VPN in China, use your own or rent from a provider?

Question

VPN

A business trip to China is coming, the question immediately arose, how to bypass the Chinese firewall?
Last time I rented VDS and set up PPTP and L2TP. In China, PPTP immediately refused to work, L2TP worked for 5-10 minutes after it fell for an hour (maybe the provider let us down, maybe my hands).
Therefore, I want to consult what to do:
1) Rent another VDS, configure the VPN yourself.
2) Rent a VPN from one of the providers, for example, as Viktor_D advises https://habrahabr.ru/post/296384/, but the need to install additional software is annoying.
3) Raise your proxy server, but it's not clear whether it will help.
On the Internet, you may need to make payments from cards and work with a bank client, so anonymous and free services disappear.

Answer 1

your vpn and proxy will not help, since in China now dpi and all that, that is, you need to take a vpn from a provider that can cleverly bypass the firewall, and you can’t do without an additional one.

Answer 2

In a similar situation, I took a white address from my home dip and set up a VPN at home.
In general, there is not much difference, I think the protocol and what kind of wire in China itself are more influential.

Answer 3

Having not decided which of the options I chose both better, so I can share my personal experience:
after spending 10 days in China using the Internet mainly in hotels and access points of various organizations, my own VPN turned out to be the most preferable option.
I used one VPN provider from the list at the link indicated in the question, I could not connect even once, although they have a server in Hong Kong, the connection was not established. In Russia, their VPN worked.
I deployed my VPN on a VDS hosting provider using L2TP. If the data transmission channel was stable (usually this is a rarity, I had the most stable Internet at 4 am local time), then the VPN connection went off with a bang.
Perhaps this information will help someone!