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How does a person from the west move to China? Chengdu interests me.
by TomMarius 8y ago
How does a person from the west move to China? Chengdu interests me.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI got a job at the American branch of a Chinese company (Microsoft). It works for tier ones, not sure how you go about getting a tech job in a tier 3 city like Chengdu. You could probably teach English though, lots of opportunities still.
- baybal2 8y agoOh my... do not chose cities in the middle of nowhere in China. Only megacities there "work" for a Western person
- JBReefer 8y agoWhy?
- baybal2 8y agoVery hard for legal reasons: i.e. you go to a hotel, but they can't accept you because they have to blanks for police registration of foreigners, or PSB not being able to register your household simply because they have no computer system to do so, and there are no option for a foreigner to file for a residence registration on paper. Not to say, your Mandarin should be as good as that of locals, along the knowledge of local dialect if you venture far inland.
- epynonymous 8y agoUnless you're fluent in chinese, it will be extremely difficult to get around in these tier 3 cities like chengdu. Shanghai and beijing are a bit more international, but even stilll, english is relatively scarely spoken. Just imagine having to go to the doctors', that would be extremely traumatic.
- epynonymous 8y agoi'd imagine much the same process as working anywhere else abroad, you need to find work so that a company can sponsor a visa for you, to find a job start checking websites of target companies, there are a lot of multi-national companies here, if you speak/write mandarin chinese, that would be helpful.