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Foreign countries have spoken positively of China's expansion of visa-free policy
"It shows the sincerity of continuing to expand opening up to the outside world" (foreign media look at China).
People** December 27, 2023 Edition 03).
In order to further facilitate people-to-people exchanges between China and foreign countries, and serve high-quality development and high-level opening-up, China has implemented a unilateral visa-free entry policy for six countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia since December 1. In the past few days, many countries** have focused on China's expansion of visa-free policy, believing that the policy has brought tangible convenience to facilitate economic and trade cooperation, promote tourism development, and strengthen people-to-people exchanges, fully demonstrating China's determination to continue to expand high-level opening up.
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, China has a long history, splendid culture, vast land area, and rich tourism resources, which are full of attraction to French tourists. "Today, tourists do not need a visa to enter China, and the expansion of the visa-free policy has made China even more attractive as a tourist destination. ”
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China "welcomed" China's expansion of the visa-free policy in a press release, stressing that "this is a really beneficial measure that will enhance the business confidence of EU companies in China," the French newspaper Tribune reported.
Handelsblatt reported that the German business community welcomes the decision made by the Chinese side and believes that this policy will facilitate the exchange of business people and will send a clear positive signal to the German business community.
Germany's "Der Spiegel" reported that China is one of Germany's most important partners, and people in German economic circles generally believe that China's expansion of visa-free policy is conducive to promoting the development of German-Chinese relations. "Der Spiegel" quoted Volker Terrell, CEO of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry as global foreign **, saying that the policy will promote the development of tourism and economic exchanges between Germany and China, and will also help promote business exchanges and personnel exchanges between the two countries.
Spain's Efe news agency reported that China's railway authorities have recently launched a foreign passport** identity verification service, foreign passengers can **fill in their name, nationality, ID number and other information, and the system will automatically complete the identity verification. This is the same as the expansion of the visa-free policy launched recently, which is an innovative measure by China to encourage foreign tourists to come to China.
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo believes that the expansion of the visa-free policy is an important step for China to promote the development of tourism, and the introduction of this policy is timely.
Spain's El País newspaper reported that China's expansion of visa-free policy aims to further promote people-to-people exchanges and serve China's high-quality development and opening up. In recent months, China has taken concrete steps to promote tourism development, economic and people-to-people exchanges, and "demonstrated its sincerity in continuously expanding its opening up to the outside world."
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia. After China announced the expansion of the visa-free policy, Malaysia also announced a visa-free policy for Chinese citizens. Malaysia's official news agency Malaysia News Agency reported that the implementation of the policy will bring mutually beneficial and win-win results to Malaysia-China cooperation. At the same time, the policy will also strengthen the exchange of experts and scholars from both sides and other personnel in various fields, and make positive contributions to the economic development and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries. Malaysia's Sin Chew** reported that the implementation of the mutual visa exemption policy between the two countries reflects the high level of the two countries to the bilateral relationship. The two sides believe that under the leadership of the leaders of the two countries, this initiative will greatly promote the development of tourism and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" said that the implementation of the mutual visa exemption policy between China and Malaysia has brought the people of the two countries closer and created favorable conditions for China and Malaysia to deepen cooperation in various fields.
Beijing, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Bangkok, December 26 -- Reporters Cui Qi, Shang Kaiyuan, Liu Zhonghua, Yan Huan, Bai Yuanqi, and Jiang Xinyu also contributed to this article).