China will resume the issuance of tourist visas to foreigners, as the government removes one of the final remnants of its three-year closure under zero-Covid.
The Chinese embassy in Washington said that in addition to processing new visas from Wednesday, existing visas from before March 2020, when it closed its borders due to the pandemic, would become valid again.
China, which is undergoing a gradual reopening following a severe outbreak of the virus, disassembled its strict zero-Covid regime in December last year.
