KnownChina

Verified, dated entry information for foreign visitors to China.

Entry reference · every fact sourced

Entering China, without guessing

Every page here is dated. You can see when we last checked it against official sources — and what changed since.

Passports covered
79
Unilateral / mutual
50 / 29
Last verified

Counts derived from the National Immigration Administration (NIA), retrieved 2026-02-17. Each row of the list carries its own source.

Do I need a visa? — four questions

Covers unilateral/mutual visa-free entry and 240-hour visa-free transit. Result is guidance, not a border decision — the officer at the port has the final word.

Hard facts, as data

Visa-free rules change often. We keep them as a dated dataset rather than an article: visa-free entry by passport.

79 passports · re-checked every 14 days · last verified