Once a year, when the Dragon Boat Festival comes around, the rice dumpling (zong zi) is a preferred food in the local gourmet streets. It’s a bit embarrassing that this “popular” food is not as welcomed or encouraged in western countries. Germany, France, Spain and other 23 countries reject “zong zi” this food from mainland China coming into their domestic food markets in the official announcement due to doubtful “unknown” ingredients. On the other hand, several localized “Chinglish” phrases are successfully collected into American online Urban Dictionary, and it brings up a sudden hot attention and widely accepted by worldwide readers.
 

With growing wealth and global influences, Chinese consumers are developing a taste for the finer things in life. The French have a saying: it's impossible to overdo luxury. And for Chinese consumers, that's not from lack of trying. As China's economy powers on, so does its population's appetite for symbols of their growing success.
 

This is Shanghai, the heart of China's seemingly unstoppable economic miracle. Here, there are few signs of the global financial crisis. In fact, wealthy Chinese are buying up on luxury more than ever before. And global luxury brands are jostling to expand into a country that's producing more millionaires, faster, than anywhere in the world. China is already the number 2 luxury market in the world, and it's growing extremely fast. The other big markets like the U.S. and Japan are of course, not growing as fast, and in some cases even declining. In than 5 years, you'll see the Chinese market transforming into t

 

First for all, as soon as you arrive in China you are required to go to your local police station and register your address.

If you are a tourist or you are living in a students’ dorm you don’t need to worry about it because the hotel’s or the dorm’s manager will register you at the nearest police station (they just need a copy of your passport). 

However, if you rent an apartment, you need to do it yourself. The good news is that it only takes five minutes and you don’t need to speak any Chinese. However, you need to bring the original copy of your rental agreement and your passport (you also need to bring a photocopy of the rental agreement, first page of your passport and of your VISA).

In previous years, this wasn’t as important. However, the past year has seen a lot of police allocating their attention and pressure on address registration. If you don’t register your address, they will c

Working abroad sounds like an adventure, and it certainly is, but it needs some preparation in order to be successful.

Adapting your CV for China is not a difficult task; nevertheless it is an important one.  Although there is no specific model of resume required for your application within a Chinese company, there are general rules to follow.  Failing to acknowledge some of these subtleties could work against you, as it may reveal your lack of understanding of the cultural differences between China and Europe.

Unless you have a rocky career path or “holes” in your CV, an anti-chronological description of your work experience is the classical way to present your resume.  Otherwise, if you have held many different positions in various fields of work or were unemployed for a fairly long period of time, a CV based on your acquired skills and competences is recommended.

A convincing CV, along with good networking abilities (Guanxi), is one of the most

Where to live? This is one of the major problems expats initially face when moving to Shanghai. In order to evaluate the best location, the following factors, amongst other more personal issues, need to be taken into consideration:

- International School if you have children
- Office Location
- Transportation
- Shopping for western products and 24/7 local shops
- Where are your friends living?
- What access is there to ‘Green Space’?
- Access to Hospitals and Clinics
- Access to restaurants and entertainments
- Airport Access

It is important to know that the rent for your apartment will represent more than 38% of your monthly budget (cf Graph Distribution of expensesusing). So you have to be sure of your choice!
How to rent an apartment or a house?
- If you just landed in China and you don’t know anyone, the fastest way to find an apartment is probably to check the websites available in English. The pros are that you won’t have to hunt for an agency on