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After a long lock-down period in the country, China has announced that they would be opening up their borders and reducing travel restrictions, starting 8 January. 

Already making your plans to visit China? Here’s what you need to know about the new pre-departure requirements; and if there’s anything to take note of, when you’re returning home to Singapore.

Updated Pre-Departure Requirements to China

In-bound visitors to China (regardless of their vaccination status) need to:

  • Test negative on a Covid-19 RT-PCR test, within 48 hours of their flight to China
  • Fill in a Health Declaration form that can be found at https://htdecl.chinaport.gov.cn and declare their negative Covid-19 result

Quarantine Period for travellers to China

As part of China’s overall loosening of travel restrictions, there shouldn’t be a need to serve a quarantine period after landing. 

However, this may be subject to your vaccination status and the province you’re visiting, so it’s good to double-check based on your travel plans.

Pre-Departure Requirements to return to Singapore

There are no specific travel requirements imposed on travellers from China to Singapore. If you’re returning to Singapore from China, here are the different travel requirements, based on your vaccination status:

Fully vaccinated individuals ( by WHO definition ) or travellers aged 12 and below:

  • Able to enter Singapore without doing a Covid-19 pre-departure test
  • Would not need to serve a quarantine period in Singapore after landing

Unvaccinated individuals or partially vaccinated individuals:

  • Would need to test negative on a pre-departure Covid-19 test within 48 hours of flight to Singapore (Note: the test can be a PCR test or a ART test)
  • Short-term visitors must have an insurance policy that is at least $30,000 of medical coverage, including Covid-19 coverage

Get ready for your trip to China with us! You can book a Covid-19 PCR test at any of our 9 islandwide clinics or get tested from the convenience of home. We’re an approved MOH-provider, and the results are valid for any pre-departure requirements for travel.

最新前往中国的行前要求

入境中国的游客 (无论其疫苗接种情况如何)都需要:

  • 在飞往中国的前48小时内,核酸测试结果呈阴性
  • 填写可在 https://htdecl.chinaport.gov.cn 上找到的健康声明表并表明新冠核酸检测阴性结果

作为中国全面放宽旅行限制的一部分,旅客在抵达后不需要进行隔离。

但是,这可能取决于您的疫苗接种情况和您访问的省份,因此最好根据您的旅行计划仔细检查。

新加坡对从中国到新加坡的旅客没有具体的旅行要求。 如果您从中国返回新加坡,根据您的疫苗接种情况,以下是不同的旅行要求:

完全接种疫苗的个人( 根据世界卫生组织的定义 )或 12 岁及以下的旅行者

  • 出发前无需进行新冠核酸测试即可进入新加坡
  • 落地后无需在新加坡隔离

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  • 需要在飞往新加坡48小时前做新冠核酸检测并呈阴性(注意:测试可以是PCR核酸测试或ART抗原测试)
  • 短期访客必须拥有至少30,000新币的医疗保险,包括Covid-19新冠保险

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Travellers departing and arriving in Singapore by car can use a QR code to clear immigration at both Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints from Mar 19. CNA gave the new initiative a test drive.

A traveller scanning their QR code for immigration clearance at Woodlands Checkpoint on Mar 19, 2024. (Photo: ICA)

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SINGAPORE: For someone who has never driven across the Causeway, you’d think I would have made my maiden car trip to Johor Bahru as stress free as possible.

Instead, I chose to drive to JB on Tuesday (Mar 19) – the first day that the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) rolled out  QR code immigration clearance  – during the evening peak period. It was also raining.

With the QR code initiative, travellers heading in and out of Singapore by car at both Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints no longer need to present their physical passports to clear immigration. Physical passports are still required to cross Malaysia’s checkpoints.

These travellers can now save their passport details in the MyICA mobile app to generate a QR code. They can then scan this QR code once they reach the immigration counter.

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I’d already tinkered with the MyICA app prior to Tuesday’s drive and was surprised by how quickly I was able to get my QR code.

But the true test of the initiative, in my opinion, was how it held up during peak hours – such as, in the evening from Singapore to JB or in the morning from JB to Singapore on weekdays. 

And so, at 5.20pm on Tuesday, I joined the line at the Woodlands checkpoint with thousands of other drivers returning to JB after a day’s work in Singapore, growing more anxious by the minute that something would go wrong once I drove up to the immigration counter.

Maybe my QR code would get rejected. Maybe the ICA officer would decide I wasn’t the person on my passport. Maybe I would drive into oncoming traffic.

Thankfully, the only things that went wrong were my doomsday predictions.

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CLEARING SINGAPORE'S CHECKPOINT

To make my drive slightly less nerve-wracking, I went with my colleague Raydza Rahman, who regularly drives to JB. He would be able to tell the difference in time taken for immigration clearance using the QR code.

As passengers in the same vehicle can share one QR code by saving their passport details on one person’s MyICA app, both of us had logged our details in Raydza's app before we began our journey. 

When we arrived at the immigration counter, it took Raydza a while to position his phone at the QR scanner from the passenger seat. Even then, it took us – a vehicle of two travellers – 55 seconds to clear immigration. This included the time taken for the ICA officer to verify our identities.

This also appeared to be about the average time it took other cars ahead of us to clear immigration.

It took us less time, however, to clear immigration at Malaysia’s counters with our physical passports.

But we were a car of two after all. I’d imagine a vehicle with more travellers might appreciate the substantial time saved from having to hand over their physical passports – and wait for everyone to be verified – at both country’s checkpoints.

Our journey across the Causeway, including immigration clearance, was done in under 20 minutes. Time check: 5.39pm.

According to Raydza, this was rare. 

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"IT'S VERY FAST"

Solo and group travellers we spoke to in JB, who had used their QR code to clear immigration on Tuesday, echoed similar sentiments.

Mr Akmal Ghazali, a Malaysian who visits Singapore about once a month for work, entered Singapore on Tuesday at around 8am and returned to JB at around 6pm.

It took him “less than 30 (seconds)” with the QR code at Singapore’s checkpoints, compared with his previous experience of handing over his passport. While he didn’t encounter any hiccups, he was also mindful that it was only the first day of the initiative.

“It’s very fast, it’s very good,” the 32-year-old medical representative enthused.

“I think (the QR code) is much easier. We’re (going) to have the RTS Link soon, so more Malaysians will be (going) to Singapore.”

Asked whether he hoped Malaysia would implement a similar system for their checkpoints, Mr Akmal cut us off excitedly: “Yes, correct, I do hope very fast (that Malaysia adopts the QR code too).”

Meanwhile, 21-year-old Henry Loh, whose family drives to JB once every few months, told us it would usually take them about five minutes to clear Singapore’s checkpoints.

“Today was shorter because you just need to scan the QR code. It was a breeze. (It was a) significantly different (experience) because you don’t see this often abroad,” said the full-time national serviceman (NSF) who visited JB for dinner with his parents on Tuesday.  

“In the short term, maybe people ... might take time to get used to the new system. But once people know how to use the system, the travelling time between the two cities will be much more smooth.”

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Singaporean Mohamad Yusir said he would appreciate a more efficient experience in the future. If not for the officer at the immigration counter who “kept repeating” information about the QR code initiative, his car of five may have cleared immigration faster, he said tongue-in-cheek.

The 58-year-old, who makes a weekly visit to JB from his home in Woodlands, said he “already knew these things” a week ago when he downloaded the MyICA app to log his family members’ passport details for their trip on Tuesday.

“When they introduced the QR code, they must have a reason – make it a quick and fast exit (and entrance) for everybody. It was easy, convenient for us.”

Mr Mohamad Yusir added that he hopes Malaysia will implement its own QR code immigration clearance too, if only so his family “can save money on the passport”.

Their passport pages have almost been used up way ahead of the expiry date, because of passport stamps the family receives every time they cross immigration checkpoints. 

When Raydza and I finally made our way back to Singapore via Tuas Checkpoint at around 8.30pm, we were pros at QR code scanning.

This time, with me in the passenger seat holding out Raydza’s phone, it took us 12 seconds less at the immigration counter.

But perhaps the greatest satisfaction from my first attempt at crossing the Causeway in a car came from meeting a Singaporean family who had no idea the QR code initiative existed, despite frequently driving into Malaysia. They still used their physical passports to clear the Woodlands Checkpoint on Tuesday.

I promptly rattled off the convenience of the QR code as though I was the seasoned driver – and, seemingly sold by my pitch, they downloaded the MyICA app on the spot.

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Chinese artist's exhibition on Yangtze River debuts in Singapore

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-03-25 16:51

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Chinese artist Pei Xuehong held his solo exhibition titled Changjiang Symbol at the A•D Gallery in Singapore on March 18, inaugurating its global tour.

The exhibition serves as an artistic presentation of the memory and reflection on the Yangtze River. In May 2004, Pei shot a series of photos just before the Yunyang Ancient Town in Chongqing municipality was submerged. Years later, employing his masterful artistic techniques, Pei meticulously reconstructed these photographs, which are being exhibited this time.

The photos and oil paintings on show profoundly record the everyday lives of the people residing along the banks of the Yangtze River in Sichuan and Chongqing, and portray the human condition amidst the backdrop of the monumental project of constructing the Three Gorges Dam, offering a reflection on the relocation experiences of ordinary individuals.

Through these works, audiences can gain profound insight into Pei Xuehong's artistic pursuits, his compassionate approach to humanity, and the narratives surrounding pivotal moments in China's history, including the reform and opening-up and the monumental Three Gorges project.

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Pei Xuehong, born in Chongqing in 1967, has been engaged in painting and photography for decades. He was honored as an outstanding contemporary Chinese photographer at the 2005 Pingyao International Photography Exhibition.

Over the past 30 years, Pei has seamlessly integrated his artistic endeavors with the lived experience of common people, whose works reflect a deep commitment to capturing the authentic realities and spiritual essence of individuals in the contemporary era.

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