Internet is accessible in all over China, and by 2008, China had the largest cyber citizen population in the world, and there are over 630 million internet users by the end of 2014 in China. Travelers don’t need to worry about the internet issue in the travel. There are many internet cafes in every city, and travelers may use these cafes to access the internet. As the coverage of WiFi expands fast over China, travelers can find free WiFi in many places. Tablets and cellphones are more used in the travel to get online.
WiFi in China
At present, as a wireless internet access, WiFi has won its popularity among the whole China and people are more and more rely upon the use of WiFi. By the end of 2014, there were about 6.5 millions of public WiFi hotspots in China, among them, about 2 millions of WiFi hotspots are government WiFi hotspots.
WiFi in Hotels and Other Public Places
Theoretically, the majority of Chinese hotels will supply Internet for travelers. There is no doubt that the starred hotels and luxury hotels will definitely provide Internet, however, not all of them are free of charge. Some hotels will charge a certain fees for the use of WiFi. Please check this information when booking a hotel. Chinese people are getting more and more rely upon free WiFi, since people are frequently communicating through social media and the costs for the network traffic cost is rather high. So most small hotels, even hostels are equipped with free WiFi to meet the demands of their guest. WiFi in these small hotels are normally free.
Just like the hotel situation, other public places, like shopping malls, cafeterias, good restaurants and tea houses, etc. are covered with WiFi by the sellers for customers’ convenience. WiFi in these places will need codes to access and, and you can ask the service staffs for the WiFi code.
Notice: WiFi in the small hotels or other public places may be slow and unstable if there are many people use it, so be prepared for this situation.
Free Government WiFi Hotspots
Chinese government has always been participated the construction of free public WiFi actively. Since 2011, there are several cities in China has promoted the public free WiFi policy, like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, etc. The public WiFi hotspots are mainly located in tourist attractions, government buildings, major commercial districts, public parks, hospitals and public infrastructures like bus stops and subway. In the nearly, more and more cities are expected to join this plan.
