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Renting in China

Since you can get a Temporary Drivers license for China pretty painlessly these day (you can get it at beijin airport) I was thinking about flying in and renting, instead of dealing with painful border crossing bureaucracy.

Has anyone here done something similar? Seems pretty straight forward? Mainly interested if I can use the same licence + rental in many provinces?
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Not recent; but 14 years ago (ish), I got the temporary licence from Beijing airport, BUT it was only valid for cars, NOT motorbikes. Hopefully this has changed now. Also, back then, while possible to rent a car, it was unheard of to rent a bike. If you have found a company renting bikes for self-touring; I would be extremely interested.
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Thanks for the info. If I can't get a bike a car will have to do... I'll update and see what I could find once in China. (probably in a few months)
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Since you can get a Temporary Drivers license for China pretty painlessly these day (you can get it at beijin airport) I was thinking about flying in and renting, instead of dealing with painful border crossing bureaucracy.

Has anyone here done something similar? Seems pretty straight forward? Mainly interested if I can use the same license + rental in many provinces?
Renting in China is not an option unless on a tour. Very few and I think mostly around Tibet area. In 2017 I thought I would rent in multiple Chinese cities then fly to the next city and repeat. An English man living in China informed me of what I could do. I flew into Kunming, China and bought a new Shineray 250 cc motorcycle-$1300. I rode it 3 weeks and sold on the street for $300 before returning. I rode without Chinese license. It is only given in Chinese and if you could translate would be very confusing. I heard there may have been a way around that if flying into some airport. I've been told that only a handful of people have ridden unescorted in China. Maybe I stumbled on to the loophole.



Reading my ride report on ADVrider would help your search.
advrider.com/f/threads/renting-my-way-through-asia.1208680/page-4



The China ride starts 1/2 way down page 4. Previous pages were rent/ride in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar.
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