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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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