After opening door to welcome foreigners for decades, China is considering to tighten its border control.

A new entry and exit administration regulation which requires all foreigners to hold a valid work permits/work visas before working in China has been discussed by the standing committee of NPC on 26 December.

Under the new regulation, foreigners who are employed or paid for their work without work permits/work visas or undertake employment specified in the work permits as well as International students working outside their permitted hours will be deemed as undertaking illegal employment.

Foreigners found undertaking illegal employment could be repatriated and banned entry for five years.

Vice minister of the Ministry of the Public Security Yang Channing said the new regulation will reflect the country’s policy preference of encouraging high-end talents  to work in China and restricting unskilled workers’ entry.

A talent-importing-guideline which will adjust to the need of social economic development and the demand-supply of human resources will be published by the government under the new regulation.

China now has more than 230,000 foreign work permit holders, and experts believe that the actual number of foreign employees in China could be much higher.

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