For exit out of China, foreigners shall have valid passports or other valid
certificates. Foreigners must leave China within the validity of their Chinese
visas or within the days ofr stay in China. Before exiting, foreigners shall
fill in the exit registration cards, with which their passports and papers shall
be presented for inspection. Foreigners can leave after all the said
certificated are checked and sealed.
Foreigners belonging to any of the following categories shall not be allowed
to leave China:
(1) defendants in criminal cases or criminal suspects
confirmed by a public security organ, a people's procuratorate or a
people's court;
(2) persons who, as notified by a people's court, shall be denied exit owing
to involvement in unresolved civil cases;
(3) persons who have committed other acts in violation of Chinese law who
have not been dealt with and against whom the competent authorities consider it
necessary to institute prosecution.
Frontier inspection offices shall have the power to stop aliens belonging to
any of the following categories from leaving the country and to deal with them
according to law:
(1) holders of invalid exit certificates;
(2) holders of
exit certificates other than their own;
(3) holders of forged or altered
exit certificates.