How to apply for an APEC business travel card? Where should I submit this application?

Different identities are handled in different ways, including senior government officials engaged in APEC affairs or government officials in charge of travel card business, China officials working in APEC organizations, personnel of large state-owned enterprises managed by the central government, personnel of local state-owned enterprises, personnel of Sino-foreign joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and Chinese (mainland) personnel of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises. The contributors with different identities are also different.

1, a senior government official engaged in APEC affairs or a government official in charge of travel card business, and a China official who organizes and submits applications for work in APEC;

Government officials will send the applicant's materials to the higher authorities with the power of foreign affairs examination and approval according to the examination and approval procedures for going abroad on business; China officials working in APEC organizations shall be audited by the applicant's original unit or sent to the higher authorities with foreign affairs approval authority. After examination, the relevant departments will send the relevant materials to the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for examination, and the Consular Department will issue cards to the applicants after passing the examination and being approved by other economies.

2, the central management of large state-owned enterprises and units to submit applications;

After the applicant's enterprise examines the applicant's materials, it will send the relevant materials to the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for examination, and the Consular Department will issue cards to the applicant after passing the examination and obtaining approval from other economies.

3. Personnel of local state-owned enterprises and application submission units;

The enterprise to which the applicant belongs will send the application materials to the foreign affairs office of the people's government of the province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, cities with separate plans, special economic zones, coastal open cities, sub-provincial cities, the foreign affairs bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the foreign affairs office of Hulunbeier Municipal People's Government or the foreign affairs office of Suzhou Industrial Park where the enterprise is registered for review. After the relevant foreign affairs office has passed the examination, it will send the relevant materials to the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for examination. The consular affairs department will issue the card to the applicant after passing the examination and obtaining approval from other economies.

4. Personnel from private enterprises, Sino-foreign joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and Chinese (mainland) personnel from investment enterprises in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and the applicant;

The enterprise to which the applicant belongs will send the applicant's materials to the foreign affairs office of the people's government of the province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, cities with separate plans, special economic zones, coastal open cities, sub-provincial cities where the enterprise is registered, the foreign affairs bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the foreign affairs office of Hulunbeier Municipal People's Government or the foreign affairs office of Suzhou Industrial Park for review. After the relevant foreign affairs office has passed the examination, it will send the relevant materials to the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for examination. The consular affairs department will issue the card to the applicant after passing the examination and obtaining approval from other economies.

Extended data

At most, there are 16 abbreviations of foreign economies on the back of cardholders' travel cards in China:

JPN (Japan), Korea (Korea), MYS (Malaysia), IDN (Indonesia), Brunei (Brunei), PHL (Philippines), Singapore (Singapore), Mexico (Mexico), Thailand (Thailand), VNM (Vietnam), Australia (Australia), NZL (Australia). The English abbreviations of other economies are CHN (China), HKG (China and Hongkong), TWN (China and Taipei), USA (USA) and CAN (Canada).

The maximum allowable stay in each economy is 60 days or 90 days, as follows:

60 days: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea.

90 days: Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Brunei, Mexico, Peru and Chile.

If the travel card is valid for less than 60 days or 90 days, you need to leave the country before the card expires.

Cardholders from other economies can stay in China for 60 days at a time.

China Consular Service Network -APEC Business Travel Card