The Overseas Chinese Embassies or Consulates shall not accept the application for consular authentication of notarial certificates or commercial certificates issued in China. The documents shall be sent back to China for authentication by the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China or local foreign affairs offices commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the consular authentication by the embassy or consulates of the country where they are to be used.  If it is inconvenient for the applicant to go back to China, the applicant shall entrust a person (a relative or friend in China, a lawyer, etc.) to go through the authentication procedures.