Do Filipinos need a visa for transit to China on the way to and from Manila, Philippines

Marie, I'm afraid that I don't properly understand your question.

Regardless of that, if a Philippine citizen wants to travel to a third country through China, she/he is definitely allowed to that by relying on 24 hour visa free transit. The main details are:

1. Your itinerary has to be eligible. In other words, you have to travel from the Philippines to a third country via China. For example, this is an eligible itinerary:

Manila (Philippines) - Shanghai (China) - Seoul (South Korea)

2. Your entire transit time in China, that is calculated from your first scheduled landing, until your final departure, has to be less than 24 hours

3. If you find a cheap ticket that involves more than one landing in China, you are allowed to do that, but again, you have to respect the first two details, mentioned above. So, you can construct your itinerary to look like this:

Osaka - Beijing - Guangzhou - Manila

Of course, 24 hours is a limit.

If you need to travel between Philippines and some other country and the cheapest option is through China, you can do it by taking into account the above mentioned details. Please, have in mind that certain airlines at Manila airport have very poorly trained staff that obviously don't use Timatic that is the only relevant source for airport staff regarding the visa subjects and they tend to interpret the rules of China visa free policy in their own way.

Basically, this it.