If you have a residence permit for China, you are entitled to apply for a Chinese driver’s license. Obtaining your Chinese driver’s license requires you to pass the following tests:

The frontier inspection station has the right to forbid the personnel with any of the following circumstances to enter China :

* Those who hold no exit-entry certificates
* Holders of invalid, false, altered exit-entry certificates
* Holders of other persons' certificates
* Those who refuse to receive the health check and the frontier inspection
* Those who fail to pass through the port specified
* Those who are forbidden to enter by the Ministry of Public Security of the State Council and theMinistry of State Security
* Those who are not permitted according to the Chinese laws and administrative regulations

Any person that has with him/her the items or articles listed below should take the red lanes:

* Any person having antiques, valuable articles and samples along with him/her.
* Any person having articles that were required to take out of China when entering.
* When the amount of silver, gold and currency you are having, exceed the amounts or quantities that you declared when entering.
* When the articles that the person is having, exceed the customs allowable amounts or quantities.

Travelers who want to convert Renminbi (RMB) currencies to foreign currencies at the airport before leaving China are required to produce the exchange transaction slip issued by the authorized banks or hotels that has carried out the exchange transaction from foreign currencies to RMB while in China .

The Chinese government requires that your passport must be valid for at least six months beyond the expiry date of your visa.

You'll need at least one-entire blank page in your passport for the visa. Your country's embassy or consulate can usually add additional pages to your passport if need be.

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Besides providing the above-mentioned documents, an applicant is also required to answer relevant questions and go through the following formalities (with the exception of those stipulated otherwise by agreements):

Providing valid passport or a travel document in lieu of the passport

Filling out a visa application form, and providing a recent 2-inch, bareheaded and full-faced passport photo.

How to apply for your Visa
Applicants should come in person or through a third party (e.g. Travel Agent or Tour Operator) to apply for the Chinese visa during office hours 9 -12 am in Chinese Embassy / Chinese Consulates-General in the country you live. Usually, the processing time is about 5- 7 working days.

Foreigners who want to stay in China beyond what their current visa allow need to apply for an extension to their visa with appropriate reasons.

The extension application should be made at the municipal public security bureau 7 days before the visa expires. Multiple visas cannot be extended.

Foreigners who wish to apply for extension or alteration of visas or certificates need to provide the relevant documents:

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Items which are forbidden to bring into China

? Guns, imitation arms or toy weapons, ammunitions and explosives of all kinds

? Counterfeit currency and securities

? Printed matter, films, photos, gramophone records, cinematographic films, loaded recording tapes and video-tapes, compact discs (video & audio), storage media for computers and other articles which are detrimental to the political, economic, cultural and ethics of China Deadly poisons of all kinds

Tips before doing business

? When doing business with Chinese, and you do not speak Mandarin fluently, look for a translator or consultant to accompany you.

? Contact your country's embassy / Chamber of Commerce to get all the necessary information. Most surely they can recommend you reliable consultants.

? Chinese are very hierarchical people, therefore do not send someone for a business meeting who is ‘just' a low-level manager. This could be seen as an offensive because the Chinese see this act as not taking them seriously.