Recently, the Ministry of foreign affairs of Japan officially announced that, starting from July 1, this year, the scope of individual tourist visa applications for Chinese citizens to Japan will be expanded, mainly including expanding the scope of accepting regions, expanding the scope of sending visa agents and expanding the scope of applicants.
Chief representative of the Beijing Office of the Japanese government's Tourism Bureau, bemulongjiu, introduced that the new policy has expanded the scope of accepting regions. From the original Japanese Embassy in Beijing, the Consulate General of the Shanghai, and the autonomous region of the Consulate General of Guangzhou, the autonomous region extended to the entire Chinese mainland, including the Consulate General of Chongqing, the Consulate General of Qingdao, the Consulate General of Shenyang and the Dalian office. In other words, after July this year, all Japanese Consulates General accept individual travel visa applications. In addition, the scope of the agent has been expanded from 48 travel agencies in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to 290 in China.
The more important point is to expand the scope of applicants. After the implementation of the new policy, people with certain credit ability can apply for personal travel visa for themselves and their three-generation relatives, or for their second-generation relatives who travel alone. Here, a certain credit ability refers to the ability to have a stable job and hold an international credit card or gold card. It is understood that the gold card application conditions of several famous international credit card companies are about 5000 yuan per month.
Kashiwagi Takaku said that in September 2000, the Chinese mainland tour group arrived in Tokyo and opened a tourist channel for Sino Japanese folk exchanges. In the past 10 years, the number of Chinese visitors to Japan has increased steadily. After breaking through the million mark in 2008, while the number of foreigners visiting Japan fell by 19% in 2009, China's market still maintained a growth rate of nearly 1%, becoming the only growth area of Japanese foreign tourists under the global economic crisis.