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Mar 10, 2014 | 4:52 pm

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Originally Posted by transparent

Have read much of this thread and the FAQ. Wanted to confirm--

Even if I had a valid flight ticket arriving CAN (Guangzhou) and departing CAN, I would not be allowed to exit China to go to, say, Hong Kong for a couple days, and even if they let me leave, I wouldn't be able to re-enter to catch my departing flight?

not by land.

you could FLY to HKG from CAN (services are offered by CZ and KA/CX), and that would give you a new 72 hour TWOV on each entry at CAN (so effectively you could get 6 days in CAN if you go to HKG in the middle)