and hey man, I didn't mean that they don't want to give it to me.. of course they are holding it because they cannot contact me "according to them", what do you want? they'll give it to other people?? they are holding it because they are waiting for me... thanks for your post here anyway...

Sorry to break it to you man, but I keep coming to the bank almost three times a week to check if the money has already arrived..and yes I subscribed to the bank's notification but received nothing 'till today...and since this is my first time of receiving wire transfer outside China I'm expecting that the money would arrive in my CCB account and I will receive a bank's notification since that my friend in US told me that he already converted the money into RMB but to my surprised, after I made several calls with different bank's personnel they finally told me to go to the branch near Parkson and the money is still in USD... and asked them to kindly convert it to RMB and deposit to my account and that's the time I received a bank's notification... the bank where I opened my account didn't even know that the money had already arrived 5-7 days after my friend wired. (though they made a lot of calls each time I went there)...

Latou thanks for all the advices... the BoA is the one that contacted the CCB here and their reason is they cannot contact the recipient (maybe they just made one call then that's it or not at all? crazy) so they are holding the money... but they gave a number to my friend for me to call here.. but yeah everything is okay now and yeah you're right CCB told me it's still in USD though my friend told me that he already converted it to CNY...welcome to china...

Thank you for the wisdom Laotou...that is a very systematic way... My friend in the US already told me that his bank (BoA) already sent an inquiry to the receiving bank yesterday and told him which they expect to get a response in about 2 days... after that if still nothing happens.. I think my wife and I needs to file a report in the bank and police like what you've said... by the way the money was already converted to RMB and not in dollars..

My friend from US wired the money from Bank of America last Nov. 7, 2014 to my China Construction Bank but until now the money has not arrived yet and it's already 1 month..CCB just always tell me that if the money arrives it will just appear in my account...but my friend in the US gave me the receipt and called the foreign wire transfer there and they told him it just went fine... this is really frustrating... :( somebody here had experienced like this before?