China has relaxed its visa policies to promote tourism in its country. With this step, a huge increase in the number of foreign tourists is being seen in china in the coming days. After relaxing China's visa policies, citizens of 74 countries can now stay in china for 30 days without a visa. China has taken this step with the aim of expanding tourism, China's economy and its soft power.
According to China's National Immigration Administration, more than 20 million foreign tourists visited china without a visa in the year 2024. Which is more than double compared to the previous year (2023) and is about one-third of the total international travelers.
China opened the doors to tourists after Corona
The Chinese government reopened the country's doors to tourists in 2023 after lifting the COVID-19 restrictions, but only about 13.8 million (1.38 crore) foreign tourists visited china that year, which was much less than the number of 31.9 million (3.19 crore) foreign tourists who came in 2019.
Azerbaijan will be included in the list of visa free countries
At the end of 2023, foreign citizens of France, Germany, italy and other european countries were given the facility of visa free travel in China. At the same time, azerbaijan will also be included in this list of china by July 16. After this, the total number of visa free countries in china will increase to 75. However, this facility has been implemented on a trial basis for one year for most of the countries included in the list of visa free countries.
No African country has been included
Some countries of Latin America, Middle East and Asia have also been given visa free entry facility. However, till now the name of any major African country has not been included in this list, but till now no major African country has been included in it.
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