{"id":531399,"date":"2026-07-03T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531399\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:48:27","slug":"chinas-passport-climbs-global-rankings-as-economic-influence-grows-index-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531399\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s passport climbs global rankings as economic influence grows, index finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The strength of a Chinese passport has risen steadily in recent years based on people\u2019s mobility, investments and quality of life, a London-based immigration consultancy said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The passport climbed to 104th this year from 117th in 2021, in a ranking of 197 countries and territories by the investment migration and relocation consultancy Global Citizen Solutions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While its status had risen from a \u201clow base\u201d and Chinese travellers still faced more closed borders than open ones, Global Citizen Solutions said the country had moved ahead in \u201cinvestment\u201d, reflecting its growing \u201ceconomic gravity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3359034\/visa-free-dividends-china-drawing-boom-foreign-visitors-summer?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visa-free access to China<\/a> also expanded for citizens of other countries \u201cfaster than the rest of the world could outpace it\u201d, the consultancy added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Quality of life, historically the weakest metric for China among those considered by Global Citizen Solutions, had also risen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhat makes the trajectory so striking is its uniformity,\u201d the consultancy said in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cEvery pillar moved in the same direction at once.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The strength of a Chinese passport has risen steadily in recent years based on people\u2019s mobility, investments and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12686,986,72,26880,289,114,113,1813,226159,116688,61,60,582,99,1666,3589,9458,1859,3791],"class_list":["post-531399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-afghanistan","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-cambodia","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-global-citizen-solutions","tag-henley-partners","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-london","tag-philippines","tag-russia","tag-singapore","tag-sweden","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}