British national visiting his daughter studying in China

Hi, you can apply for a tourist L with round-trip ticket and hotel reservation. Or you can just provide an invitation letter from your daughter and copies of her passport and residence permit instead of tickets and hotel booking. If you want to stay longer than 30 days there, you can choose to apply for family visit S type, the birth certificate of your daughter is required. For application itself, you can either apply in person or by someone or a travel agency entrusted.