800 foreign cruise travellers enter Chinese city visa-free

Nearly 800 foreign cruise travelers entered China’s Tianjin Municipality visa-free on Friday. “Mediterranean” cruise ship docked at the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port on Friday, with passengers from various countries including Kazakhstan, Russia, India, and Malaysia.

This is the first inbound cruise ship after China enforced a policy allowing foreign tourist groups aboard cruise ships to enter visa-free via all cruise ship ports along the country’s 13 coastal cities and stay up to 15 days. While in China, the travelers can visit coastal provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions as well as Beijing, according to the National Immigration Administration on 15th May.