With the popularity of air travel, more and more people choose to go abroad or travel by air. As we all know, passports are required to travel abroad by air. Do you still need to apply for passports for domestic flights? Let's have a look
You don't need a passport to fly in China.
Article 31 passengers on domestic flights shall show valid boarding identity cards and valid boarding certificates. If the information of the passenger, valid boarding ID card and valid boarding voucher is consistent, the civil aviation security inspection authority shall add the inspection mark.
The types of valid boarding identity documents include:
Chinese mainland residents' resident identity cards, temporary resident identity cards, passports, military officers' certificates, civilian officers' certificates, compulsory military officers' certificates, sergeants' certificates, civilian personnel certificates, staff certificates, armed police officers' certificates, armed police soldier certificates, seamen certificates, Hong Kong and Macau residents in Hongkong and Macao areas, and Taiwan residents' Taiwan residents who travel to mainland China pass. Passports of foreign tourists, diplomatic personnel cards in China issued by the Ministry of foreign affairs and foreigners' permanent residence permits; Other valid boarding identity documents stipulated by the Civil Aviation Administration.
Passport is a legal document issued by a country to prove the nationality and identity of a citizen when a citizen of a country enters and leaves its territory and travels or stays abroad. The word passport means port pass in English.
In other words, passport is a kind of pass certificate for citizens to travel through international ports of various countries. Therefore, some countries in the world usually issue passports instead of passports.
What are the types of passports
The types of passports issued vary from country to country. China's passports are divided into diplomatic passports, official passports and ordinary passports. Ordinary passports are divided into ordinary passports for business and ordinary passports for private purposes.
Diplomatic passports are mainly issued to Chinese government officials above vice ministers and vice governors, heads and deputy heads of important delegations such as the party, government and military, as well as diplomatic officials, consular officials and their accompanying spouses, minor children, diplomatic messengers, etc.
Official passports are mainly issued to staff of Chinese government departments at all levels, Chinese diplomatic missions and consulates abroad, staff of the United Nations system and its relevant specialized agencies, their accompanying spouses and minor children.