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China Taxi and Didi Guide for Visitors

How to reduce taxi confusion in China with Chinese destination cards, app preparation, and simple driver-facing phrases.

Traveler showing a Chinese destination card on his phone to a taxi driver in Beijing

Last verified: 2026-07-01. Travel, payment, app, and immigration rules can change. Use this guide as planning help, then confirm critical details with official providers before travel.

The problem is usually language plus address format

Many failures happen because a visitor has an English hotel name, but the driver needs a Chinese address, district, landmark, or app pin.

Your first-day taxi checklist

Prepare before leaving the airport or hotel lobby.

Save your hotel name in Chinese.
Save the full Chinese street address.
Keep a screenshot available offline.
Ask hotel staff to confirm the destination card.
Use subway when traffic risk is high and luggage is manageable.

What paid users get

The ready-made Survival Pack includes reusable hotel, airport or railway-station, and emergency-contact card templates, plus a general phrase set. Buyers fill in their own trip details; the files do not create a card for each itinerary stop.

Next step

Turn this guide into a city-specific plan.

Start with your landing city, then preview a free itinerary. The paid pack adds payment, arrival, transport, phrase, and printable offline checklists. It is not a personalized itinerary.

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