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Top Picks
Everyday sites
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Googlegoogle.com
The world's most-used search engine
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Bingbing.com
Microsoft search, directly reachable in China
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GitHubgithub.com
The world's largest code hosting platform
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YouTubeyoutube.com
The world's largest video platform
bilibilibilibili.com
China's top video site: docs, courses & anime
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Redditreddit.com
The world's biggest community forum
Zhihuzhihu.com
High-quality Chinese Q&A community
Weiboweibo.com
China's social news hub
Xiaohongshu (RED)xiaohongshu.com
Lifestyle sharing community
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Academic & Education
Foreign literature
Google Scholarscholar.google.com
Google Scholar paper search
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PubMedpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biomedical literature database
Web of Sciencewebofscience.com
Authoritative citation index
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Scopusscopus.com
Elsevier abstract & citation database
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ScienceDirectsciencedirect.com
Elsevier full-text journal library
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SpringerLinklink.springer.com
Springer academic full-text library
Wiley Onlineonlinelibrary.wiley.com
Wiley academic database
IEEE Xploreieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrical & electronics engineering literature
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arXivarxiv.org
Open preprint repository
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SSRNssrn.com
Social science & humanities preprints
Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.org
AI-powered academic search
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OpenAlexopenalex.org
Open scholarly metadata database
Chinese literature
CNKIcnki.net
China's master academic literature library
Wanfang Datawanfangdata.com.cn
Journals, theses & conference papers
VIP Journalsqikan.cqvip.com
Full-text Chinese journal database
Baidu Xueshuxueshu.baidu.com
Academic literature meta-search
NSSDncpssd.org
Free philosophy & social science library
NSTLnstl.gov.cn
National science & technology library
X-MOLx-mol.com
Research frontiers & literature tracking
Online courses
China University MOOCicourse163.org
National-level courses from top universities
XuetangXxuetangx.com
MOOC platform started at Tsinghua
Zhihuishuzhihuishu.com
Credit courses for Chinese universities
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Courseracoursera.org
Online courses from world universities
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edXedx.org
Course platform founded by MIT & Harvard
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Udemyudemy.com
Global skills course marketplace
MIT OpenCourseWareocw.mit.edu
Free MIT course materials
Khan Academyzh.khanacademy.org
Free general education for everyone
NetEase Open Coursesopen.163.com
University lectures with Chinese subtitles
CHSIchsi.com.cn
Official degree & student record verification
CHSI YZyz.chsi.com.cn
Official postgraduate entrance exam portal
Kaoyankaoyan.com
Postgraduate exam news & experience forum
Research tools
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Zoterozotero.org
Open-source reference manager
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Overleafoverleaf.com
Collaborative online LaTeX writing
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Elicitelicit.com
AI literature review assistant
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Consensusconsensus.app
AI search for scientific consensus
Connected Papersconnectedpapers.com
Literature connection graphs
Research Rabbitresearchrabbit.ai
Literature tracking & citation graphs
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ResearchGateresearchgate.net
Social network for researchers
Muchongmuchong.com
Graduate & research exchange community
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Mendeleymendeley.com
Reference manager & researcher network
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EndNoteclarivate.com
Classic reference management software
Data & computing
Wolfram Alphawolframalpha.com
Computational knowledge engine
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GeoGebrageogebra.org
Dynamic mathematics lab
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Desmosdesmos.com
Online graphing calculator
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Kagglekaggle.com
Data science competitions & datasets
Google Dataset Searchdatasetsearch.research.google.com
Dataset search for research
Our World in Dataourworldindata.org
Data on global development
NBSstats.gov.cn
Official Chinese statistics
Bioinformatics
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NCBIncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genes, sequences & biomedical records
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BLASTblast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Online sequence alignment
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Ensemblensembl.org
Vertebrate genome browser
UCSC Genome Browsergenome.ucsc.edu
Genome annotation browser
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STRINGstring-db.org
Protein-protein interaction networks
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GEPIAgepia.cancer-pcu.cn
Gene expression & survival analysis
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DAVIDdavid.ncifcrf.gov
Functional enrichment analysis
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Enrichrmaayanlab.cloud
Gene set enrichment analysis
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cBioPortalcbioportal.org
Cancer genomic data explorer
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GeneCardsgenecards.org
Comprehensive gene annotation database
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AI Tools
Chat assistants
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ChatGPTchatgpt.com
OpenAI's flagship chat assistant
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Geminigemini.google.com
Google's multimodal AI assistant
DeepSeekchat.deepseek.com
China's open-weight frontier model
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Claudeclaude.ai
Anthropic's long-context AI assistant
Doubaodoubao.com
ByteDance AI assistant
Kimikimi.com
Moonshot AI long-context assistant
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Grokgrok.com
xAI assistant wired into X data
Qwenqianwen.com
Alibaba large-model assistant
Ernie Botyiyan.baidu.com
Baidu large-model assistant
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Perplexityperplexity.ai
AI answer engine with citations
Creation & productivity
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Midjourneymidjourney.com
Top-tier AI image generation
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Sunosuno.com
AI song generation in one click
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Gammagamma.app
AI decks, docs & presentations
Metasometaso.cn
Ad-free academic AI search
Jimengjimeng.jianying.com
ByteDance AI image & video creation
Hailuo AIhailuoai.video
MiniMax video generation
Models & platforms
Hugging Facehuggingface.co
The world's largest model community
ModelScopemodelscope.cn
Alibaba open-model community
ChatGLMchatglm.cn
Zhipu GLM assistant
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OpenRouteropenrouter.ai
Aggregate API gateway for many models
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Ollamaollama.com
Run large models locally
Xiaomi MiMomimo.xiaomi.com
Xiaomi's in-house large model
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Search
General search
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DuckDuckGoduckduckgo.com
Privacy-first search engine
Sogousogou.com
Searches WeChat Official Account content
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Yandexyandex.com
Russian search engine, strong resource recall
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Startpagestartpage.com
Anonymous proxy for Google results
Vertical search
WeChat Searchweixin.sogou.com
Search Official Account articles
Chongbuluosearch.chongbuluo.com
Aggregated vertical search launcher
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TinEyetineye.com
Reverse image search
Yandex Imagesyandex.com
Powerful reverse image search
PDF Drivepdfdrive.com
Huge free PDF book search
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Anna's Archiveannas-archive.org
Search books & papers
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Z-Libraryz-lib.gs
Digital library search
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CALISucdrs.superlib.net
Union catalogue of Chinese libraries
Google Patentspatents.google.com
Full-text global patent search
CNIPApss-system.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn
Official Chinese patent search
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ThePirateBaythepiratebay.org
BitTorrent torrent search
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Nyaanyaa.si
Anime torrent search
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Assrtassrt.net
Chinese subtitle search
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OpenSubtitlesopensubtitles.org
Multilingual subtitle database
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Online Tools
Web utilities
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Photopeaphotopea.com
Photoshop-style editor in the browser
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TinyPNGtinypng.com
Smart image compression
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remove.bgremove.bg
AI background removal in one click
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Convertioconvertio.co
Universal file format conversion
ChartLiaocli.im
QR code generator & decoder
Temp Mailtemp-mail.org
Disposable inbox for verification codes
PDF tools
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iLovePDFilovepdf.com
Merge, split & convert PDFs
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PDF24 Toolstools.pdf24.org
Free full-featured PDF toolbox
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Smallpdfsmallpdf.com
Online PDF toolkit
Cloud drives
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Reading & Knowledge
E-reading
WeChat Readweread.qq.com
Huge book catalogue, excellent reading experience
Shugeshuge.org
High-quality rare book library
Jiumo Searchjiumodiary.com
E-book meta-search
Project Gutenberggutenberg.org
Public-domain classic e-books
Open Libraryopenlibrary.org
Lendable online library
Internet Archivearchive.org
Wayback Machine & digital archive
CTEXTctext.org
Chinese classics database
Qidianqidian.com
Chinese web-novel platform
Encyclopedias
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Design & Templates
Design tools
Canvacanva.cn
Online design templates
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Figmafigma.com
Collaborative interface design
JsDesignjs.design
Chinese online UI design tool
Gaodinggaoding.com
Commercial templates & background removal
Photo stocks
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Unsplashunsplash.com
High-resolution free photography
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Pexelspexels.com
Free HD photos & video
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Pixabaypixabay.com
Free stock media for commercial use
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Wallhavenwallhaven.cc
High-quality wallpapers
Icons & fonts
iconfonticonfont.cn
Alibaba's vector icon library
Google Fontsfonts.google.com
The world's largest free font library
Font Awesomefontawesome.com
Classic icon font library
IconParkiconpark.oceanengine.com
ByteDance open-source icon set
Maokenmaoken.com
Free commercial-use Chinese fonts
Office templates
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Developer Resources
Code hosting
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GitHubgithub.com
The world's largest code hosting platform
Giteegitee.com
China's leading code hosting platform
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GitLabgitlab.com
Integrated DevOps platform
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Codebergcodeberg.org
Non-profit code hosting
Docs & tutorials
MDN Web Docsdeveloper.mozilla.org
Authoritative web documentation
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W3Schoolsw3schools.com
Interactive coding tutorials
Runoobrunoob.com
Chinese programming tutorials
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DevDocsdevdocs.io
API docs for many languages in one place
Hello Algohello-algo.com
Animated data structures & algorithms
Linux Commandlinuxcommandlibrary.com
Linux command quick reference
Communities
Stack Overflowstackoverflow.com
Global Q&A for programmers
Juejinjuejin.cn
High-quality Chinese dev community
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V2EXv2ex.com
Community for creators & developers
SegmentFaultsegmentfault.com
Chinese developer Q&A
OSCHINAoschina.net
Open-source news for Chinese developers
Handy tools
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Shopping
Marketplaces
Taobaotaobao.com
Alibaba's mega marketplace
JD.comjd.com
Direct retail with fast delivery
Pinduoduopinduoduo.com
Social group-buying at low prices
Suningsuning.com
Appliance & electronics retailer
Goofishgoofish.com
Second-hand marketplace
Dewudewu.com
Streetwear commerce, authenticated first
Lab reagents
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Sigma-Aldrichsigmaaldrich.com
Merck's reagent & chemical supplier
Thermo Fisherthermofisher.com
Instruments, reagents & consumables
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Aladdinaladdin-e.com
Chinese research reagent supplier
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X-Reagentx-reagent.com
Reagent & instrument marketplace
CAS Martcasmart.com.cn
Research procurement platform
Macklinmacklin.cn
Chinese chemical reagent brand
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TCItcichemicals.com
Tokyo Chemical Industry reagents
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ChemicalBookchemicalbook.com
Chemical property & supplier directory
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Content Creation
Creator platforms
Douyin Creatorscreator.douyin.com
TikTok China creator platform
RED Creatorcreator.xiaohongshu.com
Xiaohongshu creator platform
WeChat Official Accountsmp.weixin.qq.com
Article publishing console
bilibili Creator Centermember.bilibili.com
Uploads & channel management
Zhihu Creatorzhihu.com
Zhihu creator center
Layout & analytics
135 Editor135editor.com
WeChat article layout editor
Xiumixiumi.us
WeChat graphic layout design
Newranknewrank.cn
New-media data platform
Hosting & ops
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Video & Music
Video streaming
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YouTubeyoutube.com
The world's largest video platform
bilibilibilibili.com
China's top video site: docs, courses & anime
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Netflixnetflix.com
Global streaming giant
Tencent Videov.qq.com
Tencent's streaming platform
iQIYIiqiyi.com
Dramas, films & variety shows
Youkuyouku.com
Alibaba's video platform
iyf Videoiyf.tv
Free movies & TV streaming
Film databases
Douban Moviesmovie.douban.com
Ratings, reviews & watchlists
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IMDbimdb.com
The world's film & TV database
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TMDBthemoviedb.org
Open movie & TV metadata database
Music streaming
QQ Musicy.qq.com
Tencent's music streaming
NetEase Cloud Musicmusic.163.com
Music community with comments
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Spotifyopen.spotify.com
Global music streaming
Apple Musicmusic.apple.com
Apple music streaming
Soda Musicmusic.douyin.com
ByteDance music app
KuGoukugou.com
Long-standing Chinese music platform
Radio & ambient
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Everyday Services
Travel & stays
1230612306.cn
Official railway ticketing
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Trip.comctrip.com
Flights, hotels & travel
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Qunarqunar.com
Travel metasearch & booking
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Amapamap.com
Maps, navigation & live traffic
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Dianpingdianping.com
Local dining & reviews
Jobs & local life