Our appartment was invaded in 2008 during our sleep. We didn't hear anything and luckily we weren't harmed. They took some shoes and a phone, that's all.
We reported the robbery to the local police station, but it was more for insurance purposes rather than for the police to catch the guys.
And how strangely, the cameras that pointed out towards our building didn't record anything at that moment.
But, frankly speaking, it gave me and my wife the feeling we weren't secure and safe anymore. We changed the lock, put an additional one, but the feeling has been there for a long time.

no, their is no crime of any sort in China. it is a harmonius country with no problems of any kind. anybody who says otherwise is  a big fat liar and his pants are on fire.

I was. last year. Police scolded me saying that it was my fault for keeping a lapton at home. I live on a 4th floor and have bars on my window. They  broke the door to get in.

Having only arrived in China on the 31st of October, I haven't had the joy of having my apartment broken into. That said, last night, while a few of us were eating dinner, the only other foreign teacher at my school mentioned that her place had been robbed. As the story progressed I became pretty sure who the thief was. I am replacing the other foreign teacher because he was supposedly going to another school or because he broke his arm or...whatever other story he came up with, which were many. Here are the facts: there are seven apartments above the school of which only two were occupied (and those two were the only ones broken into). The "can't get his story straight" guy claimed he had lost his key to his apartment but his door wasn't broken into so the thieves must have found his key and used it to enter his apartment. The security cams never recorded anyone coming up the stairs and the video only showed the doorman never let anyone into the building other than the female teacher and then a little later the male teacher . The only thing missing from both rooms was money. The computers, cameras and other items you would think a thief would steal were left alone. All that probably leads you to think the same thing I did. I'm happy to say a certain foreign teacher is no longer working in China but has had a plane ticket purchased for him and has by now reached his homeland.

fortunately i never been robbed, but foreigners need to learn some things, where ever you live everyone knows if a local has been into your apartment everyone knows what you have in your apartment. you are the hot topic for discussion for everyone around you. they pay attention to everything you do, throw away or bring into your apartment. they claim this is out of curiosity but that fact is this info can easily make its way thieves , which are just as common in china as anywhere else. this is why i do not like the idea of having a door person. they are stupid and blab to everyone about your comings and goings especially when you go on a trip. but i have been fortunate the 2 schools i have worked at were either secure or somewhat isolated.

yes twice in one and a half years,first time money and jewelry,second different location a little money,always double lock the doors now

Despite all the locks available i was robbed of my virginity. I felt so bad afterwards lol.......only oking

5.5 years and never been robbed.  Of course, to get to my apartment you have to go through 2 different key card activated gates with guards, then walk past a small army of guards (who are about as useful as a aged, blind bassett hound) then you have to use another key card to enter my building, then you have to get passed the main door that bolts into all 4 walls, then the next door that has 2 different dead bolts.

Or you could just wait till my mother-in-law is home and just knock.  That woman will open the door every time without even knowing who or what is on the other side.

As I sit here in my empty Sanya apartment writing statements for the police I can only warn laowai to heed the advice of the locals, and be especially aware of those "fearing not I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach" as Robert wrote!
My very ex-gf warned me of "thiefs" often, then came here knowing I was hours away by plane. She asked the real estate agent to check the apartment was unoccupied, said she'd lost the key, which she'd never had, was given one, then came here and cleaned the place out, flying back to Tianjin after trying to cancel the lease and collect the bond. 9万元 worth gone!
The police say "it's not stealing, merely taking some personal possessions"
Really? Lost in translation, perhaps? 
When she finally conceeded to answer the phone she was full of entitlement-excuses and demanded money, not for return of my possessions, but because she wants it. She has over 25万元 in her accounts, I wonder how she got it?
My two neighbours have been robbed of money, wallets, etc while they slept, nothing on the security cameras.
Two security guards recently caught here assisting friends to remove a locked and alarmed motorbike on skateboards.
Lots of laowai robbed in the streets of Sanya....
Trust nobody, start now before it's too late.