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Q: Heading back to China soon for work. Anything new I should know about?

My company does business with Chinese companies. Boss knows I'm this "super-China-lover" or something, and decides to send me to do business-related things.

 

Anything new I should know about before going back? Haven't really kept up-to-date on China anything.

 

EDIT: Derped the title.

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Apart from the HK thing, nothing else ever changes. People still spit, cars still drive on walkways, drunks still yell at each other at earshot range. Don't know where you going but I'd give big cities a miss since everyone else will be coming back and getting to work. I would also give HK a miss this time round. 

Shining_brow:

"drunks still yell at each other at earshot range."????

 

Confused by why you say this... given that people tend to yell at each other when standing next to each other (ie, 2 feet away) anyway! (or when on the phone)

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laowaigentleman:

Why do they have to be drunk? From my experience, most of the yelling people are sober teenagers and young adults.

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Scandinavian:

@laow. ... and old people or young children or dogs or ill-maintained doors

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I meant drunks yelling at each other during dinner..

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Not really, just more stuff blocked. More attacks in Xin Jiang... 

 

People's manners are getting better. The entire time on the speed train they have a screen that teaches people better manners lol...

 

The housing market is taking a nose dive, yet companies are still building like crazy... Xi is trying to reduce corruption... more anti-foreign propaganda. Riots in Hong Kong over human suffrage. China has large issues with Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines over territory disputes (among others). China plans to migrate 300 million to Africa over the next 10 years.

 

I guess that's it in a nut shell. 

Shining_brow:

Please link that last one....

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laowaigentleman:

Really? That'll drag down the collective IQs of both continents. 

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Hotwater:

Riots in HK? Bollocks! The pro-democracy protests were peaceful until the paid Beijing thugs turned up. 

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"Were", bollocks, they still ARE

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Thanks for correcting my typo Scandi! wink

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Dengue fever

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Actually - pollution has cleared up a LOT!

 

People are far more respectful, polite and well-mannered. They've become a lot more law-abiding on the roads when driving. And they'll now wait in queues when boarding trains and buses.

 

The streets are a lot cleaner, because people are using rubbish bins more.

 

And the Party in BJ is now considering how to slowly introduce democracy to the people, and how human rights violations can be recompensed and freed from jail.

 

 

Oh, and somehow, they believe that foreigners are less gullible!

Scandinavian:

erh, did you by accident go to Hong Kong or Taiwan. Less pollution, less trash. Dafuk ? 

 

Anyways. The Hulkster will most likely go to his beloved Changsha which certainly has a thicker atmosphere than it did last he was there. And it smells a lot of farts (or was that just whilke my MIL was there ?)

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Shining_brow:

Last line, Scandi :D

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Scandinavian:

yeah, what about last line ? 

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Shining_brow:

Gullible...?????

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Scandinavian:

Who are you calling gullible ???;

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ilcornalito:

I like when Party and BJ are in the same sentence. 

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Shining_brow:

@Scandi -  :) :) :)

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Shining_brow:

(actually, it'd be Hulk...)

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Well since I tricked you fools into helping me defeat the CFTU, recruiters now run rampant. Forcing teachers to use profanity and sing naughty songs. Without the CFTU these teachers have no one to help them.

Pay is actually up, but dignity is done.

 

i can't believe you fools believed my propaganda, now you all will pay the price!

bill8899:

We trusted you! 

cool

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Eorthisio:

More seriously, in 2014 people are still using recruiters to find ESL jobs in China?

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Some schools only hire through recruiters. 

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Are you taking the wife and kid? If so you won't have time to notice anything.

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Probably not taking them.

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Hulk dear, are you so much wiling to return to China? Oh my! 

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SOUTH China’s Guangdong Province reported 1,431 new dengue fever cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 21,527, local health authorities said yesterday.

The number was rising quickly, with more than 1,000 new cases found each day last week. One new fatality was reported by the province’s health and family planning commission on Sunday, bringing the death toll in the province to six.

The latest case was in the Liwan District in western Guangzhou, Guangdong’s capital, which has seen five deaths from dengue so far this year. With 18,192 cases confirmed, Guangzhou is the worst-hit city in the province.

One fatality was reported in Foshan, a city adjacent to Liwan with a total of 1,997 cases, the commission reported.

The disease has been detected in 20 out of 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne, potentially fatal disease that affects between 50 and 100 million people in tropical and subtropical regions every year, causing fever combined with aching muscles and joints.

Chen Jianhua, Guangzhou’s mayor, has urged more efforts to kill mosquitos. He also called for early detection of the epidemic, early medical treatment, and early quarantine so as to check the spread of dengue.

Vehicles were spraying pesticide on the streets of Guangzhou yesterday. People were also disinfecting sewers, garages, channels and green belts with. free mosquito repellent provided at local communities.

Guangzhou is launching a clean-up campaign today, focusing on schools and construction sites that had been unoccupied during the National Day holiday.

Health authorities attribute the outbreak, believed to be the worst in 20 years, to high temperatures and wet weather in Guangdong, where the mosquito population is five times the normal level.

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