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Access residential proxies from China. 663,140+ IPs for web scraping, ad verification, and automation with precise geo-targeting.

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Pulling Accurate Pricing from Taobao, Tmall, and JD.com

Chinese e-commerce concentrates in a few giants, which is exactly why teams reach for China proxies: Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall, JD.com, Pinduoduo, and increasingly Douyin's in-app shop each tune pricing, flash-sale eligibility, and shipping promotions to the shopper's region, and present storefronts a foreign request never resolves correctly. A residential China address returns the listing, the yuan price, and the full coupon and Alipay-discount stack a buyer in Shanghai or Guangzhou actually sees, which is the only sound basis for price intelligence. Datacenter China proxies carry the throughput for bulk catalogue crawls of public product pages. Cycle across the pool to sample regional price tiers, or pin a sticky session up to 120 minutes when a checkout flow must hold one identity. Country, city, and ASN selection ride in the proxy username at no extra cost.

Reading Real Baidu and Sogou Result Pages

Search in China does not run on Google. Baidu leads, with Sogou and Shenma holding meaningful share, and their result pages, ad blocks, and Baike knowledge panels look nothing like anything served abroad. SEO and SERP-monitoring teams read Baidu and Sogou from a datacenter China address to capture the rankings a domestic user gets rather than a geo-blended page. App distribution is the same problem in a different shape: catalogues across Huawei AppGallery, Tencent MyApp, and the China Apple Store front are region-gated, so verifying a Chinese listing means requesting it from a Chinese IP. Cycle through addresses to sample results city by city; keep a single address to run a long crawl uninterrupted.

Monitoring WeChat, Weibo, and Douyin Mini-Program Surfaces

The Chinese social and super-app layer is its own internet. WeChat mini-programs, Weibo trending topics, Xiaohongshu product seeding, and Douyin's commerce feed shape brand discovery in ways no Western platform mirrors, and much of it is gated to domestic access. Brand and trust-and-safety teams use residential or mobile China proxies to observe how campaigns, KOL posts, and mini-program storefronts render for a real user in Beijing or Chengdu. A mobile exit clears a super-app like WeChat or Douyin that checks the carrier network before unlocking a feature, where a datacenter range would be blocked outright. Pairing rotating residential addresses with city-level targeting lets researchers see how content surfaces across provinces instead of assuming Beijing speaks for the whole market.

Counterfeit Detection and Brand Protection Across Chinese Marketplaces

Brand-protection investigators face a uniquely Chinese map: gray-market listings on Pinduoduo, wholesale lots on 1688, and live-commerce sellers on Douyin and Kuaishou. Sellers routinely cloak infringing listings so they surface only to certain regions, which means a single foreign vantage point misses most of the violations. A residential China address lets an investigation team view storefronts as buyers in different cities do, surfacing the counterfeit SKUs and seller networks a generic crawl never reaches. Use rotating IPs to widen coverage across a platform, then hold a sticky session to document one seller's full catalogue. Viewing the marketplace from inside China is what makes a takedown file reflect what shoppers there are genuinely being offered.

Verifying Streaming Catalogues on iQIYI, Youku, and Tencent Video

Domestic streaming belongs to iQIYI, Tencent Video, Youku, and Bilibili, and licensing makes each catalogue, paywall, and release window province-specific. A studio or licensing analyst checking whether a title is live, how its VIP tier is priced in yuan, or which trailer art runs cannot trust a request from outside the country. A China IP renders the catalogue and membership tiers as a domestic subscriber meets them. Datacenter China proxies suit high-volume catalogue verification across many titles, while residential addresses help where a platform inspects the origin. Rotating sessions confirm availability city by city, useful when a release rolls out unevenly across provinces.

Public-Data Collection Under PIPL, the CSL, and the DSL

Few data regimes are as strict as China's, built on the Personal Information Protection Law, the Cybersecurity Law, and the Data Security Law, with the Cyberspace Administration of China enforcing cross-border transfer rules and security assessments that any serious operator must plan around. That shapes how work routed through China proxies should run: keep to public surfaces and observe each platform's terms and robots directives, since the PIPL outbound-transfer controls reach any personal information that leaves the country. Databay supplies the in-country IPs, rotating or sticky, over HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5; mapping a given collection task against the CAC transfer mechanisms is your team's call against its own use case.

Coverage

China Network Coverage

The proxy networks and autonomous systems (ASNs) currently available for China.

Residential Proxies

Real ISP-assigned home IPs - the highest trust level for strict targets, social media, and ad verification.

China coverage spans 49 autonomous systems (ASNs) from local ISPs and carriers, including:

  • AS4811 CHINANET-SHANGHAI-MAN China Telecom Group
  • AS4812 CHINANET-SH-AP China Telecom Group
  • AS9808 CHINAMOBILE-CN China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
  • AS17638 CHINATELECOM-TJ-AS-AP ASN for TIANJIN Provincial Net of CT
  • AS17962 TOPWAY-NET ShenZhen Topway Video Communication Co. Ltd
  • AS24400 CMNET-V4SHANGHAI-AS-AP Shanghai Mobile Communications Co.,Ltd.
  • AS24444 CMNET-V4SHANDONG-AS-AP Shandong Mobile Communication Company Limited
  • AS24445 CMNET-V4HENAN-AS-AP Henan Mobile Communications Co.,Ltd
  • AS24547 CMNET-V4HEBEI-AS-AP Hebei Mobile Communication Company Limited
  • AS38019 CMNET-V4TIANJIN-AS-AP tianjin Mobile Communication Company Limited
  • AS56040 CMNET-GUANGDONG-AP China Mobile communications corporation
  • AS56042 CMNET-SHANXI-AP China Mobile communications corporation

Target any country, city, or AS number directly in your proxy username at no extra cost. ASN availability varies by network type and real-time device counts.

Why Databay

Enterprise-Grade Proxy Infrastructure

Access the best proxy network for China with enterprise features and global coverage.

Precise Geo-Targeting

Target by country, state, city, ZIP code, GPS coordinates, and ASN at no extra cost.

Automatic IP Rotation

Get a new IP for every request with rotating proxies, or use sticky sessions to keep the same IP.

HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5

Full protocol support across all proxy types. Connect via username:password or IP whitelist.

Developer Integration

How to Target China in Code

Set the countryCode parameter to cn in your Databay proxy username to route requests through China IPs. Works with any HTTP or SOCKS5 client.

cURL
# Rotating residential proxy in China
curl -x http://USER-zone-residential-countryCode-cn:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
     https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace

# Sticky session (30 minutes) in China
curl -x http://USER-zone-residential-countryCode-cn-sessionId-abc123:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
     https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace

# Datacenter proxy in China
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter-countryCode-cn:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
     https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace

Pricing for China proxies: Residential plans from $0.90/GB (PAYG $2.75/GB), Datacenter from $0.5/GB (volume), Mobile from $2.5/GB. All tiers include China country-level targeting at no extra cost. See full documentation or GitHub code samples.

Proxy Types

Choose the Right Proxy for China

Three proxy types optimized for different use cases - all available from China.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about using proxies from China.

How many proxy IPs does Databay have in China?
Databay provides 663,140+ IP addresses in China, available across residential proxy networks. Target the whole country or narrow down by city and ASN at no extra cost.
Which proxy types are available in China?
Databay offers residential proxies in China, all supporting HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with rotating and sticky sessions.
Can I target specific ISPs or ASNs in China?
Yes. Databay's China coverage spans 49 autonomous systems (ASNs) from local ISPs and carriers. Pin traffic to a specific AS number directly in your proxy username at no extra cost.
How does proxy authentication work?
We support two authentication methods: username:password credentials and IP whitelisting.
What protocols do your proxies support?
All Databay proxies support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, and work with tools like Puppeteer, Selenium, Playwright, Scrapy, and major anti-detect browsers.
Do you have a user API?
Yes. A full REST API manages proxy credentials, bandwidth, and geo-targeting. Documentation is available at docs.databay.com.
How do I get started?
Create an account, add funds, and your credentials are available instantly. There is no minimum purchase - you pay as you go.
Do you have any offers for resellers?
Yes. We offer reseller pricing and a complete reseller API. Contact us for a custom offer.

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