China Applauds India’s Accelerated Enterprise Visa Course of for Chinese language Nationals

China on Friday (December 12, 2025) welcomed India’s transfer to hurry up approval of enterprise visas to Chinese language professionals visiting the nation for brief intervals, describing it as a “constructive” step.

“We have famous this constructive transfer,” Overseas Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun advised a media briefing right here whereas replying to a query on studies that India will take away the purple tape to hurry up issuance of enterprise visas to Chinese language enterprise professionals.

Mr. Guo mentioned that easing cross-border journey “serves the widespread pursuits of all events”.

“China will keep communication and session with India to additional facilitate people-to-people alternate,” he mentioned.

The transfer was anticipated to offer a fillip to commerce and funding relations between the 2 international locations, facilitating journey for Chinese language businessmen to go to India.

In July, India resumed issuance of vacationer visas to Chinese language nationals after a spot of over 5 years, in a significant transfer to normalise relations between the 2 international locations. China additionally began issuing visas to Indian vacationers, together with group vacationers.

The resumption of vacationer visas was thought to be a big transfer, as the 2 international locations began the normalisation course of after a freeze in bilateral ties because the navy standoff at Japanese Ladakh in April 2020.

The suspension of all vacationer and e-visas started with the COVID-19 pandemic and continued thereafter because of the Ladakh standoff.

The Ladakh standoff led to a freeze in relations between India and China. The relations had been revived after a gathering between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, final 12 months.

The 2 leaders met once more in Tianjin this 12 months on the sidelines of the SCO summit in August, after which the primary batch of Indian pilgrims visited Kailash Manasarovar in Tibet, adopted by the resumption of flights connecting numerous cities in each international locations after over 5 years.