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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2 year visa and renting an apartment

I have understood that this arrangement between UK and China is about China matching offering that UK has for Chinese visitors (with up to 10 year visitor visa).

The rules for the equivalent UK visa mention this under "can't do":

"live in the UK for long periods of time through frequent visits"

(source: www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa)

I would assume that China is matching that limitation as well, but I do not have direct information.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2 year visa and renting an apartment

Sorry I can't, since there are so many factors. In your OP you didn't even mention your visa type.

Since you are still only considering the visa, I suggest you carefully study everything you can find.

Either way it is irrelevant to the renting issue. I guess even tourists coming to country for 1 month can rent apartment if they come to agreement with landlord about payments.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2 year visa and renting an apartment

I don't remember landlord or even agency ever checking my visa, or even passport more than to copy the passport number to the papers.

So I'd say it does not make a difference.

But you may need to pay 12 or 6 months upfront regardless of visa.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Experience with medical care in Kunming?

@alienew:

I can comment that when we were staying in maternity hospital waiting for delivery, we could order food to the room by the usual delivery services.

I don't know if this applies for other (especially public) hospitals.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Experience with medical care in Kunming?

@Geezer:

Thanks for the info.

Did you have any kind of internatonal medical insurannce at the time?

I have cover, and am wondering how the payments and reimbursements would go in practise.

The insurance provider lists a few hospitals in Kunming as preferred places to go to, so I have been assuming that the hospital could settle the payments with the insurance company directly.

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In extreme poverty, people will even limit survival to that of their own person.

This has been reported, for example, from DPRK prison camps with family members turning on each other to survive.

In today's China you cannot make this comparison to DPRK, but China's history has left its marks in people's behavior today.

If I interpret Mike correctly, he is referring to general attitude of average Chinese person toward other human beings, nature, and generally everything other than himself and his immediate family.

For long time China was poor country, and it still reflects in many parts of the society. One is, that average Chinese will always put his own survival and benefit first.

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