Outrail posted:

I wish people would stop getting the thread closed.

Here's to 5000 years of poo poo posts and awkward trip reports.

ded posted:

Have some .jpg from Pinghu.

Haier posted:

I took this for the nonbelievers.



Also, there are air raid sirens going for 10 minutes now and nobody knows why. Is this to remember the national day of humiliation?

Fojar38 posted:

rip haier

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Good job on the Great Wall restoration work.

‘Botched’ Repair to China’s Great Wall Inspires Outrage

fish and chips and dip posted:

Accretionist posted:

Bip Roberts posted:

Getting baked with pot.

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BEIJING (30 December 2016) — The end of the world’s largest ivory market was announced today by the Chinese government as it released a detailed timetable for ending its legal ivory trade. Domestic ivory sales will be banned by the end of 2017 with the first batch of factories and traders to close their business by 31 March 2017.

Last year, President Xi Jinping made a public commitment to phasing-out the ivory trade, which may be falling out of favor with Chinese consumers. A recent survey by the conservation group Save the Elephants reported that ivory prices in eight mainland Chinese cities had fallen by half in a two-year period ending December 2015. Anecdotal evidence gathered by WildAid campaigners in China indicates prices may have decreased further this year: Market inquiries in May 2016 found raw ivory prices of around $450 to $900, representing a decrease of 57% to 78% compared with a2014 high of $2,100 per kilogram in mainland China. A ban was first proposed to the National People’s Congress by former NBA star, Yao Ming, who also led documentaries on ivory trade for state broadcaster CCTV in partnership with WildAid.

WildAid CEO Peter Knights said, “China’s exit from the ivory trade is the greatest single step that could be taken to reduce poaching for elephants. We thank President Xi for his leadership and congratulate the State Forestry Administration for this timely plan. We will continue to support their efforts through education and persuading consumers not to buy ivory.”

With China’s announcement, international attention is now shifting to Japan, which voted against all CITES proposals to protect elephants and has insisted its trade is not tainted by illegal ivory. However, a recent report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) found that the nation’s elephant tusk registration system widely allows for poached tusks smuggled from Africa to be sold legally in the domestic market.

“Japan is the last man standing as a major legal destination for ivory.” Knights said. “If Japan joined the global community on this we could consign the abuses of the ivory trade to history.”

The international commercial ivory trade was banned in 1989, following a decade of out-of-control poaching that decimated African elephant populations from 1.3 million in 1979 to an estimated 609,000 by the late 1980s. As a result of the ban, poaching decreased significantly and ivory prices plummeted. But a "one-off" sale of ivory in 2008 and the legal domestic trade in places such as Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Vietnam and the US have allowed for the laundering of illegal ivory shipments from recently poached elephants.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

"Some provinces now give free medicine to people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other conditions. "
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21715701-sufferers-are-routinely-treated-danger-society-china-wakes-up-its-mental-health

oohhboy posted:

Day AQI 119 $1000 Dollars of uselessness

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Another throw back is White Rabbit candy. While I can get these in New Zealand, I couldn't help but get them as the ones I got are packaged in a giant White Rabbit wrapper.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

Stop the posts. No more posts.

The Great Autismo! posted:

this is why duty free poo poo is so massive every time i am flying back to china. there's like bags upon bags of poo poo and it's all poo poo you can get in tianjin or shanghai but you gotta bring it from JAPAN!!!

The Great Autismo! posted:

if you want an ice coffee just get a regular coffee and a cup of ice. they cost the same but you can almost get two full iced coffees out of your hot coffee because the ice takes up so much space. good tip if you're chilling in Starbucks for a summer afternoon getting work done or reading or w/e.

Don't do this on a date

It was a Starbucks barista that first pointed this out to me <3

The Great Autismo! posted:

because we're cheap. that's the whole point

serious norman posted:

What bus takes an hour

Imperialist Dog posted:

Can we hook this guy up with coins in jet engine grandma

https://twitter.com/SCMP_News/status/934055304865701888

underage at the vape shop posted:

We do need immigrants to sustain our growth, we're trending towards a negative birth rate

big time bisexual posted:

watch the wei guan develop in real time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhbA0WKv77k

edit: getting a 403 on the direct link now; rehosted

big time bisexual posted:

naked man in shanghai beats a traffic cop with a shoe

https://imgur.com/a/MOBFo

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

The snail cream is just made with snail slime, I think...

Cry Havoc posted:

would you rather fight a boar or a bear

underage at the vape shop posted:

are there any photos or anything?

Der Shovel posted:

Chinese-born YouTube star might be going to prison for being a massive oval office.

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At the China National GeneBank in Shenzhen, scientists are using faster, more precise techniques to churn out drafts of entire genomes for all living bird species by 2020. Their work should help researchers not only understand living birds but also to match useful traits in fossil animals to those in the animals' living descendants.

Fojar38 posted:

China really does not deserve the benefit of the doubt with regards to those sorts of bold claims at this point.

Mistle posted:

Someone will eventually run their own bird genomes and if any discrepancies happen, the sheer face loss...
What's expat money on? Rogue scientists, blaming the disputed findings finder, or "no why, not wrong" excuse?

Baronjutter posted:

So a lady I know was telling me about how back in China she had a pet duck that was super smart and house trained and could follow some basic commands. She said it was a special type of duck they locally called a Canton duck. A red crown, red feet, and a blue and green body. Large, almost goose sized.

Google is not helping me find any pictures of this bird. Searching for canton duck only gives food pictures, anything china and duck related generally only gives food pictures and info. Does anyone know what species of duck this was? This would have been in a rural-ish area outside of HK.

Gorilla Salad posted: