Complaints and appeals to the state authorities of the PRC or 信访
Sometimes there are cases when your legal rights and interests are infringed upon. It doesn’t matter by whom – it may be a neighbour who arbitrarily decided to attach a balcony to their apartment. Or (as in the article) – when a telecom store refuses to issue a...
ICP and other internet licenses in China
It is common knowledge that websites operations as well as any activity on the Internet on the whole is subject to government regulation in the PRC. This means that without the approval of the relevant authorities (at the moment – the Propaganda Department of the CPC Centra...
Credit cards in China. Part 2
So, you received an SMS stating that the card is ready and waiting for you at the branch. Or you ordered delivery and the bank courier brought it to you. In any case, you have it on hand and it’s time to start fine tuning. The first step is to activate the card. This is...
Credit cards in China. Part 1
It happened historically that bank cards of payment systems other than UnionPay, issued by banks in mainland China, are credit cards. And if you want to get a bank card of such payment systems as Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover/JCB and so on – in addition to a classic UnionPa...
Social insurance system in the PRC
So, you are legally employed (otherwise, you will not be able to join the social insurance system) and it's time to think about how you will get medical treatment if something happens, receive a pension (why not), and so on. Now then, the state social insurance system of t...
Manual payment of contributions to the Social Security Fund
Most often, contributions to the social security fund are paid automatically, by a one-time debiting. We talked about how to set it up in the article “Official employment of a foreigner in China”. But sometimes it turns out that automatic debiting does not work. Th...
