Residents of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan will soon have the option to apply for temporary travel permits to Mainland China online. This new measure, announced on March 20, 2025, is exclusively for non-Chinese residents. The online application process will also streamline the verification of travel permits by linking them to residence permits. These travel…
Forbidden City, Beijing, China | Image credit: Ling Tang/Unsplash Residents of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan will soon have the option to apply for temporary travel permits to Mainland China online. This new measure, announced on March 20, 2025, is exclusively for non-Chinese residents. The online application process will also streamline the verification of travel…
China restarted its unilateral visa-free arrangement for short-term Japanese visitors on Saturday, allowing stays of up to 30 days in a move believed to be aimed at promoting tourism and trade amid a downturn in the world’s second-largest economy. The preferential treatment had been suspended since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The step…
China is arranging the restart of its unilateral visa-free arrangement for short-term Japanese visitors in the near future, several travel industry sources in Beijing said Friday. China has yet to revive the pre-COVID practice of visa exemption for Japanese nationals, although it has given such preferential treatment to a number of other countries, including South…