Finding a job in China
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Finding a job in China

THE LINKEDIN METHOD FOR FINDING A JOB “IF YOU WANT THE job, it’s yours,” my future boss told me over the phone. After four years of applying to non-teaching jobs in the United States and four years after my college graduation, I had my first full...
WORKING AT A COMPANY IN CHINA
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WORKING AT A COMPANY IN CHINA

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —CONFUCIUS THE LIFE OF A CULTURAL LIAISON I BIKED IN TO work on a beautiful spring day in 2012 after sipping my overpriced $6 small xiangcao natie (vanilla latte)...
Driving experience in China
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Driving experience in China

GETTING A CHINESE DRIVER’S LICENSE “WOMEN JINTIAN HAO XIANG you yi ge waiguoren kaoshi.” It looks like we have a foreigner taking the test today. The DMV test administrator was speaking to a crowd of Chinese people and me, who were lined up at the Jiaxing...
Useful guidance doing business in China
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Useful guidance doing business in China

“EVERY PERSON I KNEW who went off to China thinking they’d strike it rich came home with a chopstick up his ass.” My friend said this to me when I told him of my own plans to start a business in China. He was the most...
Get your Chinese Green Card Now!
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Get your Chinese Green Card Now!

Get your Chinese Green Card Now! Shanghai has granted around 500 permanent resident cards to foreigners in the two months following the country’s April adoption of a streamlined application procedure. That’s nearly 30 percent of the country’s total, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said on Tuesday....
Avoid Trademark Registration Rejection
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Avoid Trademark Registration Rejection

Avoid Trademark Registration Rejection In aplying for trademark registration, there are certain factors that can spell rejection or approval. Based on the chinese trademark law, qualified elements for trademark registration are, any visual symbols able to identify the products and services of a legal person or company...
Getting Driving License in China
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Getting Driving License in China

Getting Driving License in China In mainland China, you can’t drive with an International Driving Permit (IDP), nor with permits obtained in Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan.This article is based on the laws of the province of Beijing, and as usually is the case in China,...
2019 Payment Rule for Wechat and Alipay
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2019 Payment Rule for Wechat and Alipay

2019 Payment Rule for Wechat and Alipay From January 1 2019, according to requirement of China’s central bank that individuals who use third party payment methods like WeChat and Alipay to make domestic payments as well as cross border transfer in a single day in this...