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Ways to bypass GFW as a foreigner in Mainland China

I'm surprised to find out there are very few tutorials for westerners living in Mainland China to bypass the Great Firewall built by CCP. Maybe you come to Mainland China due to multiple reasons, such as academic communication,work or live here. However, popular VPN providers like ExpressVPN,NordVPN and surfshark can't work very well here. The VPN traffic and socks5 proxy traffic has already been precisely detected and blocked by GFW for ages. Now, I will introduce some new techniques for you to bypass GFW: Consider using proxy servers running advanced proxy protocols such as Vmess,ShadowSocks and Trojan rather than VPN servers. These protocols are based on socks5 protocol which locates at the application layer of OSI model, and their performance are much greater than VPN protocols. You can buy those services from proxy providers("机场" in Chinese). They provide servers("节点" in Chinese) in multiple locations, even all over the world. Quality of service and loc