Not only foreigners have visa problems in China

They also need a permit
via WikipediaStories abundant about foreigners who have problems in entering China, or trying to extent their F-visas in China. Marc van der Chijs just twittered about his visit to the Public Security Office at Wusong Lu in Shanghai to extend his Z-visa. That was in itself no problem, but he had to wait for five hours partly because of the large number of foreigners pleading to get an extention of their F-visas.
But it is not only foreigners who have difficulties in getting their residence permits doen, alsoChinese are facing similar problems, reports Danwei. China has a so-called Hukou system that ties each citizens to a specific place. When you go to another place you need a temporary residence permit, at least if you try to do it in the legal way. From a translation of Beijing News we learn that this is not that easy anymore these days. This is the story of Mr. Zhong:

His first stop was the police station, which told him to take his forms to the local Migrant Population Management Office. He called the office at 11 am, and was told that he would have to wait until the next day, because the temporary residence permit department had already gone off work. The next day at 9 am, he arrived at the office only to be informed that the maximum 10 permits had already been issued.

Mr. Zhong, who took two vacation days without anything to show for it, complained, "The migrant population is so large, if they only work at a speed of 10 a day, when will it end?"