Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. If you know Chinese culture then it’s pretty obvious. To have kids in China you need to be married. To get married you need an apartment. It’s extremely common to have a marriage and child on the way just after purchasing a home. Also on the countryside they get married when they are 20-24 years old. Not an age group known to be financially responsible.
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  2. You need an apartment to get married in China. Also to send your kids to public schools you are required to own an apartment in the same district as the school.
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  3. The number one source of income for Chinese local governments is selling land to developers to build apartments. They have every incentive to enable developers to build as much as they can even if they are out of money.
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  4. Heh so many theories you got down there, I'll throw in the one I heard most amongst Chinese themselves. The Covid policy comes from the leader, Xi himself. In China the leader cannot be wrong so whatever he says goes. Later this year the party politburo will re-elect him for his third term. Admitting he is wrong and going back would be political suicided in a country where it's thought the leader cannot make mistakes. So basically he has all his political capital invested in China being superior in fighting COVID, Changing policy now would mean admitting that he was wrong all along, something he cannot risk doing with the upcoming confirmation of his third term.
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  5. What choice do they have? If they want to get married and have kids they need an apartment.
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  6. The bank doesn’t care. As long as you put that deposit down.
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  7. It’s not really to invest though. They need that apartment to get married and have kids. That’s just how the culture is set up, it’s a shame but unless you want to be single and childless you better buy an apartment.
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  8. You forget it’s China. No apartment, no marriage, no kids. No serious woman is ever going to waste her time on a man without an apartment. If you are a guy with no apartment to your name you should expect to be single for the foreseeable future.
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  9. It’s illegal in the west, alas not every country has the same consumer protections
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  10. Heh so many theories you got down there, I'll throw in the one I heard most amongst Chinese themselves. The Covid policy comes from the leader, Xi himself. In China the leader cannot be wrong so whatever he says goes. Later this year the party politburo will re-elect him for his third term. Admitting he is wrong and going back would be political suicided in a country where it's thought the leader cannot make mistakes. So basically he has all his political capital invested in China being superior in fighting COVID, Changing policy now would mean admitting that he was wrong all along, something he cannot risk doing with the upcoming confirmation of his third term.
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  11. Chinese are staunch believers that the virus spreads with packages. Every time they get an outbreak the government has blamed things like, Norwegian salmon and packages from Canada to start the outbreak. The result is the local government is very mindful of this so they will be very reluctant to let packages travel freely between provinces and cities so what happens is the food trucks arrive in Shanghai and are not allowed to enter before they have been cleared and disinfect the packaging and sometimes they have to wait several days leading to the food in the trucks going bad so when they are finally allowed in their food has become rotten and all they can do is dump the food and throw it all away. My wife works a lot with the package companies and it's pretty much impossible to send things across provinces these days and when it's possible it takes 2-3 weeks for the packages to be cleared for entry.
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