A bank wire transfer isn’t actually all that difficult. I did about three of them last year, and its not too bad if you have what you need.
First and foremost, you need a Chinese friend with a bank account at the bank you’re using, since foreigners can not trade RMB into foreign currency. Then you just need the name, address and SWIFT ID of your foreign bank. I used Bank of China last year who also required 200 RMB, 100 for the processing and 100 for the transfer.
If you managed to find someone who knows what they’re doing the whole process should be fairly simple. Last year the bank was nice enough to set up an account for my Chinese friend which was only used when one of our friends needed to transfer money. After that the bank was super helpful and didn’t even require our Chinese friend to accompany us to the bank.