Not that I know of.
What most foreigners do is marry a Chinese girl (I would NOT recommend that under ANY circumstances...personally***), and then they go about learning the language little by little over the years.
*** One thing China does NOT have for me is "females" I am attracted to - If I were younger, I would NEVER EVER move to China due to the lack of mating partners that would meet my "taste" test. In coming to China for decades, I have NEVER EVER seen a Chinese girl I was attracted to. Not a single one. To be fair, I have NEVER EVER met an Asian girl even in the West I was attracted to, so I guess I am NOT the best arbiter of Asian female taste. In this department....China is HELL for me




This is VERY TRICKY..... Our first reaction will have to be to deal with our pre-programmed operating system installed when we were kids....
(1) All of China is very pretty! You can buy any size single home, but
you can NOT own the land in China EVER!
The land is owned by the state. You get a 70-year lease that is renewable...if one manages to live that long.
🤣 Assume you buy your house at 30, you will be 100 when your land lease is up for automatic renewal.
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(2) Here is the CAVEAT though...
There is NO way the Chinese government or anyone for that matter that can SEIZE your home and make you homeless.
There are NO property taxes.
You can NEVER become a "SLAVE" of your home or the bank!
Some of the
"less intelligent Western Chinese graduates, those who couldn't pass the GaoKao, with the help of the chosen people & other Westerners" have tried to start property taxes in some cities but have been met with FATAL VIOLENCE by the population and most of them had to flee China to seek refuge overseas.
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So, if you want to own land, China is NOT for people who have the need to OWN land. As I mentioned before, China is very different than the West. I've been coming here for decades, and have lived here now continuously for the past two years (and three years during COVID) and China STILL shocks and surprises me every.single.day

, but for whatever reason I like the challenge of the unknown.
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(3) The policy slogan in China is:
“房子是用来住的,不是用来炒的.”
Literal translation:
The state is actively engaged in: Rent price controls to forcibly bring them down. House purchases prices are forcibly coming down, too.
Therefore, people in China with lots of CAPITAL, who prefer to use it for rent-seeking purposes, opt to "flee" to the West where they can use that capital to extract "rent" from others. This can NOT be done in China (without being EXECUTED)

China Executes 14 Billionaires in 8 Years, Culture News Reports. Article written in 2011. This happens so much more often now. Almost every month there is one billionaire who hallucinates he is Epstein and that his "wealth" and "political connections" are an antidote to execution


Luckily for me, I am NOT into real estate
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As I mentioned before: China is NOT easy and it's certainly NO paradise! The fact that I am here does NOT mean it's the best place in the world.
It's the best place in the world for me NOW at this moment in time dominated by AI and Robotics in manufacturing. All that can change tomorrow. For example, if a buyer gave me a HUGE contract to purchase Norwegian Salmon for him...I'd move to Norway "yesterday."
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