Most of the language schools are in the 120/hr range. This is for English teaching.
English teachers at university are usually under 5K, but it is about 16 hours per week and you get flights home accommodation, usually an apartment.
Subject teachers (usually math), also affected by the number of hours. In the state high schools, it was about 13k, but the hours are around 16hr/wk.
Private sector high schools, the pay varies a lot, and is usually affected by hours. This usually starts at about 150K per hour, with paid holidays, up to 20k per month + overtime pay, but no paid holidays.
12 years ago I was getting 18k/m in Shanghai for a 16 hour teaching week. The most I have earned in Kunming was with a bridge school, it was a full 40 hr contract (with office hours), 20k + accommodation allowance. No flights, no paid holidays.
Not an excuse, but a reality check. Morality and acceptable behavior are flexible. We are all a product of our culture. Cultures change, over time or suddenly with black swan moments. What was acceptable in the past, may not be acceptable today and vice versa. What is acceptable in place A may not be acceptable in place B, and vice versa.
I remember a big discussion about this when the regs were tweaked last year, or the year before.
All of the documents required, and the newest process were discussed at length. It would be worth doing a search on this site.
The search facility on here is not great, but someone suggested doing a normal search from your browser using the search words 'GoKunming' before your search parameters.
e.g. Gokunming work visa
That advice worked for me many times.
Yes, we are all animals. We are born, we eat, defecate, recreate, and procreate, and then we die.
Some even pontificate about human constructs, like morality, and religion, and gender politics. These are largely a product of our environment (where we were born, family we are born into, social status, etc.). I am a Christian, because I was born in a Christian country, some Christians would argue I am not a 'real' Christian, others would argue I am a heretic.
If I was born in a different part of the world my religion and values would be different. We all have our varying degrees of prejudice, and ability to be a bigot.
However, we all (but a tiny few) share one thing in common, male or female, the innate natural desire for intimacy and sex.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.
Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.
In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.
They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.
They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.
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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.