I am not being in anyway racist in my comment here but there does seem to be a thing about the Chinese and their cell phones. No matter how many times they are told to turn them off or mute them they do not. It is almost as they consider them a part of their body and therefore it is their personal right to use them when they want to.

Not only that when they do get a call they will often answer it in loud voices disturbing all around them.

When I have held business meetings/presentations here I have requested people to turn off their phones, invariably they do not. Quite often you try and make a presentation and they are playing games or sending text messages.

Even once interviewed a person for a job and his phone went off. Rather than switch it off he held a ten minute conversation with his mate. He did not get the job.

One of the frsutrating things about living in China.