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You may have already heared about the 144 hour transit visa exemption policy and we have also introduced before. And starting from Jan 1, 2019, another five cities in China will carry out the 144-hour visa-free transit policy for foreign visitors from 53 countries, National Immigration Administration said on Thursday.

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The five cities are…

• Xiamen of Fujian province, 

• Qingdao of Shandong province, 

• Wuhan of Hubei province, 

• Chengdu of Sichuan province

• Kunming of Yunnan province.

With valid international travel documents and tickets to a third country within 144 hours, foreigners can enjoy the visa-free access to China from the five cities and stay for up to 144 hours, according to the administration.

The visa-free period will be increased from the 72 hours in 2013 to 144 hours next year, aiming to provide more convenience for foreigners to enter and leave China for short-term tourism or business visits, it said.

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The transit visa-free policy applies to the list of countries:

Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Monaco, Russia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Belarus, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, the UAE, Qatar.

Procedure

❶To obtain a transit visa exemption, travelers should review eligibility requirements, and confirm their eligibility with their local Chinese embassy. 

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❷ After confirmation, travelers must communicate their intention to obtain a transit visa exemption to their airline prior to travel. 

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❸ The airline will liaise with border control officials, who grant transit visa exemptions to travelers that meet requirements after verification.

[Note] In most cases, the transit visa exemption only allows the traveler to visit the province of their arrival.

How to apply online in advance?

An applicant for 144-hour visa-exemption transit can apply via the E-application system by providing…

• personal information, 

• address in China, 

• contact information, 

• intended date of arrival and departure

• flight/train/vessel number, 

• etc. 

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At the end of the procedure,a QR code will be generated. Upon arriving at the 144-hour visa-exemption transit area at Pudong or Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, you can print the arrival card for temporary entry foreigners on a self-service device by scanning the QR code or your international travel document. 

Then to proceed to the specific channel with your arrival card, onward ticket, international travel document and other documents, and be interviewed by an immigration inspection officer.

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You probably think it for granted that barking dogs are dangerous and cute and nicely-behaved ones are good dogs. However, most facts are not true. Do not try to define a dog with your stereotyped thoughts, because dogs have their own likes and dislikes, their behaviors are varied in different situations. So, do you really know you dog? Following are the ten myths that you misunderstand your dog, check these out. 

Myth #1: 

Dogs have a human appreciation of sharing

 Humans can rationalize and appreciate the benefits of sharing. In contrast, among dogs, possession is ten-tenths of the law. So we should not take toys, bones and chews away from dogs unless we have trained them to accept this form of intervention.

Myth #2: 

Dogs  enjoy common human physical displays of affection

 

Humans often show their affection for others by hugging and cuddling them. Dogs simply do not have the limbs and joints to achieve this and so have not evolved to give each other a loving squeeze. When embraced by humans, many can find this uncomfortable or threatening. The same goes for patting dogs on the head.

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Myth #3: 

Barking and growling dogs are  threatening or dangerous

These are distance-increasing behaviors. The dogs using these signals are chiefly trying to buy space so they can feel safer. All dogs, regardless of their temperament or training, can at times want more space. They usually try more subtle signalling first, but many dogs learn that subtle signals don’t work and go straight for shouting.

Myth #4: 

Dogs will welcome unfamiliar dogs to their home

Dogs evolved from wolves and are therefore primed to defend what is theirs. They have an attachment to their home territory and the resources within it. Dogs have no way of knowing that the dogs and human we invite around to our home, for example for a play-date, are ever going to leave. They can be forgiven for thinking that this is the way it is going to be from hereon.

So it is to be expected that they will often try to lay out the local ground-rules and put the new arrivals in their place.

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Myth #5: 

Dogs like relaxing as much as humans do

We go to work and go to school, so we greatly value the opportunity to chill out at home and maybe watch TV. In contrast, dogs spend most of their time at home and so value exercise off the property far more than time spent on the sofa.

Myth #6:

 An effusive dog is a friendly dog

“Friendly” for one dog is not friendly for all dogs, and some dogs use excessive friendliness as a way to alleviate anxiety associated with meeting another dog or human.

Owners of very friendly dogs may be surprised when every other dog does not cheerfully receive their dog. Some dogs prefer sedate greetings, and lots of personal space.

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Myth #7: 

Dogs approach when they want to engage playfully

 

Sometimes owners are confused when a dog approaches a human or another dog in a friendly fashion and then growls or snaps at them.

These dogs may be motivated to approach chiefly to gain information, rather than to interact, and some may like strangers in principle, but nevertheless become anxious and overwhelmed all of a sudden.

If you are seeing this pattern, call your dog away from new dogs and humans after a couple of seconds.

Myth #8: 

A big yard can replace walks

 

Because dogs spend so much time at home in the yard, they often find the area a little too familiar and sometimes rather dull. The size of a yard is far less important to dogs than what happens in it.

Dogs truly thrive on play with each other, with us and with toys. They particularly love to do so in a novel environment, so time spent out of the yard is the very best of fun.

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Myth #9: 

Dogs are wilfully defiant when they don’t do as they are told

 

Rather than deciding to disobey us, dogs sometimes simply can’t do what we ask them to. Either they don’t actually know what we’re asking them to do, or they have much, much more pressing things to do at the time.

Dogs are not great at generalizing, so just because they sit nicely when asked to in the kitchen when you have treats in your hand doesn’t mean they automatically know what “sit” means when they are at the off-leash dog park.

And while your dogs might know what “sit” means when being trained at home without distractions, asking them to do so when visitors are at the door.

 

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Myth #10: 

Barking, snapping, or lunging is the first sign of an unhappy dog

 

Dogs often give subtle signs they are becoming anxious, like avoiding eye contact with whatever is worrying them, licking lips, brow furrows, lifting a paw, tightening muscles in their face.

 

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If nothing is done to help these dogs move away from whatever is worrying them, these signs can often escalate to more troubling behavior that is more obvious, such as growling and snapping.

 

An American primary schoolboy has become an internet celebrity in China, his unique gifs have gone viral on Chinese social media. 

Tens of millions of Chinese internet users have become his fans and they constantly focus their attention on the boy’s Instagram posts and don’t want to miss even a single gif of him. That boy is widely called “ fake smile boy” by Chinese netizens.

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Last week, an eight-year-old boy’s attendance at a yearly conference for China’s biggest internet companies caught people’s attention, many audiences thought that it is rare for a little boy to present at high-level IT meeting.

That child was viral internet star Gavin Thomas, known in China as “fake smile boy”.

  

Images of him smirking at the camera – first as a toddler, then as a youngster – looking confused or showing his trademark uncomfortable smile have circulated around the internet for years, becoming a staple on social media like Twitter and Reddit.

Gavin’s success was helped mainly by his uncle, the internet celebrity Nick Mastodon, who first started posting funny videos of the child at the age of two on the video platform Vine.

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But after Chinese social media users started making their own memes from Gavin’s photos posted on Instagram a few years ago, his popularity exploded.

A gif of Gavin’s face, smiling awkwardly, might be used as many as 10 million times a day across China’s various social media platforms, according to Ann Ding, founder, and CEO of Dongtu.com, a major distributor of online gifs, told CNN.

She estimated that all of the total numbers of Gavin related gifs used across platforms in China has easily exceeded 1 billion.

Gavin’s first Weibo account was set up in July, and now boasts more than 1.8 million followers who eagerly comment on updates from his daily life such as photos and live streams.

Gavin’s first Weibo account in China

 

Compared to his Weibo in China, Gavin’s Twitter only has 459000 followers

His debut on Weibo was widely reported by Chinese state media, and his first trip to China in August made headlines across the country.

 

He made the journey to China from his native Minnesota in August to meet fans and tour some of the country’s major attractions.

 

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“He absolutely loved the pandas in Chengdu,” his manager Byron Ashley said, who promised that Gavin would be “back soon”.

Tencent, who invited Gavin to its annual conference recently, even launched a sticker pack of Gavin’s facial expressions on China’s most widely used messaging app.

Gavin can also be seen on a variety of mugs, posters and clothing hawked on Chinese e-commerce sites.

39-year-old Cai Qianyi, who works in the media industry, said he constantly shares Gavin gifs online.

“I got to know him from the gifs other people sent me on WeChat. I saved the gifs to use as they are so appropriate to express myself,” he told CNN.

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As far as Gavin himself is concerned, he told CNN he is enjoying his fame in China.

“They love watching my pictures and videos, and they tell me I’m cute. Sometimes, they tell me they love me,” he told CNN over email.

All this shows how an easily recognizable Western meme has broken through language and cultural barriers to appeal to users halfway across the world.

 

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Since the introduction of Market Purchase Trade mode, it has opened a new international trade channel for market entities, bringing more vitality to foreign companies’ cross-border businesses in China.

On Nov 15th, the third session market purchase lecture, themed opening new trade mode, kicks off at HACOS main conference room. The purpose of the lecture is to better serve foreign business owners and foreign senior managers in business activities.

 Harvey, the CEO of  HACOS, was giving a lecture

 

What is the market purchase trade?

The market procurement trade refers to a mode of trade in which qualified business operators purchase goods valued at 50,000 to 150,000 USD (including 150,000 USD) within the market designated by the state commercial authorities and complete export commodity clearance procedures at the place of purchase.

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When it comes to the export trade problems for foreign entrepreneurs, Harvey introduced three common market purchase trading modes in detail, general trading, tourism trading, and market purchase, promoting a better understanding in Chinese trading policy and the differences of trading modes for foreigners who do foreign trading business in China.

How the market purchase trade can benefit your company?

 

• Ensure the validity of the account and collecting foreign exchange in a safe and lawful way.  

• Reduce dependency on HK accounts or NRA accounts when collecting foreign exchange.

• Regular customs declaration and simple settlement only with formal invoices and bills of lading.

• VAT Invoice is not required and tax exempted by the government.

• The market Purchase Trading mode is largely encouraged by the Chinese government.

Problems you may meet in export trade

How to deliver goods without import & export qualification?

ABC bank account in China is closed and the payment cannot be made, What’s the solution?

Hong Kong HSBC account is closed by the bank, how to continue your import and export trade?

How to export goods without factory invoice?

For all these above-mentioned questions, Harvey offered detailed solutions and practical suggestions patiently to foreign entrepreneurs.

As a new form of trade, the market purchase trade is greatly supported by the Chinese government who has already rolled out many favorable policies for it. Please don’t hesitate to consult HACOS if you have any questions on market purchase trade.

HACOS, Business Services Solutions Master