@Soab
"Im getting mixed reports. Do the Drs work for the CAAC or the airline your applying for.
Has any pilot or the airline, (that your aware of) had to pay 'bribe' money to pass their medical or is it nothing to do with corruption?"
The CAAC has its own doctors who perform the medicals every 6 months by coming to the airline and accomplishing all checks for the medical and review the preliminary tests you accomplished before they arrive like blood, urine, ekg etc. Each airline has its own doctors who work for the airline and are there to keep you flying and also act as liasons with the CAAC. As an individual pilot you will never be able to perform bribes but the company doctors travel to the regional offices to perform special administrative tasks
read that however you like. If the airline likes you and wants you then your chances on passing are much better.
Blood pressure requirements in China are 140/90. If you are close they will require a 24 hour BP monitor. Abnormal EKGs can also send up a big flag here in China. The medicals are not extremely difficult but they are very THOROUGH. They expect pilots to be like astronauts when in reality we are more like bus drivers.