other for a return journey. An application for a single journey permit
(ie. to emigrate) has generally required longer and more careful
administrative processing, since the decision to emigrate involves such
matters as the settling of pension rights etc. Therefore, most
travellers, whatever their inteentions on reaching their destinations,
have applied for and been issued with double or return journey permits.
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documents. Where the applicant has sought permission to travel to
another country with which China has diplomatic relations (unless it is
the United States) a Chinese passport may be issued. If the traveller's
onward destrination is a country with which China does not have
diplomatic relations, then a "Citizen's permit for exit and entry to
China" (Gongmin churu guojing tongxingzheng) or "pink" permit may be
issued (the vast majority of "pink" permits have been issued for travel
to Indonesia or Singapore). It should be noted, however, that travel
to an onward destination by those going first to Hong Kong is often
only claimed for the sake of the application for a permit. Many such
travellers will not have sought visas for the country of destination.
Holders of either a Chinese passport or a "pink" permit have frequently
used their travel documents solely for the purpose of entering Hong Kong.
A third travel document is the "Permit for travel to and from Hong Kong
and Macao" (Wanglai GangAn tongxingzheng) or "green" permit.'
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120 Permits for re-entry to China have a period of validity extending
in general to about three or six months. However, the vast majority
of return' journey permit holders travelling to Hong Kong outstay the
validity of their re-entry permit. It has been estimated that, for 100
new arrivals in Hong Kong currently only about two return to China within
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the period of validity of their original travel documents.
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