The Ministry of Economic Development announced that visa-free tourist exchange will start 1 August, but in reality everything turned out to be somewhat different. In fact, on August 1, the coordination of travel companies that will send groups began. Then the first test group of Chinese tourists arrived in Russia. And last weekend, a Russian tourist group went to China without visas.
August 18, 5 people in the tour group left Blagoveshchensk, successfully passed all the necessary procedures at the Russian-Chinese We got to know the sights of the day and returned to Blagoveshchensk on Sunday.
According to insiders, the test trips were very successful, and in the twenties, visa-free group tourism to China will work on a permanent basis.