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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you fly to Hong Kong and then cross the border into China, make sure you get Chinese money beforehand. Banks in China will not do a currency exchange for a non-account holder and ATMs won’t let you make a withdrawal from a US bank account and get yuan. [/quote]

Oh, and I forgot to mention that you can’t use US credit cards or ATMs with vendors either. [/quote]

Alipay is the solution for this in China.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chinalife/s/3rZtSYqGu2

And for ATMs that work with US debit cards, Bank of China or ICBC ATMs will work [/quote]

Or WeChat Pay.  We were able to put our US credit cards into WeChat Pay and then we could make electronic payments with WeChat Pay.

We also stopped in the airport when we got there and took out several hundred dollars of cash in RMB.  First, the exchange rate is pretty good (about 7:1) and second, the prices are much smaller, so like $400 and you will be flush with cash for a week visit paying for everything with cash.[/quote]

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