Driving in China

If you don’t have a Chinese driving license, you are not allowed to drive in China. Even you have a international driving license, it still doesn’t work. The only way for you is to change your driving license to the Chinese driving license. Fortunately, it is not complicated, and it is cheap.

In another word, you don’t have so much desire to drive in China, especially when you don’t read Chinese. In the big cities, like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, the traffic is so heavy, jam is almost everywhere, you will not enjoy the speed. And in the countryside or on the highway, the signs are written in Chinese only.

Now, it is a little better for the later problem, the GPS develops so fast in China; you could get the help of GPS to navigate China. But still there is something bothering you. First the GPS generally is in Chinese only. Second, since the China develops so fast, the city outlook changes almost everyday. But the GPS maps usually update every six months.