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I’ve had a negative experience with them before, are there any others?
Huaxi Gold Card Hospital aka International Hospital. They have english speaking doctors both GP and Specialists. GP is 50RMB/visit, and specialist is 300RMB/visit. Tests and medicine are billed at the standard rate. It is opposite the HuaXi outpatient building (华西门诊） on the HuaXi hospital campus. You will receive the gold card membership for free but will need to show your passport. Chinese nationals need to pay a very expensive yearly membership fee.
My employer is suppose to register on http://fwp.safea.gov.cn or something and then upload my informations and documentations, or something like that.
The employer needs to first upload their own information. They then wait for approval on if they can hire foreigners or not. If they get approval then they upload your information. If they get approval to hire you then they take all relevant documents to the SAFEA office to be reviewed in person and make the physical application.
To be honest, the visa/work permit situation is changing so quickly these days, the only people who really know are the PSB/SAFEA. So check everything with them directly.
It is not as easy as just finding an employer that wants to hire you. That employer needs a permit to hire foreigners. You will need to speak to them. This is just the first of many hoops that both you and your future employer will need to jump through….
It is quite a difficult procedure these days which will take months and require lots of paper work from criminal background checks to degree/qualification verification, and depending on where you are from will either require you to leave and go to HK or return to your home country.
China Telecom can remotely configure the supplied modem/router. Just tell them that you want to use your own. They will reconfigure it FOC to bridge mode – or at least they did a few years back when I asked.
Is Sabrina’s still open? I passed by there not long ago and noticed that the space appeared to have been renovated and was no longer Sabrina’s.
There is one in Tongzilin/Zijing – just down the road from Red Beard Burgers at 紫竹广场
In all seriousness though, all I meant was that it seems we have different motives by posting in this forum and I wonder if I came to the right place.
It’s a good idea to read a forum before posting to make sure that it is the right place.
I don’t believe it is fair that you should let your own bad experiences negatively impact on others. I ate pizza last week – the taste was awful, so too was the service, but I won’t start generalising about all Italian restaurants because of it.
Pizza doesn’t cost tens of thousands of $$$. I think LivinginChengdu’s comment (link) was merely a warning to be careful. My comment would be more like saying all the pizza that I have had so far in Chengdu was awful – which is nonesense because Mike’s pizza is awesome!
Not too sure if ‘Ben’ and ‘LivinginChengdu’ are the same person
I’ll take that as a compliment, LivinginChengdu is a far cleverer man than I.
Clearly I made an error of judgement with the target audience of this forum.
Did you attend the United Airlines school of public relations. This is an extreme reaction to someone simply posting a link on a public form.
The link is old, but from my personal experience with financial advisers in China, it is accurate. The deVere Group may be totally different, but your attitude certainly doesn’t portray it.
I work for the world’s leading IFA
Pardon my ignorance, but who is that exactly?
Just applied for a Certificate of Entitlement for my 3-year-old son to visit the UK for the first time. He is a Chinese passport holder and is registered on my wife’s family Hukou. Does anyone have experience of doing this? Will the Chinese allow him to travel with this in his passport? Could you put me in contact with your friend ?
Since writing that post I successfully applied for a Certificate of Entitlement to Right of Abode for my son. He has already travelled back to the UK on it twice. So, yes, your son will be allowed to leave the country and enter the UK without issue.
Check out SocketPro, it is really fast. Run by a local guy, too.
Amazing – that site is legally hosted in China – it has an ICP number. Is this a government approved proxy service?! 😉
This is a bit of a random post.
I’ve done this quite a few times and have never had to provide no. 2 or 3.
You are sure China wouldn’t accept seeing the UK passport as your ‘visa’/whatever to make them understand that you are allowed to go to the UK? It’s so sad when countries are so strict.
It’s not just the fact you are allowed to go to the UK. They want to check that you were in China legally and didn’t overstay your visa etc. If you have no visa and entrance stamp in the UK passport then they will question your status during your stay and demand to know how/why you are in the country. If you then produce your Chinese passport, they will require you to show a valid visa for the UK. Since China does not recognise dual nationality. In the eyes of China, a foreign Passport held by a Chinese citizen is invalid.
http://thetyee.ca/News/2016/06/30/China-Refusing-to-Recognize-Canadian-Citizenship-of-Travellers/
I know people who have gone through HK – entered HK on a Chinese ID, and left on a British passport. It’s inconvenient to say the least, especially if you mainly just want to travel back to the UK. Chengdu has a direct flight to London.
Schengen visas are free for family of EU citizens, and the process times are fast. So not a big deal.
The whole Chinese/British passport thing isn’t something that bothers me. I’m happy for my son just to have a certificate of entitlement to right of abode for now.
I said above to the UK, for that you do HAVE it, no action required, it is immediate at birth, but still, if you don’t know that, yes you may be messing about with visas and rights of abode and papers for a long time if you don’t know that you can get the UK passport for travel back there. Different countries different rules, but here the father is from the UK.
A certificate of entitlement to the right of abode is given to UK citizens who for whatever reason can not hold a UK passport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_abode
“Generally, in order to have the right of abode in a certain country, a person must be a citizen”
In this case, the original posters daughter was born in China to a Chinese parent which also makes her a Chinese citizen living in China.
If she were to obtain a UK passport, she would not be able to leave the country on it as it would not contain a visa or entry stamp for China. She could leave China on her Chinese passport but she would need a UK visa in it to do so. The UK authorities will not issue a visa to a UK passport holder. This means she can not legally obtain a visa in her Chinese passport. She could lie about holding a UK passport on the UK visa application form, but this would be a criminal offence. The best option in this situation is not to apply for a British Passport, but to apply for a certificate of entitlement to the right of abode in the Chinese passport.
Basically, yes she is a UK citizen and that is what the certificate to right of abode proves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_abode_(United_Kingdom)
Update on New Born Maternity Hospital near Swufe.
My son was born at this hospital a couple of years ago. We had a similar experience to you. We were initially worried as my son was breech and so my wife had to have a c-section. However everything went fine and my son was born without incident.
One thing we liked about this hospital is that they promote natural birth and breastfeeding. My wife received a lot of support on how to breast feed and what to expect.
I found the constant interruptions post birth quite reassuring. Neither I nor my wife had any experience with babies before my son. Having someone pop in to check on us and teach about changing nappies, take the babies temperature, give tips on breastfeeding, etc. helped us relax.
What resolution and bitrate are the streams?
Time differences make these services pretty useless. I don’t particularly want to watch British daytime television in the evening!
Other than rooting the phone or leaving China is there any other way around this?
The simplest way is to use a phone with a VPN and a mobile data connection. Set the phone up as a mobile hotspot then dial the VPN. Connect your new Galaxy s7 Edge to the hotspot then follow the normal setup procedure.
You can do the same thing with a computer and a VPN. You just need to share it’s internet connection by configuring it as a gateway or proxy. You should be able to find some guides on how to achieve this. It isn’t difficult.
If you have no luck with the above 2 methods then let me know.
What colour did you end up with?
From you above message did it sounds like you bought an S7 Edge? If so how have you found it and did you buy through Taobao?
It is easily the best phone I have owned. The software and hardware are solid. My only complaint is the glass back which attracts fingerprints and grease. I ended up putting a thin Ringke slim case on it.
I bought on taobao from a seller who had already sold a few hundred other SGS 7 Edges. If you do buy from Taobao then go for the popular shops that have hundreds of thousands of phone sales. If there is an issue then send the phone back immediately. I bought an LG G3 a few years back and they sent me the wrong model, Korean instead of HK. I had no trouble returning it, but had to wait a few weeks for stock of the HK model.
Another tip is to request a receipt for the phone from an authorised Samsung reseller. I paid a little bit extra for this. Samsung will not honour the warranty in mainland China without it.
My wife mentioned that a foreigner at her company was fined 500RMB for not registering at the police station within 24hrs of re-entering the country. I thought it was strange as I have never heard of this happening in Chengdu before. It now makes sense if they are cracking down on these kind of things for the next few months.
For comparison, http://longhushiji.fang.com/chuzu/list/g22-h322/
Hmm interesting. My Nexus 7 tablet does have 4G capability, but I don’t normally keep a sim in there. So if the device can’t reach Google on wifi, then switches to cellular and still can’t reach Google… it will continue to use cellular data? Well that’s a major flaw then.
I think it is an important feature. There have been a few times when I have been connected to a broken wifi network with no internet and not realised, or connected to a network with a captive portal that requires a login before an internet connection is established. This means that you don’t loose connectivity in those instances.
I’m not sure if it is turned off by default in Android source or if manufacturers turn it off or change the servers used on their own ROMs.
I’m probably like most Western users, too invested in the Google ecosystem to find this solution convenient. ugh do I need to buy an iPhone?
I bought an iPhone for my wife recently, and briefly considered buying one myself. That was before I saw the s7 edge. I don’t have any issues connecting to google services from home or work which is where I am 90% of the time. When I am out and about, I often just dial a VPN and leave it connected.
How do you determine who is a reputable Taobao seller? I am wary of everything on Taobao with all of the fake reviews and whatnot.
Good question. I guess the same way other people do, by looking for a seller with a large amount of mixed reviews. If I can’t find a few negative reviews of a product then that is definitely a red flag. I think the Alipay escrow system gives me a bit more confidence . There is still risk involved, but I don’t see any other viable options when it comes to purchasing an android phone with google services preinstalled.
