Chongqing speeds up permit processing

Design director Steve Won, who is from the United States, asked the exit-entry department in a district of Chongqing to fast track his residence permit application for work on May 10.

Thanks to measures introduced by the municipal Public Security Bureau in March, Won, who works at Chongqing Jinkang New Energy Automobile Design Institute, received his permit six days later.

Police said Won told them he had brought his whole family to the southwestern city from the US and planned to stay in Chongqing for five years. He said he needed his residence permit to claim their household effects from customs and was anxious to get it as soon as possible.