Complete your arrival information
Fill in the official arrival card online before travel, at an airport device, or on paper if required. Use the same passport details shown in your travel document. The official service is free.
SCENE 01 ARRIVING IN CHINA
Arrival Immigration
A 3-minute arrival guide. No Chinese study required.
3 KEY REPLIESEverything you may need to say
ARRIVALSImmigration→
PASSPORT
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ENTRY
CHINA
CHINA
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BEFORE YOU START · ARRIVING IN CHINA
What happens before you leave the airport
Entry is usually straightforward when your passport, arrival information, and accommodation details are ready. Follow the signs for foreign passport holders and answer only what the officer asks.
Go to border inspection
Follow Arrivals, Immigration, or Foreign Nationals. Have your passport open to the photo page. You may be asked to use a fingerprint reader, look at a camera, or wait while your entry permission is checked.
Answer short questions
The officer may ask why you came, how long you will stay, and where you are staying. Show your hotel booking, onward ticket, or invitation on your phone if requested.
Collect baggage and clear Customs
After immigration, collect your luggage. Use the green channel only when you have nothing to declare. If you carry restricted items, large amounts of cash, or are unsure, ask an officer and use the red channel.
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COMMON PROBLEMS
What catches visitors out
Unofficial arrival-card websites
Do not pay a website to submit the entry card. Use the National Immigration Administration's official channels.
No hotel address offline
Airport Wi-Fi or roaming may fail. Save the hotel name, full address, and booking confirmation as screenshots.
Transit is not always entry
If you are connecting, check whether you remain airside or must pass immigration and meet entry requirements.
NEXTLearn only the Chinese you may need to say.
Start the lesson ↓YOUR ROUTE
From plane to arrivals
STEP 01 · LOOK
Follow these signs
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Use the “外国人 / Foreign Nationals” lane
at passport control.
STEP 02 · PREPARE
Have these ready
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PASSPORT◎
Passport
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HOTEL BOOKINGBeijing · 3 nightsCONFIRMED
Hotel booking
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RETURN FLIGHTPEK → LHR28 AUG
Return ticket
ARRIVAL DETAILS
Copy the English address of your first hotel from your booking.
STEP 03 · LISTEN
Listen for these instructions
REAL SCENE · LISTEN & SPEAK
Full immigration conversation
The shortest realistic exchange you are most likely to have at the immigration counter.
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Listen → Practice → Check: hear the model, speak the sentence, then use the recognized words and match score to improve.
Immigration officer请出示护照。Qǐng chūshì hùzhào.
Passport, please.
Immigration officer来中国做什么？Lái Zhōngguó zuò shénme?
What brings you to China?
You · Traveler旅游。Lǚyóu.
Tourism.
Immigration officer待几天？Dāi jǐ tiān?
How many days?
You · Traveler七天。Qī tiān.
Seven days.
Immigration officer住在哪里？Zhù zài nǎlǐ?
Where are you staying?
You · Traveler这是我的酒店订单。Zhè shì wǒ de jiǔdiàn dìngdān.
Here is my hotel booking.
Immigration officer请看镜头。Qǐng kàn jìngtóu.
Please look at the camera.
Immigration officer好，可以了。Hǎo, kěyǐ le.
All right. You’re good to go.
STEP 04 · BAGGAGE
Collect your baggage
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Baggage Claim行李提取 · 07
IF YOUR BAG IS MISSING
SHOW OR PLAY THIS
我的行李没到，请帮我。
Wǒ de xínglǐ méi dào, qǐng bāng wǒ.
My baggage didn’t arrive. Please help me.
STEP 05 · CUSTOMS
Choose a customs channel
GREEN CHANNEL
→Nothing to declare
无申报通道
RED CHANNEL
→Goods to declare
申报通道
YOU MAY HEAR有需要申报的物品吗？Yǒu xūyào shēnbào de wùpǐn ma?Do you have anything to declare?
NOTHING TO DECLARE
没有。
Méiyǒu.
No.
IF YOU ARE UNSURE
我不确定，请帮我。
Wǒ bú quèdìng, qǐng bāng wǒ.
I’m not sure. Please help me.
WELCOME
CHINA
CHINA
SCENE 01 COMPLETE
Welcome to China!
You are through immigration. Your next step is meeting your driver.
✓DONEImmigration→02NEXTTaxi pickup