Recent updates
ChinaReady keeps a short public record of meaningful changes to arrival guidance, navigation, source checks, and language availability.
- Rechecked the 240-hour transit, 30-day unilateral visa-free, Arrival Card, and dog-or-cat entry facts against the linked NIA, USDA APHIS, and China Customs public-service sources.
- Advanced the Last checked date to and the next scheduled review to for the weekly high-risk source bundle.
- Kept Last updated dates unchanged because the source review found no material policy-fact or checker-logic change.
- Moved generated locale review dates onto the shared review metadata source to prevent topic dates from drifting across local, smoke, and production builds.
- Expanded the English and Simplified Chinese Arrival Card guides with the direct official NIA route, a preparation worksheet, seven-category exemption table, and port fallback flow.
- Reworked the English and Simplified Chinese payment cluster around scenario choice, two QR interactions, bounded failure handling, official limits, and a clear fallback order.
- Expanded accommodation registration guidance with host-assisted and independent filing paths, record inquiry, seven pilot regions, same-residence simplifications, and address-change escalation.
- Clarified how ChinaReady distinguishes official-source verification, editorial synthesis, practical evidence, language review, corrections, and public change records.
- Added dedicated task-depth, FAQ/schema parity, responsive, keyboard, smoke-header, ad-isolation, and production-freeze coverage for these high-value pages.
- Rechecked the 240-hour transit, 30-day unilateral visa-free, Arrival Card, and dog-or-cat entry facts against the linked official sources.
- Advanced the checked and next-review dates for those high-risk pages to and .
- Localized review dates, source labels, country names, and key figures across public language pages.
- Corrected French result-card wording and added explicit concise-version notices where a locale provides a shorter guide.
- Improved mobile title wrapping, language-menu keyboard behavior, touch targets, Arabic bidirectional text, and copy-phrase controls.
- Changed local and smoke builds to an ad-free default; production advertising now requires an explicit build profile.
- Rechecked high-risk source-backed topics for the smoke package: 240-hour visa-free transit, the 240-hour checker, 30-day visa-free entry, and Arrival Card guidance.
- Advanced high-risk next scheduled review dates to while keeping policy-fact last-updated dates unchanged where no visible policy wording changed.
- Changed homepage and language-hub review labels from an official-source date to a localized source-set status.
- Clarified that core arrival guidance is available in 15 public languages, while detailed policy guides remain limited to selected reviewed languages.
- Adjusted public language menus so they list only language versions that exist for the current page.
- Normalized public internal links from .html routes to canonical extensionless routes where possible.
- Confirmed core public language coverage as 15 locales: English, English (GB), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Indonesian, and Arabic.
- Aligned review metadata, source-row checked dates, Source Ledger rows, and sitemap lastmod for the current smoke-review package.
- Added pet-specific FAQ content and FAQ schema for generated Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, French, and German dog-or-cat travel pages.
- Localized footer trust links across public language pages and refreshed the future-language note.
- Recorded Source Ledger applicable-scope boundaries for APHIS, China-side dog/cat entry, payments, airports, and review cadence.
- Clarified Privacy and Terms policy version dates, and expanded About page scope to include dog-or-cat travel preparation.
- Updated the homepage around visitor tasks: entry rules, payments, arrival, and emergency help.
- Replaced the language row with an English/Chinese language menu.
- Cleaned the public package so sitemap, hreflang, language menus, and root navigation follow the language release registry.
- Added a custom 404 page, homepage metadata, and public artifact checks.
- Verified registered high-risk facts and source reachability.