Short answer: anyone, Chinese citizen or foreigner, can report a crime in China by calling the police on 110 or going to a public security office, and the autho ...

Short answer: you can drive in China as a foreigner, but only with a valid Chinese driving license. Your home-country license and an International Driving Permi ...

Short answer: yes. Giving or taking a bribe in a business setting is a crime in China, and since May 2026 the money thresholds for private-sector bribery have b ...

One-line answer: China has no private “notary public” in the American or British sense. Notarization is carried out by state-run notarial offices (g ...

One-line answer: No. Mainland China is not a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Only Hong Kong and Macao ...

Short answer: yes. Serious pollution is a criminal offence in China under Article 338 of the Criminal Law (the crime of polluting the environment), and the comp ...

Short answer: no, for almost everyone. On August 28, 2024, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs stopped processing intercountry adoptions. The programme that ...

China has no single national minimum wage. Each province, municipality and major city sets its own monthly and hourly rate, and employers must pay at least that ...

Not automatically – but a criminal record can block a Chinese visa, and after a deportation or expulsion it will stop you re-entering for years. Whether y ...

Yes. Credit-card fraud is a criminal offence in China under Article 196 of the Criminal Law, which covers using a forged card, using a card obtained with a fals ...