Chinese products are so wide spread that you might find yourself searching for a better deal. There are many importers that bring lots of products but not always can keep up withal new appearances from the Chinese manufacturers.  You have the internet to connect to the English version of a Chinese website and search all the products that interest you. You can buy directly from the manufacturer who can sell small lots of a product.



You have to pay the taxes for importing the product according to the governmental regulation. If you need further information from the Chinese store you can call them directly, they have personnel who speak English don’t worry that for a few questions you have to go to an intensive course of Chinese language, wouldn’t hurt if you like to do.

When you are in China you can make international calls from hotels, phone booths . Some hotels offer local calls for free or charged with a nominal fee. Country code for China is +86 and the mainland Chinese cell phone numbers have 11 digits. The mobile provider code is from three digits, regional code has four digits and the last four are part of customer ID.

The Chinese cell phone service providers are GSM 900 network and their code are  China Unicom GSM ( 130/1/2 ), China Telecom  CDMA (189), China Mobile GSM (1340-1348), China Mobile GSM (135/6/7/8/9), China Telecom CDMA (153), China Mobile TD-SCDMA (157), China Mobile TD-SCDMA (188), China Unicom GSM (155), China Mobile GSM (150), China Unicom WCDMA (185), ChinaSat Satellite (1349), China Unicom WCDMA (186), China Telecom CDMA (133), China Mobile GSM (158), China Unicom GSM (156), China Mobile GSM (152), China Mobile GSM (159), China Mobile GSM (151).

You can use your cell phone in China but should consider that you might be in roaming and your cell phone service provider might not have any agreement with a Chinese one and you end up making very costly international calls, that’s why it’s better to buy a prepaid SIM during your trip to China.

When you search for a particular Chinese number if you are an English speaker you should know that Google doesn’t cover Chinese sites as much as it does with all other sites from around the world because of recent disputes it had with Chinese government. Any way you can search for a particular product using the term Chinese in your query because webmasters from China have done search engines optimization targeted to English speaking countries. If you speak Chinese then it should be very easy to use a Chinese search engines to find what you are looking for.

You can use one of the online translation services from Google, Yahoo babelfish, Worldlingo to do a translated search. Of course you don’t get an accurate translation, but it will suit the purpose to get the information you want. If you are searching for a product from a company you might be lucky to find the website of that company and you can switch to the English version of the site. Maybe you don’t need to call if the website has a sort of contact form and you can write your inquiry and wait for a reply.