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Luggage Declaration
There are two channels, red and green, in Chinese customs. Take the red one if you have something to declare, otherwise the green one. If you are uncertain which channel you should take, then take the red one.
In the red channel, you should complete the Customs Luggage Declaration Form if you take things such as jewelry, watches, cassette players, radios, cameras and computers or anything more than you need and you are planning to leave behind during your travel in China.
The declaration form must be filled out in duplicate, of which one is retained by travelers and submitted to Customs when leaving the country. If you are traveling with a group, your tour director will collect everyone's form and present them to the Customs officer.
Limited quantities of the following duty-free goods are allowed to bring into China
► 1 still camera and proper amount of film
► 1.5 liters of alcoholic beverage
► 50 grams of gold or silver
► 100 cigars or 400 cigarettes or 500 grams of cut tobacco
► US dollars less than 5,000
► Chinese RMB less than 6000 yuan
► Proper amount of perfume
Health Declaration
Each visitor to China is required to show visa and passport and complete a Health Declaration Form. Anyone with yellow fever, cholera, VD, leprosy, infectious pulmonary tuberculosis or AIDS is not allowed to enter China . Those who come from epidemic yellow fever area must show their valid certificates on inoculation against this disease.
Frontier Inspection
You must fill Entry Registration Card and also present your passport, visa and quarantine certificate for inspection. Anyone under the following circumstances is not permitted to enter China .
► No exit-entry certificate
► With invalid, forged or altered exit-entry certificate
► With certificate not of his own
► Refuse to receive the health check and frontier inspection
► Not permitted according to the Chinese laws and administrative regulations.
The following import items are prohibited:
► Arms and explosives
► Forged currency or stock
► Printed materials, films, photographs, CDs, videos and others that are detrimental to Chinese politics, economy and culture.
► Fierce drugs
► Addictive drugs
► Animal or plants and the products with dangerous virus, destructive insect and other dangerous creatures,
► Foodstuff or medicine from epidemic disease area or with infectious virus that is detrimental to the human health
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