Incomplete itinerary on Chinese visa form

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I don't have any official information but from past experience I would say that they don't care too much about the itinerary.

Last year I entered China and applied for an visa extension so I had to deal with this twice. Actually the initial visa was through an agency in Kyrgyzstan and they didn't even ask for an itinerary or exit port. For the extension I had to give an itinerary but actually exited through a different border crossing than I had specified.

Also because I never book any hotels ahead, I just put down addresses of mid-range hotels for each location without actually staying there.

And if you not staying in Zhangjiajie but just fly out from there, then don't put down an address, write down airport, but I would still write the name of a hotel instead. You are not required to actually stay there.

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Likewise, our experience has been they don't seem to care much. We have made several side trips that weren't planned ahead and therefore weren't on our itinerary. Sometimes hotel stays would have revealed to the government where we were, nobody has said anything about it. When they offered 2 year visas to overseas Chinese and spouses we got them without trouble.

(We have always been traveling in the company of Chinese citizens and sometimes they were the ones on the registration. Negotiation goes a lot better if they think they're dealing with locals.)

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