to clarify a little.

most fake grape wines, similar to local wine producers, are just refilling mediocre to acceptable wines into their brand bottlrs or fake labled foreign brands and multiply the original prices, by sky is the limit.
e.g. Lafitte Rothschild stated that more than 70%of all their wines in China are fake. first they don't export or produce that much wine for the chinese market, as is being sold here.

also keep in mind that carrefour only has a very limited selection of their own wines. all other grape wines are sold by resellers and middleman and have a tendency to be fake at least, occassionaly.

lots of the booze in china,foreign or domestic, is fake or stretched with chemicals. you can buy test strips on taobao, testing for ethanol and methanol. also there are websites offering a variety of checklists on how to test for real booze at home.

saying that kundu in general has fake booze is probably an over generalization.

moondog e.g. sells booze as real as it gets.

if you buy grape wine buy it from proper wine sellers e.g vinfrance or henry 1901 etc the get their wines directly from the vinyards and they oversee the importing process. a bit more expensive but safer.

for booze it's more difficult as you never know who sold the booze to the mart.

a whole day of professional modeling is 8000rmb/day(year 2008/09). even through a casting agent. so depending on the contract and product and model etc. i would say you are somewhere between 2000 to 4000rmb.

xiefei and alien,
of course you are both correct. i am not walking around trying to exclude every possible chance for friendship.

my point is that chinese society is or became an opportunist society. where the majority is trying to advance themselves disregarding the necessary commitment.

i don't expect a chinese person to be like a western person. but when it comes to friendship and trust,chinese society doesn.t make it easy.

i am not judging it. i understand that many people have to live with it. i just don.t want to be included. hence the lack of courtesy....coz in other (incl. asian) countries, people can and will accept if you don't participate in the culture race.

but the chinese friends and acquientances feel similar. none of them like those social events in china, where everyone pretends, and tries to juggle their face.

i like the personal questions and chit chat. better than talking about weather and how busy the workday was.

i agree with zhulaoye.
most chinese just want something for free, but without investing, or a basic level of courtesy.

it has to do with a lack of education and ethics.

most chinese are terrible business negotiators. most businesses only know how to take advantage,or using inproper practices. and that reflects in social life as well. you rarely see a win-win business deal .

if locals would really just want to know foreigners, they could use chinese if the foreigner can speak a little. or a combination of both. if there is a mutual interest communication is never a problem.

many just want free english classes and if you refuse, you get scolded, or worse. even profanity is in the ball park.

when i go to the playground with my kid, i have parents pushing their kids, to talk to me in english. even saying out loud, that i am a free english opportunity. when i speak chinese with their kids, they freak out.

you want something from me, invest in me!time, effort, affection, attention and maybe we become friends,after i offer the same. but most chinese want everything, right away and without effort. and if you say no?..., try it out!

goes for education, business and for sure, friendship as well.

in 15 years in china, i have about 3 real friends and all went through the international way of becoming friends.
plus we were interested in each others lives and not trying to benefit or use our connections.
and now we are very tight friends.

a rare chinese win-win.

it.s live show advertisement. or do people think, that people advertisings on tv are professionals?...or some actor or model blokes?

only exception i know of, is Dr. Best, the toothbrush dude.