Forums > Travel Yunnan > Local ethnic music I think the usual thing is to ask, and to pay something. I am not sure how much money they will require.
The men in the Naxi village perform on the side of road (no cars in this village), and someone comes around with a tin collecting money.
In the restaurants, I would not expect to pay.
Oh BTW, in Dali XiHu they will drag people a couple of people up on stage to join in. As there are usually only about 10 people in the audience, there is a good chance it will be you.
Forums > Living in Kunming > DJ equipment to buy? If you go to this market www.gokunming.com/[...]
In the rough centre of the undercover part, there is an area with traders that specialise in PA equipment. You will probably find what you need there.
This reply does not belong in the "Wanted" ad section, sorry to disappoint.
Forums > Living in Kunming > New visa/immigration regulations July 1, 2013 From what I can perceive, Beijing asking for criminal check is Beijing Municipality (not BJ as national gov of PRC). If correct, this would be an example of the local discretion mentioned above.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Weights for lifting I have seen free weights and dumbells (not bars) in some branches, not all, of Carrefour. They also had some Kettle bells in Metro last month.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Gas motorbike repair Try this.
Google [kunming map].
When the page comes up click on the map.
When the map comes up, in the search box, type 'motorbike', a range of pink arrows and dots will appear. Hover over the dots and the names come up (in English), some repair shops will be specific to your brand of bike.
Beijing attempts to curtail "excessive" government spending
发布者I bet the guy on the US 100 dollar bill is also spinning in his grave. But for different reasons.
Beijing attempts to curtail "excessive" government spending
发布者As for going after the lower level guys.
The fat cats were milking other fat cats.
It is all the little lower level guys that make life difficult for the guy on the street, and expensive for those on low incomes.
It would be nice to think of an egalitarian round up (tigers as well as flies), but most people are plagues by flies, and are unaffected by tigers.
Beijing attempts to curtail "excessive" government spending
发布者There are a lot of restaurants in our area. It used to be that there was congestion caused by cars parked at the side of the road. This was most nights of the week. Some places had exotic dishes and high prices.
Now the roads are clear except for festivals, and prices even a middle income family can afford.
You can draw your own conclussions.
Photos of flash flooding in Yunnan's capital
发布者Talking of construction. One solution is to build a new town from the ground up the adequate infrastructure. This was done in Dali and oops, Chenggong. Shanghai has also built a number of satellite cities/towns.
The accumulated debris is a problem and not all of it is trash, a lot of it is leaves, twigs, and dust/dirt. Often this can not be effectively dealt with until it accumulate. You can have teams going around clearing culverts and grids, but not every bit of debri that could potentially reach the culvert.
This is a universal problem.
Photos of flash flooding in Yunnan's capital
发布者There is the same problem in Shanghai and Beijing, the drains are not up to coping with the heavy rains, even though they come yearly.
Urban planning is often about sprawl, without the effort to upgrade the old infrastructure. The norm is to jus connect the new drains to the old. The new drains may even have sufficient capacity, but there is a bottle neck as water reaches the old drains. Until there is the political will to dig up and replace the drains in the older parts of the city (costly and very disruptive to local residents, traffic, and business) we will continue to see occastional flooding. It used to the be same in many towns in the west.