In response to Re China's going mad (expat hubby)

Local authorities see your trolling term "backpackers" as a threat to national security.

If you choose not to stay at a Chinese foreigner-approved hotel, but at a Chinese friend's home in an area that is not covered by your residence permit,you are obliged to register with the local police within 24 hours. If you don't do so, and you are found out, you'll be fined.

Hard to imagine that a country which has opened its borders and joined the international community (UN, WTO, ASEAN etc.) may have designated hotels for foreign guests and/or may have hotels that refuse to check in people with non-Chinese passports. Anyhow, my Residence Permit is NOT for one specific location but the whole nation. However the visa sticky states where it's been issued, it does NOT suggest that I should stay in one place. Get it through your thick skull that this is about hassling outsiders who pose an imminent danger to local communities and that this is about controlling locals who know little about the world except of what they are told at home.

Incidentally, being a backpacker doesn't preclude you from being a professional teacher. Nor does your being a weekend tripper.

So, professionals and/or business people, who have their valid permits to the nation, have to stay put in order not to spread their culture or compete with local businesses. One breed that can sow the seeds of development at home and abroad is not supposed to allow other breeds to do the same. Does this sound like a true globalization?

Conclusively, our governments should look at the Chinese who roam our nations, so that our national security and perhaps identity are intact. To globalize we must follow the trend.