Xue Bing (R), China's Consul General to Toronto, hands the first visa to China with validity period of up to 10 years to Timothy Mark Hay at Chinese Visa Application Service Center in Toronto, Canada, March 9, 2015. Chinese embassy and consulates in Canada began to grant visas to Canadian citizens with the validity period of up to 10 years on March 9, 2015, according to the agreement which was just reached earlier between the two countries. (Xinhua/Zou Zheng)
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China, Canada to mutually grant 10-year visas: FM
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- China and Canada just reached an agreement on granting visas to each other's citizens, with the validity period of up to 10 years, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Sunday.
Wang made the remarks at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature. Full story
