TRAVEL PERMITS FOR UNEMPLOYED AND RETIRED PERSONS IN CANTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400650010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
Travel Permits for Unemployed and
Retired Persons in Canton
This Document contains Information affecting the Ne-
tional Defense of the United States. within the mean-
Ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794. of the U.S. Code. as
amended. Its transmlenon or "relation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 5 July 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2 25X1
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 15 TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In December 1953, no unemployed or retired person in Canton could obtain a
travel permit to Macao or Hong Kong without first having his application 25X1
approved1by the residents' small group (1446/3046/142o/4809) of his neigh-
borhood. He might then apply through the local Public Security branch sta-
tion for the permit. Employed persons could apply to the branch station
without approval of the residents' small group.
2. Normally the residents' small group did not approve an application for unem-
ployed or retired persons unless the applicant could prove that he had been
in residence in Canton for at least a month.
3. Applications tendered to the Public' Security branch station having juris-
diction over the applicants were forwarded through'the branch bureau (0433/
1444) and the main bureau (4920/1444) to the Public Security Department
which decided whether or not to issue the permit.
4. If the permit was issued, it was transmitted to the Publiq Security branch
station for delivery to the applicant.
5. Each day an announcement of approved applications was posted on a blackboard
outside the branch station. This was the only notice given the applicant
that hid permit was available.
6. Young people of both sexes could be turned back at border checkpoints by
immigration officials, even though they had valid travel permits, unless2
they were able to satisfy the ipspector of the necessity for the travel.
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Comments
1. One hundred households comprise a residents' small group.
2. There was no statute prohibiting young people from leaving the
country, but in practice their departure was discouraged. Medical
treatment, collection of money, and in some cases marriage after
a long engagement to a person outside Communist China were accept-
able reasons for travel. The final decision was made by the indi-
vidual inspector.