Answered by ZUPAN
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Dec. 21, 2019 02:14
Georgios, it is not necessary to claim your luggage. Also, it is not a free visa that you are looking for, but 24 hour visa free transit. So, there is no visa at all.
Also, to be eligible for this 24 hour visa free transit option, your itinerary has to be, something like this:
Athens - Beijing - Singapore
Or similar, of course...
Now, regarding your luggage... Luggage is not related to the ability to use 24 hour visa free transit in any way. Regardless of the mentioned, sometimes you will have to collect your luggage, for example when you travel on separate tickets or unrelated airlines and sometimes your luggage will be tagged all the way to your final situation, usually when you travel on a single (through) ticket. This is a detail that you will inform yourself at the airline and also at check-in in your origin airport.
You will print out your flight tickets and have those printouts with you. Also, you will declare at check-in in your origin country that you will travel to your destination via Beijing using 24 hour visa free transit.
Upon your arrival in Beijing, if you don't want to leave the airport, you will just perform the formalities and wait for your onward flight at the boarding gate. Anyway, if you want to exit the airport, you will approach 24 hour visa free transit counter where you will apply for a temporary entry permit. Since your layover is not so long in the eyes of Chinese immigration, your chances to be granted the mentioned permit are 50%. Basically, this is it.
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