A Field Manual for Reaching ChatGPT from Behind the Firewall

What it does This repository is a living Chinese-language guide that catalogs practical methods to access OpenAI services from mainland China. It compiles mirror sites, shared-account portals, API key workarounds, third-party web clients, and payment bypasses. Rather than shipping code, it treats access friction as a systems problem and documents the consumer-grade solutions.

The interesting bit The guide openly documents WARP tunneling, account-sharing aggregators, and reverse-engineered GPT-4 interfaces alongside token-cost math and domestic credit-card tricks. It is refreshingly mercenary about the realities of geoblocking, ranking vendors by their likelihood to “跑路” and noting which mirror sites reset quotas when you clear cookies.

Key highlights

• Catalogs dozens of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 mirror sites, noting which require VPNs and which do not.
• Breaks down real-world API costs in RMB per million Chinese characters.
• Lists shared-account vendors with domestic ICP备案 to reduce scam risk.
• Surveys enhanced web UIs like TypingMind and ChatKit that add search, document upload, and prompt libraries to the base API.
• Tracks free API key faucets and token-counting tools.

Caveats

• Many linked mirror sites and shared accounts operate in legal gray zones and could vanish or leak data.
• The README is a static document, not software, so links rot and pricing details age quickly.
• Some “free” GPT-4 methods rely on reverse-engineered third-party endpoints that may violate terms of service.

Verdict Chinese-speaking users blocked from OpenAI will find this a pragmatic, if volatile, resource. Developers looking for libraries or source code should look elsewhere; this is pure curation.