Two Rules in Doing Business in China

Rule 1: Everything is possible
Rule 2: Nothing is easy

When you are optimistic, see rule 2
When you are discouraged, see rule 1

This was one of the slides today in my Chinese Economics class. It is initally really funny because if you spend anytime in China at all you know how true this is. Everything and anything is possible, however getting there is always more than a challange. But my teacher used this to illistrate the point that the chinese always like to keep things in the gray area. You never know what is exactly going to happen and how its going to get done, but it always ends up finished one way or another. A perfect example of this is the train ticket situation. A passanger is not allowed to buy a return ticket until they reach their initial destiniation. Nothing here is black and white, just gray. Thats my lesson for the day...