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Forums > Travel Yunnan > hotels in Yunnan

Is there a wide range of hotels open to booking online? I don't know, have never booked a hotel online, at least not in China .

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Forums > Living in Kunming > We're going to be ranked and categorized.

JanJal has probably got it - mostly an attempt to streamline a complicated system. Whether you like the system is another matter. Good idea to get qualified and certified, as Campo says, makes sense. I take Goldie's point as well - obviously, it is a matter of discrimination in favor of the more highly trained (and also in favor of those with a lot of cash under their supervision), and it is a national policy and a matter of national competition, but I don't think it means any upswing in xenophobia. I don't think it's got much to do with socialism either. I expect discrimination on the basis of nationality will continue, as it's pretty much standard operating procedure within the widely-accepted global regime of competing nations.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > We're going to be ranked and categorized.

Do many governments do something like this? Many certainly discriminate on the basis of nationality. I'm not sure what it will mean that one's categorized qualifications will appear on the resident permit itself, but I don't think it looks good. Apparently Shanghai doesn't care how old you are if you have something to do with managing or directing large amounts of corporate capital. Might this be called socialist(?) class discrimination, with a mercantilist hangover?
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Forums > Living in Kunming > Hump, Obama and a punch

Peter, you are no longer discussing your own subject, which was hump/obama/punch - or, rather, your own subject is always the same: Badshit is gonna happen in China, and foreigners better look out.
Thanks for the warning.

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True about reserved hospitals for ruling classes, tho I'm not sure what percentage of the people we're talking about. The barefoot doctors were certainly not highly qualified, but this was an extremely important beginning for health care in the countryside, where there'd been virtually nothing before. China simply did not have enough highly trained doctors, and they obviously could not have been produced. overnight. The barefoot doctors were a good idea at the time.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.