Identity & Verification
Where your passport is the blocker: registration duties, name fields, and the services that will not proceed without verified identity.
Identity & Verification
Accommodation registration
Who registers a foreign guest with Chinese public security, the 24-hour rule for non-hotel stays, and where the online pilot actually works.
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The services in mainland China that stop without your passport — entry, hotels, SIM cards, wallets, rail, attractions, banks — and what to do at each.
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Surname, given names, diacritics and passport number on Chinese forms: the one official rule about name spelling, and where our advice is editorial.
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