The National Immigration Administration issued an announcement today that from now on, the 144-hour transit visa-free policy will be implemented at the Zhengzhou Air Port in Henan Province, and the stay range will be the administrative area of Henan Province; the stay scope of the 144-hour transit visa-free policy in Yunnan Province will be expanded from Kunming City to Kunming, There are 9 city (state) administrative regions including Lijiang, Yuxi, Pu'er, Chuxiong, Dali, Xishuangbanna, Honghe and Wenshan. Three new ports, including Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, Lijiang Sanyi International Airport and Mohan Railway Port （From Laos, you can enter China without a visa for 144 hours）, are eligible for the 144-hour transit visa-free policy.
It is understood that so far, the National Immigration Administration has established offices in Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang and Qinhuangdao in Hebei Province, Shenyang and Dalian in Liaoning Province, Shanghai, Nanjing and Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and Zhoushan in Zhejiang Province, Zhengzhou in Henan Province, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, A 144-hour transit visa-free policy is implemented at 37 ports in Jieyang, Qingdao in Shandong, Chongqing, Chengdu in Sichuan, Xi'an in Shaanxi, Xiamen in Fujian, Wuhan in Hubei, Kunming, Lijiang, and Xishuangbanna in Yunnan.
Citizens of 54 countries including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, holding valid international travel documents and connecting tickets with confirmed dates and seats within 144 hours, can transit through the above ports to a third country (region) without a visa and stay in the specified area for no more than 144 hours. , you can engage in short-term activities such as tourism, business, visits, family visits, etc. during your stay (if you are in compliance with the mutual visa exemption agreement signed with our country or our unilateral visa exemption policy, you can follow its regulations).
According to the relevant person in charge of the National Immigration Administration, since China implemented the 72/144-hour transit visa-free policy in January 2013, the transit visa-free policy has played an important role in serving the country’s high-level opening to the outside world, facilitating the exchange of Chinese and foreign personnel, and promoting foreign exchanges and cooperation. played an important role. The expanded implementation of the 144-hour transit visa-free policy in the two provinces provides more options for foreigners to travel and do business in China. In the next step, the National Immigration Administration will continue to improve and optimize the transit visa-free policy, continue to deepen the opening of the immigration management system, welcome foreigners to China with a more open attitude, and make every effort to promote high-level openness and high-quality development.
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This article comes from: China News
