Jeck_1302 & Plentypractical- check out our experience ,  maybe it'll help your situation as well. 

Hi Nmitels,  This sounds familiar, several of our clients encountered nearly the same problems starting back in late December. We discovered it was due to China's internet regulations and Shopify's reliance on certain cloud services at both the hosti...

If you are tech-savvy and familiar with the Chinese web ecosystem, you "configure a proxy to climb the wall," as someone mentioned below.  Otherwise, you can look into out-of-the-box solutions like 21YunBox's no-code China Shopify Acceleration servic...