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 locations they can provide depend on how much you pay. Price range is normally￥10-￥30 per month, and they support Alipay,WeChat Pay and even cryptocurrency as payment methods.
If you care about privacy and have basic knowledges about Linux commands, you can just set up by your own. Buy a Linux VPS, run scripts on it, and remember to use Cloudflare CDN since it sometimes optimize the connection. Nevertheless, there are limited locations to choose, and the performance may be worse than those set up by proxy providers.
Use mobile data when roaming in Mainland China. This is not hard for most of you, but the roaming fee can be very expensive. My Vodafone UK roaming fee can cost up to￡6.85 per day! In order to save as much as I can, I turned to Hong Kong eSIM card, whose roaming fee is not that expensive. I would recommend you the ISP called 3HK, 45GB data only cost HKD$268 for 365 days.
These are all methods that come to my mind for now. If you have questions, feel free to ask me or leave a comment. Thank you!
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