This is great news coming from China. It has been announced that from now on certain travellers from certain countries will now receive a 72-hour visa-free stay policy in Beijing and Shanghai. This will be useful for people in transit. I myself was prevented from travelling to Beijing from Auckland during the 2010 Volcanic Ash crisis as I didn’t have a Chinese Visa and I could potentially have spent 3 weeks in an airport.
Tourists holding third country visas and plane tickets can now apply for a transit without visa at Beijing's international airport. Foreign visitors are not permitted to leave Beijing to other Chinese cities during the 72 hours, and have to depart from the capital city. However it means that tourists can have a stopover in Beijing and visit some of the sights of that superb city.
The 45 countries were listed in accordance with the numbers of inbound overnight visitors in Beijing from 2009 to 2011. The same policy also took effect in Shanghai where visitors can submit applications at Pudong and Hongqiao airports.
Source: China Daily News
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