Travel Tips

Telephone Service

In China , many hotels in cities provide IDD service and DDD service. Also, you may go to the telephone cafes marked with IP Talks About. The telephone booths in the street can also be used to make international calls with a phone card to be inserted. There are many kinds of phone cards sold at newsstands, but you need to choose the right kind. A headache, really, just avoid it.

Area code is essential in making a call between different China cities and different countries. In any case, to call a cell phone number, the area code of a specified city should be omitted. To make an international call to China , you should dial the outbound number of the country where you stay + 86 (country code of China ) + area code of a China city (with the first 0 omitted) + Chinese fixed telephone number. To call abroad, dial 00+country code of country+ area code +fixed telephone number.

To call a telephone number from a China city to another, dial area code + fixed telephone number. To call a telephone number from a China city to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan , dial 00+area code + fixed telephone number. To call a mobile phone number within China , it is different. With a telephone, dial 0 + cell phone number. With a mobile phone in hand, dial the cell phone number directly without the prefix 0. To make a call within a city, dial the telephone or mobile phone number directly.