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On March 14, next Monday, the international transfer window of the Chinese Super League winter will be opened, and the newly introduced foreign aid of each club can be officially registered, which shows that the next period of time will be the peak period for foreign aid entry. However, in view of the current situation of epidemic prevention and control at home and abroad is still complex and severe, a foreign aid who wants to come to China smoothly faces many uncertainties, and the difficulty is not much less than when the epidemic first began. Recently, it has been reported that some foreign aid who intend to come to China to play football is halfway through the journey, because the transit countries have no flights to China for the time being and can only temporarily return home. So, how to smoothly bring foreign aid to China? It is a common problem belonging to the Chinese Super League and Chinese League A teams, including Tianjin Jinmen Tigers.
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In fact, for The Chinese Super League team, waiting for foreign aid is nothing new. As early as the beginning of 2020, when the new crown pneumonia epidemic was widely spread around the world, under the situation of controlling the entry of foreigners in the mainland, how to bring back the foreign teachers and foreign aides who were still stranded abroad was the number one problem faced by the vast majority of teams in the Chinese Super League. It is worth mentioning that at that time, in the face of such a problem, Dalian Renren Club took the lead in taking a sample - the charter flight will be stranded abroad team coach Benitez, as well as Rondon, Danielson and Larson three foreign aides to take back Dalian. Subsequently, many clubs in the Chinese Super League copied the homework of Dalian people and followed such practices to bring their foreign teachers and foreign aid back to China.
But now, this homework is difficult to copy anymore. The main reason is that the last time I talked about this matter, the "golden dollar era" of the Chinese Super League is not over, and for clubs that are not bad money, the problems that can be solved with money are not problems. But now, the Chinese Super League bubble has dissipated, there was news before, Guangzhou team first team new season annual operating expenses of only 15 million yuan, in fact, for the vast majority of Chinese Super League clubs, now even the funds can maintain the normal operation of the season is a big challenge, not to mention there is extra money to charter flights.
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So in the current situation, when will foreign aid come to China? According to the plan, the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League will be unveiled on April 23, considering the quarantine of entry and the time to run in with the team, now the registration of foreign aid should be put on the club's agenda. So next, how can we bring a foreign aid to China smoothly? In fact, this is a rather tedious process, and what is even more depressing is that many things during this period are not in their own hands, and sometimes even have to try their luck.
First of all, when a foreigner enters China, whether applying for a business visa or a work visa, he must first get a PU invitation letter. The PU invitation letter is a special invitation letter approved by the Chinese government for some business foreigners who urgently need to return home during the epidemic. At this step, the Jinmen Tiger Club did not delay in the slightest, and several target foreign aides have obtained PU invitation letters, and then they can apply for visas from Chinese consulates abroad.
However, due to the impact of the epidemic, China's entry policy has been continuously adjusted, and the speed of review of some visa categories has also decreased, so the time to obtain a visa is uncertain. After getting the visa, the next step is to book a ticket, and in the case of a ticket, apply for nucleic acid and antibody testing before departure. Of course, all this is done well, and it does not mean that everything is fine, because they need to pay close attention to the information released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the airline, get the latest flight information in time, and the most feared situation is the flight circuit breaker.
Because the current foreign epidemic situation is still very severe, and the recent domestic epidemic situation is complex and changeable, in order to further do a good job in the import of epidemic prevention, the Civil Aviation Administration of China recently issued a number of circuit breaker instructions, involving a number of international flights, if the foreign aid scheduled flight circuit breaker, it can only handle the ticket refund and change business, but even if you repeat it, to a large extent, you still have to rely on luck.
A typical example is that in March 2020, in the face of the increasingly serious epidemic overseas, China restricted the entry of foreigners from March 28, and Jonathan, a Brazilian foreign aid who was still working in Tianjin at the time, became one of the few foreign aides who successfully returned to China. In order to be able to return to The country as soon as possible to meet the team, Jonathan from Brazil even experienced a period of "fantasy drifting", he originally planned to fly to Kunming via Dubai, and found that the flight from Dubai to Kunming had been cancelled after arriving in Dubai, so he could only transfer to Moscow, but when he arrived in Moscow, the flight from Moscow to Kunming was cancelled. In the end, Jonathan had to wait 30 hours at the Moscow airport before boarding a flight to Guangzhou and entering China by March 28.
If there is no problem with the foreign aid booking flight, then he can leave for China as scheduled. However, 48 hours before boarding, they also have to undergo nucleic acid and antibody tests, and if they are positive, the trip will be ruined.
It is worth mentioning that in the context of the epidemic, limited by the entry policy, some foreign aid may still not be able to obtain a visa and green code directly from their home country, in this case, they can come to China through West Asia. The successful example that can be referred to is that last season, Henan Songshan Longmen Club in order to welcome back its Brazilian foreign aidEs Kalanga and Ivo, tried to find a way to send them in Brazil to Dubai for a long life, and finally the two obtained visas from Dubai and entered the country smoothly. However, this operation is too time-consuming and labor-intensive.
In addition, there is a special case that the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency has closed its airspace to 36 countries because of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. In the past, Russia has been undertaking a large number of Eurasian air routes, connecting most of the cities in East Asia with Western European cities, and the airspace through Russia has been the most convenient economically and temporally in the past. Now, with Russia closing its airspace, flights have had to be diverted or cancelled, with routes between Asia and Europe and North America the most affected. In view of this, West Asia will be one of the few options for their transit transit.
Of course, after foreign aid arrives in China by plane with great painstaking efforts, there is still one more hurdle to pass, that is, to receive isolation medical observation and related tests at the place of entry, and the specific isolation time limit and type of testing are subject to the interpretation of the prevention and control department of the place of entry. At present, the domestic implementation of foreign inbound personnel is a closed-loop management measure of "14 days of centralized isolation medical observation at the first place of entry + 7 days of centralized isolation medical observation at the destination + 7 days of home isolation medical observation". In other words, it will take nearly a month for this foreign aid to really meet the team.
It is precisely because there are so many uncertainties in the arrival of a foreign aid to the team, so many clubs are still unable to give official confirmation even if the target foreign aid has been relatively clear. Because, strictly speaking, only after the intended foreign aid actually arrives in China and successfully completes the quarantine, the club can finalize the work contract with it.
Judging from the current situation, the Jinmen Tiger Club is nervously promoting related work, and several target foreign aides are also trying to cooperate and strive to arrive at the team as soon as possible. But again, before these foreign aides really arrive in the team, no one can guarantee that he must already be a member of the Jinmen Tigers. Moreover, the current domestic epidemic situation is relatively tense, and whether the league can start in mid-to-late April as planned will be marked with a question mark...