★Chinese law is not sound at all. After reform and opening, many honest Chinese suffered a great loss due to the lack of protection by law. Nowadays the whole Chinese society is lack of a sense security and bound. It is not wise and very dangerous to do business only depending on honest and rules. You have to keep one thing as 筹码 such as money, goods, right and the like in any deal, remember not just bind the other with a contract.

★This is the easiest 关系 for you to understand. Chinese care about relatives very much. In their opinion, only the relations among relatives are permanent. Relatives are one’s real own people.(refer to part Family)

★Generally there is no engagement ceremony in china. If a man and a woman are going to get married, they would bring 3 1-inch pictures of both of them with each other’s ID card and resident card to register in the Civil Affairs Bureau. They are husband and wife according to law after their getting the marriage certificate (each for per person) an hour later. If a foreigner is going to get married with a Chinese, an additional proof of marriage status issued by the consulate is required. Marriage certificate would be done in a month.