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Forums > Living in Kunming > New Schengen visa center to open in Kunming

As the service is outsourced to this VFS Global company, it probably depends on which countries have a deal with this specific service provider.

I recommend to go to their website http://www.vfsglobal.com/

and then in the left-side menu (below language selection) choose the country you want to go, and look for China as country of residence. If China does not appear on the list, I guess it means there is no service by VFS Global.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > New Schengen visa center to open in Kunming

The Joint Visa Application Centre is in Beichen, on way from Beijing Lu to Metro, in that VC mall & house complex.

Address:
1502A, Building 5, Xindulongcheng, No. 1079 Beijing Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China

It is operated by VFS Global and their function is to accept visa applications that are then sent to actual consulates for processing.

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Would be logical to assume that it's those people who have lived in Kunming for at least two generations, and have owned houses which have been demolished to make way for new developments.

It would therefore not include people who still live in old houses, or recent arrivals.

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"support the website by making an account, asking questions in the forum, leaving reviews and using the classifieds section to find a job, sell your stuff or rent an apartment."

This (or rather what is not included in that list of to-dos) sums the criticism that I personally have toward the whole ordeal, and how GoKunming (out of no choice I understand) had to respond to it with rest of the nation.
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Ask questions and increase revenue, but feel free to avoid discussing and, heaven forbid, debating anything.

Not sure if this applies to Italy visas, but for many other European countries:

The Joint Visa Application Center that used to be in Beichen, is now relocated to an office building at intersection of .Shibo Road and Bojin Avenue.

New address:
1501D, Building A, Low Carbon Business Center, No. 12 Shibo Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province 650000 China

www.vfsglobal.cn/finland/china/contact_us.html#14

I'm not a big fan of croissants anyway, and donuts I have not found in either of the establishments you mentioned.

@Dolphin: "savouring the croissant helps to cultivate appreciation. ie appreciating simple things rather than always feeling discontent that you don't have enough"

Perhaps, but it equally helps to cultivate ignorance of all the labor that has been put into creating that experience for you. At least I would allow you to feel discontent on behalf all the people who don't have enough, whether they had part in creating the croissant or not.

I't shouldn't anymore be about what you have or don't have, but what the other 7.7 billion (minus 1) people have or don't have. That's where the musings of Buddha (as quoted above) go wrong in this day and age.

There perhaps was a time, when embracing reality same way you would savour the croissant, could have been beneficial to achieving an enlightened state of mind.

But today, many would call such view on life quite the opposite of enlightened - it could be called ignorance or covering your eyes from all that is wrong. Perhaps that's suitable in Chinese context.

There, I connected the croissant to politics.

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