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Most North American, EU, UK, and Australian passport holders can transit visa-free for 144 or 240 hours through Chengdu or Chongqing.
You must enter and leave via an approved international airport. We'll match your itinerary to one.
You must hold an onward ticket to a third country (not your origin). Your planner verifies this before booking.
The 144-hour and 240-hour transit visa-free policies let eligible passport holders enter mainland China without a visa, provided they exit to a third country (not their country of origin) within the window. Chengdu Tianfu and Chongqing Jiangbei are both approved entry points for our region.
Holders of passports from the United States, Canada, the UK, EU member states, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and 50+ other listed nations. The list is updated by Beijing roughly twice a year — your planner re-checks it the week your flights are confirmed.
The Arrival/Departure Card given on the plane and re-verified at passport control. We will send you a pre-filled draft 48 hours before departure, along with a photo of an approved sample answer for the “purpose of visit” field.
We handle: confirming policy eligibility, structuring your itinerary to land and exit via approved cities, providing the onward ticket booking confirmation. You handle: holding the passport, the third-country ticket, and being awake enough at passport control to answer one or two questions.
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