beware of your vpn app,

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I thind,there is a campaign of "creating a beautiful city with good hygiene and be civil" (创卫）going on nation wide. in Guilin, GuangXi, where I am staying, on and off, the last 3 months. in the area I am staying, the footpath has undergone repaving, cleaning and cars and bikes parking on the sidewalk towed away...... army of water trucks have been working hard almost hourly cleaning the street and showering the city with fine mist to reduce the fine particles in the air. on top of that,

special police forces have been deployed to catch people jaywalking, e-bike violating traffic laws.... huge tents are set up in major intersections to 'educate' people who got caught for traffic offence by giving them books to study and some are required to hand copying the rules hundred of times on writing pads. amazing......... :-))))))

as hong kong is a part of china. a Hong Kong/Macau entry/exit permit is not a passport, it is a passport sized booklet enabling Chinese multiple visits to hong kong/macau. it is all legit. keeping the child Chinese has a point if the child is going to school in china. :-)

it not difficult to bypass all that trouble if you use Hong Kong as a bridge.

you can get your child a "hong kong macau entry/exit permit" with which your child can exit/enter china without presenting his/her chinese passport. when in hong kong the child can then travel on a foreign passort (uk/au...) back home or to anywhere visa free. then re-enter china with that permit.

that works for me. :-) the scheme works even if your child fly straight back to Kunming from a third country by passing hong kong, re-entering china with that permit. :-)

you can fly Hainan Air KMG->CAN in two hours for 328 rmb if you look. :-)