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updated on 23 Apr, 2022
Everyone is required to carry a covid test within 48h when travel to Garze (Kangding, Hailuogou, Tagong, etc). You are also required to have a local Tianfu Health QR Green Code , green Travel-Communication Tracking Code, and another covid test within 24 hours in a local hospital after you arrive Garze (Kangding, Hailuogou, Tagong).
Now Garze (Kangding, Hailuogou, Tagong) (and the whole Garze Predecture including Yading, Minya Konka, Danba) is using a new system of categorizing travelers from different regions to give different level of covid restrictions.
Type A: Large-scale outbreak regions
If you are from (or have traveled to) any district/county within recent 7 days that has major outbreak, you are required to have at least 7 days quarantine after arrival. For example if you live in Beijing Chaoyang District and there is outbreak there in Chaoyang in the last 7 days til now, you will be required to be quarantined for 7 days after arrival and when you are tested negative multiple times before you can move around.
Type B1: Outbreak regions - Same District
If you are from (or have traveled to within 7 days) any district/county that has any case, you are required to have a 7 days quarantine after arrival. For example if you live in Beijing Chaoyang District and there is any case in Chaoyang district in the last 7 days til now, you will be required to be quarantined for 7 days after arrival before you can move around.
Type B2: Anywhere outside of Sichuan that doesn't belong to the above two categorise.
If you have an asterisk (*) in your travel communication code, or you are from (or have traveled to within 7 days) anywhere outside of Sichuan, you are required to be quarantined for 3 days after arrival.
During quarantine you will have covid test by local government. Cost of quarantine will be paid by yourself.
At the moment (23 Apr) the whole Shanghai is type A region, Chaoyang District of Beijing is type B1. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are B1 type. See below details of the list.
You are likely to be checked at the following locations.
One Road check by exit of the highway before arrive in Kangding. They'll check your passport, green code, tracking code and covid test and will ask your travel plan.
Hotels will ask for passport information, visa, green code, tracking code and covid test. And hotel will likely to take photos of your codes.
Parks of Hailuogou and Mugetso will require passport info, green code when foreigners going in.
Recommended to have the apps within your wechat ready and make sure your phone has good internet access.
There are two hospitals in Kangding and covid test is available but it's useless since they check your test before you arrive. Although when you travel from Kangding beyond 3 days to places such as Tagong and Danba, you may need to do a test in hospital. Normally a visit to cover the listed places takes 4-6 days or more.
It is common that different places require different papers and proofs of covid. More than one government departments are involved in dealing with covid and foreign travelers. The parties involved include: a. Department of Emergency Management, b. Local Police, c. Local Office of Foreign Affairs, d.Local Desease Control Office, When you see at different places regulations are different, this is normal. It is a very good idea to have as much proof as you may get while traveling to Garze because if there is new outbrak then the rules change quickly.
However, there are more rules regulated on foreign travelers to Garze than on Chinese nationals. Please be patient and understanding that small places such as Kangding doesn't see many foreigners as in the big cities. Local people will likely to get nervous when they see foreigners and the government people want to be more cautious as well on foreigners. Garze (Kangding, Hailuogou, Tagong and Danba) was closed to foreigners from late 2021 and reopened by early September 2021 to foreigners. It may still be closed to foreigners in the future due to possible outbreak. Despite the fact most of the foreign visitors to Garze are living in China and have all the proofs of healthy condition, there may still be restrictions on foreigners from time to time. The following department of government are the ones you can contact to file a complain when you feel you are not treated equally or fairly.
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