CASH:

Bring your Credit Cards.( Visa and Amex.)
Cash advances are very easy to get in most banks and banks are open 7 days a week. And with your American Express card you can write a check to your self and get up to 2500.00 USD cash in about 10 minutes.(you can do this every 21 days.)

HOUSING:

This is a win /win situation in Nanjing:

If you are looking for good and cheap housing Nanjing is the place. It seems that because of the size of the foreign community in Nanjing, esp. on the universities, that the public security people have really opened up off campus living( this seems to be more open then in any city in China). Usually all it takes to live off of campus is a stamp on your green card by your foreign affairs office at your school and a quick o.k. from the p.s.b. Great housing can be found if you look, the secret is to not take the first thing you find. We have found several apartment locators to be very helpful and worth the one month rent they usually charge for their fee.

On average it looks like you can find a good apartment near most campuses for between 1000 and 2500 yuan a month. Return to first page.