Another recurrent issue was hotel registration since they only have Chinese letters in the registration system. Some didn’t take it too seriously and let me stay without registration while others called the police to ask permission and what to do. It must happen thousands of times every day that foreigners need a hotel room, so why is this issue not solved centrally with information/guidelines provided to all hotels? Here in Tongxin it tookover an hour to find a cheap hotel and then 45 minutes of uncertainty before they got approval from the police - not really what i needed but what can you do...?