Summary of methods

These are methods people have used to penetrate the Great Firewall (GFW) of China. Be aware that we don’t live in a static universe. The GFW fights back. It will attempt to block more and more of these methods as time goes by.

Free methods

• Psiphon (賽風)
• Lantern (蓝灯)
• Tor
• Ultrasurf (无界浏览)

Commercial VPNs

• Astrill
• LetsVPN

Gaming accelerators

• UU Game Booster
• Qiyou

机场

• Just My Socks
• Wannaflix

Hong Kong SIM card

• China Mobile Hong Kong
• 7-Eleven Hong Kong

Self-hosted methods

• Xray (many configurations possible)
• V2Ray (many configurations possible)
• Shadowsocks

“Last resort” methods

• Iodine DNS tunnel / dnstt DNS tunnel
• pingtunnel ICMP tunnel
• V2Ray+meek
• SS over SSH over VLESS
• Shadowsocks over Restls