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Actually you were asking a stupid question. Don't you know that foreigners get the teaching job easily which just because they are just native english foreigner only? the problem is about the school, our education system.
Dec 28, 2012 20:52 Report Abuse
Beijing, of course, is very very different from small towns where it's extremely difficult to find a sane foreigner who is willing to stay and teach.
Apr 17, 2013 20:43 Report Abuse
Westerners don't look down on other people making less money than them, it's a very Chinese thing to do so. As for the days of poorly-qualified teachers coming to an end, bad prediction mate, still not the case more than 4 years later, if anything Chinese employers are more desperate for Foreign teachers than ever before.
Feb 14, 2017 13:31 Report Abuse
All the articles about foreigner being a teacher in China give me a strange feeling " Is it so easy for a foreigner to be a teacher in China?" "Do foreigners look down upon chinese that being a teacher so easy with higer salary?" "Do they really want to be a teacher?"
Dec 27, 2012 09:23 Report Abuse
I agree with Bob. I switched from the southwest, in Sichuan to Beijingin August this year and the only inconvenience was having to get my FEC cancelled myself in Chengdu. I say inconvenience since I was based 500km away from Chengdu but the cancellation was done in 15mins. My currently employer took care of everything else and the realtor assists when i need to renew registrations at the PSB. No Z visa was required. Ian
Dec 27, 2012 07:59 Report Abuse
I don't think this article is accurate. Moving from Residence Permit (employer A) to Residence Permit (employer B) doesn't require a Z visa and certainly doesn't require an L. I think the person who wrote this doesn't know the difference between a Z visa and a Residence Permit.
Dec 26, 2012 12:22 Report Abuse
Agreed. There are a LOT of inaccuracies in this article and I think it is very dangerous to be putting information that is this misleading out to the general public. I had a nightmarish experience in September/October this year getting away from a hellish employer (Worlda, run by a woman named Mary Yu - BEWARE!) and it is definitely not as simple as the author of this article made it out to be. First of all, it is NOT possible to get a Z Visa back after getting a temporary 1-month L Visa. This simply is not true. This is what I had to do, after my previous employer cancelled my Z Visa after lying to me about the details, as such, without my permission. I asked an actual employee working at the Visa issuing office (is it called the PSB? The one in Haizhu square...) and she confirmed with me that it is definitely NOT possible to reclaim my old Z Visa, even though I had another employer who was willing to sponsor me, unless I was to fly back to my country of origin to re-apply for it and go through the whole process again. Seeing as I couldn't afford a plane ticket back home because the devil herself refused to pay me my wages, this was not an option for me, and I am now operating on an F Visa.
Dec 27, 2012 18:55 Report Abuse
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