New visa regulations are here to stay - overview

Harder to have residency in China
via WikipediaI justed walking into this comprehensive briefing by the One-Eyed Panda's journal on the current visa regulations in China, based on notes made during an AmCham briefing. It offers little knew compared to what we have already seen in other sources, but puts all the different elements nicely together.
A few elements were new and this is the biggest one I have seen:

These regulations will most like last after the Olympics. The government is really cracking down on F visa holders who are actually residents inside China as they are really residents here, and should therefore be on residency and work permits and be paying taxes.

It means that F-visa will no longer work as a way to have residence in China. Well, at least until the regulations will change again, and they have always changed in a positive or negative way.