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Mar 30,2015
Yea, it's pretty insane I agree. I'd say the breakdown would be something like this in my city - 600,000-700,000 rmb for a smallish new apartment, another 100,000+ to decorate it, 150,000 for an average new car, 100,000 for a face giving wedding, maybe another 30,000 on jewelry and stuff. So a million sounds about right considering that most Chinese girls wouldn't marry anyone without...
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Mar 26,2015
Before RP expiration, your present employer must take you to PSB (police), where you'll get 30-days visa (either 'extension of RP', L or S2 visa).----- 'Chinese law'
When you arrive to the new job site, your new employer will have 30 days to extend your RP, and you don't need to exit China.
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Mar 06,2015
Harmonizing that documentary is going to cause a lot of people to wake up and realize how bad the government is. This is only going to backfire.
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Mar 02,2015
Its socially accepted tax evasion. Many companies will actually tax your salary less if you can produce a certain amount of fa piao every month.
Most if not all companies ask workers to pay all of their expenses up front and then give fa piao in order to get the money back.
The problem is that getting fa piaos from businesses isnt always easy so people need to collect them....
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Mar 02,2015
A "normal school" is to train teachers : the school defines the norm of what have to be taught. So the "normal" comes from "norm", "normative". Across the world, many schools which started as "normal school of XXX" became regular schools, but they kept the original name.
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Feb 23,2015
Mars One is at best a pipe dream, at worst a scam. The team behind Mars One showed more than once a very poor understanding of the challenge they want to take. Landing a car-sized buggy was already a major achievement (check for the landing procedure of the Curiosity probe), at the edge of what can be done today. It took a few billions dollars to achieve. They have no answers for all the...
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447 . Am I wrong?Feb 15,2015
You are certainly not wrong and you don't deserve to be treated that way by your parents. From a typical western point of view, a lot of people in your situation would completely stop talking to their parents. I know lots of people who don't communicate at all with their parents for reasons that are not nearly as bad as those you shared in the op. I'm not suggesting that you do this - what you...
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Feb 10,2015
Ice Festival: one place in China where the beer is always cold
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Feb 08,2015
Regarding the law, every city/province is different, so you need to find out exactly what it is for wherever you live. I used to have an electric one in Shanghai. I think it cost just over 2000 RMB, but it wasn't particularly good and that was a few years ago. It does give you a lot more freedom and also its fun!
You need to take good care to make sure it...
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Feb 05,2015
I have a too narrow vision to fully answer the question. The Chinese state invest a lot into technology through funding, and from what I see, they are not exactly picky on who or what to fund. That can contribute to a bubble, like what we saw in public and private constructions.
I work in a start-up (we are close to be self-sustaining now, with customers and a working...
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Feb 03,2015
Several years ago, here in my city, the drivers of the gov't cars decided things weren't fair, so they arranged a protest outside the mayor's building. The gov't warned them to cease this action on the grounds it was disrespectful but the drivers, about 200 of them, didn't budge.
So the gov't told them the mayor would meet with them in 'The Big Hall'.
Into the...
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Feb 01,2015
I'm not sure, which (ICBC prob.?) bank you're dealing with, buTT....I'd say 'get China Merchants Bank (Gold account with Visa/Mc logo)' for the next day card replacement. They advertise that on Gold account info slip in any CMB.
Type 'laowai friendly bank' for thread about Gold account.
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Jan 27,2015
Hear me out on this before calling me crazy - First of all, I am not praising the Chinese healthcare system. It is well-known that most doctors are unqualified (I work for a medical school and my boss estimates that 90% of doctors in the mainland are unqualified). Doctors regularly engage in overtreatment while running unnecessary tests and prescribing useless medicine. Antibiotics are grossly...
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454 . Beijing ordered universities to fortify ideological control by Studying and propagating MarxismJan 26,2015
Do you mind providing a link, or a source for this ?
Honestly, I think it would be self-defeating to propagate Marx's ideas in China, at least for the powers-to-be. It would be bad for the harmony of China. That's why I'm asking you to provide some serious source, that sounds just so irrational to me, unless it's a completely warped rewriting of Marx. I would much less surprised to see...
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Jan 21,2015
People always ask me when I will leave China. I have fallen into a love/hate relationship with China. I love the fact that it is ever changing and I am curious to be part of that change. Yet, i hate so many of the things that conflict with my western mentality. So, I aswer to the question of when I plan to leave is not available right now. I have been here two years. I have yet to grow as...
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Jan 20,2015
That's a tad more complex than "they just have to do X and Y". Short version : China is stuck in its smog for a decade at least, if they start to put massive resource and will into it right now. That would be more like 20 to 30 years, if something is done. It will be a massive expense, solely for the welfare of Chinese people.
1) Shutting coal plants, replace by...
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Jan 19,2015
Dont worry about it. It might be a little bit more inconvenient depending on where you are but this isnt the apocalypse. You will not starve.
The local corner store might be closed but larger supermarkets should stay open and most restaurants will as well. All of the families are finally together so most of them go out to eat and celebrate.
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Jan 15,2015
Did you get a raise to 6 Mao for posting inane questions & digging up zombie posts the last two days to copy/paste the same comments about SAFEA?
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Jan 09,2015
The tiers thing is a very poor criteria to judge a city. An example : Hefei and Suzhou are both 2nd tiers, officially. I lived in both cities : the difference is huge. Suzhou is far more cosmopolite, have way urban management, green spaces and escapes, public transportation, bike lanes, choice of restaurants & bars.
If you move from Shanghai to Hefei, it feels you go...
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460 . Xinjiang travel adviceJan 07,2015
Where's the wedding going to be? Xinjiang is a very big place and travelling around it isn't simple, mainly due to distances.
Urumqi to Kashgar by train takes about 24 hrs, less than 2 by plane.
We're going there during Spring Festival and tossing up whether to fly or drive. At least I am....my wife is adamant we should fly. We'll probably fly.
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