"Tourism Visa (L) to the Chinese mainland
(ONLY FOR THE ALIENS HOLDING A JAPANESE LONG-STAY VISA (MORE THAN ONE YEAR))
a. Please see the above-mentioned basic requirements.
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b. A Chinese hotel reservation certificate and a two-way ticket
c. For Japanese citizen, visa is not needed within 15 days stay. You should ask a travel agency to apply the tourism visa if you will stay in China over 15 days.
d. An approval notice from China Tibet Tourism Bureau (
http://www.tibettour.org/chinatibett...oban/index.asp) for applying for a visa to travel to Tibet"
there you go.... do i have to be a citizen or permanent resident to go? please please please please say no