I'm still here. Less to comment on. Maybe there is more info over the foreign ran WeChat groups.

You can get something made to order in one of the smaller gold shops just off Nanping road. 14 isn't generally done, 18 is available in all the gold shops here as a rule.

If he meant English native speakers he would have said "speakers" instead he said "foreigners". He wants English friends, god knows why though.

I think he means making friends with English people.

Buy them a round of drinks, offer them a cigarette and then comment about football or the weather to stimulate conversation.

That's it, youre one of their "Chinas"

If you wanted an international school you would just buy the license and start again. If you're buying the school you'd have to settle all the debts for unpaid wages and lost tuition fees, plus whatever else they racked up. In the current climate I think it's far from a safe investment hence why it went bankrupt before someone was willing to take a punt.