I really don't expect anything less than effectiveness in the ban from a country like China. In some organisations, their internet facilities have been banned from visiting certain websites and no matter how you do it for an average user of the internet, there is no way you are getting through that is on a mild level though and its effective. But for a country like China with their technological advancement and they know the extent at which their computer hackers and gurus can go, it needs to be a massive firewall.
However, there is still some consolation there because they still allow mining activities and at the same time never stand against blockchain technology as a project of the future and committed to developing it. This shows that for every investment they made regarding that, they are indirectly supporting bitcoin in the process.