As per the media reports, The Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei will allow visitors from 53 countries to visit the region, without having to obtain a visa.
The new order will come into action from Thursday, and visitors from 53 countries will benefit from it which includes. US, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, the official People’s Daily reported on Twitter.
Currently, Beijing and Tianjin allow visa-free visits of up to 72 hours — a measure applied in 16 other international airports including Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xi’an, Efe news cited the daily as saying.
The move is intended to increase the number of tourists to China, which at the moment is ranked the as fourth most visited country in the world.
The measure involves coordination between Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, a northern province that has been eyed by the central government as the next economic corridor equivalent to the traditional hubs in the deltas of the Rivers Yangtze (area around Shanghai) and Pearl (Guangzhou and Hong Kong).
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