CHINESE COMMUNIST TRAVEL AND REGISTRATION REGULATIONS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011800400010-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Travel and Registration
Regulations
DATE OF
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PLACE
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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1. From 1 January 1952 travel permits will no longer be required for travel
within China, However, recent regulations require that all merchants carry
their business licenses with them when they travels
2. In January 1952 the Chekiang government informed the Wenchou government
that beginning in February 1952 no travel permits would be necessary for
travel inside Communist ChinaUl but that an exit permit would still be
required for travel to Hong Kong or Macao.2
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3. Effective in January 1952 persons in the East China area may travel without
travel permits except in the Kiangsu-Chekiang-Kjangsu Anhwei border area and
outside of China. Daring February the East China Military and Administrative
Committee ordered local authorities to cancel all travel passes.
4. In January 1952 all civilians in the Shanghai3 area except members of the
Chinese General Labor Union were required to obtain nermits to travel. Such
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permits were issued by the city, town, and village authorities. No photographs
were required for these permits.
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5. In January 1952 it was necessary to obtain a travel permit from the local
public security office in order to travel. If a family wished to move from one
district to another, it had to obtain a permit from the public security bureau
stating the reason for moving and the destination. If a person left his
residence for more than three months, his permanent residence status was auto-
matically cancelled, and the head of his family was required to turn in his
identification card.' When a household accommodated an overnight guest, the
head of the household was required to report this promptly to the public
security office.
6. In January 1952 only a permanent resident of China who had no police record or
debts was permitted to travel outside the country. To travel a person was re-
quired to fill out a form giving his name, age, place of birth, occupation,
home address, address of destination, articles to be taken on the trip, reason
for the trip, date of return, route, and two guarantors within China who had
to assert that the traveller would not engage in smuggling or subversive
activities. A permit was usually issued within one month after application.
Prior to its issue, the police usually visited the prospective traveller sever-
al times to make further investigations.
7. In January 1952 to enter China a person had to obtain an entrance permit and
after entering China had to remain at least six months in one place before being
permitted to travel within China. After a period of six months in China, he was
classed as a permanent resident, providing he had no police record, and was per-
mitted to travel within China.
8. In January-1952 a rural resident of China was not required to have an identi-
fication card. It was the responsibility of the local public.security officials
to keep informed of his activities. Public security officials kept informed of
the activities of a city resident through the family head.who was a member of
a street association responsible to the public security bureau. If a family
neglected to report a birth or death or a guest, the family head was required
to write an admission of this to the public security office. This admission
or confession was posted where residents of the entire street could read it.
9. In January 1952 the family head was required to report a birth to the public
security office within three days.and obtain a birth certificate from the
public security office within three months. The family head was required to
report a death within the family to the public security office on the day of
occ=ence, The death certificate was issued within two weeks.
10. In January 1952 a person could become a member of an established family by
obtaining a guarantee from his employer or from two established families; by
filling in a form giving his name, age, date and place of birth, occupation,
race, personal history, and political affiliation; and by filling in another
form on which he explained why he wished to become a member of the family and
gave the personal history of the family. After approval of the guarantor and
the forms, he became a legal member of the family.
1. Comment. Reports on the elimination of permits as a requirement for
internal travel have been reported previously, especially in North and North-
east China. However, if internal travel permits wore eliminated, they were
probably eliminated temporarily or replaced by other special requirements.
For instance, in some large municipalities a domicile record rather than an
internal travel permit is required, and the person wishing to travel either
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on a short trip or to change his residence is required to have transcripts
of his domicile record showing that he has permission to perform such t'ra-
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4. I Comment. Probably the family domicile record is intended. See para-
graph 8above. Earlier reports on the subject
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