I am actually will book for a china visa appointment for this forthcoming tuesday, UK passport, via the official goverment outsourced visa issuing office, i have a 3 year visa from 2011-2014 on my old uk passport and i will take both, i am expecting around HK$1200 in total in fees, if i am lucky i will get 3 year visa, if i am not so lucky, i will get 1 year visa.