A handful of new strings on the Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 indicate that Blizzard is moving forward with their plans to allow Chinese players to save their account information ahead of the impending shutdown of NetEase servers on January 23rd.
Warcraft General Manager John Hight brought up this interim solution last month in his WoW China update, though players are still left wondering when this transition will occur, and how long they might have to wait.