You shouldn't all the time concentrate on the bad things in China. Here's something new and progressive. The new government are concerned with food wastage. So they have started policing village weddings. Ten at a table usually. Now you are restricted to five cold dishes and five hot dishes; this is new legislation. Very progressive legislation I say. The West could do very well to learn from the Chinese sometimes.

You sound like a Chinese 50 cent fan, but if you really are a westerner...

I severely doubt you've ever attended a real Chinese wedding prior to such new legislation (which you have failed to provide any kind of reference to). Also, do you expect the West to admire the Chinese for a whole 2 months of good work?

I also really doubt that that there's anything that West needs to learn from China in regards to wedding wastage. When I've attended wedding receptions back home, there's always been people taking home boxes of leftover sandwiches, vol au vents, cupcakes etc from the buffet, for the next day's packed lunch or breakfast. However, that would never happen in China as such behaviour would be usually viewed as greedy and ungrateful to the hosts! I remember the first wedding that I attended in China (after only about 2 weeks in the country), I wanted to take a couple of the half full bottles of baijiu, because I didn't want to waste them and they looked pretty expensive, but my friend discouraged me from doing so.

As much as the central government may have honourable intentions in clamping down on wastage, encouraging the use of doggy bags etc, I severely doubt that the cultural mindset of the nation's people will change overnight. Some people are belligerent little f**kers and those that have power and money can and will still bend the rules. I've seen this quite a few times, for example: Do you honestly think that smoking ban in Beijing ever gets fully applied when there's a man with certain connections in the place?

Besides who gives a toss about what happens in the villages, when the main offenders are the urban based people that feel no shame in flaunting their wealth.

I have already indicated in connection with my reports on Qingdao Ocean University that there are ongoing investigations with regard to internal corruption. I had also asked for the same with regard to my own experiences and the fact that foreign experts are expected to pay "rents" for their apartments on university campus because of the high financial debts that this university has. I have read the following article below, and it seems that problems such as this are not a single event but concern Mainland China universities nationwide.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1389737/zhejiang-university-vice-president-arrested-alleged-graft

Well, unfortunately there are no published articles of the area of corruption that I am going to lead you in the general direction of (yet), but it involves just two words:

These naive arseholes are a wonderful way for corrupt university officials to get away with fiddling expenses! Their salary need not to go into the teacher's bank accounts as they are just... volunteers! Therefore, it only natural (in a corrupt kind of environment) that somebody else pockets it, right? Silly volunteers still believe that they are

1.) Saving the world by teaching English.

2.) Helping an impoverished university that can't afford to pay teachers, lol. Teachers that drive big shiny Audis that is, haha.

I guess this might be nothing new and you have probably heard of such abuses of the services of the Peace Corps before, but...