Coming Home to China Booklet
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UNCLASSIFIED Coming Home Booklet- Fujian 1 UNCLASSIFIED Introduction China’s economy has continued to grow rapidly over the past decade; it has become an important developing country in the world. With the continuous appreciation of RMB and burgeoning business and job opportunities, more and more overseas Chinese students choose to return home. This is the best testimony of the country’s growing strength. The Prime Minister of the UK has also visited China repeatedly in the last two years and established a “partners for growth” relationship between the two countries. Many Chinese people in the UK still feel lonely and homesick; they endure the hardship in another country for a better life of their family at home. After some years, the yearning for home might grow stronger and stronger. If you are considering coming back to China, this booklet may give you some helpful advices and a glance of China’s development since your last time there. It also gives you guidance from application materials all through to your journey back home, provides answers to questions you might have, and shares some successful cases of people establishing business after returning. You can find information on China’s household registration, medical provision, vocational training, business opportunities as well as lists of religious venues and non-profit organizations in the booklet which will help you learn the current conditions at home. China has many provinces and regions; this guidance only applies to Fujian Province. 2 UNCLASSIFIED Table of Contents PART ONE In the UK .............................................................................................................................. 5 Preparing to Return Home .................................................................................................................. 5 Departure ............................................................................................................................................ 6 On the Way to Airport ........................................................................................................................ 7 Heathrow Express ........................................................................................................................... 7 Underground ................................................................................................................................... 7 Bus and Coach ................................................................................................................................. 7 Heathrow Airport ................................................................................................................................ 7 PART TWO In China ................................................................................................................................ 8 Arrival .................................................................................................................................................. 8 Airport in Beijing ............................................................................................................................. 8 Airports in Shanghai ........................................................................................................................ 9 Back Home- Fujian ............................................................................................................................ 10 Household Registration ................................................................................................................. 10 Application and Renewal of Identification Card ........................................................................... 10 Returned Children ............................................................................................................................. 11 Household Registration ................................................................................................................. 11 Vaccination .................................................................................................................................... 12 School Enrolment .......................................................................................................................... 12 Public Medical Insurance .................................................................................................................. 12 Rural Residents ............................................................................................................................. 13 Urban Residents ............................................................................................................................ 13 Looking For Economic Prosperity ..................................................................................................... 15 Small Entrepreneurship Loan for Rural Youth in Fujian Province ................................................. 15 Youth Business China Foundation, Fujian Branch ......................................................................... 16 Start Your Business Training organised by Local Government ..................................................... 17 Vocational Training ........................................................................................................................... 18 Fujian Farmers Skills Training University ...................................................................................... 18 The National Association of Vocational Education of China, Fujian Branch ................................. 18 Looking for Employment ................................................................................................................... 19 Fujian Provincial Jobs Service Centre ............................................................................................ 19 3 UNCLASSIFIED NGO - Quanzhou New Home Social Service Centre ...................................................................... 20 Religious Belief and Church .......................................................................................................... 21 PART THREE Returnee Stories ............................................................................................................. 24 Ms Lin’s Story ................................................................................................................................ 24 Mr Chen’s Story ............................................................................................................................. 24 PART FOUR Questions and Answers ................................................................................................... 25 4 UNCLASSIFIED PART ONE In the UK Preparing to Return Home As the Chinese poem goes, “A lonely stranger on a strange land, I miss my family all the more on every festival day”. You might have parted with your family for a long time and feel lonely on every Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Your parents’ hair might be greying from lack of care and your child has grown up, making you feel guilty. After many years vagrancy, you understand that however caring the friends and countrymen are in the UK, they can’t replace your family. Money can’t buy time. There are always opportunities to earn wealth, but the happy times shared with family will not return. If you decide to come home, you will need to do a series of preparation before the journey. First of all, call your family and tell them your decision. Let them share your anticipation and joy for reunion. Certainly, the emergency travel documents are necessary identification for you to come home. There are three ways to obtain such documents: Submit the materials for your voluntary return, including documents for your family in the UK (your spouse and children born in the UK) to the officer handling your case, who will send the materials to the Chinese Embassy in London as soon as possible to arrange for the emergency travel documents. The officer will give you an identity verification form; please fill in your genuine personal information. If needed, you may ask the officer for a Chinese translator to help you fill in the form. Besides your travel documents, the officer will also help you obtain a free air ticket to China. AVR Programmes – This is a programme independently run by Refugee Action and provides assistance to voluntary returnees from document application all the way through to business consultation back in China, including offering confidential advice, free air ticket and small loan. The programme has three types: 1) AVRIM – For persons aged 18 or above without a legal identification in the UK. 2) AVRFC – For asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, persons with expired short-term visa or without legal identification in the UK who are under 18 or with children under 18. 3) VARRP – For asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers or persons with expired visa who are aged 18 or above. 5 UNCLASSIFIED Please dial 0808 800 0007 for details of the AVR Programmes, its application requirement and conditions. Contact Chinese Embassy/Consulate Yourself – You may also go to the Chinese Embassy London or Consulates elsewhere in the UK if you wish to apply for returning documents directly. The Embassy/Consulate staff will help you through the document application procedure. Consular Section, Chinese Embassy London 31 Portland Place, London W1B 1QD Phone: 020-72998427 (2 p.m. – 4 p.m.) Fax: 020-74369178 Office hour: 9 a.m. – 12 a.m., Monday – Friday (close