The fact that I’m a foreigner living in Kunming may give reason for my comment to seem bias, though I don’t believe that there are any more drunk foreigners walking the streets, or stumbling on the streets, than there are locals leaning up against buildings with vomit at their feet.

In fact: On any given Friday or Saturday evening in Kunming, you can without a doubt, walk down ANY street with many pubs and find AT LEAST one local releasing the evening’s drinks while being held up by a friend, or being dragged into a taxi.

It doesn’t seem to be a “foreigner” problem, rather a problem of Kunming. There are many young University students here, as well as tourists enjoying the City of Eternal Spring. If bars owners and bar tenders would excercise a bit more responsibility (as is the case in larger cities here and in the West) and restrict the sale of alcoholic beverages when it can be clearly seen that the consumer has reached his or her limit, then the problem would be less.

The press that has been given to the new “foreigner dextox unit” (and the reasons for it) is overstated (at best) and is more realistically an attempt to put the “City of Eternal Spring” in the minds of travelers across the nation as the New Year approaches–or both.