For anyone not in China and thinking of working here, this is a frank and good picture of the Chinese training. As someone who has done some training in China, CPL & IR test (with 12 hours prep training when converting a foreign licence, 20 hours high performance training (flying to a training area and flying a square pattern using GPS and flight director- just to get the 20 hours done and ticked rather than any useful practical training- cost the airline over 140,000 RMB for this tick in the box) and type rating.Actually the simulator training for the type rating was to a high standard and i needed to do 30 (YES THIRTY) take off and landings in a actual 737 and 100 hours in the jump seat before being able to sit right seat and start line training with passengers. I can not agree more with this post concerning problems of training. Things are slowly changing, but in China slow can mean very slow.