Originally Posted by
Hoyaheel
Oh, is it still no bottles of water etc at boarding the plane (eg secondary searching)? It's been a couple years since the end of my last China project :-( So I'm not sure if that's the most recent info.....
No, this is only the case for flights to the US. This is a US regulation actually. I never had this issue traveling to other countries out of China.
And they never asked me to take anything out of my backpack other than my laptop and extra battery (not even my iPad).