China residential proxies from TrueProxies: 61 of 72 test requests exited in China on October 1, 2026. GB-based plans, from $1.64 for 1 GB, target by country, city, region or ASN; Unlimited plans, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, by country and city.
Coverage verified
61/72
requests exited in country
14
cities seen
1,790 ms
median response
Market context
Mainland storefronts price in yuan (CNY) and write in Simplified Chinese, while Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use Traditional characters and their own currencies and have separate guides. Shopping here is app-first: buyers pay by scanning QR codes with Alipay or WeChat Pay, often spread larger purchases over instalments with Ant Group's Huabei or JD's Baitiao, and some coupons and livestream prices exist only inside the apps. Google search and many other foreign services are not reachable from mainland networks, so local visitors see a domestic set of platforms that pages loaded from abroad rarely match.
Taobao and Tmall, both owned by Alibaba, compete with JD.com, which runs much of its own logistics, and with Pinduoduo, which grew through group deals shared on WeChat and through shoppers in smaller cities and rural areas. Douyin sells through livestreams and short videos, and Xiaohongshu has become a place where people search for product notes and reviews before buying elsewhere. Meituan, merged with the review site Dianping since 2015, fights over restaurant and grocery orders with Taobao Shangou, the name Alibaba gave Ele.me in December 2025. Ctrip and Qunar from Trip.com Group, Alibaba's Fliggy and the 12306 train ticket site set travel prices, Beike and Anjuke list flats, and Xianyu carries second-hand goods.
Baidu leads web search, with Bing's Chinese edition, 360 Search and Sogou behind it, and its results lean on Baidu's own properties such as Baidu Baike, Zhidao and Baijiahao articles; paid listings carry the label 广告 (advertisement). Product searches also happen inside Douyin, WeChat and Xiaohongshu rather than only on a web engine. Sites aimed at the mainland show an ICP number from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, usually in the footer. The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), adopted in August 2021 and in force since 1 November 2021, sets the rules for personal data.
The sales calendar is set by the platforms themselves. JD.com built its 618 festival around its 18 June anniversary, and Alibaba turned 11 November, Singles' Day, into a shopping event in 2009; Tmall, Taobao, JD.com, Pinduoduo and Douyin now run coupons, cross-store discounts and pre-sales around both dates, so prices captured in early June or early November seldom match those of a normal week. Travel prices follow public holidays instead: hotel rates on Ctrip and Meituan, fares on Air China, China Eastern and China Southern, and train tickets on 12306 peak during the Spring Festival travel rush and the National Day Golden Week that begins on 1 October.
Measured
Measured from our gateway in the Netherlands. Results describe the test, not a reserved exit, city or network. How we measure
In China: Check that Baidu search ads labelled 广告, in-feed placements on Toutiao and Douyin, and pre-roll on iQIYI, Youku and Tencent Video show the intended Simplified Chinese creative to viewers in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu.
Ad verification proxies in ChinaIn China: Track Baidu positions for Simplified Chinese keywords from mainland connections, including how many Baidu Baike and Baijiahao results sit above your pages, and compare Bing's Chinese edition, 360 Search and Sogou.
SEO monitoring proxiesIn China: Compare yuan prices, coupons and instalment offers for identical products on Taobao, Tmall, JD.com and Pinduoduo, and follow Ctrip and Meituan hotel rates before and during Golden Week.
Market research proxiesFrom $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps
From $1.64 for 1 GB
Integration
Select China with the country suffix -country-cn in your proxy username.
import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://USER-country-cn:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
"https": "http://USER-country-cn:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
}
response = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies=proxies,
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())Baidu comes first. It leads mainland web search and fills many results pages with its own content, such as Baidu Baike entries, Zhidao answers and Baijiahao articles, so a site's organic listing can sit below several Baidu-owned results. Track Bing's Chinese edition, 360 Search and Sogou second. Google search is not reachable from mainland networks, so its rankings say little about local visibility. For consumer products, also look at what Douyin and Xiaohongshu return for the same terms.
Yes. Hainan has run as a free trade port with island-wide special customs operations since 18 December 2025, and travellers leaving the island can buy up to 100,000 yuan of duty-free goods a year, so cosmetics and luxury prices there differ from the rest of the country. Delivery fees, restaurant choice and hotel rates on Meituan and Ctrip vary from city to city, and Pinduoduo built its base among rural and lower-income buyers. Set the city for each check.
Almost everything changes at the boundary. Mainland pages show yuan and Simplified Chinese, while Hong Kong sites use Hong Kong dollars and Traditional characters. Search moves from Google to Baidu, shopping moves from HKTVmall and Price.com.hk to Taobao, Tmall, JD.com and Pinduoduo, and orders from those sites to Hong Kong addresses carry different delivery terms. Payment shifts from Octopus, FPS and AlipayHK to the mainland versions of Alipay and WeChat Pay. Run checks from each side separately.
Yes. 61 of 72 test requests exited in China on October 1, 2026, from 50 IPs in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hangzhou on Chinanet, China Telecom (Group) and China Mobile Communications Group. Both plans can also target a city there; GB-based plans add region and ASN targeting.
1,790 ms median response in our October 2026 test, timed from our gateway in the Netherlands.
Yes: 1 of 2 sticky sessions kept one IP for 30 minutes in our test.
