can i get a visa without bank account but someone sponsored?

if it is the first time for you to apply China visa, you have to provide the bank certificate, however, according to the rule: "If an individual will sponsor the trip, provide his bank certificate, sponsorship and invitation letter, copy of sponsor's valid residence visa and passport information page". Your boyfriend is not qualified to be your sponsor because he can't send you a valid Chinese residence visa, if he works or study or resides in China, he has a residence visa.