To enter China with valid certificates
The foreign travelers must present valid passports, China visas, credentials and
the certificates of hygiene quarantine to the frontier inspecting checkpoint of
the appointed ports. They are required to fill in an entering card and cannot enter
until the inspecting checkpoint approves and have a seal on the relevant credentials.
Valid credentials
1. Passport: Passport is a credential that a country´s governing organs issue
to their citizens for going abroad or residing abroad, which can testify their nationalities
and their identification
2. Visa: All visitors traveling to mainland China whether for business or pleasure,
require a visa. Your passport must be valid for at least 6 months after the duration
of your intended stay. Visas are issued through Chinese embassies and consulates
overseas.
Procedures of the customs
The foreigners cannot enter China or the mainland of China at the appointed ports
open to them unless they have valid credentials.
Custom channels
The custom channels are divided into two types: the red channel (also called tax
channel) and the green channel (also called free channel).
A. Red channel
The foreign travelers usually enter China by way of the red channel. They must declare
first to the custom after filling in the passenger baggage declaration form and
can enter after the registration at the customs.
The declaration form loses its validity once being defaced or lost. The transacted
procedure of custom should be handed in when leaving China. The declaration form
must be filled in according to the facts. And those who declare dishonestly or do
not declare at all will be dealt with according to law by customs once identified.
The oversea travelers to China could carry with them some necessary and reasonable
quantity of items for the journey. The passengers over 16 years can carry 400 cigarettes
and two bottles of wine (with each bottle weighing 750 grams).
B. Green channel
The foreign personnel who have been granted with diplomatic visa-passport or courtesy
visa-passport by the Chinese authorities or granted with free-of-examination courtesy
can choose the green channel. But they have to show their own credentials to the
customs and the declaration document table filled according to the requirements.
Tips:
1. The document table is fit for the passengers with valid traveling credentials
like PRC passports. But the passengers who shuttle between the mainland of China
and Hong Kong or Macao are exceptions;
2. The requirements of the customs illustrated in the document table are: the current
governing requirements on the baggage brought in by all sorts of passengers;
3. For the passengers under the age of 16 years old, Customs only releases the first
items;
4. The commodities exceeding the maximum limit of the items listed in this table
should be transacted according to other concerning provisions.
The hygiene quarantine for entering China
The foreigners entering China should fill in the health declaration forms truthfully
at the request of border quarantine departments. The patients with infectious diseases
who do not report and declare would be punished in the way of evading quarantine
and are to be prevented from entering once identified. Those who have entered are
to be ordered to leave China in advance.
The infectious patients from infected areas are required to produce a valid certificate
of immunization-related diseases (Commonly known as the "yellow book");
Frontier Health and Quarantine infected organs will run a test for 6 days from the
day they left the infected environment if they have no valid certificate.
The commodities from the areas that may have been contaminated by infectious diseases
or may become the media articles of epidemic diseases are to be subject to health
and sanitation inspection and quarantine treatment.
Several groups of people are forbidden to enter China
The following people are forbidden to enter China:
A. Those who are deported out of China and who are under the regulated age;
B. Those who are considered as possible terrorists or who are thought to undertake
violence and subversive activities after entering;
C. Those who are thought to undertake possible smuggling, drug trafficking and prostitution
activities;
D. Those that are mentally ill or have leprosy, AIDS, venereal diseases, open tuberculosis
and other infectious diseases;
E. Those who cannot afford what is needed in China;
F. Those that are considered to be engaged possibly in the activities of endangering
the security and the interests of our country after entering.
The frontier checkpoint has the right of prevent the following people from entering:
A. The people who have no valid passports, certificates or visas;
B. Those that have forged, defaced or other people´s passports or certificates;
C. Those that refused to be inspected;
D. Those that are forbidden to enter by the Ministry of Public Security and the
National Security Ministry.
Exit China
To leave China with valid certificates
Foreign tourists ought to leave the country within the time limit of being allowed
to stay by visa from allocating port;
Foreign tourists who leave the country must deliver effective passport or other
effective certificates to the port border checkpoint.
Several kinds of people who are forbidden to leave the borders
(1) The defendants in a criminal case or the criminal suspects identified by the
people´s procuratorates, or the public security organs, or the court;
(2) Those who are not allowed to leave a country because of unsettled civil cases
according to the People´s court notice;
(3) Others whose behaviors have violated China´s laws and have been identified
of the need to pursue by the competent authorities.
The border authorities have the right to prevent the following people from leaving
China
(1) The people who hold invalid certificates;
(2) Those that have forged, defaced or other people´s passports or certificates;
(3) Those that refused to be inspected.