APEC Business Travel Card Visa-Free Entry

1. APEC Business Travel Card is a multilateral long-term visa. Foreigners with APEC Business Travel Cards (with "CHN" listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies) and their valid passports are allowed to enter and leave China visa-free within the validity period of the APEC Business Travel Card, and stay in China for no more than 60 days for each entry. If "CHN" is not listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies, unless other visa exemption conditions apply, the card holder shall still apply for Chinese visa in advance.

1. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Travel Card (ABTC) facilitates short-term business travel within the APEC region by streamlining the entry process into APEC economies. The ‘apply once, information used for multiple purposes’ approach is used which means that applicants are only required to make one application for permission to enter participating economies. Successful applicants from fully participating economies are issued with a five-year card that serves as the entry authority to other fully participating economies which have granted pre-clearance for short-term business travel of up to 60 or 90 days. The card also enables holders to fast track immigration processing at each economy’s major international airports. Note that Canada and the United States of America (the United States) are transitional members of the ABTC scheme and do not offer reciprocal entry arrangements, but do provide fast track immigration processing at major international airports.

To be eligible to apply for an ABTC you must hold a valid passport from an APEC economy (or be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong, China), engage in regular business travel throughout the APEC region and have no criminal conviction. Each economy has the discretion to impose additional eligibility criteria on their applicants.

Senior government officials and officials actively engaged in APEC business may also be eligible for an ABTC. As each economy will define a “senior government official” according to its own bureaucratic structure, please contact your home economy to determine whether you meet this criteria.

1. APEC Business Travel Card is a multilateral long-term visa. Foreigners with APEC Business Travel Cards (with "CHN" listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies) and their valid passports are allowed to enter and leave China visa-free within the validity period of the APEC Business Travel Card, and stay in China for no more than 60 days for each entry. If "CHN" is not listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies, unless other visa exemption conditions apply, the card holder shall still apply for Chinese visa in advance.

Applicants make a single application to the economy for which they hold a passport (home economy), or have permanent residence in the case of Hong Kong, China. If this economy assesses the application as meeting the relevant criteria, the applicant’s details are provided to the other participating economies who conduct their own assessment of whether to grant pre-clearance. When all economies have made a pre-clearance decision, the applicant receives an ABTC that lists the economies to which they have permission to travel. Each economy is responsible for managing the processing of their own pre-clearance applications and no economy has any influence over the processing timeframes of another.

为进一步便利亚太地区商务人员往来，中方决定自2023年5月1日起接受外方APEC商务旅行卡虚拟卡持卡人入境。

1. APEC Business Travel Card is a multilateral long-term visa. Foreigners with APEC Business Travel Cards (with "CHN" listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies) and their valid passports are allowed to enter and leave China visa-free within the validity period of the APEC Business Travel Card, and stay in China for no more than 60 days for each entry. If "CHN" is not listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies, unless other visa exemption conditions apply, the card holder shall still apply for Chinese visa in advance.

To be eligible to apply for an ABTC you must hold a valid passport from an APEC economy (or be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong, China), engage in regular business travel throughout the APEC region and have no criminal conviction. Each economy has the discretion to impose additional eligibility criteria on their applicants.

1. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Travel Card (ABTC) facilitates short-term business travel within the APEC region by streamlining the entry process into APEC economies. The ‘apply once, information used for multiple purposes’ approach is used which means that applicants are only required to make one application for permission to enter participating economies. Successful applicants from fully participating economies are issued with a five-year card that serves as the entry authority to other fully participating economies which have granted pre-clearance for short-term business travel of up to 60 or 90 days. The card also enables holders to fast track immigration processing at each economy’s major international airports. Note that Canada and the United States of America (the United States) are transitional members of the ABTC scheme and do not offer reciprocal entry arrangements, but do provide fast track immigration processing at major international airports.

2. All APEC Business Travel Card holders may use the "special passage" at the borders for border inspection procedures.

第四十一条 外国人在中国境内工作，应当按照规定取得工作许可和工作类居留证件。任何单位和个人不得聘用未取得工作许可和工作类居留证件的外国人。

Applicants make a single application to the economy for which they hold a passport (home economy), or have permanent residence in the case of Hong Kong, China. If this economy assesses the application as meeting the relevant criteria, the applicant’s details are provided to the other participating economies who conduct their own assessment of whether to grant pre-clearance. When all economies have made a pre-clearance decision, the applicant receives an ABTC that lists the economies to which they have permission to travel. Each economy is responsible for managing the processing of their own pre-clearance applications and no economy has any influence over the processing timeframes of another.

1. APEC Business Travel Card is a multilateral long-term visa. Foreigners with APEC Business Travel Cards (with "CHN" listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies) and their valid passports are allowed to enter and leave China visa-free within the validity period of the APEC Business Travel Card, and stay in China for no more than 60 days for each entry. If "CHN" is not listed on the back of the card as one of the visa-free APEC economies, unless other visa exemption conditions apply, the card holder shall still apply for Chinese visa in advance.

会议期间，中国、中国香港、印度尼西亚、菲律宾、新加坡联合宣布将APEC商务旅行卡持卡人在上述经济体的最长停留期由60天延长至90天。具体实施时间由相关经济体自行决定。

4. Foreigners entering China visa-free with an APEC Business Travel Card and having to stay in China for more than 60 days due to medical or business emergencies shall apply for stay permit with relevant materials to the local exit-entry departments of China's public security organs 7 days prior to the end date of the duration of stay. Stay permit for no more than 30 days shall be issued for applications that are deemed reasonable upon review. Those who are denied shall leave the country before the due date.

1. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Travel Card (ABTC) facilitates short-term business travel within the APEC region by streamlining the entry process into APEC economies. The ‘apply once, information used for multiple purposes’ approach is used which means that applicants are only required to make one application for permission to enter participating economies. Successful applicants from fully participating economies are issued with a five-year card that serves as the entry authority to other fully participating economies which have granted pre-clearance for short-term business travel of up to 60 or 90 days. The card also enables holders to fast track immigration processing at each economy’s major international airports. Note that Canada and the United States of America (the United States) are transitional members of the ABTC scheme and do not offer reciprocal entry arrangements, but do provide fast track immigration processing at major international airports.