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Chinese people are very strange for us, how to explain that everybody win 400 Euros a month and have two or three cell phones (the Iphone 5, 600 Euros, 3 months salary), what a bad investment. They don’t like second handed stuff so every car, computer or whatever is new ! In France a …
Read MoreOnce my best Chinese friend Nizhiqiang 倪志强 (in is best Chinese) “I want to be an entrepreneur like you Jieming”.
Here every one is calling me Jieming. A Chinese name is composed in three part. One syllable is the family name and the two others are the given name. So when I first came and …
Muda ! A Japanese word for useless, waste is the key of the Toyota Production System, the god of the industry. Japan is a smart country, and every company should learn from this concept on how to be efficient. Germany has understood it, faster than any other country in the world. The …
Read More扬州, Yangzhou, 50 km north of the 长江 Yangzte River and beside the old channel who go from 北京 Beijing to 杭州 Hangzhou, Yangzhou has always been an important Chinese city.
2500 years of history, Yangzhou rules a territory of 6000km² (the size of a french department). About 4 000 000 peoples living in this …
This article is about the company where I am working and my mission. SSML stands for Siemens Standard Motor Ltd. It is a company which produces standard motors for the industry in China. Recently bought by Siemens, this company has kept its Chinese mind despite its fast expansion.
In facts, this company was an old …
In my company, there is only few who can speak English, at least there is 4 people over 1800. To work with them, it is important to speak a perfect Chinese and the company has understood it. They have been giving me two hours every day with some kind of a teacher (so …
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大家好 ! 认识你很高兴 Hello every one ! Nice to meet you !
In my childhood, I deeply wanted to learn Chinese, because I thought it would be really useful in the future. Some years later, this dream is becoming true thanks to ITEEM and Siemens. Here I am, in China. Not the globalized city like …
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