Sharp and Blunt Weapons
These tools should be transported as checked baggage and are not allowed to be carried into the passenger cabin: medical instruments shorter than 6 centimeters (2.4 inches), and specialized sharp cutting tools with blades of 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) or more, and blunt instruments.
Including tools of production and living, such as kitchen knives, fruit knives, table knives, craft knives, scalpels, scissors, scythes, show tools, swords, javelins, antiques or travel souvenirs, iron spikes, axes, short rods, and lead hammers.
Extended Information
I. Definitions?
"Baggage" means articles and other personal effects carried by a traveler in necessary or appropriate quantities for the purpose of wear, use, comfort or convenience during travel.
"Domestic Transportation" means air transportation in which the place of departure, the agreed place of stopping and the point of destination of the transportation are within the territory of the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan) in accordance with the contract of carriage.
"International carriage" means, except as otherwise provided in the Convention, carriage under a contract of carriage in which, whether or not the carriage is interrupted or transshipped, one of the points of departure or destination or one of the agreed places of stopping is not within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
2. What are the maximum weight, size and number of pieces of checked baggage?
1. Weight limit: Each piece of baggage must weigh more than or equal to 2 kg (4 lbs) and less than or equal to 32 kg (70 lbs). Checked baggage over 32 kg (70 lbs) must be divided into two pieces of checked baggage.
2. Dimensional restrictions: the sum of the three sides of the length, width and height of each piece of ordinary checked baggage must be greater than or equal to 60 centimeters (24 inches) and less than or equal to 203 centimeters (80 inches including pulleys and handles).
Reference:General Regulations for Checked Baggage--Air China Website Restricted Articles of Transportation--Air China Website