Exit Rules of China

Customs Clearance Regulations

1. Except for those who are exempt from visas, foreign passengers leaving China should go through exit formalities with a valid passport and a Chinese visa (or permanent residence or residence permits).

2. Passengers who have overstayed in China or the tour groups that need to be divided into different parts due to special reasons after entering China should go to the Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection division of the local public security authority to go through the relevant procedures before they exit.

Articles Prohibited to Exiting China

1. All articles that are prohibited from entering China, including:
a) Various weapons, simulated weapons, ammunition, and explosives;

b) Counterfeit currency or securities;

c) Printed matters, roll films, photos, CDs, movies, audiotapes, videotapes, computer storage medium and other items that are harmful to Chinese politics, economy, culture, and morals;

d) Various potent poisons;

e) Opium, morphine, heroin, marijuana, and other addictive narcotics and psychotropic drugs;

f) Fresh fruits, solanaceous vegetables, live animals (except dogs and cats), products made of animals, pathogens of animals and plants, pests and other harmful organisms, animal carcasses, soil, materials of transgenic organisms, relevant animals and plants in countries and regions where animal and plant epidemics are prevalent and products of such animals and plants, and other objects require inspection.
 

2. Printed matters, roll films, photos, CDs, movies, audiotapes, videotapes, computer storage medium and other items that involve state secrets;
 

3. Precious cultural relics and other cultural relics that are prohibited from leaving China;
 

4. Endangered and precious animals and plants (both including specimens) and their seeds and propagation materials;

• Note: If you carry the above items, you should take the initiative to hand over to the inspection and quarantine officer or put them in the inspection and quarantine processing box.
   

5. List of animals, plants, and their products that are prohibited from being carried or mailed exiting China, including 

a) Animals and animal products

1) Live animals (except dogs and cats), including all mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and other invertebrates, and animal genetic material.

2) (Raw or cooked) meat (including organs) and its products; aquatic animal products.

3) Animal-derived milk and milk products, including raw milk, fresh milk, yogurt, animal-derived cream, butter, cheese, and other milk products.

4) Eggs and their products, including fresh eggs, preserved eggs, salted eggs, egg liquid, eggshells, mayonnaise, and other egg-based products.

5) Bird’s nest (except canned edible bird’s nest).

6) Grease (including leather, hair, hoof, bone, horn, and their products).

7) Animal-derived feed (including single feed containing such as meat meal, bone meal, fish meal, whey powder, blood meal, etc.), animal-derived Chinese medicinal materials, animal-derived fertilizers.

b) Plants and plant products

1) Fresh fruits and vegetables.

2) Tobacco leaves (excluding shredded tobacco).

3) Seeds, seedlings, and other plant materials capable of reproduction.

4) Organic cultivation medium.

c) Others

1) Bacteria, viruses and other animal and plant pathogens, pests and other harmful organisms, cells, organ tissues, blood, and their products, and other biological materials.

2) Animal carcasses, animal specimens, animal-derived wastes.

3) Soil.

4) Transgenic biological materials.

5) Other animals and plants, animal and plant products, and other quarantine objects that are prohibited by the state from exiting China.

Articles Restricted to Existing China

1. List of restricted items
a) Precious metals such as gold and silver and their products;

b) Chinese currency;

c) Foreign currency and its securities;

d) Radio transceivers and communication security devices;

e) Valuable Chinese medicinal materials;

f) General cultural relics;

g) Other items restricted by the Customs from exiting China.

2. Outbound passengers who carry the following items should truthfully fill in the relevant fields in the “Declaration Form”, and submit the relevant items to the Customs for verification and go through relevant formalities:

a) Cultural relics, endangered animals, and plants and their products, biological species resources, gold, and silver, and other precious metals;

b) Cameras, video cameras, portable computers, and other articles for personal use with a unit price of more than 5,000 yuan that were brought into China by incoming passengers;

c) Cash of RMB exceeding 20,000 yuan, or cash of foreign currency equivalent to more than 5,000 U.S. dollars;

d) Goods, samples, and advertisements;

e) Other items that need to be declared to the Customs.

Notice for Passengers Exiting China

1. Owners of outbound articles should cooperate to accept Customs inspection.

2. The time and place for checking the luggage and articles of exiting passengers shall be designated by the Customs. When the Customs inspect luggage and articles, the owner of the article shall be present and responsible for the removal, unpacking, and repackaging of the articles.

3. During the inspection, passengers are requested to show their valid identity documents so that the Customs can determine the status of the passengers and the standards for inspection and release of goods.

4. Passengers who violate Customs regulations or evade Customs supervision (by carrying any goods or articles that are prohibited or restricted by the state from exiting China or that are subject to tax in accordance with the law) to leave China, will be punished by the Customs according to the Customs Law of the People’s Republic of China and Detailed Rules on the Administration and Penalties of the Customs Law of the People's Republic of China.

Other Regulations

1. The seals imposed by the Customs on inbound and outbound luggage items shall not be opened or damaged by anyone without authorization.

2. Articles that originally have been approved and registered by the Customs for temporary exit must be brought back into the country by the same passenger.

3. Non-resident passengers who need to choose the “declaration channel” for Customs clearance when returning abroad can fill in the relevant content of the blanks in the column of “exiting the country” in the same “Declaration Form” that was filled out at the time of their original entry and endorsed and signed by the Customs or fill in a new one to go through the Customs formalities for exiting.

authorName23242: Hongyan Li

Date: 16/04/2022

Email: info@chinatourstar.com

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