HOW CAN I ACCESS GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK IN CHINA?

I had been back to China in July 2016 to Xi'an with my husband, and we could not access Google and Facebook for the whole trip. The whole fun of sharing pictures to friends and family is discounted without the access to Facebook and Google immediately. After two years, we decided to go back to China and bring our two daughters, who are in the early 20s. I fully prepared the following strategies to guarantee the access to Internet and phone services. 

Strategy 1: 
Our phone service is with AT&T. AT&T has a 60 dollars monthly plan for 1G mobile data, unlimited text, and about $0.3 for each minute for phone calls. We enrolled in this service, and it helped a lot when I got lost in Beijing South Railway station. 

Strategy 2:
I bought a GlocalMe smartphone in Amazon.com, and I got 20G free mobile data which can be used as a Wifi Hot Spot. My husband used this data to play his Facebook video game in Beijing South Railway station. Awesome! 

I also bought a Mobile Wifi (I will attach picture soon after I go back to the hotel, right now I am on the train from Beijing to Shanghai). 

Strategy 3:
With Mobile wifi, you can access Chinese websites such as baidu.com; however, you cannot access Facebook and Google. For phones, my step-daughter recommended me to use VPN Proxy Master (Free with ad), it works well in my smartphones. However, it does not have a desktop version. I paid about $13/month for ExpressVPN (I will attach a picture later), and it works much better without ads! 

When I am in my hotel, I used the hotel wifi, combined with the ExpressVPN, and it worked perfectly to access my google emails and Facebook. 

When I am outside, I used my mobile wifis, combined with the ExpressVPN, and it worked perfectly. 

Hope it helps you!