CHINESE COMMUNIST RESIDENCE CONTROLS AND PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION, SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003300520007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SUBJECT Chinese Communist Residence Controls
and Personal Documentation, Shanghai.
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 15 January 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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(5725/0556) District of Shanghai.. This school was a police training school
similar to a middle-level vocational school. The trainees were usually
junior middle-school. graduates, many of whom had been released from the
army to attend the PSB school. These former soldiers received a slightly
higher rank upon graduation from the school; the school training course
lasted about six months.
20 years of age and were recent graduates of the Public Security Bureau
(PSB) school, the Chung Hung Ch?iao (0022/5725/2890), in the Hung Klou
the census police in Shanghai were generally under'
families. From time to time the census police would visit the houses in order
to check residence registration cards and to see if there were any persons
not registered. In a nine-month period the census police came to some houses
in Shanghai an average of three times. Each visit was short and usually the
census police did not have time to question the inhabitants.
minute investigations of residents. Customarily two policemen were assigned
to four city blocks, where some of the hot s accomodated as many as nine
there were not enough census police in Shanghai to conduct 25X1
where he was residing and make an oral report at that time.
moving to another city would bp issued a temporary residence certificate.
A temporary resident in Shanghi was not required to report to the authorities
immediately; he could wait unl4l the census police came to visit the place
a Shanghai resident desiring to change his residence by 25X1
police office but was not required to obtain a.removal permit. However, a
person moving to another police district was required to obtain a removal
permit; his application for the permit had to contain detailed information on
the number of persons moving and the amount of baggage to-be taken.
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cal police district was required to report orally to his local
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in Shanghai new unemployment cards were issued to all 25X1
classes of unemployed persons, from coolie to professor)- The new unemploy,
ment card was white, with a photograph of the bearer and a reference number,
and contained information as to the bearer?s name, age and address. There
were several. series of reference numbers, each designating a class of unem-
ployed persons and distinguished by a character preceding the number which
identified the bearer as, (a) a person having a technical skill, (b) an
educated person having no technical skill, and (c) an educated person who had
never been employed. The bearer of an unemployment card. could apply for unem
ployment compensation, but was required to prove that he had no other income.
Such an application would usually be investigated. If the application was
approved, the applicant would receive three catties of rice per day. The dole
took place in a public square or market.
6.
in Shanghai the residence registration card (Hu Chi Che25X1
Chien, 207;3 9 214/Oll5) was considered an official document certifying
the identity and background of the bearer. A residence registration card
was easy to obtain in Shanghai.; one would be issued immediately to a person
applying to the local police and giving reasons for his application. A
Shanghai residence registration card was required on many occasions, such as
school entrance examinations, Job applications, or transfers of shares.
Comment. In May 1953, unemployed. persons in Shanghai could register25X1
with the Unemployment Committee (11.36/28.14/0086/0765/1201/0765/2585),
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