According to China Civil Aviation's "Relevant Provisions on Articles Prohibited to Be Carried but Consigned", garden pruning shears cannot be carried on board.

According to the regulations of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, it is forbidden to take the following items with you on China civil aviation flights, but you can check them in your checked baggage. Articles that passengers are forbidden to carry with them but can be checked as luggage include:

1, kitchen knives, fruit knives, scissors, razors and other household knives;

2, scalpels, butchers, meat cutters and other professional knives;

3. Knives, spears and swords used by literary and art units for performances;

4. Walking sticks, steel-headed trekking poles, baseball bats with weighted nails or pointed nails and other sporting goods;

5. Axes, chisels, hammers, cones, wrenches and other tools and other sharp and blunt objects that can be used to endanger the personal safety of aircraft or others;