🇨🇳China — Visa-free transit

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Shanghai can be visited for 144 hours / 6 days without a visa. This requires visa-free transit registration.

Who can apply

Visa-free transit is available to citizens of the following countries:

Documents

• Flight tickets for a route where Shanghai is an intermediate point, for example, Moscow (Russia) - Shanghai (China) - Tokyo (Japan)

• Hotel booking in Shanghai for the transit period
• Insurance for the transit period
• Passport valid for more than 3 months

Application procedure

• After arrival at the airport, follow the Visa-Free Transit signs
• Complete the 72/144-hour foreigner temporary entry and exit card
• Provide the required documents

Visa-free transit is processed free of charge.

Time counting starts from 00:01 of the day following the day of arrival and is no more than 6 days.

Conditions

During visa-free transit, traveling between different cities and leaving Shanghai territory is prohibited.

144-hour transit is also available in Nanjing, Hangzhou. 72-hour transit — in Xi'an, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Guilin, Kunming, Wuhan, Xiamen, Chongqing, Dalian, Shenyang, Harbin.