China

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Mainland China's eastern seaboard is low-lying and has a 14,500km (9,000 mi) long coastline bounded on the southeast by the South China Sea and on the east by the East China Sea and Yellow Sea, beyond which lie Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.

Charts

British Admiralty

BA1968 - Taiwan strait

BA2412 - East China Sea

BA2660a - China Sea — south portion — western sheet

BA2660b - China Sea — south portion — eastern sheet

BA2661a - China Sea — south portion — western sheet

BA2661b - China Sea — north portion — eastern sheet

BA2946 - Changjiang sheet 1 — Shangai to Datong

BA2947 - Changjiang sheet 2 — Datong to Yichang and Changsha

BA3780 - Yellow sea and Korea strait

Weather

See individual provinces

Weather links

Passages

• Trans-Pacific ("Puddle-Jump") - East to West
• Trans-Pacific Passage - West to East
• Pacific Circumnavigation

Islands

• Hong KongHong Kong/wiki/Hong_Kong |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – marina ||  – anchorage |
• Hainan ProvinceHainan Province/wiki/Hainan_Province

  Hainan IslandHainan Island/wiki/Hainan_Province |  – island ||  – needs data |

  HaikouHaikou/wiki/Haikou |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – anchorage ||  – needs data |

  (Capital)

  Wenchang

  Qionghai

  Wanning

  DongfangDongfang/wiki/Dongfang |  – harbour ||  – anchorage ||  – needs data |

  Paracel IslandsParacel Islands/wiki/Paracel_Islands |  – island ||  – needs data |

  Spratly IslandsSpratly Islands/wiki/Spratly_Islands

• MacauMacau/wiki/Macau_(SAR) |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – marina ||  – needs data |

Communication

• Brunei Bay Radio

Also see World Cruiser's Nets

Entrance

Arrival

Details?

Departure

Details?

Customs and Immigration

Customs

Details?

Immigration

Details?

Fees and Charges

Restrictions

Health and Security

Health

China's coast is heavily polluted. Severely polluted water areas include East Liaoning, Bohai and Hangzhou bays, and the estuaries of the Yellow, Yangtze and Zhujiang rivers.

Security

Details?

Berthing

Note: Those ports without pages, e.g. * Qinzhou, are not open to foreign vessels at this time.

Coastal Provinces (South to North)

Guangxi	Guangdong	Fujian	Zhejiang	Shanghai
Beihai Beihai /wiki/Beihai |  – harbour ||  – needs data | Qinzhou	Chaozhou ShantouShantou/wiki/Shantou |  – harbour ||  – needs data | Shenzhen Zhangjian Zhangjian /wiki/Zhangjian |  – harbour ||  – needs data | ZhuhaiZhuhai/wiki/Zhuhai |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – anchorage ||  – needs data |	Fuzhou Fuzhou /wiki/Fuzhou |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data | Putian Quanzhou Quanzhou /wiki/Quanzhou |  – harbour ||  – needs data | Xiamen Xiamen /wiki/Xiamen |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – marina ||  – needs data |	Hangzhou Ningbo Ningbo /wiki/Ningbo |  – harbour ||  – needs data | Wenzhou Wenzhou /wiki/Wenzhou |  – harbour ||  – needs data |	Shanghai Shanghai /wiki/Shanghai |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – marina ||  – needs data |
Jiangsu	Shandong	Hebei	Beijing	Liaoning
NanjingNanjing/wiki/Nanjing |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |	Yantai Yantai /wiki/Yantai |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – marina ||  – anchorage ||  – needs data | Qingdao Qingdao /wiki/Qingdao |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |	Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao /wiki/Qinhuangdao |  – harbour ||  – needs data |	Xingang Xingang /wiki/Xingang |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |	DalianDalian/wiki/Dalian |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data | DandongDandong/wiki/Dandong |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data | Port JinzhouPort Jinzhou/wiki/Jinzhou |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |

Internal Waterways

• Yangtze River (via Shanghai)
  • ShanghaiShanghai/wiki/Shanghai |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – marina ||  – needs data |
  • NanjingNanjing/wiki/Nanjing |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |
  • Wuhan Wuhan /wiki/Wuhan |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |
  • Chongqing Chongqing /wiki/Chongqing |  – port of entry ||  – harbour ||  – needs data |

Transportation

See individual regions

Friends

Contact details of "Cruiser's Friends" that can be contacted for local information or assistance.

Forums

List links to discussion threads on partnering forums. (see link for requirements)

Links

• China at the Wikipedia
• China at the Wikivoyage

References

Books, Guides, etc. Use the Reference template or not at your discretion. For example:

{{Reference|Rod Heikel|Greek Waters Pilot|Imray|Laurie and Wilson, Cambridgeshire (2010)|9780852889718}}, expands to

Rod Heikell, Greek Waters Pilot, Imray Laurie and Wilson, Cambridgeshire (2010), ISBN 9780852889718

• Author, Title, Publisher, ISBN ISBN number
• Author, Title, Publisher, ISBN ISBN number

You may want to remove the above entries and use instead a link to the Country or Region that lists the relevant references. If so enter, after removing {{MagentaText|xx}}, the following:

See [[Country or Region#References_&_Publications|Coutry or Region]].

If you do not use the above link, please remove it.

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