It has all been said on here before.
The free market is what has happened. Several things are going on.
For employers the teaching market is not the gold mine it used to be. There is far more competition in the market. The new rich kids are fully catered for and now the middle and lower middle and even working class families are looking for classes. Initially the growth led to a glut of students, now there is a glut of schools competing with each other and fees have gone down.
Also for employers, costs have gone up, including rents. Imagine being located in a fancy mall.
For teachers there is competitive pay. The job will go to the suitable person who is willing to work for lower pay. There are more expats coming to Kunming. Yes there are quality issues with some teaching (pay peanuts, get monkies, de—motivate then and get problems), but many owners of the private schools don't care about that TIC. They will just wrongly complain about inept and expensive teachers.
For the customer parent/student you get the McDonalds effect. All the little diners, some of which produced real quality, have been replaced by burger bars. There is only room in any market for a few centres of excellelence.
Public sector pay has not moved, but that is regulated.
Trend noticed on here. I have seen employers openly advertise crap pay (120) and others have taken this as an anchor/example and others are now also advertising crap pay.
What can we do? Not much as this is market forces. The new visa regulations will cause a blip in the teacher supply thing for the first wave, but actually could even force rates down as some employers will use some borderline legal cases to leverage rates down IMHO.
One thing we can do is hit the employer where it hurts, by wasting their time and money. Actually apply for jobs you are not going to take, send resume (use bogus hotmail address), change name and photo, do the phone interview etc, and when you are offered the job, don't turn up, and send an email later saying 'crap pay mate'. IF WE ALL DID THAT.
Kunming unveils 12-year development plan
发布者travel for business more needed by globalization but less needed in the connected world. travel for mind and spirit does not need to be by air. air travel is feed by and in turn feeds bucket lists. how many cities in the world are being damaged by tourism now? frickin loads mate. how many people are travelling to paris who have not even visited the next province?
What does organic mean in China?
发布者kunming water contains dihydrogen oxide which has been known to kill people.
Work commences on Lijiang-Shangri-la Railroad
发布者i wont assume holy mountain will stop them. last year there was talk of a tunnel under mount everest., big and holy.
Protests challenge Myanmar's Belt and Road participation
发布者its all a conspiracy.
Film Review: The Fall of Womenland
发布者watched it, seems like the problem is chinese obsession with sex that is destroying the culture, not western who is just voyeurs. seemsmaybe like certain ex colony gentlman has a problem with westerners