About this site

visa.hi.cn is a query manual. It answers one kind of question: how a foreign passport holder enters mainland China, and what has to happen in the first thirty days after they are in. It does not answer what to do once you have settled in — that belongs to other sites — and it does not answer whether your own case will be approved, because no website can.

Who publishes it

This site is published by UNILINK. The publisher is named here, on the disclaimer page and on the privacy page because those are the three places a reader has a legal right to find out who is behind the words. It appears nowhere else in the navigation, the headings or the article pages, because none of those are the right place for it.

Where the facts come from

Every factual statement on this site is traced to a page published by a Chinese government body. There are three primary ones:

• National Immigration Administration — visa exemption lists, visa-free transit, port visas, and the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Exit and Entry of Nationals.
• Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — the issuing criteria and required documents for each visa class.
• Chinese Visa Application Service System — where applications from abroad are filed.

Sources checked 2026-10-01. Volatile figures carry their retrieval date on the page where they appear.

How pages are written

Pages are organised by the order a real question gets answered in: first the entry route, then the visa class that route implies, then the documents and deadlines that attach to it. Each handbook page is written in English and Chinese as two separate articles rather than as a translation pair, because the two languages read in different orders and one of them is more useful as a result.

Where the English and Chinese versions of an official page differ, the Chinese page is treated as controlling and the difference is noted in the text.

What this site does not do

• No advertising, no affiliate links, no lead forms, no paid service, no booking.
• No prediction about whether your visa will be granted, and no guarantee of entry.
• No referral to a visa agent, a lawyer or a consultancy. There is no commercial relationship to disclose: the site has no affiliate links and no paid placements.
• No affiliation of any kind with the National Immigration Administration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, any Chinese embassy or consulate, or any visa agency.

Corrections

If something here contradicts the official page it links to, the official page is right and this site is wrong. Where a rule changes, the affected page is re-checked against the source and its retrieval date is updated. Start from the handbook, or read the full disclaimer.