{"id":5544,"date":"2026-09-01T04:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:24:18","slug":"putin-says-russia-ready-to-make-visa-free-travel-with-china-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"Putin says Russia ready to make visa-free travel with China permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia is ready to work with China to make visa-free travel between the two countries permanent, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.<\/p>\n

“We are ready to work together to make the visa-free regime permanent, if the Chinese side considers this possible and useful,” Putin said during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek.<\/p>\n

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Russia introduced a reciprocal visa-free regime for Chinese citizens in December 2025, allowing them to stay in Russia for up to 30 days without a visa through September\u00a014, 2026. China had previously introduced a similar arrangement for Russian citizens.<\/p>\n

The two countries subsequently agreed to extend visa-free travel for their citizens through the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

Putin said the visa-free arrangement had helped boost travel between the two countries, with tourist trips rising 43% in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n

Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said earlier that Chinese tourism to Russia had increased by almost 50% in the first quarter of 2026 following the introduction of visa-free travel.<\/p>\n

The push to make visa-free travel permanent comes as Moscow and Beijing seek to deepen people-to-people and economic ties, with tourism forming part of broader bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia is ready to work with China to make visa-free travel between the two countries permanent, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “We are ready to work together to make the visa-free regime permanent, if the Chinese side considers this possible and useful,” Putin said during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}