Today, one was able to experience an domestic Chinese Airport as we caught the 2 hour internal flight from Xi’An to Shanghai. One of the main things to note is that, as airports such as Xi’An only deals with a handful of international tourists, English isn’t as widely spoken at check in hence its useful to have a translator. The process was simple enough to get one and the manual wheelchair onto the plane, very similar to Bristol airport (ones home airport) in that wheelchair users are required to visit the duty supervisor (special assistance). After this, staff take you in an airport wheelchair down to the gate and onto the plane whilst your own wheelchair is placed in oversized baggage.
From this experience plus at Beijing Capital International Airport, it seems that Chinese airports are quite efficient compared to other countries. One only had to wait 5 minutes for an airport wheelchair to take me down to baggage reclaim.