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Companies
Section titled “Companies”Alipay
Section titled “Alipay”Alipay in general has an excellent English customer service you can access via chat. They are very responsive.
Miscellaneous
Section titled “Miscellaneous”App Store
Section titled “App Store”In the order of preference; these two should mostly suffice.
- CoolAPK: https://www.coolapk.com
- Google Play Store
There are also app stores from Tencent, Baidu, Huawei in the order of preference.
- DiDi
- Amap
- Baidu Maps
Payment
Section titled “Payment”- Alipay
Translation
Section titled “Translation”- Don’t use chinese apps. Just use Google Translate / LLMs. This was written in 2025, probably the future is much brigher.
Transit
Section titled “Transit”For Metro, buses etc (each city has it’s own card that you can create from these apps)
- Alipay
For inter-city trains
- Railway 12306 (App exists; and probably also website exists?)