@yuantongsi, ah...interesting info, I didn't know that. All I know is that in the most open and least developed SE Asian countries close to China, there are a lot of Chinese citizens that seem to be living partly in China and partly there (Laos and Myanmar), mainly in border areas of course.

I also thought that another reason for allowing dual citizenship was that the large number of overseas Chinese in the west could be encouraged to come back to China without relinquishing their "foreign" citizenship. Anyway, this is just a thought of mine, seems like you know a lot more about this issue than I do.

It's really hard to know what the government will do in a country where all the major decisions are made by a few old men in a closed room. So we are all guessing. You know as much about this issue than me.

But I was thinking that even without dual nationality the government has trouble keeping their officials from transferring their ill gotten gains to safe nests overseas, if they could legally have another passport then it would be toooo easy.

For living in China things - such as Visas, getting married (or unmarried), having children, acquiring CHINES CITIZENSHIP - best to go to the Beijing sites for the guidelines - although I'm 99.999% POSITIVE it will be practised significantly differently the further 1/(RxR) you get from Beijing.

Enjoy: english.gov.cn/service/imm_cc.htm

Visa regulations vary from city to city. It depends on local policy variation and how the local directors choose to interpret some regulations. I also know that directors have discretion with individual cases.

I know for a fact that in Shanghai the rules are very different for people married to holders of a Shanghai HuKou.

well we all know Kunming is very far from the emperor, but a simple rule still applies/ exists, there is no "dual citizenship" in China and anyone that tells you it is possible is talking out of their a@$.

I want to ask you Crazy, why would even think of this advantageous ?

@ rejected goods, using millionaires that choose to be tax exiles and evaders is not a good example really.

TIC...keeping it real

@ Dantheman and Danmairen ( troll twins I think maybe) do you have anything remotely useful and constructive to post on this forum ?
or is it just going to be the same old the OP is Gaoxing for ever and ever on all your posts ?

@TICexpats, no, allan zeman is not a tax exile, he lives as a honger for some forty years.

while dual citizenship is not recognised in china, the reality is that both citizens of hong kong and macau special administration region have long been multiple citizens/stateless citizens before the regions reverting back to china. the way to work around this is to treat all other passports not as a proof of citizenship but travel documents, that has been the governments' position. :-) a de facto dual citizenship. see..... :)))))

unfortunately those Chinese in Hong Kong and Macau, holding that, do not have the right to consular protection from the foreign country, that is the Government position. so de facto not dual citizens.

well, it depends, TICexpats. if a hong kong citizen chooses to enter hong kong with, say, a german passport, instead of the usual hong kong permenant ID card, then that person is regarded, in Basic Law and chinese law, a German, thus enjoys consular protection. at the same time, that person by virtue of being a holder of a permenant HKID card, can stay and work free of any restriction, so.....