Are China and Russia exempt from visas? The latest news.

China and Russia are exempt from visas. "Russia and China plan to adopt a new visa-free group travel agreement." The ITAR-TASS news agency reported on February 23, 2023 that Kondratiev, director of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, said during the inspection activities of 40 largest travel agencies in China that the Russian Ministry of Economic Development was making efforts to prepare for the signing of a new mutual exemption group tourist visa agreement between Russia and China, and planned to complete all the review procedures in 2024. The agreement between the Chinese and Russian governments on mutual exemption of group tourist visas was signed in 2000, allowing a tourist team consisting of 5 to 50 people to visit each other's countries visa-free for a maximum stay of 15 days. China and Russian visa-free. According to reports, the Russian Tourism Union said on the 22nd that it would update some clauses in the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental agreement, including reducing the minimum number of group members from the current five to three, and increasing the longest stay in the other side's territory from the current 15 days to 2 1 day.