The smart businesses that have a large foreign customer base in predominately tier 1 cities know that to keep them, the restrooms must be clean. The ones who do not understand this are next door with no foreign customers. Full Comment>>

universities that offer re exams if you fail do not impress me at all. fail the bastard and pay for the class again like you do in the west. some western countries have a pass rate of 50 percent correct on an exam compared to 60 percent for others. comparing the graduates after completion is a better scoring system. Full Comment>>

google is rich based on perceived value of the company stock, but apple has 264 billion in cold hard cash. perception is not always reality. Full Comment>>

it is good to have a list for not getting my money, many thanks for the info. Full Comment>>

the problem with nationalism is you have to have a nation to be proud of to even start the trend. I have found nothing in China to be proud of, overcrowding tourists sites, lousy schools, sup par infrastructure quality, when all you have is 5000 year history, its a lost argument, perhaps the egyptians say the same ... Full Comment>>

deer are color blind, so hunters are suppose to wear orange bright hunting vests like we do in amerca, the fool in the picture above can not be seen and will get his ass shot. Perhaps you should train the person and not blame the weapon, i have been hunting in many places and never killed any hunters and i still ... Full Comment>>

food, technology and buildings, that's all you got, 2 of them you copied from the west, the food is a better variety by necessity when you have too many people to feed, that is not actually a good thing unless of course your a food inspector that makes sure no food in china is fake. they do a great job dont they. Full Comment>>

does the orientation class have tutors for "how to cheat" or do I just ask my Chinese classmates for advice. Full Comment>>

sadly, women probably hold up more than half the sky in China, the men are unproductive useless pieces of carbon on 2 legs. Full Comment>>

why would you want to cop a feel of a couple of soft golf balls for and lose you career and the shame? perhaps the toilet was out of toilet paper and he was trying to get paper out of her bra. Full Comment>>

most midnight runners never plan to return to China, so this is useless, and anybody can say a passport is lost and come in under a new passport number and start over, this happens all the time. they could use technology and facial recognition, but spending the money for tracking some underpaid useless english ... Full Comment>>

all the women have to do is hire a foreigner and bring him home one time, the parents will be so upset that he is not chinese and they will never bring up a bf again the next year and many years to come. I know several ladies that have done this with great results. We want bother you ever again but please don't ... Full Comment>>

decades means the world will pass them by and leave them in the last century, hope this does not happen, but stubborn people sometimes need to be kicked and dragged into the future or perish. Full Comment>>

technology will make this problem obsolete before any problems, consider it a blessing, when robots make everything and no one has a job. How will you pay for what the robot made if you have no job? Assuming half the jobs in the world can be done by robots in the next 25 years, then we will have to find something ... Full Comment>>

as soon as you give the family and imported grandchild, you can never do anything wrong again, you have hit easy street. Full Comment>>

actually collecting taxes and not letting people cheat and not pay would be a good start, when import and export stop bringing in revenue, tax compliance will be enforced severely, then we will see some angry citizens. Full Comment>>

factories leaving and demographics have made this a fantasy, it's too late, the party is over. Full Comment>>

yes, export your crowds and traffic to the rest of the world's tourist destinations, what a great idea, then the whole world can just stay home. Full Comment>>

the fact he actually holds your hand in public is a miracle, just don't make him carry your purse. Full Comment>>

so lets see if i have this right A, ass kisser to china, hate your own country B, barely qualified, but a bad example to make fun of and show china superiority C, bottom of the barrel, for the folk who live in the countryside or the rich who want to have a slave to help hold their elite nose in the air. thanks for ... Full Comment>>

everybody is selling out and getting the hell out of dodge, wise move Full Comment>>

Keeping kids in school all day, same for college, and then locking them in marriage and responsibility as soon as possible. Sounds like the government keeping people to busy and self absorbed to complain about their government. Actually a very nuanced plan when you think about it carefully. Full Comment>>

It is nice to see hard hats on the construction workers, sometimes this does not happen, now if they would actually wear some steel toe shoes they make and send to the west, perhaps construction worker accidents will finally go down. After all the labor pool is shrinking now, better to keep them alive. Full Comment>>

Labor cost and inflation is making China a non factory economy and the factories will go to cheaper labor. Pension costs are a small costs in the overall cost of labor unless you have a huge senior age imbalance like some western countries, but this affects government plans, not the private sector. Trimming pension ... Full Comment>>

Let's start with something simple, like, I don't know, maybe, arrival and departures being on time. Full Comment>>