Business in China
College of Business China Study Abroad Program
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Our Chinese Business Program will enhance your understanding of a country presenting unique opportunities. As a re-emerging economy, it not only offers the entrepreneur or the multi-national company the prospect of prosperity, but also offers the traveler a land rich in culture and entertainment. To be successful in China, especially in business, one must understand and respect the culture that drives one of the fastest growing superpowers in the world. To be a part of China’s future, it is necessary to understand its past.
Highlights
Hyundai Motors Factory Tour
One of the leading car manufacturers in China. The Hyundai plant is a model of Just in Time manufacturing and of an employee-friendly environment. On the tour, you will hear about Hyundai’s operations, visit a production line, and see the sample car models.
The Ministry of Commerce
Responsible for the bilateral trade relations between China and the rest of the world. Visiting this ministry is a unique privilege and helps students to understand the Chinese prospective on US-China trade through a commercial officer briefing and question and answer session.
The World Health Organization
Is playing an increasingly vital consultation role in Beijing. The chief representative in China gives one of the most intriguing briefings filled with statistics on China’s development and insights into the way China functions.
Hutong Tour
Traveling by pedicab (bicycle rickshaw) around the old city alleyways (hutongs) is an eye-opening experience. Seeing how Beijingers lived for centuries in courtyard dwellings as well as visiting a local kindergarten and eating lunch at a local home, with introductions to common characteristics of old Beijing life, including cricket fighting, is one of the cultural highlights of the trip.
Beijing Tour
Beijing is the center of tourism for Ming and Qing Dynasty (the last two imperial dynasties) history. On the trip, you will visit a portion of the Great Wall, the Summer Palace of the latter Qing Dynasty Emperors, the Temple of Heaven, where bi-annual prayers and sacrifices were offered to heaven for good harvests, and the Forbidden City, where 14 emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties resided and ruled the Middle Kingdom.
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Coca-Cola in Beijing supplies soft drinks fro Beijing, around 70 million cases a year. During this tour, you will visit the production lines and learn about Coke’s operations in China.
Shanghai Tour
Shanghai is the commercial center of China with one of the largest stock exchanges in Asia and the most sophisticated consumer markets. You will visit the Urban Exhibition Center to see a scale model of Shanghai in 2020 and learn about its development plans for the World Expo 2010. You will also visit the Shanghai Museum, the best museum of historical Chinese artifacts in the Mainland. The museum houses collections on the history of money in China, the history of the seal (or chop), Chinese calligraphy through the dynasties, Chinese bronze works, and others.
You will also visit business sites such as Baosteel, the largest steel producer in China, and a green power plant that takes the trash of Pudong District and turns it into energy. They even recycle sewage into drinking water. Participants will be given sample bottles of water to taste, if brave enough and willing! Also, if his schedule permits, Jim Rice, head of Tyson Foods operations in China will brief the group on Tyson’s operations and keys and challenges of doing business in China. Mr. Rice has experience in China that spans two decades, first as a student and then working in multinationals.
Shopping
Both Beijing and Shanghai offer great shopping venues, from the clothing market of Silk Alley and the Pearl Market, with great buys on beautiful pearls to the silk floss quilt factory in Shanghai. You will not leave empty handed!
The above information was provided courtesy of Mr. John Pate of Sinogate Consulting Services, Inc. Mr. Pate has spent over 7 years in China in fields of training, international trade, and education. As part of hosting the trip, Mr. Pate gives an overview of China and doing business in the Middle Kingdom.
To learn more about China:
www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node17256/index.html
Tentative Program Dates:
April 17-June 19, 2009
Tentative Trip Dates:
May 21-31, 2009
Tentative Cost:
$3690.00
(subject to change pending Board approval)
Courses:
Marketing 475/575
Marketing 476/676
Marketing 695
Management 430/630
All courses are 3 credit hours each
For more information contact:
Dr Mike Jones
GARR HALL, Rm # 94E
Phone: 985-549-2394
email: mijones@selu.edu