Feature: Non-Chinese permanent Hong Kong residents jump at chance of smoother travel to mainland

HONG KONG, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Shaun Patrick Salter, 65, a retired Australian helicopter pilot who has lived in Hong Kong for 25 years, can't wait to receive a card that will allow him to sample different restaurants in the Chinese mainland every weekend.

"I also want to visit my wife's hometown Taishan City in Guangdong Province more often," Salter told Xinhua while he was applying for a travel permit to the ma