China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

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Post by dberhane » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 12:39 PM UTC

China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'
bbc.co.uk

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Post by TokyoKid » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

It is tempting.

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Post by pimmen » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

I feel bad about paying taxes to a one party dictatorship. If you qualify for this visa you have lots of opportunities in life to change stuff for the better and turning this visa down is one of them.

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Post by robk » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

Uk us a better visa imo

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Post by jimnotgym » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:29 PM UTC

> Visa holders will be allowed to remain in the country for up to 180 days at a time

So Nobel prize winning academics can visit China. I'm rather less excited by that than when I read the headline

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Post by provost » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:33 PM UTC

Looked into the taxes: for regular employees there are 7 brackets. Anything over 80,000RMB (12320 US Dollar) is taxed at 45%. Though it looks like if your income is derived by a company outside China, and you live there for >=1 and [1] https://www.ecovis.com/focus-china/individual-income-tax-iit...

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Post by mtgx » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:34 PM UTC

Also 10 years prison for anyone that criticizes the government.

Decisions, decisions.

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Post by inDigiNeous » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:35 PM UTC

Hearing all the negative stuff about China recently, like the online censorship, dictatorship, stories about people not caring about human life, like hearing it's common that if you accidentally drive over people, many will backup to finish the job so they wont' have to pay the insurance for rest of the life and seeings stories like babies on the streets and nobody caring, why would anyone want to work in China?

Are these stories true, or just negative propaganda to threaten the great republic of China ? Anybody care to share experiences living there ?

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

inDigiNeous wrote: post #8

Hearing all the negative stuff about China recently, like the online censorship, dictatorship, stories about people not caring about human life, like hearing it's common that if you accidentally drive over people, many will backup to finish the job so they wont' have to pay the insurance for rest of the life and seeings stories like babies on the streets and nobody caring, why would anyone want to work in China? Are…

We probably hear mostly about the sensationally negative things the most because they drive clicks.

The same could be said about all the negative news coming out of the US. Why would anyone want to move there? And yet they do, and many thrive.

I'm sure China is thriving, despite its problems.

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Post by hkmurakami » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

inDigiNeous wrote: post #8

Hearing all the negative stuff about China recently, like the online censorship, dictatorship, stories about people not caring about human life, like hearing it's common that if you accidentally drive over people, many will backup to finish the job so they wont' have to pay the insurance for rest of the life and seeings stories like babies on the streets and nobody caring, why would anyone want to work in China? Are…

Money talks.