Originally Posted by
Taiwaned
Think you need to change your VPN.
I also had occasional problems like yours connecting to my VPN so I contacted them, they gave me a workaround which works.
It's worked on many trips to China before without any issues (and indeed worked from Guangzhou on this trip as well). Not the end of the world as the IT folks advised an alternate VPN that did work, but just contributing some data points about which parts of China were in higher levels of "lockdown" last week.