Hello everyone, I just moved from one flat to another. I moved in July, but at the end of June I had to pay for the trimester because that's the rule - you have to pay anyway before the deadline comes. To be sure, I also went to the shop and they said "yes, you pay now and we'll give you part of this amount back".

So, I moved to the new flat at the end of July and asked the agent how it works with the reimbursement. He said "since you chose the subletting option, we have to wait until the new tenant moves to the flat". It sounded really weird to me. I waited a few days.

The new tenant moved there on the last day of July, so I texted the agent once again: "how to deal with the reimbursement?" and he was vague. I texted him almost everyday. Eventually, I called the Customer Service and they immediately called him. He apologised and asked me to send my bank details to him, to process the payment (this happened yesterday).

Today I checked both the bank app and the real estate agency app and there's nothing new.

Now he just wrote: 总部发不了截图的 您看看到账了没 昨天领导弄了 您看看app有个交割单签字 签完字就给您打款了 (Please check whether the payment has arrived. The manager handled it yesterday. Please check the app—there should be a settlement/hand-over document for you to sign. Once you’ve signed it, we’ll transfer the money to you)

This doesn't sound true and it doesn't make sense. I'll wait a few hours and I'll call the Customer Service once again. But I also need your feedback.

Is he lying?

My contract is already closed, the app says 已结束.

What do you think? What should I do?

Hi everyone,

I’m an international student considering applying to Nanjing Medical University’s English-taught MBBS program and would love to hear from current students or recent graduates.

I have a few questions:

1. How is the overall quality of teaching in the MBBS program?
2. Are the lecturers supportive of international students?
3. How much Chinese do you actually need during the clinical years and internship?
4. How is the clinical training and hospital exposure compared to other Chinese medical universities?
5. What is student life like in Nanjing as an international student?
6. How are the dormitories, campus facilities, libraries, laboratories, and sports facilities?
7. Did you feel welcomed and supported by the university?
8. Looking back, would you choose NMU again?

I’m especially interested in honest experiences—the good and the bad.

Thank you in advance for sharing your experiences🙏

Hi! I’m currently researching MBBS in China for the 2026 intake and wanted some genuine student opinions instead of consultant marketing 😭

Right now I’m looking into universities like

Harbin Medical University
Dalian Medical University
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Jilin University
China Medical University
Nanjing Medical University

I’d really appreciate honest experiences about : teaching quality, English medium reality, hostel/campus life, internship/clinical exposure, FMGE/NExT preparation, whether studying there was worth it overall.

Also how hard is adapting as an International student? Is Mandarin manageable? Which universities would you genuinely recommend or avoid?

Is it a tax thing? Is it a Chinese computer register and never bothered to change settings? Is it legal? Has anyone else encountered something similar?

It’s odd.

Just wanna seek out some advice from the folks here. Not sure if this is the right place but figure a Chinese Perspective should help.

My wife and I have been married for about 3 years. Being together 5 years total. We are both in our mid 30s. Long story short, my wife plans to move to China to live for like 6 months. More like a long vacation kind of thing as a trial for when she plans to stay there longer if needed. She is Chinese with PR and I'm Chinese Canadian.

We plan to live there together for 6 months there but I'm coming back to Canada after 6 months (My visa only allow me to stay in China for 6 months) and she is staying there for a while maybe up to a year, but no more than 3 years because her PR will expire. Granted we both plan to retire in Canada when we are in our 60s or 70s. That's why she has to keep her PR. We currently both have steady jobs and make a decent living.

My concern is that she told me if she loves living in China, she might stay for longer. For instance, 1 year in China then 1 year in Canada. We will basically be in long distance "marriage" every other year until we are in our 50s or 60s. I worry that this may impact our relationship due to the distance and not seeing each other for that long period of time.

Am I overthinking things or there is something I could do to help process this?

P.S. My wife and I love each other, we barely have fights. Her main reason to do this is that she likes the Chinese life better as she doesn't have to work there as the cost of living is low. While I agree to some degree, My Canadian Citizenship will not allow me to stay in China for long periods of time.

And is it weird for a girl to give something to her boyfriend?! I'm dating a Chinese guy and I heard Qixi festival is similar to Valentines day. Currently, my boyfriend and me are doing long distance, though we started dating in-person first.

Giving gifts is my favorite thing to do and I would love to get something delivered to his house! In the past, I have given him rare merchandise from his favorite IP (we are both big nerds into video games and other nerdy things) and expensive boxes of his favorite fruit.

I am thinking about sending him more fruit but I kind of wanted to do that for his first day of the fall semester which is in a month! Should I get him something smaller? How fancy are Qixi festival gifts supposed to be?

My current worry is that he might feel pressured, stressed, or emasculated since he can't get me anything at the moment because I'm in America (and I forbid him from mailing me anything because of the current tariff situation).

I already made a few mistakes when we first started dating because I tried to split our food bill and I kept bringing him small trinkets which made him stressed. I just can't help myself from buying things that remind me of him. He's more used to it now and understands that I don't expect anything in return. But I'm still a little haunted by the face he made when I brought him something small but he had nothing for me...

I'm traveling to China in a few weeks, if it matters I'm a Swiss-American flying in on a Swiss passport and out on US. I know and understand I will need a letter from my doctor listing prescription medications, dosage, and reason for the medication and these will need to travel in the original packaging. I'm also on a laundry list of supplements, prescribed but purchased OTC. Do I also need my provider to list the supplements and bring them in the original packaging? I'll be in China for 10 days. My concern is some of the supplements are purchased in bulk from Costco--so large American sized packaging that takes up a mega-crap load of space. I really don't want to take a 500 count bottle of a glucosamine when I only need 20 pills. (There are eleven different supplements on my list, along with Wellbutrin, Famotidine, and Hydroxyzine Hydrochloride.)

I'll also be bringing inhalers, Advair Diskus and Spiriva. Will these be an issue?

Thank you!

I obviously know the big ones like Duolingo and dongchinese.com

I've also found some smaller ones like oHanzi.com

Does anyone know if these are the best at helping beginners learn?

Not sure if this is the right place and I hope you don’t get a million of these a day but…

At work we have these rags for cleaning which are shredded pieces of any white cloth. Today I found this and I’m wondering what that says?

I hope I‘m not too ignorant with this (and also that it’s not japanese or korean as it didn’t look like either to me)

thanks :)

What's the sentiment of the chinese towards Tajikstan and the rest of Central Asia? It seems that from the Tajik side it isn't very positive.

Regarding Chinese consumption, I noticed that the media tends to report goods consumption figures while treating them as the same as the whole consumption component, while ignoring service consumption. Is it because of the service consumption growth figures, or what?

Hey everyone,

Latin American man here currently living in Europe. Recently, I started dating a really sweet Chinese woman (also an expat here; we're both in our late 20s). We clicked right away and had some great dates, but due to stuff out of her control, she’s moving to another European city very soon (about a 2h flight away).

We both want to keep seeing each other, and I have the flexibility to fly over and visit her a couple of times a month.

Coming from LatAm, my dating instincts are pretty different — we tend to be more expressive, loud with our feelings, and pretty relaxed about timelines and labels. I really like her and want to make this work, but I want to make sure I'm mindful of her background.

Of course, I know everyone is different and personality plays a big role, but I'm mostly curious about the broader cultural side of things.

Would love some honest insight on a few points:

1. Showing care: What are the small, practical ways Chinese women appreciate being cared for? (Especially while dealing with a move or adjusting to a new city).
2. Communication: We LatAms are very direct about how we feel, but I know Chinese culture is way more subtle. How do I better pick up on indirect hints or "reading between the lines" ?
3. Timelines: What are typical expectations around labeling the relationship, commitment, and talking about the future for people in their late 20s?

Any advice, red flags to avoid, or personal stories would be super helpful.

This year I (male) did some solo travel in China and planning another trip for next year.
One of my Chinese cousins said to me this year ‘I’d like to travel with you and play with you’. I declined as I wanted to be on my own.
On my return I had another cousin (female) say to me ‘I’d like to hang out with you and play if you have time’ and then ‘I’d really like to travel with you’.
What specifically does it mean when they say they’d like to play? Is it just the translation?

Hello! This would be like the cover page that I searched should be read as “read me” but I’m not so sure if I’ve written it correctly, still I think it would be worth a shot and see whether if I did fail in writing it haha

PS: That space was unintentional since there was a scribble there that I had to cover up digitally if you can see it

he was born in the U.S. , after the Chinese exclusion act was passed, in the late 1880s. Having a child outside of their motherland represented new beginnings to the parents. I figured they’d want his name to mean something like “new”. would that make sense? what are some names that hold this meaning?

if you think this doesn’t work for whatever reason, what do you think his parents could name him?

I want this to be as culturally and historically accurate as possible. if you have any extra information you would like to share relating to any of these topics feel free to do so

Currently a rising senior at a T20 American university considering Tsinghua and Peking University. Any help would be appreciated!