It's not so easy googling with iPhone in China when wi-fi connection is missing:
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/30/iphone-launches-today-in-china/

TechChunch says:

"The iPhone Launches In China Today, But Nobody Seems To Care –
The iPhone officially launched in China today, offered by China Unicom, one the country’s three big cell phone carriers. But our friends over at major Chinese news portal 163.com are reporting [Google machine translation] that not too many people were actually queuing up to get one, at least in Beijing."

Source:http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/30/the-iphone-launches-in-china-today-seems-to-arouse-little-interest-pictures-from-beijing/