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#21
10-10-2007, 06:25 AM
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Re: Ask me about China - a Chinese-born Foreigner\'s Impression
Hey OP a few more questions!
Do you know if there are any poker games in China? Did you play in any? How much power do provincial or municipal government authorities have compared with central government? What are the living standards for urban poor (bottom 30-40% of urban households)? Do they have white goods (fridge, TV, microwave) How much did the pork scarcity affect people? Is price inflation for staples a serious concern? How many people know about the stock market? What's the opinion on capital controls liberalization (dudes being able to buy HK shares through Tianjin?) Thanks! 
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#23
10-10-2007, 07:21 AM
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Re: Ask me about China - a Chinese-born Foreigner\'s Impression
I have eaten dog in China on numerous times, I find it very nice, if anyone has any questions about some other stuff like playing poker, living or studying there I can answer but just pm me.
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#24
10-10-2007, 07:30 AM
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Re: Ask me about China - a Chinese-born Foreigner\'s Impression
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wtf is sick about eating dogs? when compared to smarter animals like pigs. [/ QUOTE ] The problem is that we selectively bred dogs for looking cute/being loyal/being useful in some way (hunting, searching for truffles etc). We selectively bred pigs for better tasting/more meat. Therefore, we have a creature that we can relate to better vs. one we cannot, so we naturally don't want people eating dogs. I don't have a problem with it on an intellectual level, but it's bad on an emotional level and that's what ultimately tells us what to do.
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#25
10-10-2007, 09:25 AM
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Re: Ask me about China - a Chinese-born Foreigner\'s Impression
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Hey OP a few more questions! Do you know if there are any poker games in China? Did you play in any? How much power do provincial or municipal government authorities have compared with central government? What are the living standards for urban poor (bottom 30-40% of urban households)? Do they have white goods (fridge, TV, microwave) How much did the pork scarcity affect people? Is price inflation for staples a serious concern? How many people know about the stock market? What's the opinion on capital controls liberalization (dudes being able to buy HK shares through Tianjin?) Thanks! [/ QUOTE ] 1. I wish, sigh. 2. Beijing issues the policy directive, but often municipal branch just ignores those edicts. Corruption and cronyism is a huge problem despite high profile cases of guilty guys being executed. It is impossible for Beijing to track the thousands of branches of local government without public whistleblowing from neighbouring provinces, and there often just ins't the incentive for neighbouring province leaders to do so. 3. yes, but think 2nd hand 15" TVs and small delapidated fridges. There are households without whitegoods. You don't get the feeling that everyone is out to hustle everyone else though, people truck along just fine. 4. poorer households don't really have meat in any great volume anyway. Seafoods is ridiculous cheap. Live prawns are like US$1.5/pound. As a % of income, raw staple prices aren't that big a deal. 5. everyone knows about the stock market, and want to be in it. It doesn't really follow the rules, the market rose sharply after the last 2 interest rate hikes. Everyone wants in.
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#26
10-10-2007, 11:03 AM
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Re: Ask me about China - a Chinese-born Foreigner\'s Impression
can you own land?
can you own a condo?
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#27
10-10-2007, 11:59 AM
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[ QUOTE ] How bad is the pollution in China in the areas you visited? What places did you stay in, were they hotels or whatever? What was the pricing like for your lodgings? Could you give us a general indication of prices for common staples? What language did you speak whilst you were there? What television channels did you see most people watching (apart from CCTV)? [/ QUOTE ] 1. I been to Shanghai, HK, Guangdong, Xiamen, Fuzhou. I'll disregard the tourist-Mountains. The air up there are fine. From best to worst is probably Xiamen, Fuzhou, HK, Guangdong and then Shanghai. I swear I need a breathing mask just to walk around in Shanghai. There simply cannot be cars for every household in a nation with hundreds of millions of the middle-class. There is no enforcement on basically any level of world-class legislative enviromental schemes either. [/ QUOTE ] Here is an example of a 'sunny day' in Shanghai from my last visit...  Looking straight up, you could see blue sky [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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10-11-2007, 05:17 AM
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[ QUOTE ] can you own land? can you own a condo? [/ QUOTE ] yes yes Bytor, Shanghai sux. [/ QUOTE ] wow, really? i am surprised about being able to own land.
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