First of all, you need to get a temporary resident card. How to get a temporary resident card? Just go to your local police department and register there. This is probably the first thing you will do when you land in China.

And now there are two options. If you already have a drive lisense of your country. This will be a lot more easier. What you need to do is bring your remporary resident card and drive lisense to local Foreign Affairs Office and take a driving test ( paper test). The test will cost you 500 kuai and its in English. If you pass the test, just do some paper work then you are good to go. The whole process will cost you about 2000 kuai in total.

If you don’t have drive lisense of your country, you will have to take a driving test like other Chinese does including a paper test(not translated, you have to pay for the translated version)  and a road test. It will cost you about 3000 kuai in total.

(photo took by lfom5608 from flickr.com)