The residence permit kerfuffle part 2

If you have been reading this from the start, and there is no reason why you should have been, then you'll realise that in China, anything to do with bureaucracy is to say the least difficult.  It's not like the 'jobsworhts' in the UK where people get fed up and become deliberately obstructive to the point of driving you mad, its different here.  Of course this is not a criticism, just an observation.  Everybody needs their copy of everything.  Everything has to be a paper copy, electronic copies won't do, and it has to be photocopied.  So by about the tenth depratment's photocopy of a photocopy, the sheet being photocopied is illegible and dark grey, but a fresh copy from an electronic source won't do, because it has to be a photocopy, and a copy printed from and electronic source, such as my phone is not a photocopy, so it won't do.  Fair enough.  However China must have be at least forty copies of every document I possess, and because those documents are photocopies, no one other than the filing cabinet of department 'x' has access to them.  So for everything there are endless photocopies.  Jiangkou Police need photocopies before the documents go to the regional Tongren Police and an application form needs to be filled out locally.  The documents , and me and an interpreter, then need to go to the Regional Police in Tongren.  All good so far.  In Tongren all the photocopying and applying starts again but this time because they are issuing a Temporary Residence Permit, they also need to keep my passport for three weeks.  Why do they need it for three weeks?  No one knows, and noone asks.  They want it for three weeks, they get it for three weeks.  At best I don't like giving up my passport to anyone, even over a counter for a photocopy, but for three weeks!  This may not be such a problem in the UK, but in China you need a passport for everything.  You need a passport to buy a travel ticket, you need a passport to buy a ticket for an 'attraction', you need a passport for a 'theme park', and life without one is to say the least, inconvenient.  I was fortunate this time as my passport came back a few days earlier!  Hurray!....but wait a minute, the name on my residence permit was not the same as the name on my passport.  Despite having my passport and being able to check both that and the application form.  They forgot to put my surname on it.  Easily done in China, because the 'norm' is to only have two names, surname and given name, but they got it wrong...and none knows what to do.  Eventually I persuaded my boss to ask.  So I have to give up my passport again for an undefined period of time.