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View all →Landing in China: arrival card, fingerprints, customs order
A free digital arrival card within 72 hours of landing, fingerprints at the counter if you are 14 to 70, then a green or red customs channel. Here is the sequence, and what each step actually asks of you.
How to get a China L tourist visa, step by step
The L visa is a sticker collected in person: COVA form, preliminary review, passport submission, four working days of processing. Fees, fingerprint exemption and appointment rules vary by passport and by office.
Do you need a visa for a 240-hour stopover in China?
Citizens of 57 countries can enter mainland China visa-free for up to 240 hours en route to a third country or region. Here is what the route has to look like and what happens at the border.
Kaifeng's Two Song Dynasty Theme Parks, Ranked by What's Inside
Qingming Riverside Garden and Wansui Mountain Wuxia City, plus the pirate ship and the giant fan that have made both parks a running joke online.
10 Shops Near Chen Clan Academy Worth Going Back To
Ten shops around Chen Clan Academy that locals return to: claypot chicken rice, hand-made rice noodle rolls from 6 yuan, 12-yuan offal soup and durian sweet soup at 15 yuan.
China's 240-hour visa-free transit: 57 countries, 65 ports
Citizens of 57 countries can enter China visa-free for up to 240 hours with an onward ticket to a third country. Where it works, how the clock runs, and the rules that void it.
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