China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

&gt; Visa holders will be allowed to remain in the country for up to 180 days at a time<p>So Nobel prize winning academics can <i>visit</i> China. I&#x27;m rather less excited by that than when I read the headline

Hearing all the negative stuff about China recently, like the online censorship, dictatorship, stories about people not caring about human life, like hearing it&#x27;s common that if you accidentally drive over people, many will backup to finish the job so they wont&#x27; have to pay the insurance for rest of the life and seeings stories like babies on the streets and nobody caring, why would anyone want to work in China?<p>Are these stories true, or just negative propaganda to threaten the great republic of China ? Anybody care to share experiences living there ?

I’m not sure what the big deal is here, they have offered something like this for awhile, and in my experience, is nearly impossible to obtain unless you’ve won a Nobel (and not the peace kind). Most of us were just on work visas that were renewed yearly, the lucky ones got two year visas. Someday that might change, but I’m not sure how it would make things much better.

Looked into the taxes: for regular employees there are 7 brackets. Anything over 80,000RMB (12320 US Dollar) is taxed at 45%. Though it looks like if your income is derived by a company outside China, and you live there for &gt;=1 and &lt;= 5 years, you are exempted from taxes. Freelancers have 3 levels (between 20% to 40%).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecovis.com&#x2F;focus-china&#x2F;individual-income-tax-iit-china-ground-rules&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecovis.com&#x2F;focus-china&#x2F;individual-income-tax-iit...</a>

I feel bad about paying taxes to a one party dictatorship. If you qualify for this visa you have lots of opportunities in life to change stuff for the better and turning this visa down is one of them.

I think I&#x27;ll pass, too many restrictions and gotchas. This is why we left Hong Kong after the handoff in 96.

How does this work along with their plan to limit city population?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2017&#x2F;dec&#x2F;26&#x2F;chinas-shanghai-sets-population-25-million--big-city-disease" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2017&#x2F;dec&#x2F;26&#x2F;chinas-shangha...</a>

I received a 10 year visa and would certainly not call myself Nobel level. Fairly straightforward process, but you do need to provide quite a few personal details

I have a 10 year visa to China from the United States. It&#x27;s just a tourist visa though. I think it&#x27;s a special agreement between the two countries.

Ten-year-visa really sounds like &quot;come and do your things, but then go away, we don&#x27;t really want you&quot;

What they don&#x27;t tell you is that two of those ten years will be spent in a secret gulag for writing a wechat private message to your friend about how you dont like the great firewall of china. Thanks, but I&#x27;ll pass.

Also 10 years prison for anyone that criticizes the government.<p>Decisions, decisions.

It is tempting.

Uk us a better visa imo