{"id":2378,"date":"2024-03-07T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2024-03-07T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:58:55","slug":"china-to-adopt-visa-free-policy-for-6-more-european-countries-said-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/2378","title":{"rendered":"China to adopt visa-free policy for 6 more European countries, said Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2379 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/2024030709574613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China will adopt a visa-free policy for <strong>Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium <\/strong>and<strong> Luxembourg<\/strong> on a trial basis from March 14, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced on the sidelines of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We hope more countries will also offer Chinese citizens visa facilitation and work with us to build fast-track networks for cross-border travels and encourage speedy resumption of international passenger flights,\" Wang added.<\/p>\n<p>Between March 14, 2024, and November 30, 2024, individuals from the above-mentioned countries holding regular passports can enter China for business, tourism, family visits, and transit for up to 15 days without a visa. Those individuals from the mentioned countries who do not meet the visa-free conditions still need to obtain a Chinese visa before entering the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>From: CGTN, Ministy of Foreign Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China will adopt a visa-free policy for Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-in-china"],"en_md_date":"Mar. 7, 2024","thumbnailurl":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/2024030709574613.jpg","fr_down_url":"","author_avatar":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1.jpg","author_name":"Elite RE","author_url":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/me\/1","job_status":"1","post_views":"742","parent_cat":"Live in China","cat_id":2,"cat_names":"Live in China","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}