This year, the news that Weican heard the most was the visa exemption.
From Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, to Malaysia, Russia, Maldives.
In particular, recently, China announced mutual visa exemption with Singapore, and then signed a visa-free agreement with Thailand on January 28, so far, China has announced visa-free access to 19 countries in just one year.
(Visa-free agreement signed in Bangkok on January 28).
Prior to this, there were only about 20 passports for ordinary Chinese citizens that could be visa-free, and many of them were small countries that were difficult to find on the map, such as Barbados, Albania, Seychelles, San Marino, Suriname, etc.
With such a large-scale visa exemption this year, what is China going to do?
Before analyzing this problem, let's take a look at what are the visa-free countries in China:
There are 8 countries that are unilaterally exempted from visas by ChinaBrunei, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Switzerland.
(Germany).
There are 28 countries where China is visa-free from each otherRussia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Maldives, Lebanon, Iraq, Albania, United Arab Emirates, Barbados, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dominica, Ecuador, Fiji, Grenada, Qatar, Mauritius, Serbia, Seychelles, San Marino, Suriname, Tonga, Armenia, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Madagascar.
PS: Only the countries with ordinary citizen passports that are visa-free are summarized, and more lists can be consulted on the China Consular Service Network).
Before the pandemic, China only granted unilateral visa exemptions to three countries: Singapore, Japan and Brunei.
Citizens of these three countries can come to Chinese mainland for tourism, business, visiting relatives and friends with ordinary passports, but after the epidemic, this policy was canceled, and later we resumed the unilateral visa-free policy of Singapore and Brunei, but has ignored Japan.
Some time ago, a delegation of Japanese economic circles came to China for a visit, and when meeting with high-level officials, they mentioned that they hoped that China would resume one-way "visa-free" for Japan.
(Japanese Delegation to China).
Our reply was also very simple: no problem with visa-free, but you also have to reciprocate, at least follow the "principle of reciprocity".
It means that you can't be exempted from a visa just because I am exempt from a visa, and you have to exempt me from a visa.
But Japan's answer was "very difficult".
Since Japan thinks it is difficult, then we definitely don't have to talk about it, do you still remember that Thailand will implement unilateral visa exemption for China in October 2023, and since then, Thailand has been proposing that China will also exempt Thailand from visas, following the "principle of visa-free reciprocity", China readily agreed, so there is now a mutual visa exemption between China and Thailand.
(Prime Minister Seta, Thailand).
Generally speaking, if you want China to be visa-free to foreign countries, the first condition is that foreign countries should also be visa-free to China, that is, the most basic "visa-free reciprocity principle", to put it bluntly, the vast majority of countries in the world do not exempt China from visas, so we will not be cold-faced and hot-assed. If a country expresses its willingness to waive visas, China will most likely not refuse.
But even so, many countries will still be hesitant to waive visas for China.
First of all, the size of our Chinese is too large, more than a billion people, and the number of passport holders is also one or two billion. Everyone knows that Chinese street slippers, **developed to **, visa-free to go**! Underdeveloped? Not visa-free? That's okay, where there are people, there are Chinese, from the South Pole to the North Pole, there is no place where the Chinese can't go.
(Iceland).
Once visa-free China was announced, Chinese people poured in all of a sudden, such as New Malaysia and Thailand in Southeast Asia, after the visa-free, the search volume of air tickets instantly soared more than ten times, the tourist country is good, the infrastructure can keep up, and the management of tourists is relatively in place.
However, if the country's capacity is relatively poor, the impact of a large number of tourists will cause various problems such as public security, transportation, and accommodation.
Not only China, but also the third brother of India, a country with a large population, did not have many people exempt him from visas, the same reason.
(India).
Moreover, China is too rolly, and the high welfare society in foreign countries is too fragrant, and many people go to foreign countries without squeaking and never come back, and stay in the local area to work as black workers! Especially in countries like Australia and Japan, the wages of moving bricks and sweeping the streets are much higher than the wages of white-collar workers in China, and some people want to make more money in foreign countries even if they do not plan to immigrate.
As a result, it has had a great impact on local immigration and public security management, and demonstrations have often broken out in South Korea and the United States, accusing illegal immigrants of stealing jobs for locals.
Of course, in addition to the above reasons, there are also some political and economic factors, which everyone should understand.
For example, China's unilateral visa-free policy for 7 European countries, there are considerations in this regard, although many people may not feel, but in fact, China is the most popular country for international tourism in Asia, in other words, we also love to eat the bowl of rice for international tourism, but after the epidemic, the number of people who travel to China has decreased sharply, in addition to the epidemic reasons, the severe international environment is also an important factor, in addition to affecting tourism, the number of people investing in China has also become much smaller, which is not friendly to domestic economic development.
China's unilateral visa exemption for 7 European countries is because these 7 countries are the most frequent with China, since Europe encountered the epidemic + Ukraine-Russia conflict, economic growth has slowed down, and Germany, the leader of the European Union, will have a GDP decline of 0 percent in 2023 compared with the previous year3%, which is already in a state of recession, and the introduction of a unilateral visa-free policy at this time can prompt European companies to come to China to find opportunities.
Generally speaking, if China wants to open up to the outside world, it must show an attitude and tell everyone that we are not closed to ourselves, whether it is two-way visa exemption or one-way visa exemption, it is to let the world see and understand China.
2024 is destined to be an extraordinary year, in the country is highly open to the outside world, more and more opportunities are also coming, for us investors, seize the opportunity, in order to meet the storm and turn into a dragon!
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