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Forums > Living in Kunming > How to ship a cellphone to America

Lion batteries are extremely dangerous. China has pretty strict rules and documentation requirements for export for batteries and whatever they are installed in.

DHL is about the only freight company that will handle Lion batteries but you need to ship in Shenzhen. Special packaging and labeling is also required both in China and the US even for the small 'coin' batteries.

About 2 years ago I had a shipment delayed for 3 months due to the Shanghai factory not having the battery specs correct. Stuff was in Shenzhen waiting for the paperwork. 36 hours after the stuff was released, I got it.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Solar Charger

@AlexKMG

I agree with you. Using solar panels to recharge devices is usually a loser. Many years ago I bought a very expensive solar panel set up to charge a battery on a sailboat. Didn't work out. A second battery did.

I have a ZeroLemon battery "bank" with a built in solar panel and it never fully charges.

I use a 30000mAh bank for trips but it can't fly. I use a 2000mAh bank for air travel.

These banks are great but be sure of the quality. They can turn into nasty little bombs.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > China Announces ‘National Campaign to Clean Up’ In

China's need to restrict or control the internet is China's business. I lived with it for 12 years and with a VPN I found it a minor annoyance. I would modify my postings here, self censor my self, out of respect for GoK's position.

I would prefer nothing be censored for any reason and that there would be no restriction on ideas and opinions. China has her rules and I always felt bound to respect them.

I see the hidden censorship by Google, Facebook, Twitter to be a much greater danger to freedom. Silently, but effectively, voices of a particular bias are being silenced. The MSM produces minor news while ignoring other factual information. At times old stories are republished for ideological reasons 30-45 days after they first reported.

In 2008, CNN showed videos of Tibetans being beaten by what CNN called PLA troops but were actually Nepalese police. Day after day, again and again CNN repeated this lie. I sent several emails to CNN pointing out the error. My Chinese colleagues and friends used this shameful reporting to laugh at the American concept of "Free Speech."

So, Mr. Stratocaster, while I object to censorship, by anyone, of any ideology or ideas, I do not object to you and your ideas. You have every right to wrong, in accurate, misleading and even ignorant. Go for it!

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Many years ago in Beijing on a very cold and windy winter day, I had to go to 中关村 (zhongguancun) to buy some camera stuff to take on Spring Festival. Walking out of the campus I ran into a student who was going there as well so I invited him to join me in the taxi ride. For some reason we could not get closer than 3-4 blocks to destination and were left with a walk facing North into the biting wind. No problem as my student turned guide and led me into a building and down stairs deep underground. We walked through huge underground rooms with high ceilings. I was amazed so the student took me down another level as we walked North,

My guess, after checking a map, was the we walked about 700 meters and the voids were about 80-100 meters wide. My guide told me this was a bomb shelter.

A few years later, these spaces were, in true Chinese style, were bustling with businesses. All partitions and fixtures were movable and temporary so it wouldn't take but minutes to restore most of the empty space. In some areas, escalators descended and rose and it seemed as if the buildings above expanded downward. In other areas, the huge void spaces remained empty.

Clearly a plan was in effect. I have no idea what it was and I had no interest in asking questions.

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@bilingualexpat Thanks. My first trip into China was in 1984. Didn't get to Kunming in those days and probably wasn't allowed to go. Today's Chinese kids should see these photos. I am fortunate to have witnessed China's progress over 30 years.

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Good for quality, but pricey, hand tools.

Be aware they will push whatever they are selling. Some of the staff have no idea about the technical side of appliances.

I went there to buy a stove. I repeatedly told them I would be using bottled gas. They sold me a stove. When I went to my local gas guy, I learned there are at least three kinds of gas sold. Luckily, B&Q did not deliver as promised. I went back to the store and discovered they had sold me a stove they needed to be hooked up to the gas main. I got my money back.

The sales lady was almost in tears, 没有问题！I don't know if it a safety or design issue, but I would think B&Q would know and care.

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Last week had an 8:45am flight.

Subway starts at 9am. I have no idea where to catch an airport express bus. Eight taxis refused to go to the airport. After almost an hour standing on Beijing Lu took a black taxi, this dude drives slower than my mother, 120 yuan.

Flight back was delayed so I learned the subway stops running at 6:10pm.

Getting a taxi back was easy, more taxis than customers. Taxi was 87 yuan including 1o yuan toll, airport to Beichen area. Yes, he took a longer route than necessary.

Kunming imagines being a gateway for international travelers. New airport but hard to get to and from it.

World Class Airport, NOT!

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Tonight "Peacock", a performance by Yang Liping (杨丽萍), to begin her world tour, 8pm, 100-1680 yuan at Yunna Haigeng Auditorium.

Saw this lady perform at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, in California, in 1995. Quite a good and interesting show.

I'm going to try to make it.

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Not so good. Kimchi had a very sour taste. Other food was nothing to brag about. I don't think I would go back.