Originally Posted by
jiejie
Stop fooling with the official site. Go to
www.mychinavisa.com and they will have a fillable and printable form. Note that for the DC Embassy and Houston Consulate, officials want the form filled out by computer, not hand. Other missions in the USA apparently still take hand-filled. Seems to work in IE and Firefox, not sure about other browsers/systems.
I can confirm this will work. I used this service and their web site to fill in and get the visa last month. I had it back in 8 days and got a 1 year multiple entry which is what I asked for.