Foreign affairs Offices of Provincial and autonomous regional
governments, municipality directly under the central authority,
education committee, talents importing office, general
office(Bureau) of public security, ministries and commissions of
the State Council, education departments and foreign affairs
departments of Institutions directly under State Council:
In order to conform to the reform and opening policy, to
promote macro-administration of importing overseas talents
into China, the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs
(SAFEA) issued the notice about implementing the system of foreign
expert certificate in 1994, with Ministry of Finance, Ministry of
Railways , Ministry of Communications, State Administration of
Foreign Exchange Control and Price Administration Department of
State Planning Committee released notice about implementing
the system of foreign expert certificate for examining
qualification of foreign expert in China and providing better
condition for them. The measure is supported and appreciated by
relevant departments, retaining institutions and foreign experts.
Policy of foreign experts' employment has changed recently, the
administration of certificate administration need be improved, the
relevant information is as follows:
I the granted object of foreign expert
certificate
1. Foreign Expert Certificate (cultural and educational
category)
All Foreign economists and technologists with job Visa (category
z), who are working in China, need apply for foreign expert
certificates(economic and technologic category), Foreign economists
and technologists with other Visa, also take foreign expert
certificate
2. Foreign Expert Certificate(cultural and educational
category)
All foreign experts who are employed by the retaining
institutions with qualification certificate of retaining cultural
and educational foreign experts and oversea agencies in China
authorized by SAFEA need apply for it.
A foreign expert can be granted a foreign expert certificate by
normal contract(original one) signed with retaining institution,
which is printed and issued by SAFEA.
A cultural and educational foreign expert who is working in
China according to agreement also need sign a normal contract
before applying for foreign expert certificate.
A cultural and educational foreign expert who is working to
china for short term also can apply for a foreign expert
certificate authorized by provincial, municipal, ministries and
commissions' departments in charge of foreign expert if it is
necessary.
Staffs of oversea agencies in China, foreign teachers and
administrators of cooperative school between China and foreign
countries, foreign teachers and administrative staffs of
school specialized in recruiting foreigners' children,
which is run by oversea organization and Individual in China,
apply for foreign expert certificate by legal
writs.
II the Procedure for Residence
Within 30 days after a foreign expert enters into China, he
needs to take procedure for residence by foreign expert
certificate in entry and exit administrative department of Public
Security Ministry.
III the administration of foreign expert
certificate
1. Foreign affairs Offices of Provincial, autonomous regional
governments, municipality directly under the central authority take
charge of the numeration of local foreign expert certificate
and sealing in column of license- issuing authority, then granting
it to retaining institution via original canal (departments in
charge such as foreign office, education committee importing
talents office and more)
Steel seal of signing and issuing institution is stamped by
license-issuing authority or by retaining institution authorized by
license-issuing authority.
2. Central committee, relevant ministries and commissions of
State Council, directly under Institution, corporation and
headquarters can entrust Beijing foreign affairs Office to take
charge of granting institutions directly under central authority in
Beijing foreign expert certificate which also can be released by
foreign affairs departments of ministries and commissions,
corporation. Foreign expert certificate of local school in Beijing
and other educational institution(include retaining institution
under Ministry of Education) is granted by Beijing foreign affairs
Office.
3. Foreign expert need hand over foreign expert certificate if
they change into a new institution which should conduct foreign
expert certificate again for foreign expert.
4. Before a foreign expert leaves China, the retaining
institution should take back foreign expert certificate or written
Off it. Signing and issuing department and retaining institution
have no right to charge expert guarantee deposit.
5. According to No.105 documents [1994] issued by Foreign Expert
Bureau, foreign expert certificate can be charged for printing of
the certificate, but one shouldn't exceed 50 Yuan.
IV Green-black foreign expert
certificate (94 Edition) already has been taken by local
departments, which is printed by SAFEA takes into in effect just as
the purple one (96 Edition).
August 21 1996
(Beijing.gov.cn October 18, 2006)