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Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming feedback...

What might be useful in some situations, is that if the OP would have option to delete messages.

To keep them from applying full censorship, they could be only allowed to delete posts that get sufficient down-votes.

That could help to self-moderate threads that could serve further public service purpose, but may otherwise get lost in meaningless spam.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Naming your child

@Nicepal earlier gave exact description of the complication we have with our sons name. He too is "Chakou" instead of "Jack".

But the Pinyin version of the Chinese name (so far) has only appeared on our sons Chinese passport (because passport should be readable in other countries as well), in every "China-only" document it has been his Mandarin spelling.

For his foreign passport (if we get it), we (or himself) can go through the formalities of changing the name to "Jack", after getting initial passport with "Chakou".

Other countries may have different regulations governing the name that should appear on passport.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Proposed IIT Reform

China has two modes of "permanent" residence.

One is the "green card" type which in theory gives you same rights as natives, for example being employed without work permit requirements.

The other is "tax residency", which means that China has right to tax your global income, but this does not necessarily give yourself any benefits same way Chinese "green card" does.

We were originally only talking about the IIT reform's implications to the "tax residency". For which there are still many unknowns.

But my personal opinion is, that if it becomes so much easier to become "tax resident" in China (or so much more difficult to escape it), then China should also much further loosen the requirement for its "green card".

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Proposed IIT Reform

There is no indication so far about it being tied to permanent residence.

But at least my common sense says, that if China wants to tax your global income, then the least it should do is to grant you all (however limited) opportunities that China provides to its own citizens.

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CoVid experiences possibly affecting this could could of course come from many perspectives.

For example, those who are or have been in urban lock-down, may appreciate the prospect of going out once it is over - opportunities which are perhaps different in Kunming/Yunnan, than somewhere else.

If the survey took place during or after lock-downs in China, people will acknowledge this and it would show in results more strongly than perhaps otherwise. Appreciating what the city or region can offer beside 12h work days and big bucks.

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"Survey of Economic Life in China"

If this "economic" is to be taken as in affordability, then at least for me it is a major point.

If I speculate this from local perspective, last I checked the local average salary was below the monthly automatic 5000 RMB tax deduction, so average Kunming resident gets by without paying any income tax - in many other country I would probably feel satisfied if I see the city and society develop even without having to contribute to it myself by other means than my own consumption.

There isn't that much industry here, but the benefits of developing society keep trickling in anyway, and this curve (or imbalance or whatever you'd call it) will ultimately show in this kind of surveys, positively.

It is perhaps same in some more remote places, where some farmers can make a small fortune with modern technology to help them.

Also curious about when this survey was conducted - would CoVid experiences weigh in it, and how?

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"Dogs raised outside the key management areas may not be brought in."

Curious how this regulation deals with people (foreigners or Chinese) who may want to move in Kunming and bring their pet dogs with...?

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I'm curious whether the separate website for Lijiang means less Lijiang-specific content appearing on GoKunming. For me personally it would be double to effort to navigate two websites, which may be why I will not frequent on the Lijiang site.

So basically will the information on the two sites be mirrored so that those who only read GoKunming, may catch all/most of the content about Lijiang as well?

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