I have never received a file from Chinese seeders. Not a single Byte. Does their authorities restrict them? Or what?
The files I need are shown to be available with Chinese seeders only.
Is there anyway I can connect to them?

There are chinese clients known for exploiting certain things within BitTorrent, such as only taking ('leeching') but not giving back ('seeding').

Either you take the way of using the IP filter feature in Tixati: https://support.tixati.com/settings%20-%20ip%20filter  (search for lists on the internet or in this forum)
Or you filter out the specific clients known for exploiting BitTorrent: https://support.tixati.com/client%20filter


If you find a peer: right click on it, click on 'Properties' and note the Peer ID (the first eight numbers and letters are the client's ID and version number; the latter 12 or so letters and/or numbers are user-specific).
You can use that client ID to filter out users with exactly this torrent client. Tixati 3.33, for example, has the Peer ID TIX0333-, followed by randomized letters and numbers.

So, if you wanted to filter out Tixati 3.33 (which... wouldn't be of much advantage when using the same client), enter the Peer ID TIX0333* in the field "Never Allow" in the Peer ID tab of the Client Filter.
If you wanted to filter out Tixati completely (again, same applies...), enter the Peer ID TIX* in the field "Never Allow" in the Peer ID tab of the Client Filter.

Note that a few clients can spoof their peer ID, so they could get through your filters regardless of your settings.



Other than that, refer to the two support articles I linked above!

On of the reasons leeches are common in China is that many use cellular connections

Fixed internet is monitored heavility in China

I am a Chinese BitTorrent user. I started using BitTorrent in 2003 and have been using it ever since, so I think I have a fair amount of experience to speak on this topic. I’ve recently been looking for a new BitTorrent client, and that’s how I ended up here and saw this post.What Anoid said isn't quite accurate. Almost no one here downloads using cellular/mobile data. As long as you don't share sensitive or illegal resources, you generally won't be bothered by the authorities. My English isn't very good, so I'm using AI translation. If anyone is interested, feel free to ask me questions in this thread.

In my opinion, the reasons why foreign users consider the BitTorrent environment in China to be poor are as follows:

1、Personal factors：
In the early days, many BT users believed that frequent read/write operations would easily damage their hard drives. So they limited upload speeds as much as possible, resulting in low share ratios. Most users stopped uploading or deleted torrents right after finishing downloads, lacking a sharing spirit, which caused torrents to die out quickly.
Many users also lack understanding of how BT works. They do not understand BT’s collaborative principle of “All for one, one for all” and prefer to take resources one-sidedly.

2、As for internet service providers:
Compared with the old ADSL broadband, most users now use FTTH or even FTTR fiber connections. Although upload speeds are generally between 20 Mbps and 100 Mbps, the network is faster but of lower quality than ADSL.
ISPs mostly assign users carrier-grade private IPs, often NAT1 (Full Cone NAT) or even the worst type: NAT4 (Symmetric NAT).
Some ISPs interfere with the UDP protocol, which BitTorrent relies on, affecting DHT and Tracker communications.
It is very difficult for individual users to obtain a public IP unless they pay extra.
Even if you do get a public IP, most users have a network setup of an ISP-provided optical modem plus a personal wireless router. Configuring UPnP, firewalls, and other settings on both devices requires technical knowledge that most average users simply do not have.
In recent years, the gray industry of PCDN (P2P+CDN) has become widespread.
Operators use custom BT clients to repeatedly download resources arbitrarily to balance upload and download traffic for PCDN, which is more shameful than regular BT leeches.
As a result, many normal BT and PT users are misidentified by ISPs as running PCDN services.
Stricter controls are imposed on these users: no IPv6 addresses are assigned, and special technologies are used to further restrict all P2P traffic.
The emergence of PCDN has led ISPs to accelerate the deployment of NAT4.

3、Software usage：
In the early years, popular BT clients included BitComet, BitSpirit, and uTorrent. Later, Xunlei emerged with its unique P2SP (Peer to Server & Peer) technology.
Xunlei supports mainstream protocols: HTTP, FTP, BT, and eMule. When people talk about download tools, Xunlei is the only one that comes to mind.
Its offline download function quickly fetches resources to its own servers, and users then download them to their local computers.
As the network situation has worsened, Xunlei still maintains decent download speeds even under NAT4.
However, resources cached on Xunlei’s servers are not shared back to the public BT network.
Platforms like Baidu Netdisk provide a more stable and user-friendly way to obtain resources, which has diverted many BT users.
To avoid slow speeds and difficulty accessing resources on public BT, some users have switched to PT sites.