Navy Vet, there are maps available showing subway stops.
As to DVD shops, Xiefei's post is about right. I also tend to watch DVDs, and know of at least one shop on Wenlinjie and 3-4 within 20-minute walking distance of my flat (near western end of Renminlu just before 2nd Ring Road). None of these are particularly good, at least compared to the ones that were around say 5 years ago.
@Campo: How bad's the air in Lanzhou this time of year?
@Tony: another reason to register is that if somebody breaks into your apartment and you call the cops they can say Oh hey there's no record of you living there, how do we know...? Was the commonsense reason why I finally decided to register after about a year here, 11 years ago.
@Campo: OK. My point was just to query whether one is legally required to let the cops know that you are leaving Kunming BEFORE you leave, either for elsewhere in China or to leave China (at least, for those without residence permits) - don't think you covered that - any info?
I re-entered China with a new visa & new passport in early September, after about 6 weeks out of the country. I went by the local police statyion just before I left to tell them I was leaving and they seemed uninterested, but told me to come back with my new visa etc. when I returned. As it happened, a weekend followed my re-entry and the ordinary office for registration, etc., was closed: I talked to the cop at the entry to the police station and he took down my name, telephone number and said come back on Monday, which I did. Everything done within about 15 minutes, no problem.
I've gone by several times when I'm going to leave Kunming, or leave China entirely, and they always seems uninterested, don't even write anything down, but just tell me to be sure to come by when I return, and I do.
Note: I do not now have a residence permit, just a long-term tourist visa, multiple entyry.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Kunming begins anti-polio drive
发布者"...Yunnan's rural areas - where health care is not as universal..."
And one looks around Kunming and sees where all the new money goes...seems to me that the economic system and administration have built in, bad priorities.
Beijing to manage entirety of Yangtze River Basin
发布者Problem is indeed massive, but ships are leaking everywhere. As for foodscams & the morality related, I don't think they will resemble civil war, nor do I think that the polluted Yangtze does either - though we're talking about 400 million people and something indeed needs to be done. I hope the central government is as serious as they say they are, but it's a big leak to plug and, yes, one has to wonder if they're up to it. Anyway, the metaphor of a leaking ship implies an absolute win/lose situation for all on board, and I don't think it's likely to turn out that way any time soon. I doubt if all the leaks will ever be completely plugged, here or anywhere - they never have - but that's no reason to stop trying.
Beijing to manage entirety of Yangtze River Basin
发布者@Peter99: Well, okay, but I have a feeling that this may finally be something more than a 'national ethic campaign'. I'm not sure what you mean by a 'backup plan'.
Beijing to manage entirety of Yangtze River Basin
发布者@Pter99, I understand what you mean about 'campaigns' in China, but I think this one may well be different. I think this is necessary and I don't think it's too late for something to be done. Seems to me it's a good idea, but I hope they carry this out in a manner that involves more than just consulting with local bureaucrats and the heads of local enterprises, who are, largely, part of the problem.
Beijing told Yunnan's cultural heritage "vanishing"
发布者You cannot 'preserve' cultures - however, you can allow authority/power/control over the changes that all cultures inevitably go through to lie in the hands of those who are affected by them, rather than in the hands of some social-engineering outside force, which will have its own agenda (for example: promotion of Chinese nationalism; tourist profits; propaganda; etc.).