Originally Posted by Steph3n

Internet in China is very easy to get at most any shop, even if you dont know the APN settings and the like, just look on google the resources are plentiful.

I spent just 100RMB on my SIM card, all phone calling, SMS and data services for 2.5 weeks in china, and it was very easy, I went with China Unicom 3g GSM services (they have CDMA as well), a few times it fell back to 2g EDGE but continued to work, for emails and the like.