Turtle,
I am suprised by the differential treatment in China. When I flew over China, I have always been given 'omit position report' or 'report xxx' where xxx is the FIR boundary. Apart from the regular scheduled pax services, I also did one charter flight over-flying China, same treatment I got. It was full radar service all the way. We followed the planned route, make calls over FIR boundaries, but otherwise never had to make position reports. It has been about 2 years now.
Before that, we had to make position report every waypoints. But not anymore. Time have changed.
[ 04 November 2001: Message edited by: Old Dog ]