Forums > Living in Kunming > Apartment painters The decorator could charge anything up to 50rmb.sqm. If you have 100sqm of wall, he will try and bill you for 150m and add the ceiling and floor if he can. He will also charge you 10 rmb, for each 1rmb paint brush he uses. He will buy the 100rmb/tin toxic local paint, and charge you 500/tin. He won't use any primer.
There is painter's/masking tape on the market, but he won't use it unless you stand over the guy.
What he will do at no extra cost is paint the edges of your carpet, shower fittings, doors and the edges of your ceiling.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Apartment painters The Nippon and Dulux are manufactured in China, but have full QC, and so no nasty surprises. The formulas are the same as back home. Probably the Colours range is the same.
You can get paint that has been imported (not manf. in china).The imported product is about 1000+ per 5 lt.
They mix the colors same as back home, add tints to a base.
The Nippon and Dulux do a 5 in 1 paint. Washable, and mold resistant. The household paint tins are bilingual.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Car insurance One good thing about the insurance in China. It is the car that is insured, for any legal driver.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Vehicle recommendations? Build quality is usually thinner steel for local badges.
Different/local engines a lot of the time.
Lower interior spec sometimes, this includes airbags numbers.
Diesels can be a problem, as there are often diesel fuel shortages in China.
Look at some of the Zhengzhou Nissan.
Some early x-trails could be in your budget. Smaller engine than the US or EU x-trails.
Paladins can be picked up cheapish. The Chinese one has a crap gearbox but is still a 4x4.
Hyundai Terracan are very good off road.
There is also a Hyundai/JAC van that is sort of MPV. These are about a 9 seater. Rip the seats out to sleep in. These are used a lot by tour guides. The base JAC version used to be under 100k new.
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Forums > Study > Statement from KCEL about the tuition As long as there are enough people willing to sign contracts at the old rate/or lower, then wages will not increase. There is an economics term for this.
Consider it a market force.
Up to 1,000 Dali businesses to close in face of new policy
发布者I see on CGTN that the government has just released its 3rd wave of environmental inspectors across the nation, to evaluate local government performance. It looks like they are getting serious this time.
Four years after murder conviction, Yunnan man walks free
发布者Also a good example of why due process, and public defenders are needed. This includes the defense having access to forensic evidence.
This guy was lucky.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者@ Peter, people have been jailed for handling stolen rental bikes, there was a news story on local TV a couple of weeks back, and I think people were jailed in 3 separate cases. I think in two cases it was 15 days, I think the cops are targeting this, as the whole bike thing is a government initiative.
There are also grass roots volunteer groups liberating stolen bikes, and reporting stolen bikes. I think people trying would get reported, unusual for china as that is.
These bikes are probably too highly visible and recognizable to just chuck on the back of a sanlun che, and ride them through a scrap metal dealer's gates.
Up to 1,000 Dali businesses to close in face of new policy
发布者I visited Dali, 2-3 years ago, and cycling around the lake I could not believe that they had built hotels/guest houses along the shore side.
One also needs to think about the run off from the construction sites, going into the lake, with local small building firms doing the jobs.
I am glad that they finally jumped on this.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者A few years ago, someone told me that several thousand Chinese business men, on business trips, just disappear every year. I am sure that shipments of goods disappear at an even more alarming rate. I wonder how many truck drivers are hijacked heading south and west, once they leave China. Probably a very big business opportunity for a logistics security service provider, with experience of this kind of work; which FSG seems to have.