My situation is probably quite different than yours though. I am a low-timer. I have 185 hours piston and I am 22 years old.
I wouldnt expect you to worry about the medicals if your 22.
But for the airline Captain positions advertised, by the time you are getting the experience they want, your not a cadet anymore, or a cadets age.
I have had medicals done in many juridsictins, and China's are the absolute most thorough. You get them done in a special hospital.\
Goes something like this. General body check, blood and urine tests, ECG, sonagram, stress test, chest X-ray, hearing and eyes, EEG, internal medicine check. Yes they find problems.. Things like gallstones appear on the sonagram. But as the doctors performing the examination pretty much all work for the airlines, I have never seen any power tripping. I had a false positive on a blood test. Gave another sample two days later, and had it resolved the next day.
Many of the new expats are older and about 15% I have been told have some problem initially. I dont believe the power trip thing for a minute, and at my age having one every six months is very stressful. Most of the new expats I have seen there have been in country just a few days.
I didnt realise the doctors work for the airline, thought they must have worked for the CAAC. Perhaps that varies with different airlines
You would think the airline would get p%%s off with the doctors grounding their pilots for 'problems'???? that would not affect the safety of the flight.
I am not sure why so many fail the physical, but I believe they are just as hard on the local pilots. A few months ago I was told that we had 39 local Captains on medical leave, and we have less than 200 captains TOTAL. We are a 3 year old airline, and the average age of a captain is probably early 30's. Stark numbers.....
I think that sums up the stupidity of the situation, they are unrealistic on what medical standard is required.
Not surprising they are advertising for pilots, they have enough already, but only if 20% arnt on medical leave.
How many Captains have died or become incapacitated on Chinese Airliner flights.