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Chinese authorities demand schoolteachers and other public sector employees hand in their passports as President Xi Jinping tightens his grip on society (financialpost.com)

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The passport collection drive, carried out under what is known as “personal travel abroad management,” allows local government officials to control and monitor who can travel abroad, how often and to where.

It comes as Xi steps up state involvement in everyday life and clamps down on official corruption. China’s powerful state security apparatus has also intensified its campaign against foreign espionage.

Interviews with more than a dozen Chinese public sector workers and notices from education bureaus in half a dozen cities show restrictions on international travel have been greatly expanded from last year to include rank-and-file employees of schools, universities, local governments and state-owned groups.

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“If we want to travel abroad, we have to apply to the city education bureau and I don’t think it will be approved,” said the teacher, asking that they and their city not be named.

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Residents of restive regions such as Tibet lost their freedom to travel more than a decade ago. Starting in the mid-2010s, some areas applied “personal travel abroad management” rules to local teachers. Last year, after pandemic-era travel restrictions were lifted, more education bureaus began to introduce teacher travel restrictions and stepped them up this summer.

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An entry-level salesperson at a bank in Nanjing said she was told to hand in her passport when she joined the state-owned group last year. After quitting in March, she had to wait six months for a “de-secrecy process” before she was able to retrieve it.

In central Hunan province, a mid-level official at a local government investment fund said he gained approval from nine different departments for a holiday abroad but still could not retrieve his passport.

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The restrictions are hitting retirees as well. A 76-year-old who retired from a state-owned aircraft maker more than 10 years ago said his former employer took his passport back this year for “security reasons” and barred him from visiting family abroad.

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China’s foreign ministry said it was not aware of the situation and referred questions to the relevant authorities.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's been that way since 3 or 4 years ago. The way it works is that you'll hand in the passport and if you want to use it, you'd have to apply for it. The party branch (党委) usually has quotas for each year and therefore will seek excuses to reject the application.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would they have that degree of bureaucracy? Why not just deny pp applications from the outset?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For people not in public sectors, application for passports are okay-ish.

For others, I can only speculate. Most of the public sector workers already have passports from years ago. I don't know if they have any kind of restrictions on new applications. To me, the Immigration Administration of the Ministry of Public Safety (who issues passports) feels more like a "routine" type of branch of the central government, but I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it has been like this for close to a decade at this point...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It really is like that. I found a report on People.cn from 2015. I guess it's just the impact range is expanding. Personally I only heard of people experiencing this post-covid.