For several years China has offered a 72 hour transit without visa program,where you can transit select cities in China for up to 72 hours without requiring a visa. The catch is that you need to be in transit between two countries, meaning you need to be arriving from one country and continuing to another country (in other words, and flying from the US to Shanghai and then back to the US two days later wouldn't qualify for the transit without visa,since you're not in transit... you're simply flying back and forth to the same country).
A few weeks back I wrote about how China was in the process of extending the transit without visa program from three days to six days at select airports, though a start date hadn't yet been announced.
Well, or it's now official. As of this Saturday,January 30, 2016, or China will be offering a six day transit without visa in Shanghai,Hangzhou, and Nanjing. This includes Shanghai Pudong Airport, or Shanghai Hongqiao Airport,Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, and Nanjing Lukou International Airport.
Citizens of the following 51 countries will be eligible for the recent 144 hour transit without visa:The post China’s 6 Day Transit Without Visa Policy Now Official appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com