This is almost always done by the employer...I think it ranges from difficult to impossible to get one of these on your own and without a specific job lined up.
The employer provides the local Labor Bureau some proof that you have desirable knowledge or abilities- such as a university diploma, a teaching certificate, certification in a specific skill, etc.- plus copies of your travel documents and of course good old-fashioned mountains of Chinese paperwork.
Naps are taken, tea is consumed...and a few weeks later a small brown book is excreted that you can then use to go obtain your Residence Permit.
This, by the way, is why schools are so insistent upon a university diploma. It has little to do with on-the-job qualifications and much to do with getting your FEC.
- Foreign Experts Certificate - Teachers Discussion -- ESL teacher -- 2006-05-28
- FEC - Teachers Discussion -- Raoul Duke -- 2006-05-28
- Unpaid with FEC ? - Teachers Discussion -- Mark -- 2006-09-02
- Don't Know Enough - Teachers Discussion -- Raoul Duke -- 2006-09-03
- Unpaid with FEC ? - Teachers Discussion -- Mark -- 2006-09-02
- FEC - Teachers Discussion -- Raoul Duke -- 2006-05-28