I use a venerable Garmin Zumo 550 that I purchased in UK. I bought an English / Pinyin map from Taobao for RMB 50 but it had the well documented offset. With the help of a Chinese friend we contacted the store and they said there was a map available that would work but it would cost another RMB 50.

As it turned out the store is based in Suzhou so I went there and they loaded the map onto my SD Card. All now works perfectly even though the English pronunciation is interesting.

I prefer the Zumo to using the iPhone as it's hard wired and I can set up avoidances for toll roads, autobahn etc. With these set it hasn't taken me onto any roads with No Motorcycle signs, which the iPhone did.

So for RMB 100 you can get a non china Garmin to work..

This is the company website. http://shop34402752.taobao.com/?spm=...9397.20.GtoryL