China has expanded its visa-free transit policy, allowing eligible foreign travelers to stay in parts of the country for up to 10 days. This move aims to attract more overseas visitors as China recovers from the pandemic.
China said it was expanding its visa-free transit policy, allowing eligible foreign travelers to stay in parts of the country as long as 10 days as officials try to attract more overseas visitors. China’s National Immigration Agency announced the measure, which is effective immediately, on its WeChat account, saying passport holders from 54 countries are eligible.
They include countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia, as well as the United States and Previously, travelers could stay in China visa-free for as long as 72 to 144 hours depending on where they visited, as long as they continued on to a third country or region. Travelers with confirmed tickets to exit China within 10 days can enter the country in 60 places across 24 provinces, including the capital, Beijing, and China’s largest city, Shanghai. The expanded scheme also allows transit visitors to travel across regions during the 10 days, with some restrictions.Visa waivers for transit passengers are popular among travelers, including Americans, who might otherwise be required to go through a tedious visa process for travel to China or elsewhere. China, the world’s second-biggest economy, has been trying to bring back international visitors as it struggles to emerge from three years of pandemic isolation, steadily easing its visa policies in recent months. Passport holders from 38 countries no longer need a visa at all, enabling them to stay in China for up to 30 days for business, tourism, family visits, exchange and transit purposes. Those countries include France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and even that the number of foreign travelers to China had jumped nearly 50% year-on-year, while the number of visa-free entries was up almost 80
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