In China, Passengers shall accept the security check according to the relevant regulations before entering the subway stations. Security inspectors have the right to stop any person from entering the station if he or she refuses to undergo the security check.
Passengers are not allowed to take items prohibited by relevant laws and regulations into stations. Security inspectors have the right to handle cases of carrying prohibited items according to relevant regulations and shall make timely reports to public security organs for further handling according to corresponding laws.
Prohibited Items for China Subway (2020 Revised Edition)
1. Firearms and Ammunition (Including Major Components):
(a) Military Firearms: Pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, riot guns, and all types of ammunition.
(b) Civilian Firearms: Air guns, hunting guns, sports guns, tranquilizer guns, and all types of ammunition.
(c) Other Firearms: Prop guns, starting pistols, BB guns, etc.
(d) Samples and replicas of the above items.
2. Explosive Materials:**
(a) Ammunition: Bombs, flares, incendiary bombs, smoke grenades, signal flares, tear gas grenades, poison gas grenades, hand grenades, land mines, and similar items.
(b) Blasting Equipment: Explosives, detonators, fuses, blasting cords, blasting tubes, and seismic charges.
(c) Fireworks: Fireworks rockets, firecrackers, sparklers, exploding crackers, and other types of fireworks and firecracker products, including fuses, black powder, fireworks powder, etc.
(d) Replicas of the above items.
3. Controlled Tools and Other Potentially Dangerous Items:
(a) Controlled Knives: Daggers, trident scrapers, spring-loaded knives (switchblades), knives with a blade length exceeding 150 mm and a tip angle less than 60 degrees, knives with a blade length exceeding 220 mm and a tip angle greater than 60 degrees, and ceramic knives meeting these criteria.
(b) Tear Gas Devices, Stun Guns, Electric Shock Devices, Defensive Tools, Bows, Crossbows, and other potentially dangerous tools.
(c) Nail Guns, Starting Pistols, and other products containing explosives.
(d) Kitchen knives, cleavers, utility knives, hammers, axes, chisels, shovels, picks, spears, swords, halberds, and other sharp or blunt instruments that could cause stabbing, cutting, scratching, or blunt-force injuries.
(e) Batons, handcuffs, and other military or police equipment.
4. Flammable and Explosive Materials:
(a) Compressed and Liquefied Gases: Hydrogen, methane, ethane, butane, natural gas, ethylene, propylene, acetylene (dissolved in a medium), carbon monoxide, liquefied petroleum gas, freon, oxygen (except medical oxygen in bags for patients), water gas, and their specialized containers.
(b) Flammable Liquids: Gasoline, kerosene, diesel, benzene, ethanol (alcohol), acetone, ether, paint, thinners, rosin oil, and products containing flammable solvents, and their specialized containers.
(c) Flammable Solids: Red phosphorus, flash powder, solid fuel, celluloid, foaming agents, etc.
(d) Spontaneously Combustible Materials: Yellow phosphorus, white phosphorus, nitrocellulose (including film), oil paper, and their products.
(e) Moisture-sensitive Flammable Materials: Potassium metal, sodium, lithium, calcium carbide (carbide), magnesium-aluminum powder, etc.
(f) Oxidizers and Organic Peroxides: Potassium permanganate, potassium chlorate, sodium peroxide, potassium peroxide, lead peroxide, peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, etc.
(g) More than two ordinary lighters; more than two small boxes of safety matches; more than 20 milliliters of nail polish, nail polish remover, hair dye; more than 120 milliliters of cold wave solution, mousse, hairspray, insecticide, air freshener, and other aerosol pressure containers.
5. Toxic Substances:
Cyanides, arsenic, highly toxic pesticides, and other highly toxic chemicals, as well as selenium powder, phenol, etc.
6. Corrosive Substances:
Sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, batteries (including those with potassium hydroxide solids or filled with acid or alkaline solutions), mercury (quicksilver), etc.
7. Radioactive Materials: Radioactive isotopes, etc.
8. Infectious Disease Pathogens: Hepatitis B virus, anthrax bacteria, tuberculosis bacteria, HIV, etc.
9. Other Items Hazardous to Public Safety and Train Operations:
Items that may interfere with train signals, items with strong irritating odors, and items of uncertain nature that may be dangerous.
10. Other Items Prohibited by China National Laws, Administrative Regulations, and Rules: Items prohibited from possession, carrying, or transportation according to national laws, administrative regulations, and rules.