How To Import Pets To China With NO Quarantine After Arrival!

The PRC Customs and Quarantine Bureau updated their pet import regulations which took effect on May 1, 2019. All pets arriving China will be quarantined for 30 days after arrival (*unless coming from a PRC designated rabies free country or area).

You may bring in one pet per human passport holder.

There is now a process for applying for quarantine waiver. In order to receive a waiver of quarantine, your pets must have:

Microchip insertion with EU ISO 11784/11785 microchip (record of the microchip insertion date or scan date should be provided)
Official record of TWO rabies vaccinations.
Most recent rabies vaccination must be within validity period for import and given at least 30 days before the blood draw date for the rabies antibody titre test International travel health certificate from your originating country/area endorsed by an official government veterinarian (certificate must be valid within 14 days of arrival)
Official Rabies antibody titre test performed by an OIE laboratory approved by China’s Customs and Quarantine Bureau. Blood draw may be taken on the same day as the second (most recent) rabies vaccination, as long as the second rabies vaccination is given at least 30-days after the first rabies vaccination, and is still valid at time of blood draw
Only certain OIE laboratories are approved by China to perform the rabies antibody titre test for import

*PRC designated rabies free countries and areas are:

New Zealand
Australia
Fiji
French Polynesia
Hawaii
Guam
Jamaica
Iceland
the United Kingdom
Ireland
Liechtenstein
Cyprus
Portugal
Sweden
Switzerland
Japan
Singapore
Hong Kong
Macao

If you will be quarantining your pet after arrival in China, please ensure you fly into Beijing or Shanghai. Beijing and Shanghai have government quarantine kennels.

Other cities do not have quarantine kennels and are not approved ports of entry for dogs and cats requiring quarantine kenneling. Animals that do not meet quarantine waiver requirements arriving in cities without quarantine kennels will be turned back and in the worst case,the animal may be euthanized if flying back out is not possible.