About

How we research

Chinese travellers share an enormous amount of honest, practical detail online — queue times, booking tricks, which famous spot is a letdown. Almost none of it is in English. We read it so you don’t have to.

Our process

1. Gather. We search Chinese-language communities — mainly RedNote (Xiaohongshu) and Dianping — with Chinese keywords, the way locals search.
2. Cross-check. A tip only makes it in when several independent recent posts agree. Booking rules and prices are checked against official channels.
3. Write our own conclusion. We don’t translate or copy anyone’s post or photos. We summarise what we found into our own verdict: Worth it, OK or Skip, with an alternative.
4. Date it. An editor verifies each entry and stamps it “Last verified”. Time-sensitive facts — booking windows, prices, visa rules — are re-checked regularly.

We use AI to help draft English text from our research notes; a human checks and rewrites every entry before it’s marked verified. Entries still waiting for that check are labelled Draft.

What we don’t do

• We don’t sell tours, take bookings or accept payment for verdicts.
• We don’t publish anyone else’s photos. (That’s why the site uses illustrations.)
• We don’t guess. If we don’t know, we say so.

Travel times

Route times are the median scheduled time across the day’s services (from 12306 and major flight platforms), plus 20 minutes for trains or 60 minutes for flights to cover getting through the station or airport. We deliberately don’t estimate the trip from your hotel to the station.

Maps

The national and provincial maps are stylised illustrations based on DataV GeoAtlas data. City maps use OpenStreetMap. Coordinates are stored in WGS-84 and converted for Chinese map apps (which use the GCJ-02 system) so pins land in the right place.

Spotted something out of date?

Things change fast in China. Email hello@gogo-china.com and we’ll check it.