It is good to see someone from a different part of the world around here. We have a lot of Europeans and Americans, but you might be the first Chinese user I am aware of. Admittedly when I first saw this post I thought it was referring to what we would like to know about China
in the Fallout series. 
I guess I have some questions. Forgive me if I am somewhat ignorant of your country in advance. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, so some of the questions might be no brainers. I could use the internet to search for some of these questions but I would like to hear from you.
I suppose I would like to know the living situation in the part of China you are currently residing. I know your consumption of media must be different than ours. You have a larger reliance on pirated copies of movies and games correct?
Have you traveled extensively to other parts of China or the world? I am interested in the differences between the coastal region, rural areas with low income, and the city life. From my understanding there is a big divide between those living on the coast as opposed to the interior.
I am interested in how politics are viewed in your country. Do you have to deal with a lot of propaganda? We have a lot of problems over here between the Democrats and Republicans. Is there something comparable over there? Is police brutality a big issue there like it is here? You aren't allowed to own firearms there are you?
I am not as familiar as I would like to be with your access to the media and the internet. Are you cut off from certain aspects of the internet? You have your own social networking sites don't you? How about gaming online? Are you mostly stuck with servers in that region?
From my understanding Christianity isn't exactly tolerated there. Is that incorrect or blown out of proportion? I am very curious about how spirituality and religion is in China. We have a wide variety of religions here, so we take it for granted, but I am wondering how you feel about it? Is it common to see people doing religious acts such as praying at the table or something similar?
Being an ex-military man myself, I am wondering about the armed forces in China. How long are your terms of service? 2 years is usually the minimum here. I am curious if the Chinese military is much more strict than the US.
How about healthcare? Is it national or how does it work? How do your taxes work if you have them?
Mostly I am interested in the CPC and your opinion of it. Do you feel your country leans towards Socialism? With Bernie Sanders running for president I have become interested in democratic socialism quite a bit.
The reason I ask is due to this:
"While the CPC claims that China is in the primary stage of socialism, party theorists argue that the current development stage "looks a lot like capitalism".
What is your opinion on the territorial conflicts in the South China Sea? Do you think the US should stay out of the region?
Thanks in advance.
Wow, you've asked more questions than I expected, let me try to find my dictionary first
Firstly, I'm living in Shenzhen, China, which is near to Hong Kong, so it's the coastal region. I almost go there once a week for business and purchase. My salary is around 8,000 RMB a month, it's around 1,230 USD currently. I'm not the most well paid guys in this city but my income can give me a decent life, unless I have a plan to buy a new apartment. A room in most place of Shenzhen is above 20,000 RMB for one square meter.
About copy rights problem, yes, most of Chinese can still get free movies, books, music without any payment for copyrights. For example, I have a legal copy of Fallout2 which I bought in 2000, but it is the non-violent and no children edition, so I downloaded a copy of US version from internet soon after that. One thing I want to add is, nowadays, more and more people don't take it for granted that we should get free copies without payment, and Apple's itune store is becoming more and more popular in China, people are trying to buy the movies or musics, even when they know they can find free ones through internet.
And I have traveled quite a lot to other parts of China. Last year I went to Yunnan province, which is near to Myanmar. In a city, a young people there are paid around 2,000 RMB a month, if they get 4,000 a month, they will feel well paid enough. And I do know in some villages, some people are still starving. Those places have been fewer, but they still exist.
There are very, very few propaganda in China, it is almost illegal. According to the constitution, people do have the rights or freedom to parade, but the route, the place and the time must be granted by the government, and if it's not granted, the whole thing is not allowed. So obviously, you will seldom have the chance to see people going to the road and hold any kind of political slogan. And if you ask me, I have to say, most of Chinese don't seem to care much about politics. People care more about making money and getting a better live. And yes, Chinese are not allowed to have guns or any kind of firearms.
Christianity is legal in China, and in many cities there are churches. However, publicly preaching is not allowed. Which means, you can go to a church and sing for the God, but you can't take a microphone in a park and say, the world is created by the God, we must believe in God to go to heaven or things like that. If you do, people can report it to the police and the policeman can stop you, but as far as I know, it will not be very violent. And I did receive a few handbill about "believing gods" on street, and I laughed, that's it.
Buddhism and many other religions are also allowed in China, but "you can't do it publicly". Chinese government also have a blacklist for the evil religions which should be forbidden, the most famous one is Fa Lun Gong, I guess you have heard about it? And I would like to say, people who have religious belief are still very few in China, one important reason is every child will be taught "there is no God in the world" in primary school.
People in China don't need to go to the army, but there is some kind of military training in many high schools and universities. I had been trained for one month in 1996 when I entered the university, learnt some basic things and did a shooting lesson, but we don't need to go the camp of an army, just training inside the university. People can attend the army if he want, by the way. When an army man retires (after 2 years, usually), the government will arrange a job for him / her. If one would like to be a professional soldier, he can try to be a so-called Non-Commissioned Officer, he should pass some exams and must have a beautiful record, I guess.
There is no national-wide free healthy care system in China, every city have it's own healthy care system. Employee and his employer will both pay some fees monthly (and the employer should pay much more than the employee) so there will be money in the employee's "health account" , which can be used to see doctors and buy medicine. If one doesn't have enough money in his account, he must paid by himself. If one has a serious illness and stayed in the hospital, at least 60% of the medical cost happened during this time will be paid by the government, the rest 40% will be taken from the "health account" and need to be paid by oneself if he doesn't have enough money in his account. In some big cities, the government pays 85% of the cost. I don't know much about the healthy care system in villages, I can do some research work later.
About CPC, it's a big topic. Of course CPC always claim that China is "in the primary stage of socialism", but honestly, very few people believe it, it's more like a joke and if one say it in a party, people will laugh loudly on it. I believe most of people, just like me, think China is capitalism, we can even say it publicly, as long as we are not a member of CPC or a official. If any official says that, I believe he will not have any chance to get promoted
Personally I think the territorial conflicts in the South China Sea is a problem between China and the countries who have different opinion or interests. But I don't see why US must do something about it, as it's so, so far away.
I hope you can understand my lame English and this reply really cost me a lot of time
But I'm happy to talk about our country with you guys.
Edit: I just noticed that I forgot to answer the question about internet. Yes, as you may know, google, facebook, twitter, youtube and many websites are filtered by "the great firewall". There is a website called "weibo" in China, which is very like facebook. People plays online game a LOT, but our servers seem to be very stable, I'm not a big fans of any kind of online games so I am not sure. But I do know when WOW just released, I could hardly found any friends to chat with me on internet because they were all playing it!
). I used to be the only native Chinese member of NMA in 2004, and I think I'm still the only one who is active (or alive). If I'm wrong, please tell me and I will give my country man a hug.
my lame English and explain to some ppl that "No no China is not that bad" and tried to use all kinds of dictionaries to understand what other ppl say. That's not a very good memory and very childish, but I was so young so I decided to forgive myself
People are probably much more likely to make this assumption with small countries, I've been asked on a few occasions if I know certain black metal artists. I don't... 
