(Yicai Global) Jan. 11 -- Chinese passport holders can enjoy visa waiver programs when traveling to 65 countries, and 10 of them have implemented mutual visa-exemption policies with China, Beijing Youth Daily quoted Director-General of the Department of Consular Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Guo Shaochun as saying.

The Chinese government has also made 70 agreements with 41 countries to simplify visa procedures, Guo said.

An estimated 60 million mainland Chinese traveled overseas for the first time last year, and about 1 million worked abroad, Guo said. Some 1.37 million students studied internationally, said Guo.