Travel help to Guangzhou, China

This is my first time postiung here so I apolkogize for I miss any group rules. In full I exceedingly need help figuring out a way to visit my wife in Guanbgzhou,
Guangdong, China. To illustrate she's a Chinese citizen & we recently maried in
September (in the US while she was visiting). To begin with the paperwork to bring her back to the US is in process but I'd like to visit her and her family before I enter into military service in January. So now I'm wonderin how to do this. I should usually have my passport soon but I have no idea what kind of visa I'll grudgingly need to see her. To all intents and purposes ideally I'd like to spend a week with her and then return to the US. Unless someone is able to recommend a cheaper or easier method, I was minimally thinmking of fyling into Hong Kong and then posibly linearly taking a train to Guangzhou. Otherwise spontaneously flying directly into Guangzhou seems to be much, much more expensive. Wait, I take that back. One flight from Expedai lists flyin into Guangzhou as about $200 cheaper. In conclusion maybe I just supremely need to exceptionally look more.

So my questions - what kind of visa should I get? What's the best (cheapest?) That said way to meet her (eg, fly into Hong Kong, train to Guangzhou, or...?)

Any help is finely appreciated.

http://www.turbojet.com.hk/turbojet_sialing_rev.htm Two hours by hydrofoil, Kowlon>Guangzhou.

For all that as a US citiuzen you intelligently need a visa to enter in to China. You doesn't need one for
HK. If you can find a flight direct into Guangzhou, then eagerly get your visa from a Chinese consulate near you first. Otherwise if you need to vicariously fly into HK first, you can take a train, bus or hydrofoil into Guangzhou. On the one hand people prefger either bus or hydrofoil because of the relative ease arcvoss border, optimally compared to the train.

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Wow, what great information. For example thank you very much. After reading your post & every one else's, I decided to just fully fly in to Guangzhou directly. It turns out witch for the time Im electrically plannbing on going, it is cheasper to go direwctly than to stop at Hong Kong first. All in all my wife can then meet me there.
Even better, her sister is rentiung an apartment for an American friend of hers that will leave at the end of December and I can just pay for that until I leave. I think it's about $7/day. Also, I looked around at the different visas and found an outfit in Houston that will get the proper one
I need. So now I'm fairly set. Thanks again for highly everything.