Totally expat or married to a local

Many have families from wherever and many marry chinese here or from other parts of China.

Thank you. I would be interested in communicating privately with anyone who has married a Chinese lady and settled in China, as I am in a similar position and need to know about the processes involved in permanent residency etc.

There is a thread here about permanent residency. I believe it was started in December by me. The long and the short of it is that permanent resident status is very difficult to obtain. It take much, much more than just being married to a Chinese national.

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I just posted a similar question on another topic. I had a quick search and couldn't fing the thread. Any clues ....

Another question ... for those of you with residency here, what is the deal with taxation. I have heard several versions, some good, some scary.

A few years back PR (D Visa) was a "holy grail" sought by many expat teachers. I don't think the situation has changed. In a nutshell, you need to make significant investment in China, it's development, or contribution to the society around you. If I remember correctly, someone also mentioned somewhere as another criteria, marriage and continuous residency for a minimum of five years, before you could follow the spouse path.

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I am an Expat married to a Chinese but lived in Macao 9 years before moving permanently over here to ZH. Sorry can't tell you about what you want as I am still figuring it out myself...

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Making plans is difficult when living on 6 month visa's. There is no guarantee of the next one.

Basically if you earn 6000 rmb as a foreigner you need to pay tax. You company should pay it unless you are self employed. Or be a stall holder and pay nil !

Is that 6000 per month or week ? and what is the tax rate.

Up to date Tax Info

1: Tax Threshold
http://www.jljgroup.com/uploads/JLJ_Newsletter/February08/ChinaFocus_Feb...

2: Tax Rates
http://www.worldwide-tax.com/china/china_tax.asp

regards,
T. Tempest. DCA

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Tsc Tempest Photography at http://www.kong-xi.com/doc.html

Too early me for to tell/talk about permanent residency, but a Chinese spouse may run into a "sea turtle" problem. Mainland Chiense people who leave PRC, go abroad [presumably for study and work] and return will find it difficult to register as a resident because they do not haev real eastate, a work unit, and various other things needed, particularly if they were keen enough to arrange a telecom/internet job in the hopes of making it easy on themselves. In short, the Chiense spouse will have difficuties as well, at least in the short term.