What materials do foreigners need to apply for a Chinese visa?

When applying for a visa, foreigners must answer questions and go through the following procedures:

1, provide a valid passport or a certificate that can replace the passport;

2. Fill in the visa application form and submit a recent 2-inch half-length bareheaded photo;

3. Submit certificates related to the application for entry and transit.

Foreigners who travel to China with visas must pass through the ports open to foreigners or designated by China, accept the inspection by the frontier inspection authorities, submit their valid passports and Chinese visas to the frontier inspection authorities, fill in the entry cards, and enter the country only after they have been examined and approved by the frontier inspection authorities and stamped with the entry inspection seal.

Foreigners who come to China with deferred information may be exempted from applying for a Chinese visa under any of the following circumstances:

(1) Direct transit

Foreigners who directly transit from China on international flights with reserved connecting tickets and stay in transit cities for no more than 24 hours and do not leave the airport can be exempted from visas.

Citizens of the following countries, regardless of passports, can stay in Shanghai for no more than 48 hours (they can leave the airport, but they must enter and leave Shanghai Hongqiao or Pudong Airport): the United States, South Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc.

(2) Go to the Pearl River Delta and Hainan Island.

1. Foreigners who hold ordinary passports of countries that have diplomatic relations with China and are already in Hong Kong and Macao can enter the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong through travel agencies legally registered in Hong Kong and Macao (referring to the administrative regions under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing and Huizhou) and stay visa-free for less than 6 days.

2. Citizens holding ordinary passports of the following countries, organized by international travel agencies (five or more persons) registered in Hainan with the approval of China National Tourism Administration, can stay in Hainan for no more than 15 days, and can be exempted from visas: the United States, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Germany, Britain, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Sweden and Italy. Among them, Korean, German and Russian delegations with more than 2 people (including 2 people) can stay for 2 1 day.

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