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  1. #591 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    Well are you Thai?
    It's not rocket science buddy
    " you must have a licence in your home country"
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  2. #592 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    thanks for reply buddy, but as you know in China, rocket science or not, anything is possible and thats why i asked for first hand experience.
    cheers!
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  3. #593 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    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 professional Thai translation into Chinese or English of the document. Being China there are no guarantees especially you are not Thai so they may reject it as it is not from your home country.

    Heartfelt pleading and guanxi may be effective or useless, impossible to know, so best of luck!
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  4. #594 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    It's in both Thai and Eng.
    Small city could be a good thing or bad, you never know here.
    Thanks.
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  5. #595 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    If you get all the paper work required and translated it could work, but you will have to brown nose a bit. The problem I could see for you is that you're not born in Thailand, so your passport and license won't line up. Bring a good translator with you, and good luck.
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  6. #596 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    I have a Canadian PAssport and used my Hong Kong driver's license to get my PRC license so I don't know if it helps but different credentials won't be the issue. But I don't know if PRC accepts Thai as a direct transferable license; this maybe a sticky point.
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  7. #597 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    Thank you all for all the information in here.
    I'm missing contacts for people that can actually help, if someone knows anyone.

    As you say, the easiest way is to get motorbike and car transferred at the same time. However, for some of us its already to late...
    I bet most of us have a working permit or yearly residence permit as well as an already transfered car drivers licence.

    What to do in this case? Are there any contacts to driving schools here in China or agencies that can help?

    In my case I'm willing to do what I have to do (money not an object). However, my Chinese writing/reading is not good enough to take the written test in Chinese.

    Thanks a lot for helping me clearing up this topic once for all.
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    In Beijing, Sante can help arrange the medical tests (which are trivial) and paper work and will drove you to the testing location and get your test scheduled and drive you there for your test (and back for a 2nd testing time if you fail your first day) +86 139 1021 1215. They speak English.

    If you've gotten additional verifications on your home county's driver's license (2 wheel motorcycle, tricycle, CDL) I've heard (caveat emptor) that you can cancel your Chinese driver's license, and then reapply for a new Chinese license with your new credentials. E.g. You have a C1 and want to apply for C1E. When you apply, make sure you correctly indicate the new kind of license you want. For motorcycle, and tricycle there is a body of 50 questions, they will add 10 to your test. For CDL (Chinese B), they will add some additional questions. You have to score 90% or better. The test is offered electronically in a bunch of languages (Chinese, English, Korean...)

    B is (some kind of) CDL, which means you can drive 8 or more passenger vehicles. (Not sure what the upper limit is but it is at least as high as 11)
    C1 is normal car (7 passenger or less)
    F is 2 wheel motorcycles 50cc or less
    E is 2 wheel motorcycles over 50cc. Includes F
    D is 2 & 3wheel motorcycles over 50cc. Includes F & E.

    If you can get D instead of E, do.

    I heard from a friend in Beijing who's trying to add E to his B, that if he took a motorcycle driving class in Beijing, he'd have to take at least one written test in Chinese. That's also what I've read on this forum.

    Unless you really can't work/live without your Chinese dl, the cancel and retest option will probably be cheaper and easier.

    Again, haven't done it myself but plan to later this year once I have a motorcycle license from my home country.

    Good luck
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  9. #599 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    Quote Originally Posted by UlleU View Post
    Thank you all for all the information in here.
    I'm missing contacts for people that can actually help, if someone knows anyone.

    As you say, the easiest way is to get motorbike and car transferred at the same time. However, for some of us its already to late...
    I bet most of us have a working permit or yearly residence permit as well as an already transfered car drivers licence.

    What to do in this case? Are there any contacts to driving schools here in China or agencies that can help?

    In my case I'm willing to do what I have to do (money not an object). However, my Chinese writing/reading is not good enough to take the written test in Chinese.

    Thanks a lot for helping me clearing up this topic once for all.

    Sorry, I only came right now over your question.

    I used a agency in SHA two years back to get my EU driving license converted. They spoke English and arranged all the practicalities for me incl. providing me with the test questions for studying. They might be able to help you too.

    Here are the contact details. Please note, that the address is no longer valid; the building they were in was totally demolished some months back; it was on the opposite side of CJ side car in Hami Lu. No clue, were their office is right now.

    Eric Wu

    上海驾照服务网
    Shanghai Driving Service
    1221 Hami Lu C325
    Tel:021-51870123
    Cell: 13062677070
    Web: www.jiazhao123.com
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  10. #600 Re: How to get a Chinese Motorcycle License 
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    Now I am finally getting ready to do the dead. I live about 2 hours away from Beijing. Although technically in Hebei province Administered by Jhangjiakou City, Huailai County, we are actually closer to Beijing, Yanqing County. Last weekend I was in the City to escort my wife to the airport so I stopped in at the Motor Vehicle Administration Office to pick up the required forms. Actually I found we can get everything online except the form for translating my home country driver license. So now, for the benifit of anyone else looking for this form, I scanned it and saved it here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/gua...55ot/ChineseDL It is called "translate.pdf". Also in that folder are the forms to apply for the driver license "20130107jszsq.xls" and the medical form that needs to be filled out at a hospital "20130107jsrstzm.xls". Note that these 2 spreadsheets are still available online but the links have been removed from the webpage that used to point to them. They also gave me a brochure which I also scanned and posted to thios folder, its called "brochure.pdf". And just to have everything there in one place is also the list of Beijing hospitals where one can get the medical test done '"bjhospital10001.jpg". This is a low resolution hard to read list that was posted earlier in this thread. I chose to go to the Dong Zhi Men Hospital. The medical check took about 1 minute and cost nothing.

    Anyway, the one document I am still missing is the public safety bureau certificate of temporary residence. And since I live in Hebei province (even though only a 10 minute walk to the border with Beijing City), I can only get a police certificate for Hebei province. And I may not even be able to apply for a drivers licence in Hebei because my residence permit is issued in Beijing. So, I will do the same thing as we did to get our residence permits - check into a hotel in Yanqing county, Beijing and get the official public safety certificate from the hotel. Of course when we did it for the residence permit our employer paid for the hotel, this time it'll be me. Hopefully I can get an exam booked in a few days, get my license and check out of the hotel. More important;y, hopefully the Motor Vehicle office will accept the Hotel form. The should, but in this LFZ one just never knows.

    Wish me luck.
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