Complete Procedures Still Lead to Deportation! The CCP's '915 Exit Regulations' Trigger Panic

Complete procedures still lead to deportation! The CCP's '915 Exit Regulations' Trigger Panic (Video)

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September 15, 2026, was meant to be an ordinary day. However, for many who are closely watching the situation in China, this date has become a significant turning point in the history of the country's entry and exit policies. On that day at dawn, the 'Regulations on Exit and Entry Management' announced by the State Council of the CCP officially came into effect.

On the very day the new policy was implemented, a tweet from the prominent political blogger 'Luo Xiang - Breaking the Wall' on the overseas social media platform X quickly sparked public outcry. Luo Xiang stated in the tweet: 'On September 15, 2026, at least 500 people flying to the United States were advised to return!'

The netizen who revealed this information commented: 'Some officials were too lazy to provide reasons for the return advisories, quietly tearing the corners of passports. More than thirty people were unable to board due to damaged documents. My heart was racing; I only dared to post the video after flying for ten hours.'

The figure of '500 people advised to return' hit like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly creating ripples of concern. Many commenters reacted with shock: 'Is this the beginning of a new closed-door policy?' 'Will traveling abroad become as difficult as landing on the moon in the future?'

The 'Cicada Effect' Before the Closure

On the eve of the new regulations taking effect, on September 12, a netizen shared on social media his experience of being turned back while attempting to fly to Vietnam. This individual had purchased a ticket from Guangzhou to Vietnam and had thoroughly confirmed before his departure that his passport was valid, his Vietnamese visa was legitimate, his round-trip ticket was complete, and he had no record of dishonesty, nor was he involved in any sensitive matters.

However, when he arrived at the border inspection window at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, instead of receiving the usual stamp of approval, he was met with a cold 'refusal to exit.' The border inspection officers implemented an on-the-spot 'advice to return' without providing any clear legal justification.

Despite having all the necessary documentation, he was unable to leave the country—this scenario illustrated the unchecked expansion of frontline law enforcement powers just before the new regulations were enacted.

By September 15, the day the new policy officially came into force, this type of 'substantive questioning' was fully implemented at major international airports across China. Several travelers departing from Beijing Capital Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport reported that the atmosphere at the border inspection windows became extremely tense following the introduction of the new regulations. Previously, customs only conducted 'formal reviews,' checking identities and visas for clearance; now, border inspection personnel began conducting intensive verbal interrogations:

'What is the purpose of your trip?'

'What is your itinerary? Please show your hotel reservation.'

'What is your relationship with your family members abroad?'

'Where is your return ticket? Please open your phone and show it.'

If a traveler's response shows even the slightest hesitation, or if the itinerary logic is deemed 'unreasonable' based on the subjective judgment of border inspection personnel, customs can directly invoke the new regulations to deny passage on administrative grounds.

Adding to the anxiety is the customs' on-site spot checks of 'electronic data.' According to a report by The Epoch Times, a man traveling from Shanghai to the United States to visit family on September 14 reported that he was stopped by customs officers during the clearance process. The officers asked him, 'Besides visiting family in the United States, do you have any other activities planned? How many days do you intend to stay? Did you purchase a return ticket? They also examined his phone and WeChat.'

This frightening experience of 'phone searches' has sparked a significant chilling effect among the public. Many netizens from mainland China have commented, 'Now, every time I enter or exit the country, I check the pictures on my phone for any sensitive content. I also uninstall Facebook and X to avoid potential trouble and have to be ready to explain myself.'

The 'bitter' sugarcane

If customs at the airport serves as the 'outer defense line' of the CCP's encirclement, then the internal passport purges within various agencies in China represent a tightly sealed 'inner defense line.'

Historically, the CCP's 'centralized management' system for private passports primarily targeted personnel involved in sensitive matters, officials at the division level or above, or specific core civil servants. However, on the day the new entry and exit regulations were implemented on September 15, 2026, an internal leak that circulated online completely shattered the remaining sense of security among civil servants.

This report reveals that a certain local authority convened an emergency meeting on September 15, issuing a strict order: 'Notice, in accordance with the requirements of the Organization Department's document and the bureau's internal directives, all hospital staff, including both official and non-official personnel, who possess a passport or a Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan entry and exit permit, must submit these documents to the Human Resources Department for record registration by September 15!'

This indiscriminate crackdown on documents quickly prompted numerous confirmations from netizens associated with state-owned enterprises, local governments, public hospitals, and schools. Some users commented: 'Not only do they want to confiscate your documents, but they will also periodically review your entry and exit records through the backend data of the public security system!'

Any individual who privately holds dual nationality, has unreported overseas trips, or has concealed exits will face disciplinary review if identified by the system, and may even be dismissed outright.

In fact, compared to civil servants with official positions, the group most severely impacted and helpless in this wave of 'disarmament' is the large number of 'contract workers without official status'.

As netizens sharply pointed out in the comments: 'Contract workers are truly unfortunate; they do not enjoy the stable benefits of the system, yet now they must endure political scrutiny akin to that faced by the 'Party's Guard'; they have neither the stability of the system nor the freedom outside of it. Sugarcane is not sweet at both ends; now it is bitter at both ends.'

These non-official personnel earn low wages and are at risk of being laid off at any moment amid the economic downturn, yet within the state's control network, they are treated as 'core members of the system', with their personal freedom of movement ruthlessly stripped away.

Grey Escape Routes.

In the meat grinder of the Chinese Communist Party's opaque political system, no one is truly safe—even those financial magnates and elite insiders who once occupied the skyscrapers of Lujiazui, controlling assets worth hundreds of billions.

As reported in an in-depth article by The Epoch Times in July 2026, the Central Financial Work Committee of the Communist Party of China has initiated an unprecedented purge within the financial sector, insisting on a 'high-pressure approach to combating corruption.' The most devastating tactic in this campaign is known as 'reverse investigation of ten years of income.'

The Party's disciplinary and auditing bodies are currently scrutinizing the past decade of deposit flows, overseas properties, family assets abroad, and financial changes before and after resignations for mid- to senior-level managers in banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and mutual funds. The elites who have benefited from China's financial bubble and real estate boom over the last ten years are acutely aware that their wealth cannot withstand the intense scrutiny of the 'political magnifying glass.'

However, their personal passports have long been securely locked away in the safes of their organizations' human resources departments. If they were to resign now, it would not only trigger an extremely rigorous 'resignation audit,' but they would also be placed on a watchlist, effectively eliminating any chance of leaving the country.

Consequently, driven by the fear of arrest and the allure of substantial overseas assets, a series of dramatic 'passport acquisition' schemes, fit for a movie script, are unfolding among the elite ranks within the Chinese system.

According to insider Kang Liang, who spoke to The Epoch Times, some executives resorted to extreme measures to "trick" their passports out of the unit's safe. They leveraged all their connections to find a doctor who would issue a forged "terminal tumor certificate," claiming they had little time left and needed to travel abroad immediately for specialized treatment. This tactic was aimed at pressuring the unit to return their passports.

In another instance, a financial executive, aware that there was no escape through conventional means, made a reckless decision to avoid an upcoming term audit. He intentionally consumed half a bottle of liquor and then drove to an area where traffic police were conducting checks for drunk driving, circling until he was apprehended.

The following day, this executive was dismissed from the company and had his labor contract terminated due to the disciplinary action of "driving under the influence." Under labor law and administrative procedures, once an employee is terminated, the personnel department loses the legal grounds to withhold their documents and must return any private passports to the individual.

On the afternoon he received his passport, this executive made a beeline for the airport. Months later, when disciplinary inspectors finally had the opportunity to reach out to him, they were met with a voice from California, USA, on the other end of the line.

On social media, netizens offered a harsh critique of this case: "For ordinary people, drunk driving is a chance to restart life; for some, it’s a one-way ticket to the free world."

Record surge of 2100 times.

The "outbound lockdown" that is sweeping across China is not simply a random inconvenience imposed by customs officials at the front lines, nor is it an isolated political movement. Instead, it is the inevitable outcome of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) systematic tightening of controls over the past decade, which has progressively transformed the entire nation into a "border control" state.

According to quantitative statistics from the human rights organization "Protect Defenders," the publicly available judgment database of the CCP's Supreme Court recorded only 89 legal documents mentioning "exit restrictions" nationwide in 2016. However, by 2025, this figure skyrocketed to 188,760, representing an astonishing increase of over 2,100 times!

What is even more noteworthy is that the methods of imposing exit restrictions have become fully civilianized and normalized. The proportion of ordinary civil judgments involving exit restrictions surged from 0.23% in 2019 to 7.3% in 2025, resembling a rocket's ascent. This indicates that the CCP authorities are no longer solely targeting political dissidents with border control measures; now, in ordinary commercial disputes and debt lawsuits, involved parties face nearly a 10% chance of being directly stripped of their right to exit the country.

What is even more stifling is the 'black box operation' of this mechanism. With court judgment information becoming increasingly opaque, the actual number of such cases in practice may far exceed the publicly available data. The most alarming aspect of this 'invisible border control' is that the authorities do not provide any prior notification. Countless entrepreneurs, middle-class individuals, and ordinary citizens only realize they have been placed on the exit restriction blacklist when they are unexpectedly stopped by border inspection personnel at the airport customs counter, after having sold their assets and purchased tickets in high spirits. This pervasive big data surveillance system, under the pretext of national security, effectively closes off exit routes for countless ordinary people.

A return to the 1990s!

Reflecting on the past thirty years of China's reform and opening up, one of the most significant benefits experienced by ordinary citizens has been the gradual normalization of traveling abroad, engaging in international business, and pursuing further education. For a long time, as long as you legally obtained a passport and could afford a plane ticket, traveling abroad was seen as a fundamental 'human right' and 'entitlement' enjoyed by citizens.

However, the formal implementation of the new regulations on September 15 has marked the definitive end of this golden era. Legally speaking, this new regulation has reclassified international travel from a universal 'citizen's right' to a 'privilege' that must be granted through state administrative approval and based on political trust.

As cold data reveals a staggering 2100-fold increase in border control records over the past decade, the historical tide has become unstoppable. The absurd era prior to the 1990s, when traveling abroad required 'organizational review', layers of political scrutiny from public institutions, and navigating countless safes to 'retrieve a passport', is being resurrected through digitalization and big data surveillance.

An invisible high wall has come crashing down at China's entry and exit ports.

Now, as ordinary intellectuals and the middle class must anxiously clean their phones and uninstall overseas software before traveling, and as private intermediaries are compelled to betray their clients and become the state's 'legal informants', this ultimate struggle between the state apparatus and individual freedom of movement has left no one unaffected.

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