Difficult to get Chinese VISA for a business invitation letter from Chinese company
I am Dr. Wasantha Liyanage, graduated from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2009. Currently I am working as a staff grade officer in the public sector in Sri Lanka. Recently I made a business contact with a leading chinese company in Wenzhou for making a dealership between them and one Sri Lankan company managed by my colleague to import solar energy products from China to Sri Lanka. So the said chinese company sent me an invitation letter for 3 people to come to visit their company and sign the dealership agreement. Mean while I accepted an invitation from my former university in Wuhan to do a guest lecture on Nov. 09th for the students at the university during my visit in china. So today I applied for business VISA with the relavent documents for 3 of us, but the office requested a letter of confirmation from a duly authorized unit, which we do not have yet. I asked from the chinese company in Wenzhou to send the said letter, but they also unaware about the procedure of it. And ask me to apply for tourist VISA. Is it possible to apply it for this purpose, if so what are the particulars we have to submit for it? Please kindly give me suggestions.