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If you are Chinese and drive you don't understand that you have to...
1. Shoulder check before you pull away.
2. Signal before you pull away and on intersections.
3. Check your mirrors before you...

It's tricky....Take your Thai license to to the foreign affairs dept in your city...If it's in English they can translate it to Chinese. If it's in Thai they can probably accept a notorized...

Yeah I also only have a temporary residence permit too. I recently just extended my license so I don't believe the rules have changed sounds like whoever is talked to your girlfriend is talking...

Yes I understand the temporary residency. To renew my license I had to present a document that showed I had residency in the city and temporary residency would not have been sufficient. Where I am...

I can't really understand how this could possibly work. Surely his passport number has already been used to issue a driving license, therefore that number is in the system as all driving licenses...

Surely they'd simply look at where his visa/residence permit was issued and tell him to apply there? Worth a try though.

The government only allowed license transfers during the opening up period to keep foreign business investors happy. Now with the change of license rules they have graciously translated the car...

If you read through the last page or two of this thread you will see that the 'Shanghai licensing bureau' offers the test in English. It might be worth your while giving Joshmakesnoise a PM.

Nice to have some new people on these boards, welcome!

I believe that's happened before when a car obsessed officer left the motorcycle off someones license, however that was their fault and it...

There are some categories F,M,N and P that are various kinds of light motorcycle/scooter I believe. Some are electric. I think yours is the F, and having that will entitle you to the lower...

Great news! :clap:

Update:
License renewal.

I renewed my license today. It was annoying, but it got done in about 2 hours, if you are Chinese maybe 20 minutes.

First obstacle was that they couldn't find my...

Yep, frustrating. Seems 98% of local motorcycle riders are in some or most ways illegal. You have thought that the unusual foreign guy trying to do things 100% legally would be welcomed or at least...

My basic theory is they don't want anyone else riding or driving on the roads as they are already highly congested, foreigners are a soft target as their complaints are easy to ignore. My suspicion...

Well yep, it's China. Porn blocked from the internet, but there is a brothel on every street corner! So long as you call it binguan, lifadien, ktv etc etc

Must be a loop-hole to do it somewhere...

jon, I'm not reading your blog. Why you think that riding in China to 20 years gives you all the personal answers is beyond me. I have a long extensive motorcycling CV that might trump yours for all...

Well it's mostly due to lack of education. When your driving 'instructor' would be thrown out of a test in a western country and told 'never to darken their door again' or the rich can just buy their...

I've seen plenty of the 'fails', in 12 years. Last classic was one car upside-down on the roof of another. I think both drivers decided to suddenly change lane without looking or signaling.:eekers:

When I did the test the 'medical' test was just an office 'round the back of the cop shop. The medical technically consisted of a raft of exhaustive tests, to make sure that you were 'good enough' to...

As far as I'm aware if you transfer your car and motorcycle license you'll only have to do the car multi-choice questions, or that's how it was when I did mine. In Chinese mentality a car is like an...

Make sure you ask around and find out if any relatives of friends are in the Gong An, and ask politely for help, flirt with female officers in the police station, ask them about their kids and their...

As far as I'm aware the test is absolutely available in English, you are being bullshitted by an idiot or someone wants a 'red envelope'. Could be that or that Laoshan is not the designated English...

Hinrich, there is a German guy in Germany that has or had a Chinese registered YBR250 and a 125 that he and his friend rode across last summer, PM me for details. He's selling or has sold the bikes...

Haha, I was illegal 7 years before I got legal. I just has an attitude that was 'I've already passed a fu**ing test to a higher standard than these retards in another country, why do I need to...

Your home license is in fact an Australian provisional? That means you are restricted under the LAMS scheme? In my view an Australian car license and provisional motorcycle license have given you far...