Travel Tips

Entry Regulations

When crossing the border, general travelers into China have to hand in their valid passports, visas or other certificates for checking, and fill in an 'Entry Card' at the Frontier Inspection Station. They also have to fill in the 'Health Declaration Form' issued by the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine of P.R. China. Those coming from yellow fever infected areas should also present their certificates on the prevention and inoculation against the disease. Some items are prohibited and would require declaration at Customs.

Persons Prohibited from Entering China: 

1. Persons expelled from China and are currently disallowed entry into China.
2. Persons with a potential for terroristic, violent, subversive, smuggling, drug or obscene activities, or others that may damage the national safety and interest of China.
3. Persons suffering from psychopathy, leprosy, Aids, venereal disease, tuberculosis, and other contagious diseases.
4. Persons who have limited expenses to sustain their visit in China.
5. Persons who do not hold valid certificates or are refused by the Frontier Inspection Station.
6. Persons who do not enter at the appointed entry areas into China.

Articles Prohibited for Import into China:

1. All weapons, weapons simulation, ammunition and explosive articles.
2. Fake currency and negotiable securities.
3. Printed items, films, photos, CDs, discs, movies, recordings, videos, laser discs, laser videos, computer memory medium, and other things that may cause harm to Chinese politics, economy, culture and ethics.
4. All strong poisons.
5. Opium, heroin, morphine, cannabis and other addictive drugs and psychological medicines.
6. Fresh fruits, nightshade vegetables, live animals (except dogs and cats), animal products, biological pathogeny and pests, animal bodies, soils, along with animals, plants, their products, and other quarantined items from epidemic countries or regions.
7. Food, medicines and other things that are bad for the health of humans and livestock, from epidemic zone or ones which could spread diseases.