SINGAPORE/BEIJING – A month before China resumed issuing all visas to foreigners on March 15, Singaporean businessman Tony Du received an invitation to visit the country from the Sichuan provincial government’s overseas Chinese affairs office. Read more at straitstimes.com.
These early visits to China came ahead of its relaxation of visa processes.
“Mr Zhao expressed the Sichuan government’s appreciation to us for bringing so many entrepreneurs right after the pandemic on this trip to discuss whether there are projects for mutual collaboration,” said Mr Du, who emigrated from China to Singapore in 1992 and is now managing director of Asia-Link, which provides human resource services.
Businessman Wang Quancheng has visited China almost every month since December when he also attended Xiamen’s Two Sessions parliamentary meetings. The president of the Hua Yuan Association in Singapore, which helps new Chinese immigrants integrate, used his APEC Business Travel Card that allows foreigners to engage in business activities there without a new visa.
Other visits took a more political tone. Mr Philip Chan, the managing director of a Singapore real estate investment firm, wasparliamentary meetings in March – its most important political event of the year – as an “overseas Chinese representative” . Kowloon Club founder Philip Chan visited China to attend the annual Two Sessions parliamentary meeting as a special foreign observer, and also made several other stops, including to Shenzhen University. PHOTO: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
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