Under the pressure of stagnation of economic recovery, China has announced measures to relax business travel visas and further open the border.Scholars believe that under the strong demand for investment promotion, the Chinese government realizes that it is necessary to open the country's gateway to strengthen the physical and trade exchanges and increase the probability of investment landing.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Ministry of Public Security of China held a press conference on Thursday (August 3) to release 26 measures for high -quality development of public security organs' services to ensure high -quality development, and said that they would strive to deploy all the deployment by the end of August.The measures allow the port visa for foreign business personnel and upgrade a one -time entry visa to a multiple entry visa for three years.
The report said that if foreigners visit China for business negotiations, investment entrepreneurship, and exhibition conferences, if you are too late to apply for visas abroad, you can apply for an entry visa with invitation and certification materials at the port.If the business business needs to go round and forth multiple times, it can be replaced with multiple entry visas for three years after entering the country.
For foreigners who live in China, the new regulations allow them to retain their passports during the residence permit, so that they can hold their passports to carry out social affairs such as travel, accommodation, taxation, banking, mailing, and other social affairs.Bloomberg News reported on Friday (August 4) that before, foreigners need to leave the original passport in applying for a residence permit, and Chinese officials will issue temporary travel certificates, but the travel certificate is not widely accepted like passports.
Jia Tongbin, deputy director of the Foreign Management Department of the National Immigration Administration of China, said at the press conference that the new rules of the above passport are expected to benefit at least 700,000 people each year, which will help create a more efficient and convenient business environment and loose friendship.The foreign -related environment further stimulates the vitality of the market.
Jia Tongbin also said that after the crown disease epidemic, international personnel have gradually returned to normal, and some domestic enterprises and foreign executives and merchants in China have real urgent needs for rapidly applying for visas and facilitating business activities in China.The Authority has therefore decided to provide port visas and multiple visas for foreign business personnel.
He said: "This measure will further promote cross -border business personnel, facilitate foreign executives, merchants and other personnel to come to China to carry out trade cooperation, inspection and negotiations, etc.Orders, expand the international market, seize the opportunity in the new round of industrial revolution, better guarantee the circulation of elements of international personnel, and maintain the safe and stable supply chain of the industrial chain. "
Experts: Weak economic growth requires further opening of the country
Experts believe that under the pressure of weak economic growth and tight government financial growth, China needs to truly open the country and facilitate personnel to promote investment promotion.
Lu Xi, assistant professor of the School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore, Lu Xi, said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that the physical exchanges of overseas personnel during the crown disease have stagnated physical exchanges and did not recover after the epidemic; although local governments actively led a group overseas to overseasPreaching and attracting investment, but the results are not high."Under the pressure of economic growth, the official realized that only by allowing more overseas business personnel to enter China can investments be allowed to land."
However, Bloomberg quoted the Chinese EU Chamber of Commerce Chairman Essequan, saying that although Chinese official measures took a step in the correct direction, it was not enough to restore business travel to the level before the epidemic, and it was not enough to restore China's right right.The attractiveness of foreign talents.He said that the lack of transparency and predictability of China's policy environment is also the reason for affecting foreign companies in China.
Bloomberg pointed out that the Chinese government searches for foreign companies and companies serving overseas customers, and detained their staff to worry many foreign executives to worry about whether it is safe to go to China.
In the26 measures, in addition to overseas personnel, it also includes the cancellation of household registration restrictions in cities below 3 million, relaxation of 3 million to 5 million cities' household registration restrictions, and simplifying the administrative process of a series of enterprises, rural and communities.
Lu Xi research and judge that promoting people's settlement in cities is also an important part of 26, which can attract talents to gather towards core cities and stabilize the real estate market of core cities, because "people are the largest source of local housing demand."
As for the administrative reduction and exemption measures in Article 26, Lu Xi said, "the deterioration of economic and finance provides a window for these public policies that could have been promoted long ago."At the same time, reducing administrative and time costs will also help improve social efficiency and promote economic growth.
