For all you “qualified experts” out there, permanent residency is at hand! Shanghai officials have finalized the regulations allowing highly qualified professionals to stay in this fair city as long as they like. more ›

They say the Germans invented the art of bureaucracy but the Chinese perfected it. This may be true if a recently compiled list on Tianya forum is anything to go by — it contains over 3,000 permits/licences/fees a Chinese citizen may be subjected to through the course of his/her life. China Digital Times translates just a handful of them, and as they correctly pointed out, some sound reasonable while others just make you go huh:... more ›