Health Requirements for International Students
in China
  (Issued by Ministry of Education of China in 1993)

Students who come to study in China must be in good health, free from any serious infectious diseases or severe physical handicaps. Before coming to China, they should undergo a careful health check-up. Those who have any of the following diseases will not be permitted to come to China. Should anyone be found having any of these diseases, he/she will be requested to withdraw from the program and leave the country immediately at his/her own expense:

  (1) AIDS or HIV carriers.

  (2) All kinds of active pulmonary tuberculosis, and tuberculosis of other parts of the body.

  (3) Thoracoplasty or pneumectomy (more than one lobe).

  (4) Serious chronic diseases such as bronchial asthma, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis, peptic ulcer, liver cirrhosis, etc.

  (5) Organic cardiovascular diseases (rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, coronary heart disease, etc.) and hypertension.

  (6) Acute or chronic infectious diseases, such as hepatitis, syphilis, etc.

  (7) Acute or chronic nephritis and serious diseases of urinary and genital system.

  (8) Serious anemia, comparatively obvious splenomegalia, hypoproliferative anemia and other types of blood disease.

  (9) Mental diseases (including hysteria), epilepsy or having a history of these types of diseases.

  (10) Serious neurosis, with frequent insomnia, headache, memory degeneration which will prevent one from carrying on studies.

  (11) All kinds of cancer and other serious diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, diabetes, lupus erythematosus, pulseless, etc.

  (12) Leprosy and other infectious skin diseases.

  (13) Maldevelopment of the body, or serious disability or deformity of the body or the limbs.

  (14) Severe dysopia (hypometropia, astigmia, hyperopia), color ambyopia, deafness and serious hearing handicap, etc.