Is it an official passport or an ordinary passport for civil servants to travel abroad?

you can get an office passport for business trips, and it is best to get an ordinary passport for personal travel.

scope of issuance of ordinary passports for business:

1. personnel temporarily going abroad for business at or below the deputy division level of the party and government organs.

2. Personnel engaged in economic, trade, scientific and technological activities in enterprises and institutions other than wholly foreign-owned enterprises and private enterprises. 3. Participants in academic conferences organized by various non-governmental international academic organizations and foreign academic groups, participants in exchange visits between Chinese and foreign academic groups and educational institutions, and personnel sent by the unit to give lectures, teach and work abroad. 4. Overseas personnel of non-governmental organizations. 5. Overseas personnel of news organizations. 6. Personnel who perform or hold exhibitions abroad. 7. Go abroad to participate in competitions or train personnel. 8. Seafarers of domestic ocean-going companies.

9. Persons engaged in foreign economic assistance. 1. Personnel resident in foreign non-governmental organizations.

11. Academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering, presidents and vice-presidents of institutions of higher learning and personnel at the equivalent level who go abroad for further study (the rest of the public students studying abroad hold personal passports in principle).

12. Those who go abroad for further study in order to implement the scientific and technological cooperation agreement and hold the Registration Form for Overseas Cooperative Research and Further Study Personnel Implementing the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement (KW121 Form).

13. Persons who are deemed by the passport issuing authority to be required to hold ordinary passports for business.

Passports have a certain period of validity. If they expire, they will become invalid and lose their legal validity. The validity period of ordinary passports for private purposes in China is generally 5 years, which can be extended twice, each time not exceeding 5 years. It's generally ten years since 27.