The masses apply for overseas passports by themselves.

At 10 am of October 10, the reporter saw in the Municipal Public Security Bureau Population and Immigration Office that more than 50 people have completed the procedure and so many people still came to apply for or endorse the exit-entry documents. The reporters randomly asked a number of citizens that the reasons of applying for the passports or passport to Hong Kong and Macao are to leave the country and travel abroad.

Ding Wei, the police in the Municipal Public Security Bureau Population and Immigration Office told reporters that people's lives are getting better and better now and the people applying for and endorsing the exit-entry documents are more and more in recent years. The approval of exit-entry documents is increasing year by year and more than 100 people come to apply for the documents every working day basically.

According to the statistics of the Municipal Public Security Bureau Population and Immigration Management Detachment, the number of accepting and approving the entry-exit documents has been about 1 million since the 18th CPC National Congress, 95% people for outbound travel, and the number has been up to 241,227 since January this year, an increase of 181.36% over the same period in 2012.

Ding Wei admitted that the rapid growth of applying for documents once gave them a heavy task and often worked overtime to check the document information. But they did not need to work overtime even more people applying for or endorsing the entry-exit documents from 2013.

The masses apply for overseas passports by themselves.

In 2013, the Municipal Public Security Bureau invested 3 million yuan to upgrade and update equipment for the Municipal Public Security Bureau Population and Immigration Office, an additional of 14 self-service equipments, and first launched the full range of self-service for overseas passports in the province to provide the "one-stop" services of photography, fingerprint, handwritten signature, query and taking evidence for the masses to complete the procedure in 3 minutes. At the same time, they also extended the self-service to the police station and established the city, county and station self-service network, so that the masses can apply for entry-exit documents in the shortest time and shortest distance. The self-service network not only made their work efficiency exponentially, but also achieved the convenience services for the masses.

"We have also launched a series of convenience services." Ouyang Zhu, the Vice Captain of Municipal Public Security Bureau Population and Immigration Management Detachment told the author that they have opened the exit documents online booking and the POS card charging service for documents fee to achieve the "a table pass" of applying for documents, and fully opened the electronic passports to Hong Kong and Macao, quick old certificate endorsement and other desirable business. In addition, the time limit has been shortened. The time for new documents has reduced from the original 15 working days to 10 working days, and the old certificate endorsement has reduced from the original 7 working days to 5 working days.