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In most cases, citizens who have full capacity for civil conduct (citizens over 18 years old in Chinese mainland) and have a certain direct source of income can apply for a credit card from the issuing bank. Sometimes, legal persons can also act as applicants. The object of applying for a credit card can be divided into units and individuals. The applicants should be institutions, enterprises and business units, foreign-funded enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households with independent legal personality within the territory of China. Each unit can get a main card and several (5-1) supplementary cards when applying for a credit card. Individuals applying for credit cards must have a fixed occupation and a stable source of income, and provide guarantees to banks. The forms of guarantee include personal guarantee, unit guarantee and personal fund guarantee.
after receiving the application form and relevant materials submitted by the applicant, the issuing bank shall review the applicant's credit standing. The contents of the review mainly include whether the contents of the application form are true or not, evaluating the credit degree of the applicant, and reviewing the relevant information of the guarantor for the individual. Usually, the bank will examine the applicant's various information and economic situation according to the application materials to judge whether to issue a credit card to the applicant. The factors considered are the applicant's past credit history, the applicant's known assets, professional characteristics, etc. The specific factors and process of the issuer's audit are trade secrets, which are generally difficult for the outside world to understand. The standards of different card-issuing banks are also different. Therefore, the same materials may have different credit lines and different types of credit cards in different banks, and even some banks will pass the examination and some banks will refuse to issue them. Because the credit card application is sent by post after it is approved, there is no guarantee that the recipient is the applicant. In order to protect the applicant and the bank from theft, the credit card has a card opening program before it is officially opened. Card opening is mainly through telephone or internet, etc., to check the relevant personal information provided at the time of application, and complete the card opening procedure after it meets the requirements. At this time, the applicant becomes the card holder, and can officially start using it after signing on the back of the card. After a credit card is opened, it is generally necessary to set a password for the card.