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240-hour transit, short business trips
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Most passports can now enter visa-free — 240-hour transit for many, full visa-free entry for others. We keep the current rules in plain English with official sources, plus the short-trip playbook: airport to hotel, payment setup in 30 minutes, and what to see with 3 days.
Licensed corridor atmosphere — not a photo of this room. Official interiors are on the venue site.
Licensed corridor atmosphere — not a photo of this room. Official interiors are on the venue site.
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Open NIA the morning you fly. Lists change.
Many passports now enter visa-free or under 240-hour transit. NIA’s English interpretation page (dated 4 July 2025) describes 240 hours for 55 countries with an onward ticket to a third place, and a separate 24-hour port-area transit. Ports and countries have been added since. Work, study and reporting still need visas. Hotels register you; a private flat still needs 24-hour police registration. A 240-hour trip is airport, hotel, payments — then serviced apartments if you stay longer on a real visa. It is not “enter visa-free and sign a year”.
Housing Short visitors use Bund or airport hotels. Assignees wait for the permit before a twelve-month residential lease.
Official English policy interpretation for 24-hour and 240-hour transit. Chinese portal nia.gov.cn. Hotline 12367. Do not memorise the country list.
Housing A visa status, not a corridor.
Licensed corridor atmosphere — not a photo of this room. Official interiors are on the venue site.
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Twenty-four hours on a private address. Hotline 12367.
Hotels file the stay. A rented flat, a friend’s sofa and an Airbnb-style room still need police accommodation registration within 24 hours. Work, study and reporting still need visas — 240 hours is not a year. Payments on a short visit: a travel eSIM plus a foreign card on Alipay or WeChat often buys coffee; a twelve-month lease still wants a mainland number and a debit card. Serviced apartments pick up when the trip becomes a posting. Open NIA the morning you fly; country lists change.
Housing Bund and airport hotels for 240 hours. Do not sign twelve months on a transit stamp.
Municipal pages list 24/7 with English; Japanese and French also mentioned. Do not treat a hotel stamp as a residence permit.
Housing A visa fact. Not a corridor.
Hours, doors and rooms move. Confirm on the official page the morning you go. Rankings are a date, not a personality.
Where you live decides how far all of this is. Tell us what your week looks like — we shortlist homes around it.
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