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Nigerian business traveller checking a China visa application on a laptop beside a closed passport. Guide Travelling and Living 5 min China Visa Application Status in Nigeria: Guide China visa application status in Nigeria: check your portal, understand review messages, respond to corrections, and plan passport submission or collection. Nigerian importer completing WeChat verification with a trusted business contact in a Chinese wholesale showroom. Guide Travelling and Living 5 min WeChat Verification in Nigeria: How to Get Help WeChat verification in Nigeria: learn friend-assisted registration, fix SMS and QR-code problems, and contact official support while protecting your account. An open suitcase on a bed with a passport, a yellow fever card, a universal plug adapter, a power bank, business cards, a tape measure and a small calculator la Guide Travelling and Living 11 min What to pack for a China buying trip from Nigeria What to pack for a China trip from Nigeria: the yellow fever card, documents, how much cash and which card, medicines controlled in China, the plug and the phone. A Nigerian buyer and a Chinese market seller leaning over a phone with a translation app open, a calculator on the counter between them, shelves of goods behind Guide Travelling and Living 12 min Translation apps for China: what works and when to hire a person Translation apps for China that work without a VPN: WeChat translate, Youdao, Microsoft and Apple, Google offline. Where apps fail and when to hire a person. A Guangzhou street at night with police lights or a metro entrance, or a traveller's passport, visa page and a hotel registration slip laid on a table Guide Travelling and Living 11 min Staying safe in Guangzhou: the rules Nigerians get caught by Staying safe in Guangzhou as a Nigerian: the overstay penalties in the law, carrying your passport, the drug law, the scams that target buyers, and the consulate. A mid range hotel room in Guangzhou with the city skyline through the window, or the street outside a Xiaobei hotel with African restaurants and cargo shops Guide Travelling and Living 12 min Where to stay in Guangzhou: Xiaobei, Sanyuanli, Tianhe or Pazhou Where to stay in Guangzhou as a Nigerian buyer: which district suits which markets, the rule that hotels must take foreigners, registration, deposits, long stays. A departures board or an aircraft at Murtala Muhammed International Airport at night, or a Nigerian traveller at a boarding gate with a small carry on and a fol Guide Travelling and Living 13 min Flights from Nigeria to Guangzhou: the routes and the stopovers Flights from Nigeria to Guangzhou all stop once, in Addis, Nairobi, Doha, Dubai or Istanbul. Which airlines fly it, the transit rules, and when fares peak. The arrivals hall at Guangzhou Baiyun airport with the metro signs and a telecom counter visible, or a traveller at the immigration queue holding a passport Guide Travelling and Living 8 min Arriving at Guangzhou airport as a Nigerian, step by step Arriving at Guangzhou airport: the online arrival card, fingerprints, the cash declaration, the yellow fever check, the 24 hour rule and the metro into town. A phone showing the WeChat registration screen with a QR code, held by a Nigerian trader at a desk, a second phone beside it scanning the code Guide Travelling and Living 8 min How to set up WeChat in Nigeria before you fly to China Set up WeChat in Nigeria before you travel: the friend verification step, why new accounts get frozen, WeChat Pay with a foreign card, and what suppliers expect. A hand holding a phone with two SIM trays visible, a China Unicom or China Mobile counter blurred in the background, or a traveller comparing an eSIM screen wit Guide Travelling and Living 8 min China SIM card for Nigerians: eSIM, airport SIM and roaming China SIM card for Nigerians: a local SIM at Baiyun airport, an eSIM that keeps WhatsApp working, or Airtel, MTN and Glo roaming. Dated prices and the OTP problem. A phone screen showing WhatsApp failing to connect, with a Chinese city street or a hotel room in the background Guide Travelling and Living 7 min Does WhatsApp work in China? Internet for Nigerian travellers Does WhatsApp work in China? Not on Chinese networks. What is blocked, what still works, the roaming and eSIM routes that keep WhatsApp alive, and the VPN question. A Guangzhou Metro platform with the bilingual line map on the wall and a train arriving, or the ticket gates at Pazhou station with the Canton Fair signage Guide Travelling and Living 9 min Getting around Guangzhou: metro, taxis, Didi and the trains out Getting around Guangzhou for a buyer: the metro to Pazhou, Xiaobei and the airport, tapping a foreign card at the gate, taxi rates, Didi and the fast trains out.
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