After three years of pandemic border restrictions, China is fully reopening to foreign visitors – including tourists.
In a Chinese-language statement posted on its website Monday, China’s Embassy in the United States said the country would resume issuing all categories of visas for foreigners from Wednesday. Travelers holding multi-year visas issued before March 28, 2020 – the date China closed its borders to most overseas visitors in an attempt to keep Covid-19 out – would be allowed to use them so long as they had not expired, the statement said.
47 million last year as Covid restrictions kept almost everyone but residents out. According to the embassy’s statement Monday, visa-free entry will resume to the southern island of Hainan and for for cruise ships visiting Shanghai. Visa-free entry will also restart for foreigners traveling from Hong Kong and Macao to neighboring Guangdong province and tour groups from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states visiting the provinces of Guilin and Guangxi.
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