"Once you have the visa, they can't turn you away."
Although I don't have any negative personal experience, getting a visa doesn't guarantee that you will be allowed into a country. Unfortunately, being allowed into a country is always at the discretion of the immigration officer.
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So far, no prob if you have a visa. When you HAVE a visa, you minus a reason for them to refuse you exiting/into the country.
The information given above is correct; Chinese authorities do not care if Chinese nationals are eligible for visas on arrival, because they won't let a Chinese citizen exit the country without a visa in their passport. This regulation has recently been strictly enforced according to an article I read recently. I can also corroborate what the posters above said, which is when I was at Suvarnabhumi airport on my way to Kunming a few months ago, a group of Chinese nationals on their way back to Beijing all had Thai visas in their passports from the embassy in Beijing in spite of Thailand offering a 15-day visa on arrival service and those persons having only spent 4 days in Thailand. Therefore, this service is a mute point for Chinese citizens, who can only take advantage of it if they are entering Thailand (or Laos) from another country, other than China.