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Google maps works in China without VPN as long as you use the CN version (In English) in a brouwser:
www.google.cn/maps/@25.0251195,102.7620247,11z
This will give you Kunming but you can go anywhere you like. The app does not work here but the Apple Maps app does.
You can use as well QQ.map:
map.qq.com/[...]
(This will give you Salvadors coffee shop but again you can go anywhere and this gives you the QQ version of Streetview)
For an offline version you can use:
www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/25.0134/102.7441
For the real freaks there is ofcourse Google Earth. Works both on line, and if you preload offline both on the net and as an app. (Streetview however does not work in China nor can you view pictures)
Property conglomerate Hang Lung opens Spring City 66, Kunming's tallest building
Posted by@dolphin
If you had done your homework you could have learned that Matt left some years ago.
His contributions to this forum where always knowledgeable and to the point. Many based on his extensive travelling around Yunnan by bike and public transport. (Strangely we never met at that time because I travelled a lot through Yunnan as well at the time).
Also I don't know him personally; I really doubt that he is a fan of P99. Matt is a scientist and thus will have little time for Alex Jones & David Wozney.
I don't know about his personal finances but he probably had little money to transfer out of China when he left since he spend it all on bus tickets ;-)
Property conglomerate Hang Lung opens Spring City 66, Kunming's tallest building
Posted byWell if you have been outside Kunming in recent years then you know they build new schools everywhere, many with dormitories.
Problem is not the physical infrastructure but the lack of staff to work in these places.
Property conglomerate Hang Lung opens Spring City 66, Kunming's tallest building
Posted byThe Kunming local government indeed sold off prime locations in the Kunming city centre. This money was used to build new facilities in Chenggong the planned new centre of town.
The property developers where quite willing to buy these old locations because they realised that he shopping public would not go to Chenggong. What changed however is that China does not shop any longer in shopping centres but shops online.
The result of this is a surplus of shopping centres that are only partly finished or never completed (Of which there are several in my neighbourhood). Even in those that are finished sometimes the facilities like elevators and moving stairs, don't work anymore, probably because there is not enough money to pay for them.
Spring city 66 might turn out to be different because it is an office complex as well and at a junction of metro lines.
Snapshot: Kunming's first ever PechaKucha Night
Posted bySpooky? Maybe, but then only for those who didn't read the first article on this topic.......................
Railways and rice noodles: The historical importance of Mengzi
Posted by@Ocean
OK I know that horse and wagon are not the fastest mode of transport, but going to town and returning a decade later is exaggeration ;-)
Or you had a very good time in town and hated the teachers college.