Monday, January 12. Another 12 hour day!
We visited the School of Business at Sun Yat Sen University. We met in a very beautiful room for MBA classes. The University has four campuses with a medical school in the north and the undergraduate campus in the Mega Center. It has 13,000 teaching faculty for 80,000 students. It is organized into 28 schools at 8 hospitals.
In 1981 the business school began as one of the first in China. The School of Business has 7,000students and 97 full time faculty. The school presented each CIBER representative with a lovely keychain and pen.
We had a lovely tour of the campus and met with individual faculty members in the campus coffee shop named “Ming Tien Coffee Language”. I had a very nice talk with Professor Wang Yongli. We discussed class size. She directs the dissertations of many graduate students. The University hosted us for lunch in the coffee house.
We then toured the Pearl River Brewery Company. This is one of the largest breweries in the world.
There was an amazing beer museum with extensive exhibits on the history and science of beer brewing.
Of course, some members sampled the products in the “party area”.
Our final stop was the School of Business Administration at the South China University of Technology. Professor Chen gave a talk on her research into turning Chinese business into market leaders. She presented us with autographed copies of her book.
Professor Chen hosted a dinner in the College Restaurant. I had a very nice talk with Xiaoting Yuan and Cao Zhoutao. Xiaoting is completing her Ph.D. in business and is looking forward to flying home to see her parents for the Spring Holliday. She is about six months older than my daughter Caroline. She said I reminded her of her mother! She has a sister with a baby who calls the grandparents on the Internet with a webcam so they can see each other.
All the participants were exhausted at the end of the day and glad to get back to the Pearl River Hotel.
Call is for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow!
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5 comments:
Glad you are having a good time. What a great mix of exploring Chinese business and culture! Please bring back some Dim Sum :)
Dr.Smith are the universities over there similar to the the universities in the United States?
Hello Perry,
Yes, they are very different. I think that the national exam is really important. Much more important than our SAT!
thanks for the comment.
Dr. S.
Hey Mrs. Smith,
Is the education better over than here in the states? And which one who you perfer teaching for overseas or in the states?
Do the government plan to open more Free capital companies or they will stay the same it seem useless to start a school in business where their is not a free market. In my opinon the most business came from the Hong Kong market and the growing labor force.
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