You can also visit Laosvia WikipediaOk, today I decided to leave the issue of the visa problems away, but it seems I have some important new information, so I break my own rule. While in Sichuan people work hard to dig out survivors of the earthquake or bury the death, China's foreign service is imposing new and tigher rules to protect the country against tourists and business people.
At the Dutch site De Gele Draak, quoted here more often because of its reliable information, says Chinese embassy is not longer accepting hotel confirmations from China by email to get a visa, but they insist on getting a faxed statement with the letterhead of the hotels involved. On top of that, if you travel with two or more people, you have to make sure each of the participants gets its own statement, otherwise only the person who hass done the reservation might get the visa.
Needless to say that this is a new barrier that is already pissing off people in a great way. It is not yet clear whether this new explanations of the visa regulations only applies to the Netherlands, but earlier experiences have shown that this is most likely a worldwide trend.
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After years of traveling to China and seeing the growing number of "tourist " and "business" travels abusing the Chinese visa system, I am amazed that it took this long for the Chinese government to crack down. Nearly every expat website has a blog related to converting/overstaying visas.
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