China Arrival Kit Six checks before you land

Tool 01 - Document

Passport check

The machine-readable zone carries its own check digits. If they do not add up, one character was mis-copied - and it is almost always a digit that looks like another digit.

Passport check

ICAO 9303 · TD3
Two lines of exactly 44 characters. Keep the < filler characters.
The MRZ cannot show whether a space belongs to the surname or the given name. This field settles it.

Official sources

Official sources