Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I'd worry that the same airlines (DL, I'm looking at you) and GAs who have problems with reading TWOV rules on TIMATIC and insist that transit means something like a same day connection will also reject people with transit visas on the grounds that they're not transiting if they're staying more than a few hours.
No, not a worry at all. The airline will see a Chinese visa in the passport. It will say Type G but otherwise there is no identifier as to what a G visa is--no "transit" verbiage at all. It's no different than traveling on an L, M, X, Z, C, S, Q visa. All the airline will look for is a valid visa which gets them off the hook. They don't look any further as to the motives/action of the passenger once in China.
Here's an image of a G visa:
http://www.jasapengurusanvisachina.c...aut-china.html
Ignore the watermark and overprint covering the passenger information, which is the website's doing, not the Chinese. This particular G is good for 1 entry and 10 days, to be used within 90 days of issue.