From 0:00 today, China will implement a trial visa-free policy for ordinary passport holders from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain. Ordinary passport holders from the above four countries can enter China without a visa for business, tourism, sightseeing, visiting relatives and friends, exchanges and transit for no more than 30 days. Together with the GCC member states of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, which fully exempted each other from visas in 2018, China has achieved full visa-free coverage for GCC countries.
This major convenience policy was born out of the results of the first ASEAN-China-GCC Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 27, 2025. Leaders from 17 countries jointly signed a joint statement, integrating the originally scattered three bilateral relations into a unified multilateral framework for the first time.
In the field of nuclear energy, the joint statement particularly emphasized "strengthening training and capacity building in the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear security and safeguards, reactor technology, nuclear and radioactive waste management, regulatory infrastructure and civil nuclear energy development".
It is clearly required that "the decision-making and policy-making of civil nuclear energy should be supported under the guidance of the standards, guidelines and international best practices of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the progress of energy storage technology".
Citizens of GCC countries come to China to start the "go as you please" mode, and nuclear safety technology cooperation has ushered in a new speed. The trilateral summit across Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Middle East has opened a new chapter in regional nuclear energy cooperation, and nuclear safety assurance has become a common concern of many countries.
Shanghai Renji patent innovation empowers nuclear safety supervision
As a member of the Nuclear Power Operation and Application Technology Branch of the Chinese Nuclear Society, Shanghai Renji Instrument Co., Ltd. has recently made a major technological breakthrough-"A quality inspection instrument for simulating nuclear signals of radioactive sources" has obtained national patent authorization (CN117607943B).
This innovative equipment can accurately simulate the nuclear signals emitted by radioactive materials. Its core technology integrates multimodal signal processing and deep learning algorithms. It can analyze multiple signal types at the same time, and continuously improve the detection accuracy through autonomous learning, providing real-time monitoring and precise analysis capabilities for scenarios such as nuclear power plants and radioactive material storage depots.
Technical exchanges start the "zero time difference" mode, and Shanghai Renji's technical flow accelerates the empowerment of nuclear safety capacity building
The nuclear safety cooperation field focused on by the joint statement of the summit is exactly the professional direction that Shanghai Renji has been committed to for a long time. The statement requires countries to follow the standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is highly consistent with the company's product development concept. With the full implementation of the visa-free policy of the GCC countries from today, the exchanges of technical experts will be more convenient, and the trilateral nuclear safety training and capacity building will enter the fast lane.
In the field of nuclear energy, this cooperation model will promote technology sharing and capacity building. Shanghai Renji has established industry-university-research bases with universities such as Tsinghua University, South China University, Soochow University, and Chengdu University of Technology. In the future, it can rely on the framework of the summit to expand the cooperation network to scientific research institutions in ASEAN and GCC countries.
Shanghai Renji has been deeply involved in the field of nuclear radiation monitoring for 18 years, and has maintained a research and development investment rate of more than 5% for many years, focusing on the pre-research of cutting-edge technologies. At present, it has formed a product line of nuclear radiation monitoring equipment with 12 categories and more than 70 specifications, covering all fields such as radiation protection, environmental testing, and radioactive source supervision systems.
"The visa-free policy has opened up the 'last mile' of technical exchange," said Mr. Zhang Zhiyong, General Manager of Shanghai Renji. "We will rely on the cooperation framework established by the trilateral summit to provide customized Chinese technology solutions for regional nuclear safety capacity building!"
Post time: Jun-09-2025