkhole in Chongqing and rode "water go-karts" through emerald-green canyons in Henan. He called the experience "just like a real-life video game," and described the China journey from "future cities to mountain-and-water secrets" as "an adventure." Within hours, the clip ha

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On July 1, South Korea's Ministry of Justice formally announced that the visa application fee exemption for group tourists from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Cambodia would be extended from its original June 30 expiry to December 31, 2026.

ChinaTravelPlus | July 2026

Published: June 26, 2026 | By ChinaTravelPlus

A transit QR code is a digital barcode generated by your phone that replaces every physical ticket, transport card, and coin you would otherwise need to ride China's public transport. You simply: