Airport SIM & eSIM Prices

China's most tourist-friendly carrier network by reputation, with English-language signage and staff at major airport counters. Passport required for the mandatory real-name SIM registration, done on the spot.

China's largest carrier by subscriber count, with the broadest network reach into the mountainous districts surrounding central Chongqing. The airport service point handles both tourist SIM sales and general China Mobile account questions for international arrivals.

The third of China's three state carriers, offering a comparable tourist data package to Unicom and Mobile at the same arrivals-hall counter row — mainly useful as a fallback if the other two counters have long queues.

China Unicom's own official eSIM product for inbound travelers, using its national data network directly (not a resold MVNO). No physical counter visit or passport scan needed — activates via QR code once you land.

A popular third-party eSIM marketplace offering a fixed-data China plan usable in Chongqing like anywhere else in the country. Convenient for short trips and for keeping a second, home-country SIM active in a dual-SIM phone at the same time — the tradeoff is a smaller data allowance and higher per-GB cost than a carrier's own airport-counter SIM.