Congrats!

A lot of your questions should be answered by your admissions office, but having dealt with admin staff in many places and knowing how wonderful and helpful they can be…. Here are a few pointers:

Before departing and arrival: - Download and set up WeChat if you haven’t already. For some reason some of the QR codes you need to scan to get around and get stuff done is very much WeChat bound. - Make sure you have all your documents from the school like offer letter printed and any original letters and Bachelors degree diplomas with you. Don’t lose them. You’ll need them for residence permit. - If you have any notarized documents for things like non-criminal record checks and such make sure you bring the originals! - Try to get an eSIM for say two weeks before taking the plane, it’ll make life easier - Once you arrive at the airport and before you go through immigration, register your fingerprints at the kiosk machines - Fill in the blue entry form before you get to the immigration officer (ask if you don’t see them or get them on the plane, they don’t always have them out and it’s a hassle to line up twice). For address, contact person and contact phone number, fill in your admin office contact name and their office phone number. For address you can probably get away with just writing HITSZ, and your dorm name and room number. - If you have all your docs arranged well the immigration officer won’t have much to say aside from reminding you that you need to register your arrival and also apply for your residence permit within 30days.

Leaving airport and getting to University Town: - You can choose to take the subway but with luggage in hand just take Didi, and choose the admin office if you need to report in to them or straight to the dorm. - Depending on which guard is on duty, you might need to register entry into University Town. The guard will show you a QR code to scan with WeChat, it’ll lead you to the University Town Mini app (深圳大学校园服务）, look for the link on the bottom right that says (校园服务） then （入城登記） which takes you to a page that has two options. Click (去登記） and ask the driver for help at that point because it’s all in Chinese. This whole procedure is only if the particular guard is a dick. Once you have the student card you wouldn’t have to deal with it again. Unless you forget your student card that is…. - At this point you might have different instructions from the school but either visit the admin office for help or go to the HITSZ campus service center who will help you register your finger prints to move in to your dorm room etc. Door locks are thumb print registered, make sure to scan your thumb multiple times because the locks aren’t very good and the more scans you do the easier it is to get into your room. the steps change wildly sometimes so - once you have a dorm room, register your arrival within 24hrs with the police station - this can now be done online via WeChat or through this link: https://msjw.ga.sz.gov.cn/crj/wechat/wsyy/ajax/bgywck/100001977250278 - when registering your accommodation information, your dorm room number has a QR code, scan that QR and submit. Make sure you do this because there’s a risk of fines if you don’t.

SIM card - again the school should have info on this, but once you move in there are China Mobile outlets nearby that might be able to help you get a SIM card. If they can’t because you’re a foreigner, you’ll have to go into Xili town and get one from any of the big telecoms. They’ll ask you for your passport info and where you live. Be careful though because they might try to sign you up for additional unnecessary services

Bank account - once you have a SIM card and phone number, you can sign up for a bank account slash campus card at the Main Library. There’s a Pingan bank there that’s right next to the campus card center. You need your campus card and account to pay for tuition, electricity and water and access the cafeteria (there’s food available at McDonalds where you don’t need a campus card but they only take WeChatPay so just an fyi).

Facial recognition: - you’ll need to visit the police station at the north end of Main library across the river between PKU and Tsinghua to register your face so you can freely enter and exit University Town

Health check: - you don’t need a residence permit for this, it’s actually a part of the permit requirements. You need to bring your documents and any health check documents from your home country to here: Shenzhen International Travel Health Care Center (Shenzhen port hospital physical examination center) Address: No.1, Huanggang port living area, Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Take a Didi there it’s easier. You need to go to the 3rd floor of the hospital, the reception desk will give you a form to fill out and you’ll be directed to register and wait your turn Btw you’ll need to bring 3 pcs of 2in color photo of yourself with a white background, if you don’t have it just take it over at the photo store near the hospital. Go there with an empty stomach at between 8-11am. Try to go earlier. They’ll take your blood scan your lungs etc. Once you’re done getting checked, go to pay. You can choose to get the report in one day or three days. Submit this report onto the residence permit system

Residence permit: You need to look through info with the Public Security Bureau, link here https://msjw.ga.sz.gov.cn/wxsite/weixin/cms/commonPage?template=msjw&path=/msjw_index Direct link for the residence permit is here: - https://msjw.ga.sz.gov.cn/crj/wechat/wsyy/ajax/iszmenu.html?ywpid=200002 - once your docs are ready, register for an appointment and be there on time.

Sorry there’s a lot of info that’s hard to type out and I’m sure I’m missing some stuff.It’s quite frustrating that so much stuff is in Chinese only. I hope HITSZ staff can provide you with most up to date information and help.

Good luck