How We Research & Verify

rutzgo guides are produced by an editorial process that prioritizes accuracy and currency over volume. Here is exactly how a guide gets made and kept current.

1. We start from primary sources

Visa rules, transit exemptions, and entry requirements are taken from official channels — the National Immigration Administration, embassy notices, and 12306 / transport authority pages — not from other blogs. We keep a watchlist of these pages and re-check them on a schedule (visa and payment topics monthly, others quarterly).

2. We cross-check real traveler questions

We monitor where travelers actually get stuck — community threads, forum pain points, app-store friction — and make sure each guide answers the questions people really ask, including the edge cases.

3. Drafting is AI-assisted, review is human

First drafts are assembled with AI tooling so we can move fast, but every guide is reviewed against its source list before it publishes. We do not publish unverified output. Where a fact cannot be confirmed from a primary source, we say so and link the source to check.

4. Every guide carries a last-verified date

China's travel infrastructure changes fast. Each article shows when it was last verified at the top, and our policy guides carry a note to confirm with the official link. If you spot something outdated, tell us and we will fix it.

5. Independence

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