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中国第三章: 第一次印刷
如此gweilo在空气中国飞行得到了。
它似乎我是唯一的非中国人在飞机上。
文化震动开始了那里。 飞行空气中国不是象飞行加拿大航空。 我们采取我们的西部舒适为授予和真正地不赞赏什么我们有,直到它拿走了。 这是好,逐渐第一阶段介绍为我。 采取我们用于这里的所有并且敲它在三个山谷下。
空间、服务、质量是否洗手间,就座或者食物。 I did not suffer, but realized that I was like a city guy going to visit country cousins on the farm. I was going from a developed society to a developing society. They were trying to catch up with us, and doing a great job, but…
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Shanghai’s Social Insurance System
Last night, I was on MSN chatting with my client, whose trading WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise) incorporation is being proceed by me currently. He hired a 21 year old assistant to assist him in daily affairs. My client sacked her a couple of days early, for her irresponsibility and laziness, and is seeking another assistant, so he asked me if I happened to know anybody. I introduced a girl who’s intending to quit her present job, and they seemed to have a good conversation on MSN later.
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Made (responsibly?) In China
I recently had the opportunity to visit two factories in the southern China town of Kaiping that produced denim jeans for a major discount retailer in the United States. Considering that the only reports of Chinese textile factories that I had come across had been critical, the visit was a (pleasant) surprise.
Working conditions were orderly and tidy, the air was cool despite scorching heat just beyond the concrete walls, generous lighting flowed from large bay windows, …
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Develop your social capital
The idea of commissioning market research in China is daunting to most Western companies. It’s a country of over 1.3 billion people with 200 dialects and 57 ethnic groups. To compound the problem, China is not homogeneous. The larger cities contain educated, Internet-savvy people who earn incomes comparable to U.S. citizens. On the other end of the spectrum, there are people living in villages who survive on $400 a year. If you ask a survey question to both groups, you are likely to get vastly different answers.
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