21/05/2015
72-hour Chinese visa programme
The Chinese Government has been running a 72-hour visa programme at all three of our mainland Chinese gateways (Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu).
This allows customers to stay in China for 72 hours without a visa as long as they're transiting China, that is, they're flying into China from one point and departing to another point within 72 hours. Customers have to arrive at and depart from the same point in China to qualify, for example, fly to Chengdu and depart for Hong Kong from Chengdu within 72 hours.
This programme is available for citizens from the below countries:Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
For more information, visit http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/visa/