Forums > Living in Kunming > Reform of for-profit education I expect all training centers who take in K-9 age students to make necessary arrangements to appear to be non profit - whatever that means in practice.
Subsequently, as someone wrote above, it removes the apples that are in it only for huge profits. In my view the profitability matters more in this evaluation than what are core subjects and what not.
Those failing such measurements would probably have their business licenses gradually revoked and/or not renewed.
If I read correctly, this does not yet have any impact on preschool/kindergarten teaching. But if the goal is truly to reduce study burden of kids, and save time and money of their parents, it won't be long until it extends to younger kids.
In that perspective, I see this as another approach to motivate families to make the second or third child.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Reform of for-profit education These new guidelines, released a week ago, will probably affect future job opportunities for many foreign teachers in China:
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Forums > Living in Kunming > American Soldier Burials near Walnut Forest Have you confirmed the Chinese spelling for the village name?
In mountainous parts of Yunnan, walnut is a main cash crop and the label on the map may reflect that resource, rather than the actual village name.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Registering foreigners' religious activities "exempt the costs of raising a child under the age of three from personal income tax"
This of course would only benefit those who earn enough to have taxable income (after 5000 RMB automatic deduction) to begin with. At risk of political incorrectness, I'd say this will be the final stage of poverty reduction - weeding out the poor.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Covid vaccine mandatory for all adults? Chinese jurisdictions have the option to connect this to social credit, which is just (perhaps) a milder layer of criminalization.
Czech visa service center opens in Kunming
Posted byThe text is really not clear about that point. Schengen visa does indeed allow you to travel freely within the Schengen area, but entering the Schengen area is not that simple.
Generally you are required to apply for visa via the consulate of country of entry to Schengen area. If you fly from Kunming to Paris, you may have to apply Schengen visa from French consulate - Czech or other countries' consulates may refuse the application.
Flight ticket reservations (round-trip China-Europe-China) are usually required, so they see what your entry point is. In above example, Czech immigration probably does not want to take responsibility if you fly to France and then decide to stay there as illegal immigrant.
But if your flight ticket allows cancellation and changing the point of entry after you get the visa, you are probably fine. Though I would not be surprised if there are questions on arrival passport check.
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
Posted byHas a foreigner team ever participated in the race in Kunming? What would it take to get one started for coming years?
European visa centers open to Chinese citizens in Kunming
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Life in Kunming: Urban gardening with James Osborne
Posted byGood read. We are trying to grow some tomatoes and stuff in our glass-walled balcony.
I wonder how much such open roof-top area adds to the rent, or did you buy the place?
Around Town: Spring Festival 2016 business schedules
Posted byContrary to this article, couple of days ago Metro had posts saying that they will be closed in Sunday 7th and Monday 8th.