{"id":31652,"date":"2007-01-08T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T01:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/01\/08\/chinas-first-passport-law-takes-effect\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T01:14:40","slug":"chinas-first-passport-law-takes-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/01\/08\/31652\/","title":{"rendered":"China's First Passport Law Takes Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China's first comprehensive passport law was formally released and implemented on January 1, 2007.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the new law, Chinese citizens only need to apply for their passport for outbound, overseas trips 15 days in advance. Before this, they needed to do so 1-2 months ahead of their outbound travel schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in only 15 days, adults can get a passport with a 10-year validity and travelers under 16 years old can receive a 5-year passport. The new law has also revoked the previous rules regarding passport term extension.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from many travel agencies say that they still haven't seen the new version of the passport, but if the pages of the new version are as the same as before, there is no boon for those people who need go to abroad frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China's first comprehensive passport law was formally released and implemented on January 1, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}