Answered by Borut
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Apr. 28, 2025 23:27
No, unfortunately, your itinerary is not eligible for any kind of visa free transit scheme. Based on the basic rule of 240 hour visa free transit, the immediate points before and after mainland China have to be in two different countries or eligible territories (eligible territories are Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau). As you can see both of those immediate points in your itinerary are in a single country - United Kingdom. If you only can, I would advise you to slightly adapt/alter your itinerary by introducing, for example France. Like this you could have an eligible itinerary that could look like: UK - Paris - Shanghai - Beijing - Xi'an - UK. The immediate points in this case are in two different countries, France and UK. I hope you will be able to do this, but if you have non refundable tickets, I am afraid that the only solution is to obtain a Chinese tourist (L) visa in advance. In any case I wish you a pleasant journey.
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