Applying for a driver's license for the first time：
Required documents
1. Driver's license application form
2. Health certificate
3. Passport or other travel documents, or a valid visa allowing a stay in China for more than three months, or a residence permit. A residence permit issued by a Shenzhen public security bureau that shows a home address, or a temporary accommodation registration form and its copy. Embassy and consulate staff, as well as staff of international organizations' representative institutions in China, must provide a valid ID document issued by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
4. Eight driver's license application photos. (Photos must be taken within six months prior to the application.)
◆ Copies of required documents should be on A4 paper. Both sides of overseas driver's licenses should be copied.
Application process
1. Application forms can either be downloaded from www.stc.gov.cn or acquired at a vehicle administration office.
2. Required photos should be taken at photo shops with Internet connections to the vehicle administration office. Photo shops will give receipts.
3. Applicants submit the application form and required documents, and have fingerprints collected, receiving a receipt.
4. With the receipt, applicants next make a payment at any China Construction Bank outlet. The fee for a driver's license is 480 yuan (US$78) and the fee for a motorbike license is 225 yuan.
5. Applicants go through required tests.
6. After passing the tests, applicants can receive a driver's license either by express service or claim it at a vehicle administration office. Applicants should provide ID papers when claiming their license.
Application handling department
Applications are handled by the examination department of the vehicle administration office of the traffic police branch of Shenzhen Public Security Bureau.
Add: Xili Driver Training and Examination Venue, Longjing section of Longzhu Boulevard, Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
Overseas driver's license holders applying for a Chinese driver's license
Required documents
1. Driver's license application form
2. Health certificate
3. Valid overseas driver's license, with extra copy. (A translated, Chinese-language version of foreign-language overseas driver's licenses is needed. The translated version has to be notarized by either a district-level-or-above notary office or a registered translation company. The license holder's foreign name also needs translation and should appear in the translated version.) The application doesn't apply to holders of international driver's licenses, practice driver's licenses or temporary driver's licenses issued by any country or organization. Holders of driver's licenses that don't specify a vehicle type have to provide a document of official explanation.
4. Applicant's ID paper and a copy. A passport or other travel documents, or a valid visa allowing a stay in China for more than three months, a residence permit issued by the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau that shows a home address, or a temporary accommodation registration form and its copy.
5. Passport and copy.
6. Four photos for driver's license application and a receipt from a photo shop.
7. Applicants are not allowed to have others do the application for him or her.
◆ Copies of required documents should be on A4 paper. Both sides of overseas driver's licenses should be copied.
Application process
1. Applications can either be downloaded from www.stc.gov.cn or acquired at a vehicle administration office.
2. The required health certificate can be acquired at a hospital of district-level or above.
3. Required photos can be taken at photo shops with Internet connections with the vehicle administration office.
4. Applications can be submitted at a vehicle administration office. Applicants will be given a receipt after application forms are submitted.
5. With the receipt, applicants should make the related payment at any China Construction Bank outlet.
6. Applicants can receive their driver's license either by express service or by claiming it at a vehicle administration office. When claiming a driver's license, applicants should provide their application form receipt, payment certificate, ID paper and overseas driver's license.
Application handling department
Applications are handled by the examination department of the vehicle administration office of the traffic police branch of Shenzhen Public Security Bureau.
Add: Xili Driver's Training and Examination Venue, Longjing section of Longzhu Boulevard, Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
(The information is authentic in Chinese. English is provided for reference only.)
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