Answered by Borut
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Oct. 06, 2024 12:43
Alice, you can stay in wider Shanghai area for 144 hours (6 days) absolutely visa free, but your flight itinerary has to follow the pattern:
A country - B country (mainland China) - C country
As you can see, the immediate points before and after Shanghai have to be in two different countries or eligible territories. Eligible territories are Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau and they act as third country in this regard.
To be even more transparent, your itinerary has to look something like this:
South Korea - Shanghai - Taiwan
or
Hong Kong - Shanghai - Taiwan
or
Japan - Shanghai - South Korea
It is just important to remember the rule with the immediate points before and after and the rule that you cannot have two mainland Chinese stops in a row or in other words, an itinerary of this kind is not allowed like
Seoul - Shanghai - Beijing - Taiwan
Have a nice journey.