In response to Re: get out now (Toffee Hammer Pants Jack Hammer)

I can say I've bought two apartments in Hohhot, and supported a Chinese family partly by selling GBP. but that cuts no ice with those gits. What's more, I've seen them dishing out poison to other laowai there in need of new visas/ Residence Permits.
It's worth adding that I met a fellow FT there the other day who told me a local training centre and its associated private university emplpoys louwai on L visas. This is despite the compulsory homeland police check rule that is enforced here on foreign teachers with Z visas requiring Residence Permits.
By the way, when you renew your L visas in your neck of othe woods, do you get 6 months or 1 year? My passport is fast losing its free pages because they won't give me 1 year visas. Paasport renewal in Beijing for a UK biometric passport cost me around 1,200 Yuan last time.
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