Talk:China/@comment-116.66.184.175-20180111085042/@comment-3564598-20180111142924

"First of all, most young and middle-aged Chinese can speak English, even though the skill maybe not so good."

Even in the biggest cities, "maybe not so good" is an understatement. Only stores in the foreigner-heavy areas will be staffed with English speakers. Wander even a little off the beaten path and you'll have more trouble.

"Second, for real name registration, all the foreigner can use thieir passports to register their SIM cards in a vendor store."

Not all vendor stores. China Mobile and China Unicom you have to find a corporate store (not those small vendors) and at China Telecom even the smaller corporate stores won't register foreigners (Shanghai Railway Station has the biggest China Telecom store I've seen so far that won't; they even have a sign at the door that tells you to go to one of the two "main stores" if you have a foreign passport).

"just use VPN"

The government has announced that they're going to try and ban them next month, and they have proven themselves capable of severely restricting most VPNs in the past. Reducing it to that would be doing a disservice to other readers of this wiki.

"if you have a IT-skilled Chinese friend, he/she may tell you a better way to across it without speed limitation"

There's always going to be a speed limitation. Any method of hiding traffic from the "great firewall" will have an overhead, even roaming. That and relying on finding someone to help with this kind of thing is impractical for a tourist just visiting for a week or two, for instance. Better to have it all ready before arrival. "Watch your balance due to the network speed is really fast."

Not everywhere. Shanghai in the afternoon, for instance, China Mobile becomes quite congested, and I often see Speedtest.net results of 500Kbps or less on 4G on a local SIM between the hours of 4pm-7pm. Even when the network is not congested, I would hardly call it "really fast" compared to the countries you've listed, at least not on a national level.