Chinese Lives

Between 26th and 29th this month, Expo Central China was held in Wuhan, a beautiful city beside Yangzi River. News says investments from inside China get to 200 billion worth of contracts to develop 6 central China provinces.That is really great.

The 6 provinces are, Hubei, Hunan, Ann Hui, Henan, Jiangxi and Shanxi, which used to depend on agriculture crops, national owned heavy manufacture industry and mining industry, so that become less comparable to opened-up coastal economic regions after decades economic reformation.

Like GuangZhou, central China has cheap labour, enormous natural resources and much better weather. Basically, it is not difficult to start a factory from scratch in any non-capital city of the 6 provinces, as long as you have a profitable project and money.

What to invest on? Government prefer ones less harmful to environment. French businessmen make and sell cars in Wuhan. German car companies also can grab a market in cities, such as Zhengzhou in HeNan, if they are interested. Probably it will interest asda or tesco to buy vegetables, fruits, rice from central China, since the central is famous for that.

I am no business head. It is up to you, take good care of your money.

A man came up to complain his wife gave up her decent job and stayed home which wasted her Master degree qualification. Her job was at a local government subordinate company, good welfare and average salary, though she may feel bored to do very easy work every single day, plus she was not comfortable to deal with complext relationships between colleagues.

I can see the man loves his wife and tolerate her request for now. Why women have to work? In feudal times, women’s workplace is home; it is only in modern times, a family needs both husband and wife work to run family’s finance. If women stay home, kids can have more attention and care; husband can have clean home, warm dinner after a day’s hard work. A lot of benefits. Maybe less traffic jam, less waste of oil and less carbon footprint, since less women join the morning and evening rush hour.

Frankly, very few Chinese men would let his wives stay home forever. If so, very likely, this woman is poorly treated mentally, for instances, taking blames or fists when husband fails his job; or her family has intrusion from other woman. A lot of families, calculate each member’s economic value, and treat each other accordingly. For instance, if wife earns bigger salary, she makes the rules, and her mother-in-law will try to like her.

Some men who want wives to work, claim work makes women confident, not isolated and confined at home and contribute to family.

Women who have Master’s degree or higher, hope to marry a rich, competent and kind man, so as to stay home and enjoy life. Many responders criticised this though as a failure of our education industry.

Pickpockets can have good ones? I doubt this very much, but some people say even thieves are professional trained not to take more than money.

People share their good pickpockets experience, which sound genuine, but not excluding possiblities that it is fabricated.

Episode 1. He knew 3 constant people at a bus stop was pickpockets, and came to them for help after he found his wallets stolen 5 minutes ago. He was very certain, and 3 pickpockets did not deny. Probably moved by his anxiousness to find important cards inside it, pickpockets took him to a place, where all stolen wallects were kept. But his wallet was not there. Then making a phone call to their head, pickpockets said, 50 RMB,you get your wallet tommorow 8 am at same stop.

Episode 2, a man lost his walle which kept very important receipt to pickpockets during a business trip. Fortunately, they only took money, and sent back everything else through express post to address on the man’s ID Card.

Stop 7 Argentina

Stop 8 Tanzania

Stop 9 Oman

Stop 4 to stop 6, Olympics Torch Relay were in UK, France and USA, where Tibetan activists’ chants were loudest, and their acts most recklessly.

London, Stop 4

Paris Stop 5

San Francisco Stop 6

These pictures were taken by Xin Hua net, and I choose some to picture how Olympics Torch Relay goes.

Stop 1 Kazahstan

Stop 2 Istanbul Turkey

Stop 3 Saint Petersburg

A person found 2 swallows start build home at his house, and recorded the process.

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I read this post today, and find it very interesting to share with you.

The ending is emotional pregnant woman paid 1000 RMB to the victim guard, after three true witnesses give evidence against her. She admit her fault and should not slap his face and kick at his right upper leg, but felt unfair that the witnesses who only saw half story, forced her into that big payment.

It all happened that the woman wanted to fly kite in the park, but the guard said no. Seeing some kites flied above a nearby shop, she decided to give it a go. The guard found out and started  argue, during which angry mom-to-be slapped and kicked him; the guard refrained and called his colleague.

It looked like a legal process. There were witnesses, both sides of the fight, and police. The only part missing is hospital check to decide how bad the damage. Concerning a hospital check cost similar count, the woman paid as asked.

To my surprise, all 7 response critised the woman for not obeying rules, and hitting guard first. No matter how improper the language he used, the woman losed the battle first. No one discussed whether it was fair to pay 1000 RMB as an apology, since the woman insist she did not hit him badly, and take in count that the emotinal woman was 3 months into pregnancy.

Since when, young people like having tea time. They will invite friends, and sit down in a coffee shop, or a Hagendaz Dessert bar.

From 1 June, all supermarkets are required to charge small fee on plastic bags, which measure is thought to deal with polution and global warming issue. The following are some interesting points.

1. Some say, the government is idiot. Aren’t we suffering enough from price rocketing?  Supermarkets will add costs on customers. It is better to use degradable plastic bags.

2. Some say, it is a good idea. After paying money for bags, customers will remember to bring their own bags, or reuse paid bags.

3.Some say, they won’t change, because they’d rather pay for bags, than bring bags. It is not good idea. If they use less shopping bags, they still need buy bin bags, which could be saved.

4. Some say, oversea supermarkets and in Shanghai, have charged shopping bags for a while. We should not refuse trying  just for the inconvenience it causes. .

5.Some say, this measure can help reducing  unnecessary bags. Second thought, when you need pay.

6.Some criticise those disagree to be greedy for freebies, and not care about planet’s future.

To sum up,  this measure gain some support, which means  people can understand and cooperate with government, though they require supermarkets to pay as equally as customers concerning go-green cause.  No surprise, a lot fuss accuse government of being stupid and soft to follow west’s demands to reduce pollution. But these complaints are labelled as selfish.