China trip 2019 Chunzhuo Wang Jiayi Wang Zhenhuan

China trip 2019 Chunzhuo Wang Jiayi Wang Zhenhuan Wu Zhifu Xue 4 nd info session 13 -03 -2019 Group T Leuven Campus

Topics of this session • We. Chat • Some APPs in China • Great Firewall: VPN • SIM card and other things 2

Download the Wechat • Google play store/ Apple App store/ …. For android and ios • You also need a mobile phone number to register, no other options

Add your first Wechat friends • Search your friend via his/her Wechat ID • Mobile phone number is also ok • Scan the QR code provided by your friend

Join your group talk north/south • Top right corner “ +”, Then choose “Add Contacts”, “Join Private Group” • Input the four digits number of your group set by the founder.

Let’s talk • Text • Voice Message • Voice Call • Video Call

Let’s pay (Limited version) • Receive: 3000 RMB/day • Pay: 200 RMB/day *payment password ≠account password Maybe very useful in some situation in China.

More functions……. Explore by yourself!

Mobility in China · No Google Maps access (without ladder)! Metro. Man (Android & i. OS) Maps by Apple (i. OS only) MAPS. ME (Android & i. OS)

Metro. Men BEST navigation app for ALL METRO systems in China (including Chengdu, Xi’an, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing) * English & French available! Metro Network in Downtown Beijing Built-in Gaode Maps (English Version)

Alternatives. . . Baidu Maps Gaode Maps Two most detailed e-maps in China. * No English version available. Google Maps (with VPN) * outdated info

Great Firewall In China 12

You need a ladder 13

VPN • My recommend: https: //nordvpn. com/ 14

Nord. VPN • A lot of servers NL, GB, FL, BE, US stable 15

Price 16

Payment • Visa, Mastercard, Bitcoin, etc. 17

6 Devices at the same time • You can team up and share one account to save money 18

Questions?

Several Important things you need to know before going At least I think you guys should know it

Just yell In Chinese Restaurant • Put up your hand yell • “shuaige”(handsome boy)&“meinv”(beautiful girl) • Just call her “waitress”, sometime you may never got served • Otherwise • No one care cos they got no tips anyway 21

no starter, main course and dessert • We finish • We serve • Don’t be surprise when your friend got everything and you have nothing 22

No need to tip anyone • No one should ask you for tips • other than if u have extra money to burn or u are in an prostitute massage parlor which u shouldn’t 23

Bring toilet paper • I know this is not a pretty topic • So no picture here • But still know most Chinese toilets they don’t prepare it • We bring our own 24

DO HAGGLING !!! • Price go up to three times for street business when they see a foreigner • E. g. A fake Hermes belt • Me start with 50 yuan, I haggled to 30 yuan • Foreigner guy start with 250 he haggled until 150 yuan and super happy 25

DO HAGGLING !!! • But don’t do that in Chinese Carrefour ok? • u will be thrown out 26

TAP WATER NOOOOOO！ • Don’t drink it 27

You guys are rock stars • If everyone is • • staring at you Don’t take it offensively Just enjoy For some of them So rare to see foreigner 28

Sim card info • There is 81 元 in that sim card • Originally you got free 1 Gb data and after that it’s 1 元 for every 800 M data • Calling cost 0. 1 元/min(between Chinese phones, not international) • Wechat data is totally free so no worries 29

You guys represent the whole western world • • • PLEASE BEHAVE When you not People are not gonna say “ Laurens is such a bad boy” Instead They are going to say “check out that foreigner, wtf is he doing” • And then bad impression on • Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, American, 30 Danish, Swedish…….

Questions? 3 rd info session 27 -02 -2019 18: 30 in room 03. 13. 01