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This is hilarious... I live in East China, from UK, I am driving across China from Shanghai to Xinjiang then down into Qinghai - leave next week, around over 10,000km round trip, all of September.
All foreigners in China need to register a temporary residency with the local police wherever they stay in China. This is true even if you are living and working here, once you rent an apartment, you will fill in this form yourself as part of renting an apartment (it is usually done on wechat - no need to visit the police). When you travel here, and stay at any hotel or campsite, then the hotel or campsite will do this for you.
Previously there were a lot more small guest houses that couldn't accommodate foreigners since they were not deemed "up to code", but in the past year this has been slackened as they want to encourage more tourism, so now most places can do this via wechat and photos of your passport instead of the forms..
To be honest, even Chinese (wai di ren - Chinese from other places) are also supposed to register, and all people - Chinese and Foreigners alike - should have a Xinjiang travel permit for visiting some areas in Xingjiang.
Wild camping is not strictly speaking legal, since this means you are staying somewhere unregistered, but they tend to be lenient, since they are used to foreigners cycling and walking across China now... their biggest fear is some thing bad happening to you on their shift and them getting into trouble - its huge area and very sparsely populated compared to most other provinces - huge deserts, wild animals etc...
Basically no-one wants the bother, and no-one wants an incident...
Generally everyone is really friendly and helpful, especially to a foriegn guest - aslong as you are not causing trouble (by this I mean being drunk, fighting, loud, angry etc) and will expect you to have a ciggy with them... But I quit, which means I now feel sick smoking with them...
Good on you man...
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