I've never needed any certification for the invitation for family visa. She (or me) has written it herself and with her signature it has been good to go.
I think this recent news is about people currently abroad and wanting to come to China, per relaxing protective measures against imported CoVid cases.
As such it does not concern those of us who are already in China.
I believe the 30 day extensions for those stuck in China are/were reasoned not directly by health concerns, but lack of operating flights out of the country.
As more travel in and out of China resumes, so will regular flights, and automatic extensions due to no flights would naturally be stopped in some time frame.
As long as there are no flights out, you only need to show some kind of proof of that, and you're good for extension.
But once there are reasonable flights out, question is what reason does anyone have to remain here without regular visa/RP?
Couple of days ago, late in the evening, we heard some noises from our bedroom.
As my wife went to check and approached the bedroom door, a big locust the size of a small bird jumped out from the bedroom to living room. I suppose wind had carried it all the way to our 41st floor bedroom window, which was open.
For once I was happy of all the toys that our son had left laying around living room, and was able to injure the beast with a toy baseball bat just enough for it to lose jumping ability. In the subsequent wrestle I managed to push it out from the balcony window.
If this had happened while were were sleeping, I'm sure the monster would have gnawed its way through the mosquito net in search of human meat.
The night is dark and full of terrors.
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It may make a difference in leniency from Chinese authorities, whether your passport is unavailable because of other Chinese authorities, or foreign authorities.
Specifically, they may have more understanding if their own peers in other agency have "caused" the situation.
It's working for me at the moment.
The English version is indeed built assuming that only tourists and temp visitors come to China without being able to communicate in Chinese. That said, I don't know if the questions can be answered even then - on a quick try once I failed to get it accept my input, even if I lied on things like my arrival and departure dates.
One time when I had time to spare and was at local subway station with my son, I took the time to complain about this to the staff at station. They eventually let us enter without scanning.
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Paying a visit to the Cool Mountain Yi
Posted byDevelopment brings changes to old rituals as well.
About two years ago I was in a funeral ceremony of a close relative-by-law deep in Changning county in eastern Baoshan prefecture.
The deceased was not really an Yi, but was written off as such in the population records. Rest of the family, as well as most of the villagers, were Yi.
New regulations from authorities state that the deceased may no longer be just buried like they were in past. Instead, they must now always be cremated. I assume this is to save valuable farmland in the mountains, and perhaps for hygiene reasons as well..
Since this cremation is done in a separate facility, it means that the deceased (and his or her left-behind spirit), who previously remained in the family house until buried, have to be taken out of the house for cremation and then returned to the house in a small coffin.
The spirits are known to have some temper, so much care is always put to making them happy.
In that specific village, this was the first case of implementing the new regulations. The ritual specialist had to establish new rituals so the spirit could safely travel outside the house and then return.
Wooden stools were lined in the courtyard, and a line was attached to them to form a kind of bridge, which the spirit could use to leave the household and then return there for further rituals. Firecrackers naturally escorted the way.
This was a variation of a case where somebody would die (accidentally for example) outside of the house. In that case, a similar pathway would be created so the spirit could return to the house for rituals, before usually returning to the mountains where the death occurred.
I was told of a spirit of a man who lives in the nearby mountainside. At that time guns were still allowed, and the poor guy fell to his death when taking a shot at a wild goat or similar animal.
On top of the mountain there are half a dozen shrines for everyone who has died in the mountains. Visitors to the mountain top are expected to kowtow to each of these shrines, or risk wrath of the spirits on their way down.
Sichuan water release devastates parts of northwest Yunnan
Posted byI was going to mention that. Also If there were (even) more dams and associated buffer lakes along the river, then those (unless already full of course) could dampen the impact of this kind of natural disasters further along the stream. But that would be man vs. nature of course, at cost of nature.
Beijing approves massive Changshui International Airport expansion
Posted bySince many Chinese tourists will not stay in Kunming, but head to more touristy places in Yunnan, I'm wondering how many will change plane at Changshui to get to their final destinations, and how many will take subway or other transport downtown and then to other travel nodes - like the high speed train terminal.
I'm thinking that for many the latter option would give a chance to see at least a bit of the provincial capital, and also some countryside from train or bus that they wouldn't catch from air.
Thus the question is, how rest of Kunming's transport system is up to take this expected increase in air passengers.
Bringing classic Shanghai elegance to Kunming
Posted by@Montaigne: The 2pm opening time in end of the advertisement refers to opening time of the original Shanghai location. This ad does not mention opening time of the Kunming location at all, but clicking to the official event calendar entry, it seems to be at 11am.
Study: Air pollution causes loss of intelligence
Posted byI would tend to think, that it is not easy to separate loss of cognitive performance caused directly by air pollution, and loss of same abilities indirectly by otherwise weakened other abilities (ranging from lung performance to worse sleep for example) arising from the same pollution.
Considering the wide range of parameters that may affect ones cognitive performance, it should be no-brainer to conclude that (one way or another) air pollution affects cognitive performance.