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Forums > Living in Kunming > Get a Health Certificate in Kunming

Your employer should be able to help you.
There is a specific clinic that used to be near the old airport. Your employer should be able to find the address, or search on here as it may have been discussed before.

You need an appointment and take 4 photos. You may need a Chinese speaker with you, unless you have done one of these before and know how they work.
You basically do a cycle of doctors/nurses offices. You pea in a cup, give blood, have an xray (sometimes), have ultrasound, eye test, check weight and height. Fill out some forms.

It takes under an hour, and costs about 400rmb. You will be expected to pay for this (not your employer) as the certificate is your property.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Missed Nobel Prize Winner

@AlexKMG

One thing that can happen, is that an otherwise contributory thread is hijacked while you are away. When you return the thread has gone

I agree with you about thread deletion, unless absolutely necessary it can be annoying and penalises those who would otherwise benefit. It is better to deleted offending posts if you can, but then often what happens is the tread is broken and no longer makes sense.

Tidying up threads is a lot of work. To be fair to the GoK guys, I assume that they give of their time freely, and it is sometimes a thankless task. Add to that some people then come in and pea on their efforts.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Cheesecloth?

The Chinese don't seem to be big on natural cheeses ;-)

But joking apart, what do you want it for? It might help people identify a suitable material.

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As for going after the lower level guys.
The fat cats were milking other fat cats.
It is all the little lower level guys that make life difficult for the guy on the street, and expensive for those on low incomes.
It would be nice to think of an egalitarian round up (tigers as well as flies), but most people are plagues by flies, and are unaffected by tigers.

There are a lot of restaurants in our area. It used to be that there was congestion caused by cars parked at the side of the road. This was most nights of the week. Some places had exotic dishes and high prices.
Now the roads are clear except for festivals, and prices even a middle income family can afford.
You can draw your own conclussions.

Talking of construction. One solution is to build a new town from the ground up the adequate infrastructure. This was done in Dali and oops, Chenggong. Shanghai has also built a number of satellite cities/towns.

The accumulated debris is a problem and not all of it is trash, a lot of it is leaves, twigs, and dust/dirt. Often this can not be effectively dealt with until it accumulate. You can have teams going around clearing culverts and grids, but not every bit of debri that could potentially reach the culvert.
This is a universal problem.

There is the same problem in Shanghai and Beijing, the drains are not up to coping with the heavy rains, even though they come yearly.

Urban planning is often about sprawl, without the effort to upgrade the old infrastructure. The norm is to jus connect the new drains to the old. The new drains may even have sufficient capacity, but there is a bottle neck as water reaches the old drains. Until there is the political will to dig up and replace the drains in the older parts of the city (costly and very disruptive to local residents, traffic, and business) we will continue to see occastional flooding. It used to the be same in many towns in the west.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.