My favorite part is when someone sets off a string of the big thumb-sized firecrackers at dawn right below your window and you wake up thinking some kind of cataclysmic natural disaster is happening. I was mentally prepared for this to happen on the first day of Spring Festival, but they caught me off-guard yesterday.
Late winter into early spring is the windy season in Kunming. Humidity is also very low during this time. Both will moderate within a couple of months.
Documentation of income is only needed for wire transfers after you pass certain thresholds. I believe the threshold for the number of transfers is six over the course of a year, but I'm not certain so it would be best to check this with the bank.
To make transfers after the threshold is reached, if you're employed then you need to show the bank three documents: your current employment contract, a certificate of monthly income (收入证明) from your employer, and a tax payment certificate (税收完税证明) from the government tax office.
Paypal is notorious for freezing funds indefinitely if something about a particular account or transaction strikes them (or is flagged by one of their algorithms) as suspicious. Some people have had to file lawsuits or gin up press coverage in order to get their money released. Although the risk is relatively small, don't entrust any funds to them which you can't afford to be without for an extended period.
Wire transfers at Bank of China cost 150 RMB (plus any fee charged by the receiving bank) but are secure & reliable in my experience. You have to go to the main branch at the intersection of Beijing Lu & Renmin Lu.
@Chengdu1: In terms of subjective experience, the air here seems no worse to me than in major Western cities where I have lived. But other folks on here obviously have a more critical take, so you will have to draw your own conclusions.
As far as data covering some span of time, the most recent I have seen is a 2015 China Daily article about a government report which named Kunming as one of eight cities in China that met all national air quality standards over the course of a year: www.chinadaily.com.cn/[...]
In general, there tends to be more pollution in the northern part of the city and less in the south, especially as you get close to the lake.
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Grace is staffed by American doctors and, in my experience, provides the same level of expertise and standard of care that you would expect to find in a good clinic in the U.S. I highly recommend them.
How to: Vote in the upcoming U.S. general elections
Posted byBinface shall prevail
How to: Vote in the upcoming U.S. general elections
Posted by@sean1: The thing is that it's a weak field, so I don't really support anyone in particular enough to sing their praises. But Buttigieg (fake), Biden (senile) and Klobuchar (bully) are all just blatantly awful. I suppose I could live with Sanders, Warren or even Bloomberg, although they each have serious flaws.
As far as Pete's donor stats, yeah, a lot of people seem to have been bamboozled, which is disappointing to see. And I don't think the fact that he's the poorest candidate gives any reassurance that he won't cater to the interests that have ravaged the country over the past generation. Maybe the opposite.
Also, while I am not a huge fan of Sanders and therefore am reluctant to carry water for him, I don't think the UK results necessarily translate to the US. Corbyn was abysmally unpopular, due in large part to his humorlessness, links to violent extremists and allowing anti-Semitism to fester within his party. Sanders has none of those faults and polls as the most popular active political figure in the US. Plus Labour's traditional electorate was fractured by the all-important Brexit issue, and there is no comparably powerful wedge issue at stake in the US.
How to: Vote in the upcoming U.S. general elections
Posted byButtigieg is just so transparently fake, it amazes me how many people are taken in by his faux-sincere schtick. Although I can see how Patrick Bateman might approve: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gc_bMkbOOs
As 'New China' turns 70, a look back at National Days past in Kunming
Posted by@viyida wrote: "MAD (mutual assured destruction) leverage"
An oxymoron. MAD is bi-directional, hence the "mutual". Both sides have reduced leverage over each other under MAD, because threats to use conventional force have low credibility in light of the extreme risks involved.
Work commences on Lijiang-Shangri-la Railroad
Posted bycloudtraprezer wrote: "宣传部宣"
Turn that smile upside down, sezuwupom. Expressing positive sentiments about fast, comfortable, affordable and environmentally-sustainable new rail connections is not allowed by the comments police. Anyone who is not sufficiently glum will be ridiculed.