If you contacted recently then OK, wait for a bit. If you contacted a while ago, then I would suggest that there is either a problem with your CV, your status, or some other issue you have as yet not mentioned to us.

There have been loads of job ads in the last few weeks. Try going back a and applying for all suitable jobs advertised in the last month.

I tried using my China Merchants Bank union pay card in Thailand 2 years ago. No way.
Construction bank may not charge ATM fees, but the probably mop this up in the exchange rate. Be careful there is often a double exchange rate as RMB is not a tradable currency. In most cases money you draw outside China will first be converted to USDollars, and then USDollars to RMB. Remember that yo won't get the prices quoted on finance pages either. There are buying and selling rates.

Thanks everyone for comments and advice.

I fully understand the desire and need for Chinese lessons at the early stages.

Language exchange is OK for listening and speaking, but not for reading or writing. I also think you need to have reached/completed beginner level before you can really tackle a language exchange. Otherwise one person may be sending a message and the other person is receiving unintelligible noise.

Most language exchangers are students, and so they can empathise with learners. However, they are not teachers. They have little concept of the standard vocab. and grammar learned and practised at each level, this vocab. and gram. is pretty much prescribed by Beijing and common to most books.
My Chinese wife gave up trying to teach me. She has a large vocab. that she uses. If I said something incorrectly, or did not use exact vocab., she would try to give the equivalent of an advanced lesson. The result was that I just became confused and demoralised.
A language exchanger may not be someone who over corrects, like my wife. They may be someone who does not correct at all, and merely nods when you have given a garbled message, to avoid face issues.

One might also want to learn Putonghua and not Kunminghua, and if you have a view to formal study you may not wish to learn something you will need to unlearn later.

OK I have torrents now. But not at 4am earlier.

As this is my first time back inside the GFW, I was just wondering.