Requirements

Foreigners seeking employment in China need to take physical examination

In accordance with the laws and regulations such as Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People’s Republic of China, persons and conveyances on entering the country shall be subject to quarantine inspection at designated places at the first frontier port or their arrival. Except for harbor pilots, no person shall be allowed to embark on or disembark from any means of transport and no articles such as baggage, goods or postal parcels shall be loaded or unloaded without the health and quarantine inspector’s permission. Frontier health and quarantine offices shall monitor persons on entry or exit for quarantinable infectious diseases and shall take necessary preventive and control measures.

In accordance with Article 99 of Rules for the Implementation of Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People’s Republic of China, the health and quarantine organ should bar foreigners who are victims of psychosis, open tuberculosis or other infectious diseases that may endanger public health from entry.

In accordance with Rules Concerning Foreigners Entering China Providing Health Certificate, the foreigners required to provide health certificate include foreigners who apply for residing permanently in China, or take a post, work or study in China for one year or more (including their accompanying family members).