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Q: If you could introduce just one thing...what would it be?
You have the chance to introduce one thing into Chinese life...to be implemented and accepted. What's it going to be?
I'm thinking this isn't a simple ask.
Any thoughts? I've got a few...
'All cars must stop, when I'm crossing the road on green light with kids from the School'.
Is there Santa somewhere close by? I'm going to ask cop for a whistle!
Truthfulness.
icnif77:
''What I'm going to do with 'my face' after....''? .
........I was being truthful.
Good bread. I propose all western bakers should be given an instant D visa to come here and bake good bread.
icnif77:
Try Xinjiang! I have 25 roles of corn bread (aprox. 60g each) in my freezer for cost of 40 Rmb. Hand made, and baked in ....I don't know the English name of the oven: 'coal heated metal 'dog house'. Round, 1m diameter, some 1.5m tall. On the top is 'chimney like' opening, where baker stick roles of bread for baking on the inside walls.
When baked, he pick them up with wooden stick.
What I miss is REAL butter! I have toaster, and home made 'dates and apricot' jam. But, no butter.
Scandinavian:
sounds like "lang" or what e.g. Persians would call "nan", we got a small baker here in town that does those, they are 4RMB per piece though, but boy is that a treat when they are fresh out of the "oven"
icnif77:
Baker is Uyghur. All 'nan' bread is speciality here, and is baked by Uyghurs only. Corn bread is addition to all naan varieties. Only one baker in the city bakes corn bread rolls. 3 Rmb for piece, but I'm regular, and I buy in 'bulk
', so I guess I get discount. Sometimes, I get nan stuffed with sheep, however meat part in the stuffing is 'rare'. Grounded meat in stuffing is mostly of white colour, what tells me it's sheep fat. I must dip it in the 'olive oil with garlic' sauce, to 'kill' sheepy fat taste.
Scandinavian:
we actually have two Uyghur bakers in town, one is in the downtown area where we usually shop, and the other is next to a Uyghur restaurant or "Muslim Restaurant" as the sign says, which boasts the cleanest bathrooms I've ever seen in China as well as pretty darn good food. I have 100% positive experience with things Uyghur
royceH:
The bread cooked in these ovens, as accurately described by icni, is about the best thing about living out here in neverneverland.
I'm actually eating some of it right now...this one has onion and nuts in it and cost Y3. It's the perfect thing to go with my Wusu beer whilst listening the the football.
Can't eat or drink too much though cause after the footy I'm going to a Uyghur restaurant to eat and drink a lot more. Great food, great flavour.
Standardized procedures for all applications for whatever, for locals as well as foreigners. As it is, every province, city, town and village have vastly different procedures.
louischuahm:
My previous RP was in Shunde and I had to go there to get some details regarding my stay there . The PSB gladly gave me what I wanted. When I wanted the same thing in my current place, the PSB here said no, we don't do that but you can go to the central office to get it and they gave me an address. So I went and spent 1.5 hours waiting in line. When my turn came, the officer told me they don't do that there and gave me another address. Ok, so I went to that address and waited 30 minutes. The officer then said, no, you have to go back to your local PSB to get it. WTF! And this is all in the same province!
Appreciation of quality over appearances. Quality products, not just packaging and brand names. Quality behaviour and social interactions. Quality opinions and viewpoints. Quality medicine, quality food, quality law enforcement. Quality responses from locals to situations. Quality arrests, not just windowdressing. Quality, effective crackdowns. Quality advancements in industry. Quality pension and health care system - burdening your kids by law doesn't create stability. Quality grassroots movements, more than the occasional, one-off, 'I-got-mine-Jack' free-for-alls. Quality thoughts reverberated by people who want more from life than living in a glorified schoolyard subject to opportunistic cowards and bullies. Unfortunately, everything in this country is still Made In China.
Rule of law.
I would want vehicles to obey speed limits and traffic lights. I want contracts to be enforced (and not just when a Western employee breaks them, but also when the Chinese employer breaks it). I want the "No smoking" signs to be more than decorations, with security guards/cops telling all people to take their cigarettes outsides, rather than stand around uselessly (unless they see a Westerner smoking).
I want to see an end to authorities ruling based on their whims, prejudices, and bribary.
icnif77:
I behave similar to your 'wish', i.e. 'I don't conduct my classes, if I can't take shower and shave'. I respect my obligations from the Contract to a t, and I seek Gov.'s help, if School doesn't respect their obligations on 2nd notice.
It is useless to go to the supermarket with only one item on the grocery list.
royceH:
If there was only one thing in the supermarket that I'd like to buy then, indeed, I'd go there.
Alas, there isn't.
Respect for living beings
icnif77:
I know I sound bad, but 'quality, 
quantity' applies in China, IMO.
I'd introduce sport. Proper sport.
No, that's not the number one thing...For the one and only thing I'd introduce the concept of turning on their state of the art fridges. You know, plug the bugger in and press the 'on' button.
As they are, they're purely decorative.
I mean, what's the bloody point??
icnif77:
I saw 2 female teams of 'the game with similar to hockey sticks' playing on the grass in Nanjing last summer.
I can't recall the name of sport, (semi popular in US), but I would never think Chinese even know for that game. Brother GOOG said: 'Lacrosse'. It was in one of the Nanjing's High Schools. Players were properly dressed with all gear, very similar to hockey gear. It was played very, very passionately.
icnif77:
I'm not sure, it might be plastic grass. I wanted to say: 'similar to hokey, but no ice and skates!'
Not in any order: Civility / Consideration / Care for Others / none I see too often here.
Plus...Money does not equal Happiness !!
Scandinavian:
I think the Chinese realize money doesn't equal happiness, some think it when they are young, but they grow up and know that money equals a bearable life where you can at least feel better than others (if they think that is a good thing)
several highly incurable strains of bird, swine, dog, cat and fish flu...all combined to make zooflu.
In light of the latest "please don't say anything bad about China" post, the ability to look yourself in the mirror.
I would bring in a first class education system at all levels, schools, universities, real apprenticeships and trade schools and social education. Without it this country will never improve.
Introduce Democracy
icnif77:
'I strongly disagree!' China's doing just fine IMO, comparable to 'our' demo-crack-cies'.
'I strongly object!' is quote from the 'short guy' &D. Moore movie in Guan-ta-na-mo bayside
Guns. A lot of bullets would be attracted to heads.
No, seriously. I'd give all the Chinese guns, and watch as the... uh, Cinnamon Toast Crunch implodes in 0.76 seconds.
Scandinavian:
a gun that blows up and kills the person holding can be considered a lethal weapon, you're right.
