China Passport Photo Size

In short A China passport photo is 33 × 48 mm with the head measuring 28 to 33 mm from crown to chin, on a plain white background. That head range works out at 58 to 69 per cent of the image height, which is outside the 70 to 80 per cent ICAO Doc 9303 asks for, and deliberately so. That is precisely why a photo cut to another country's requirements is likely to be refused here even when the paper size matches. China uses 33 × 48 mm, which is close enough to 35 × 45 to look like a rounding error and is not one — a photo cut for a Schengen application is both too wide and too short. The ears should be visible, which rules out a lot of otherwise acceptable pictures. In pixels, the print needs 390 × 567 at 300 dpi, which is the normal minimum for printing, and 780 × 1134 at 600 dpi, which is what many online applications ask for. Note that dpi is not a property of a file at all — it is the pixel count divided by the print size, so quoting megapixels answers a different question. What none of this settles is whether a particular photograph will be accepted: size, head height and background are the measurable part, while expression, lighting, shadow on the background, glare on spectacles and hair across the face are judged by a person, and any of them can fail a photo that is correct to the millimetre.