A few people have asked me about the heating (probably because we've been complaining about the cold:)
Some background to this in case it hasn't come up is that most buildings have centrally controlled heating which is in turn controlled by the Beijing government. It turns out that there are some guidelines as to when they turn it on. Basically testing starts around the 7th of November but the heating itself doesn't get turned on until either the 15th of November (next Tuesday) or until they get five days in a row of average temperatures below 5 degrees. Which is pretty cold for early November.
In short, it looks like the heating will come on next Tuesday because although it's getting into the negatives at night, it's still getting up to the mid-teens during the day.
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