This is weird, if you already paid your 5000 RMB fine, presumably at the Andingmen Entry/ Exit Bureau, you would have been issued a 7 day visa (for a small fee, of course), to allow you to leave the country (you need to show them the ticket to actually get that visa).

In the past, there was no problem getting a new visa in HKG to enter China again, on the same passport, now.....who knows?

By the way, you also need to show them your residence registration from thee local police station, which, you will only get with a valid visa.......tough cookies, I know, but it can be done, many of my friends were in a similar position and got it sorted out.

Good luck

It doesn't matter from where you leave China - you'll be in trouble anyway. The 5000 RMB do not grant you full redemption of an unlimited visa-less stay in China. Your details will be recorded and any Chinese embassy around the world can, if they want, access them. Many people have been refused new visa because they overstayed a couple of days - talk about a year! China, who is concentrating on limiting foregn immigration to highly skilled people, will certainly not be amused about an application by someone who is unable to handle the most basic of legal registration processes, and consciously violated the country's laws and regulations for such a long period.

Leg it, Forrest Gump style. Life isn't always like a box of yuebing (moon cakes).

I'm curious, too. How do you overstay for one year? I mean overstaying itself isn't a smart idea in any country, but dude, in China, for a year? What happened, where you abducted and forced to slave in a factory?

Maybe he fell off the table when he was a baby, or ran against the wall too many times...all possibilities that might make you that damn oblivious.

Ok it is easy to do, happened to me when I believed the company i worked for had made all the arrangements, simply because they told me they had.
I was a bit aggressive, in a nice way, maybe pro active is a better word, went to my local police myself and after a series of meetings it was deemed I had overstayed, [1 year] was actually responsible, [slap on wrist] but the company was negligent and had to pay my fine.
As detailed in another reply, I was then granted a 7 day visa to prepare to leave, left, reapplied and came back a month later. No hassle.
The biggest problem was the bi**ch at Yonghe gong who processed me, she was a real cow despite letters from the police and a written admission from my ex company.
However, given current policy as again another poster said, you might not find it so easy to get back again as I did, 2 years ago. They are extremely fussy now.

this is hard

I would be inclined to go to my Embassy and see what they suggest.They say they can help people who have trouble or get in touch with some agencies .Money especially in China can sort things and it is who you know.This person should do something pretty soon but i would not go to police.
These agencies have lots contacts and if you havent got any you must pay for help unfortunately

reaaly i think if someone needs help we should all try to give wise suggestions rather than trying to make the person look foolish
this person needs advise..if u have give him.dont say unnessary things

i think he may get an exit visa once he has his 5000rmb ready to pay.but i think his problem is which city is it ok to get the exit and can he come back to china with the same passport?
hmm diff questions though

yea

...I don't understand why Laowai think they have the right to hang out in China and then expect any sort of concession from the government.

OBJECTION!!

been here for a couple of years....years ago they wanted us all to come in (educated and uneducated) and the chinese were putting smiles on their faces and said Huan Ying...'come to china ...make us prosperous and international...its a paradise.' We all love you...help to build up china ..we really appreciate and we want you to spend your life here.

Now that we have made it more international and have invested time , effort and money into this hellhole they just want us out 'whenever' they feel its right. Foreigners are not hookers.

They are tightening the visa reg. and pointing to other countries...well, first of all in other countries visa regs dont change monthly...and citizens have rights ...in BJ i have been ID checked for no reason many times( 2ndring road )...if they would do that in europe ( random checking without reason) 75 % of the chinese would have to come back to china...as they are all illegally staying there...

Chinese visas are available to everyone at anytime provided you have enough cash...at the visa office they say its'impossible' ...but actually allthey want is to get you to the 'agents' that are basically giving them even more money...
at the end of the day even gov. office people want their kids to go to harvard or to the local international school

I had the same experience last year... well, almost the same. My visa was expired for like half a year then I went to the PSB. I told them that my grandfather was really sick and I needed to leave BJ ASAP and I told them that i totally forgot that my visa has expired and that i only found out about it when my family called about my granddad. The PSB asked me to pay the 5000rmb and even helped secure my exit visa for less time than it normally requires. Bottomline, I got home. Im not sure about the blacklist part though, I haven't tried to go back to china this year. but i hope my advice helps.