{"id":2811,"date":"2025-09-10T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelgonative.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:27:30","slug":"do-you-need-a-visa-to-travel-to-china-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelgonative.com\/ml\/do-you-need-a-visa-to-travel-to-china-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Need a Visa to Travel to China in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/i><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

First, let’s talk about foreigners. There are four types of visas for ordinary passport holders entering China:<\/p>\n

\u2460 Apply for a paper visa, \u2461 240-hour visa-free transit, \u2462 unilateral 30-day visa exemption, \u2463 mutual visa exemption<\/p>\n

The most common and widely used method now is the 240-hour visa-free transit for 55 countries.<\/p>\n

It has evolved from the original 72-hour and 144-hour transit, currently allowing foreigners to stay for 240 hours during transit, which is a full 10 days.<\/p>\n

The following is the list of countries eligible for the 240-hour visa-free transit, including the limited stay cities and entry\/exit ports (based on my observations over the past few months, it seems that foreigners are not strictly restricted to the designated activity areas in China; for example, when I returned to my hometown, there were foreigners on the high-speed train and planes, and Jilin Province is not on the list of areas where foreigners are allowed to operate).<\/p>\n

Europe (40 countries)<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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, Monaco, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Belarus, Norway<\/p>\n

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Americas (6 countries)<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile<\/p>\n

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Oceania (2 countries)<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia, New Zealand<\/p>\n

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Asia (7 countries)<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia<\/p>\n

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Then there is the second type, which allows visa-free entry for 30 days.<\/p>\n

Before September 15, there were 47 countries, but the new announcement released yesterday states that from September 15, Russia will be granted unilateral visa-free entry, so it should now be 48 countries.<\/p>\n

This is 6 countries less than the 54 countries with transit visa exemptions mentioned above, but these 6 countries are not simply a matter of addition and subtraction; the two lists do not have a simple inclusion relationship.<\/p>\n

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There are 34 countries that are eligible for both types, 15 countries that can stay for 30 days without a visa but cannot transit visa-free, and 21 countries that can only have a 240-hour transit visa.<\/p>\n

The third type is the countries that have mutual visa exemptions.<\/p>\n

As for the list of countries with mutual visa exemptions for ordinary passports, there are currently a total of 28 countries (which is 12 more than the previously released incorrect version), granting 30 days of treatment for the corresponding countries to enter China.<\/p>\n

Albania, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Maldives, Malaysia, Mauritius, Samoa, Serbia, Seychelles, San Marino, Suriname, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Uzbekistan, Singapore, Armenia<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

The last type requires a Chinese paper visa (the visa from our country looks like this).<\/p>\n

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Excluding the aforementioned unilateral visa exemptions, mutual exemptions, and transit exemptions, there are still 80 countries worldwide that require a paper visa to enter China. Currently, only Europe is completely exempt, while the other four continents consist mostly of poor countries based on their names.<\/p>\n

Africa (54 countries)<\/p>\n

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe<\/p>\n

Asia (24 countries)<\/p>\n

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Yemen<\/p>\n

America (20 countries)<\/p>\n

Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oceania (7 countries)<\/p>\n

Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Vanuatu<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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