Forums > Living in Kunming > Registering foreigners' religious activities FYI, our company received a notice in Friday to submit information about social and religious activities that our foreign staff (= me) may be participating in.
Google translation:
"According to the notice on the strict implementation of the 22 ministries and commissions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and state agencies, the "Notice on Eliminating the Breeding Soil of Illegal Social Organizations and Purifying the Ecological Space of Social Organizations" and the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Regulations on the Management of Foreign Religious Activities in the People's Republic of China"!
All units are requested to conduct a registration investigation on whether the foreigners they hired participate in social organizations and religious activities in China, fill in the Annex 3: Situation Investigation Form, and affix the official seal and submit it to the disk before 17:00 on May 25, 2021"
Forums > Living in Kunming > Earthquake just now? Another 6.0 in Dali, must've been what we felt.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Earthquake just now? Our house (41st floor currently) was shaking again today, at about 21:50 local time. There had been couple of quakes (5.3 according to USGS) near Dali earlier today.
Forums > Living in Kunming > laowai stats When the census people came to our apartment, they ignored me completely, and only registered my wife, our son, and the grandmother. They didn't ask for my passport, name, or anything.
Therefore I think they got the data for foreigners (legal residents at least) readily from other systems, and only check the accuracy of that information on some occasions like Tiger described.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Buildings torn down inside protected area In many other countries one might find matches and correlations between those acquiring property like this, and the reasons how such projects go so far. Doesn't happen here.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
发布者@alienew: "The workers should hold them liable with brickbats."
Well, that would set a dangerous precedent, which would only result in only tighter enslaving of employees in future operations across the nation. And certainly overriding limited liability of iinvestors only serves to drive investments away from these places.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
发布者"The company may not have assets to pay, but I bet the owners do."
And that's the difference between limited and unlimited liability ownership.
University life in the not-so-ghost town of Chenggong
发布者The second to last picture with all the shop signs actually reminds me of Hong Kong.
Perhaps off topic, but this is strikingly opposite of recent developments in first tier cities and in fact even our own apartment block in northern Kunming, where the authorities are forcing shops to remove excessive signs on the streets and in the walls - basically anywhere outside the immediate space the shops have leased.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者Alright, if you go that way then everything is assuming. Assumptions is what made our ancestors come down from trees and cross a river and a mountain range. You assume quite a bit already when you go to sleep at night.
I am not assuming anything that didn't happen already. China already had a peasant revolution that was supposed to bring prosperity to all.
I am not asking for another revolution, but I am asking for that same spark. I do admit assuming that the Chinese state can contain such spark better this time.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者@Dazzer: "you go again, asume asume "
Is it assuming if I have seen it with my own eyes?