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Subject: Re: Laptop China? Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:43:00 EEST


"Alfred Molon" kirjoitti
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>
> I've travelled four times to China between 2004 and 2007 with a notebook
> computer. Never had any problems entering the country. They couldn't
> have cared less about my notebook computer.
> --
Getting in and out people can be a bit more problematic (at least time
consuming and laborious). I have been only once to China and even then it
was not intentional but I was re-routed via Beijing to Singapore.

I arrived in the Beijing international airport with a few other passengers
from Moscow with an Aeroflot clearance for air tickets to Singapore. We were
escorted by a nervous Chinese man. He handed to us declarations both for
entering China and for departing China. I was wondering in loud that we are
actually transit passengers (I didn't know by then that we were not in the
transit area). He later took away both copies of the Aeroflot letters. Later
an Airport police collected our passports (I was wondering who is going to
undress us from all our clothes next).

Eventually the nervous chap came back with the necessary boarding passes and
so did the police officer with the passports. Then we went to queue for the
transit hall. At a check point we got stamps on our passports and we handed
over the entry declarations (we were actually leaving the country not
entering it). Finally we boarded the flight which had one scheduled
intermediate landing at Xiamen. So the first leg was a domestic flight.

At Xiamen all the passengers were called to leave the plane and wait the
departure to Singapore in the terminal building. There was a passport
control point. All the passengers for Singapore had to walk through it.
There I gave the departure declaration to the officials. Then re-boarding
the plane and leaving behind the odd country and odd practices.

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