do you have itinerary with hotel bookings? if so no letter needed. if not then you kinda need a sponsor/local chinese person to be responsible for you when here. dont think they really want backpackers here anymore. shame to say. maybe package tours but who wants to go on one of those. lots of other more welcoming places in asia.
say 12... common age for winkie cropping in islam too
points to note. chinese are bad tippers, generally, if they do tip well it can be conspicous, but even if not will be new rich middle class. until recent tipping in china was illegal and the tipping culture hasn't really developed yet. budget coach packages especially stingy. these are people looking to pay the least, and they in turn are being cheated sby the tour company at every corner, and you are the face of the company. as for discarding people, no surprises in china, unless you are family or you are of some other value, you are just a thing to be used. cold hard reality here.
there is a bigger issue, the society you were born into. easy as outsiders to judge others as primitive, savage, etc. hey it could be worse you could be an infidel. parental responsibility also includes yuor child being accepted in the society theyu were born into. many are circucised at a coming of age ceremony, everyone in the community would know if they didnt get done. in cultures with extended family vertically and horizontally have a wide network. how can i recommend a relative as a husband to my network if i know he is considered unclean, even if i dont have a problem with him not being done. even if he gets married his wife will know on the wedding night and the marriage would probably be annulled. so now the child is condemend to grow up under a cloud and not be able to participate in cultural and reeligious life of his family and community. this would be a lifetime of pain.
come on rainfly, even the government workers had to be forced to go to chenggong. no prizes for guessing who you work for as a cheerleader
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Nobel laureate Mo Yan's Yunnan connection
发布者Didn't look like a jest.
Sounds like someone else is rewriting the past.
Chinese college freshmen increasingly unfit
发布者I agree that it is not the fault of the university. The university is just where these out of shape kids end up.
There is a cultural issue and the parents are part of the problem. Most parents would let their kids study longer and sleep less, which is why laws were introduced to limit school hours.
The only way to effect uniform change is for sport to be mandatory in schools. If all kids spend a few hours less in the classroom there is still equity of learning hours in all schools. Some of the heat of GaoKao will be off, not increased.
The levels of fitness will vary, as kids from the countryside often do help on the farm, especially at harvest. Harvest is just before kids go off to university. However, the kids from the countryside are less likely to have had access to an education that will set them up for entry to China's elite universities in Beijing or Shanghai.
The study harder, get better grades, get to a better school, get better grades IS a virtuous circle. But only if you look at grades and forget the whole person. These kids may be top academically but may be physically, and emotionally damaged. This also impacts in their future families and this will affect society.
Yunnan Shanquan to raise prices 50 percent
发布者50% margin sounds like a lot, but actually it isn't for this type of industry. The margins on some of things you buy can be as high as 300%.
We think of low margins when we look at mass selling, dry grocery in the supermarkets for example. Unless a product is ONLY available in the supermarket, and supermarkets only compete with each other, we don't see low margins. A lot of products in the supermarkets (e.g. chips and soda) have margins of 30% plus).
Yunnan Shanquan to raise prices 50 percent
发布者It is only a matter of time before others follow.
To be honest, I was amazed that they could do it for 10rmb.
Green Lake to get wetter, brighter, noisier
发布者If the picture in the article is recent, it also shows another design problem with Chinese fountains.
All the pipework and lights are usually above the water. This is easier for maintenance, but in the 99% of the time when the fountain is not operating, it is an eyesore. Putting the pipes, etc. below the water is done in most other countries, that way people can enjoy the ambience of the lakes waters most of the time.