Originally Posted by Clipper801

First, I suggest that you check whether the Consular Agreement between the U.S. and China allows you full American Consular assistance and protection if you enter China on an American passport. If you enter China with the Homeland Return Permit, you forfeit such Consular assistance and protection otherwise available to you whilst in China from the American Consulate in China.

You need to consider whether this is important to you.

For Canadian citizens, the Consular Agreement between Canada and China specifically stated that Canadians regardless of national original, will be entitled to full Canadian Consular assistance and protection if they enter China using their Canadian passports.

The choice is yours.

Originally Posted by Clipper801

Okay if that's what they want.

I would not have thought of using the HRP to forfeit my privilege of full consular assistance and protection in case of need.

Originally Posted by rkkwan

Yes, the poster (Happy) needs to think about the consequences. I myself could obtain a SAR passport and get a Home Return Permit, but have decided not to, and I enter China with my US passport with a tourist visa.

Which is why in my original reply to this poster, I added that to get the SAR passport is to obtain a form of Chinese citizenship. Which definitely can have other consequences.