In order to do so， you remain as close as possible to the table of the examining doctor and draw out your own book from the heap again if another was laid on top. It is a friendly tailgating competition. All those waiting are interested in what is done to the poor patients now examined and what may be found. And what the doctor says is eagerly commented.
Especially the eye test provokes a lot of laughter if the candidate misinterprets something， guesses wrongly or makes a joke. The doctor joins the fun， there is a relaxed festive mood， here are all of us virtually simultaneously examined. When it’s my turn， everyone is anxious to see if I can read the numbers and what I will say. With my first rudimentary handling of Chinese language， I defend myself bravely. Appreciative murmur of the bystanders.
For ECG， there are now a few rules to be obeyed. First， four women are admitted， the door is closed， after which it is the turn of four men， at some point I’m with some others， too. Each group of four will discuss in detail what results the examinations have shown.
At the end of the day， only the blood results are still missing. YangMei will retrieve it tomorrow morning in person， she was promised that it would be it is preferably treated for me.... I enjoy a preferential treatment without any compensation， for once again I cannot even pay for lunch， because YangMei returns to her office.
Then I have to travel to the employment office in NanJing (南京)， the provincial capital. After an interesting train ride， we finally come to a modern building that is bursting from a crowd. But not of such people who want to be imparted by labour office officials， but there is a job market in the hallways！ Many companies have set up little stalls offering jobs， people go from stall to stall and ask. The labour office is clearly not meant to impart jobs to unemployed people but to help companies fill their vacancies.
I am waiting in the hall， because we have met with a staff member of the Office of Investment in NanTong， she will help us to gently jump over the bureaucratic hurdles. Already she is filling in forms that I finally sign.
During these activities I am interested looking about at the busy activity and suddenly find myself besieged by a TV camera. A beautiful young Chinese woman behind a microphone asks me (but actually SunLi because I do not understand) what kind of job I was looking for at the job market， which of the company vacancies I considered the most interesting.
She is disappointed that I – being a foreigner and thus suggesting such a nice story for the local television – am not at all looking for a job， but already have one and just want to obtain a work permit. I think that’s a shame， too， because who does not want to be presented at least once in life on local television of NanJing？
Some time the mission is accomplished， everything within a single day， and I feel a little dizzy thinking of all those consultants who told me how difficult and above all expensive that would be， and that I should definitely get some or other experienced (read again： expensive， but that’s the way it was) China consultant， by no means a minor， cheap individual consultant， for these chaps know nothing and have no connections. I got no adviser at all， but via a friend with whom I did a photo exhibition I stumbled into an investment show in NanTong， where I actually thought to have to visit temples and old city walls but not industrial parks， well， and that just set the avalanche in motion.