Originally Posted by
HkCaGu
And now with longer and longer TWOV time limit and the obvious/explicit intention of promoting tourism and the increased potentials for savings on visa fees, maybe CA/CZ and start changing for stopovers, which they haven't been doing.
Yes, I hope they won't charge extra for stopovers.
The current idea, that you can take 48-72hrs in China without the hassle of a Visa, spending some money in China, is pretty smart. China certainly knows how to do business, I'm actually surprised they haven't started even earlier to extend the "Transit Visa" thingy on more expanded time.
If they realise how much money they can make by allowing people to visit China/spending money that otherwise went a Visa-free place, they might put more and more countries on the Singapore/Japan 14 day Visa-on-arrival policy, despite how hard the other countries are making it for Chinese citizens to visit their places.
In the end, China will win. Both from Chinese who decide foreign countries don't want them/their money by putting extreme high walls to get tourist visas, and from foreigners who spend their money in China that would otherwise have gone to another place.
I suspect in 30 years all that's left of Europe will be a cheap production place for Chinese companies, plus the mountain area will be one gigantic "Welcoming Chinese money/tourists" place
