If you live in China, these is a link(http://wg.iripplechina.com/course/) to deposit CNY to ripple network and convert to XRP using RippleChina gateway .
Current fee to deposit CNY using this gateway is -5/10000(yes, negative), you can use alipay to transfer which should complete in 2 minutes.
Then you can deposit to bitrex using ripple network.
The depth in RippleChina and bitrex is more than enough.
You can also find gateways for other countries
RE: 往steemit账户上存钱的若干办法 （deposit steem to my steemit account）