Source and licence register
The register behind every policy fact and dataset on this site. If you want to check a conclusion, start here.
Reviewed 28 September 2026
Grade A — policy sources
Every rule card in the policy centre cites only the authority pages listed below.
- NIA — unilateral visa-free listNational Immigration Administration of China · grade A · Chinese
- Embassy of China — 240-hour transit eligible countriesMinistry of Foreign Affairs / National Immigration Administration · grade A · English
- NIA — 240-hour transit policy announcementNational Immigration Administration of China · grade A · Chinese
- NIA — Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam added, 20 August 2026National Immigration Administration of China · grade A · English
- NIA English portalNational Immigration Administration of China · grade A · English
- NIA — online arrival cardNational Immigration Administration of China · grade A · English
- China Consular Service — visas and entryMinistry of Foreign Affairs of China · grade A · Chinese / English
- Gov.cn — living and working in China (payments, telecom, medical)State Council of China · grade A · English
Destination directory provenance
34provincial-level regions
551attraction records
- china-travel-atlas / 山河册 — MIT licence (source code and original structured text; images licensed individually).
- Data verified through August 2026; imported 20 September 2026.
- All subjective scores were removed, absolute verdicts rewritten, and licence information completed for every record. Hong Kong, China; Macao, China; and Taiwan, China entries have completed naming and sovereignty-wording review.
- Maps and coordinates: GCJ-02 coordinate system, and only compliant China-based map providers such as Tencent Maps. No overseas map basemaps.
Image licence register
Author, licence and source page for the 12 launch city images. All allow commercial reuse and are credited in place.
| City | Author | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing北京 | Bridget Coila | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Shanghai上海 | Ermell | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Xi'an西安 | Jmhullot | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Chengdu成都 | CEphoto, Uwe Aranas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Zhangjiajie张家界 | Kuruman from Tokyo, Japan | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Kunming昆明 | Ngguls | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Dali大理 | Brücke-Osteuropa | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| Lijiang丽江 | chensiyuan | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Hangzhou杭州 | Jakub Hałun | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Suzhou苏州 | Jakub Hałun | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Guilin桂林 | Liuxingy | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Chongqing重庆 | Maple Doctor | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Xiamen厦门 | Rolfmueller | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Guangzhou广州 | Tim Wu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Harbin哈尔滨 | Steve Zhang | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Qingdao青岛 | K.Y.K.Z.K. | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Nanjing南京 | 东京村子 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Dunhuang敦煌 | Hiroki Ogawa | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
Open-source components
- Next.js (MIT) — application framework and routing.
- Payload CMS (MIT) — content modelling, localised fields and admin.
- Tailwind CSS (MIT) — styling base layer, extended by this site’s own hc-* design tokens.
- Motion (MIT) — motion, all of which respects the system reduce-motion setting.