So just go home and you dont need to worry about anything. Make sure you leave before the date you have been given and there is nothing for you to do.

I dont understand why you are asking for advice if you do not plan on staying in China.

Please rephrase your question more clearly!

Check if you can change your work visa into a tourist visa to travel before you go back, or if there's a "layover" period before you have to leave the country after you quit your job. Usually countries prefer to see you leave rather than come, so maybe you don't need to change your visa or even sign-out your visa as you are leaving. So I think best is to ask them at the visa-office. (use the "what if" question, not "I already quit" words). Another option is to hop out of the country (Thailand for example and get a new visa to come back to travel. HK may be more tricky and longer waiting nowadays.) Don't take my word for it, make sure you ask the visa-officers. They decide.

Thank you! Before some of my visas weren't cancelled properly and they refused me a visa in the Chinese embassy in Bangkok when I was applying last autumn.

You can get a tourist visa in HK in just 48 hours, not to long....

A few people have already said this,,Just leave China before your Residence Permit expires. Your school needs to cancel your work permit/experts permit, but they can do this without you being in China. Your "work unit" is responsible for cancelling your permits. They reason why they are talking about this is that they have a quota of Laowai they can employ, so they need you de-registered before they can employ the new one. Just leave in time and they can do all the admin later.

Next time you apply for a visa the embassy/consulate will stamp a cancelled on your residence permit.

I just do not understand why if you are leaving china anyway you do not just get your Visa cancelled properly. China has gotten stricter and stricter regarding visas over the years.

if you are leaving China for a long period or forever what is the issue? Are you just quitting a job you did not like or do you have issues back home you need to deal with? I always thought those work visas were cancelled automatically by your employer after a period of time. Just don;t over stay the date on your residence permit for sure.

@xb6asd Do you have a link to that website?

www.safea.gov.cn/content.shtml?id=12746016

here is the website, this is just a sample of the list.