What Items Are Prohibited from Being Brought into China?

PRC List of Prohibited Items for Import and Export

Prohibited Items for Import

All kinds of weapons, simulated weapons, ammunition and explosives.

Counterfeit currency and counterfeit securities.

Printed matter, films, photographs, records, films, audio tapes, video tapes, laser discs, computer storage media and other articles harmful to China's politics, economy, culture and morality.

All kinds of strong poisons.

Opium, morphine, heroin, marijuana and other addictive narcotics and psychotropic substances.

Animals, plants and their products carrying dangerous germs, pests and other harmful organisms.

Food, drugs or other articles that are harmful to the health of humans and animals, from epidemic - stricken areas and other articles that can spread diseases.

Prohibited Items for Export

All articles included in the scope of prohibited entry.

Manuscripts, printed matter, films, photographs, records, films, audio tapes, video tapes, laser discs, computer storage media and other articles involving state secrets.

Precious cultural relics and other cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country.

Endangered and precious animals and plants (including specimens) and their seeds and breeding materials.

PRC List of Restricted Items for Import and Export

Restricted Items for Import

Radio transceivers and communication security machines.

Tobacco and alcohol.

Endangered and precious animals and plants (including specimens) and their seeds and breeding materials.

National currency.

Other articles restricted from entry by the customs.

Restricted Items for Export

Precious metals such as gold and silver and their products.

National currency.

Foreign currency and its securities.

Radio transceivers and communication security machines.

Valuable Chinese medicinal materials.

General cultural relics.

Other articles restricted from leaving the country by the customs.