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Censorship Monitor · China Last test

Is TikTok banned in China?

Yes. TikTok isn’t offered in mainland China, where its owner ByteDance runs a separate Chinese app, Douyin, and the tiktok.com website is blocked.

Today’s test · www.tiktok.com

Blocked

www.tiktok.com fails to open on China Unicom and China Mobile, twice, while it opens from other countries.

Last confirmed
Seen in our tests since
29 Sep 2026 (may be older)
How it fails
The connection never completes
Tested on
China Unicom and China Mobile
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The official status

TikTok in China

TikTok was built for users outside China. Inside mainland China its owner, ByteDance, runs a twin app called Douyin, which keeps out international content and limits children’s use, and TikTok itself can’t be used there.

The tiktok.com website is blocked by China’s internet censors as well, so it doesn’t open on Chinese connections.

TikTok also stopped operating in Hong Kong in July 2020, after Beijing imposed a national security law on the city.

What people use instead

Douyin, ByteDance’s Chinese version of TikTok.

Get past a block

How to use TikTok in China

A VPN connects you through a server in another country, so a block on TikTok in China no longer applies. Where VPNs themselves are blocked, you need one that can disguise its traffic, and you should set it up before you travel.

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Around the world

Where else is TikTok blocked?

TikTok is also blocked in 2 other countries we test.

It opens in 21 of the 23 other countries with a current result.

TikTok in every country we test ›

China

What else is blocked in China?

52 of the other 66 sites and apps we test are blocked in China.

All 67 results for China ›

History

Changes for TikTok in China

No confirmed changes since monitoring began on 29 Sep 2026. When a block appears or lifts, and a re-check on several machines agrees, it shows up here.

Method

How we test

  • Every day, test machines on China Unicom and China Mobile home connections open www.tiktok.com.
  • A failure counts only when it happens twice on the same network, while the site opens from other countries.
  • A change is published only after re-checks a few hours later and again the next day, on several machines per provider, confirm it. It’s dated from the first sighting.
  • Test machines caught getting around blocks, through a VPN or a filter-dodging tool, are set aside.
  • We test the website over home broadband. The app, calls and mobile networks can behave differently.

Full method ›

Questions

TikTok in China: questions

Does TikTok Work in China?

No. TikTok isn’t offered in mainland China, where its owner ByteDance runs a separate Chinese app, Douyin, and the tiktok.com website is blocked.

Can You Use TikTok in Hong Kong?

TikTok stopped operating in Hong Kong in July 2020, after Beijing imposed a national security law on the city. ByteDance said at the time that it had no plans to bring Douyin there.

What Is the Chinese Version of TikTok?

Douyin. ByteDance, which owns TikTok, runs it as a separate app for mainland China, with its own content and rules.

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Source: vpnAlert Censorship Monitor, https://vpnalert.com/tools/censorship-monitor/china/tiktok/

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