Health Requirement
No special shots are required for short-term
travelers. Visitors to China must complete a Health Declaration
form upon arrival. No special vaccinations are required, but
those who have traveled from an infected area before coming
to China should have vaccination records available. Although
China does have excellent preventative healthcare products available
and modern healthcare systems in major cities, travelers should
bring with them any special health remedies or medications they
require, as well as over-the-counter items. Elderly travelers,
or those with medical problems, are advised to check with their
healthcare professional before visiting China. Travel to high-altitude
areas such as Tibet is not recommended for those with pulmonary
or heart problems.
Quarantine Service
Inbound and outbound passengers must accept
health quarantine inspections by frontier quarantine services
if so requested.
Persons carrying such objects as microorganisms,
tissues from the human body, biological products, blood, or
blood products cannot enter or exit unless they apply with a
health quarantine service and accept required quarantine inspections.
Persons who enter or leave China carrying, or
consigning for shipment luggage or objects which may cause the
spread of contagious disease must submit to health quarantine
inspections. The quarantine inspection service is obliged to
treat or destroy such articles as foodstuffs, drinks, and aquatic
products if they are contaminated by contagious diseases.
Persons arriving from areas infested with yellow
fever must present certificates of inoculation against yellow
fever to the quarantine department when entering China. Any
such person not having the above mentioned certificate will
be detained for observation until the sixth day after leaving
the infested area, or such person may be inoculated and detained
until the time when the inoculation is deemed effective.
Health quarantine services are obliged by law
to prevent any foreigner suffering from AIDS, venereal disease,
leprosy, mental illness, or active tuberculosis from entering
China.
Animal & Plant
Quarantine
The following objects may not be brought into
China:
1) Animal and plant pathogens (including bacterial and venomous
vaccines), pests and other injurious organisms;
2) Animals and plants, their products, and other quarantinable
objects from countries and regions infected by infectious diseases;
3) Animal carcasses;
4) Soil;
Persons intending to bring animals, plants, and related products
or other quarantinable objects into China must submit application
forms to the customs, and they should be examined by the frontier
quarantine department. Those who bring animals into China must
present quarantine and other certificates issued by the country
or region of origin.
Each passenger is allowed to bring one pet into China. Such
pets should be accompanied by quarantine and rabies-immunization
certificates.
