1. Ordinary passports are divided into ordinary passports for business and ordinary passports for personal reasons. Diplomatic passports are generally issued to people with diplomatic status, such as diplomatic officials, consular officials, heads of state, heads of government, members of parliament who go abroad for state activities or members of government delegations. In addition, according to international practice, the spouses and minor children of the above-mentioned persons generally issue diplomatic passports. Diplomatic passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2. Diplomatic passports are mainly issued to China government officials, such as vice ministers and vice governors, heads and deputy heads of important delegations such as the party, government and army, as well as diplomatic officials, consular officials and their accompanying spouses, minor children and diplomatic envoys.
3. Official passports are issued to the staff of Chinese government departments at all levels, Chinese diplomatic missions abroad, consular offices, staff of the United Nations system and its relevant specialized agencies, their accompanying spouses, minor children, etc. Official passport is a passport issued to national public servants, and some countries call it "official passport" of government officials. Passports are marked with the words "official" service or "official". In addition, all countries issue such passports to staff members who have no diplomatic status in embassies (consulates) abroad and their spouses and adult children. Official passports have green cover and black cover, which are equivalent to ordinary passports and have great penetration, which is different from green cover official passports. Official passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the people of China, China's embassies and consulates abroad or other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the foreign affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities with districts entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Refugee spine passport, also known as nansen passport, is an international identity document to solve the problems of refugees' entry, exit, residence and employment. This passport is a passport issued to refugees by Nansen, the High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations, and it is called nansen passport.
Legal basis: Article 4 of the Passport Law of the People's Republic of China, ordinary passports are issued by the exit-entry administration of the Ministry of Public Security or the exit-entry administration of the public security organs of local people's governments at or above the county level entrusted by the Ministry of Public Security, as well as China embassies and consulates abroad and other foreign institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.