"Visa clarification fails to satisfy"

......on today front page of SCMP. The given assurance that they would continue to issue 12-month re-entry visas to British business people ........if they supply an invitation letter by a relevant department of the central government, such as chamber of commerce in addition to return flight ticket + hotel voucher - this is all meaningless - it is stressful and not guaranteed to get this "visa notification letter" - and then probably the visa issued based on this "visa notification letter" will be limited to the province / city it was issued......Anybody applied already this letter and got a multiply entry visa issued ? Please comment.
Here the NY Times yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/world/asia/24china.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2