Pictures of China Beijing 2009 Sunday, April 19, 2009
Information Flash 200904
1. The author and trainer of “The 7e Way of Leaders”, Mr. Lu, completed a 42.195 km marathon within 6 hours and raised SG$51,00.00 for the charity of Singapore early this year. Mr. Lu believes that if, and only if, we try our best to achieve a goal, we can do it!
We received 100% satisfaction from the participants and Company owner Mr. Meng said that they would like to collaborate more with ULOM on training programmes in the future.
3. The economic crisis is affecting the business environment. ULOM is planning a series of stress relieving programmes for professionals. For details, please call us at (86) 21 5079 3962 or please pay attention to our Information Flash.
4. ULOM secured a one-year business management services contract with R&M China Co., Ltd. in March 2009. ULOM will be responsible for the major marketing and administrative work of R&M China Co., Ltd.
5. ULOM Management Consultancy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. participated in the Corporate Image & Product Trade Forum organized by the of Shanghai Pudong District Government on 5th March 2009. During the forum, a few entrepreneurs enquired about staff training plans with ULOM.
6. ULOM was elected to be a member of Shanghai Public Relation Association in February 2009.
2. ULOM tailor made and implemented the “Customer Services” training programme for Shanghai Tongzi Automotive Service Co., Ltd.
We received 100% satisfaction from the participants and Company owner Mr. Meng said that they would like to collaborate more with ULOM on training programmes in the future.3. The economic crisis is affecting the business environment. ULOM is planning a series of stress relieving programmes for professionals. For details, please call us at (86) 21 5079 3962 or please pay attention to our Information Flash.
4. ULOM secured a one-year business management services contract with R&M China Co., Ltd. in March 2009. ULOM will be responsible for the major marketing and administrative work of R&M China Co., Ltd.
5. ULOM Management Consultancy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. participated in the Corporate Image & Product Trade Forum organized by the of Shanghai Pudong District Government on 5th March 2009. During the forum, a few entrepreneurs enquired about staff training plans with ULOM.
6. ULOM was elected to be a member of Shanghai Public Relation Association in February 2009.
Friday, April 10, 2009
China’s graduates emerge to a harsher world
April 9 2009
Source: The Financial Times
Getting a job is no easy task anywhere in the world right now and China is no exception, despite the fact that the economy is still growing.
Therefore, many of the more than 6m young people who are due to graduate from university in China this June are becoming nervous.
“I don’t know where I am going to go three months from now,” says Zhang Ming, an undergraduate at China Youth University for Political Sciences.
Set to finish an international trade degree this summer, he took entry exams for a post-graduate law studies programme, hoping for a chance to delay his entry to the job market beyond the current trough.
But he missed the required mark by a few points.
Now he will be forced to move out of relatively affordable student housing and lose a monthly stipend – and is clueless as to his future.
The government is as worried as the students themselves. Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, has spoken of a “grave” situation and named the unemployment threat to fresh graduates as his most serious concern beside the growing army of jobless migrant workers.
None of this, however, is a surprise. Education experts say the current problems are only partly the result of the global financial crisis. They are also rooted in structural distortions stemming from failed education policies.
“One factor is that about a decade ago, we started aggressively recruiting more students into university,” says Zhao Beiping who has been giving counselling at the student career centre at Wuhan University of Technology for decades.
He observes that this has not been matched by efforts to enhance the quality of university education, nor by training to make students fitter for the job market.
“For many students, getting into university is their goal in life, and they don’t think beyond that, and unfortunately it’s the same problem with the parents,” he says, adding that “our country’s university education and human resources training are not suited to the needs of a market economy.”
In more specific terms, graduates are often well-trained in theoretical subjects but lack the practical skills and thinking wanted by employers.
Job expectations among graduates are also a gross mismatch to what is available.
“Graduates are fixated on getting jobs as civil servants, in foreign companies or big state-owned companies, and in the big cities – in short, jobs which, they have been led to believe, are the best-paid and safest,” says Mr Zhao.
As exports have plunged over the past few months, companies in the export-dependent coastal cities have become extremely cautious about hiring new staff.
The state cannot make up for that gap – in civil service exams late last year, there were only 1.3 jobs on offer for every 100 applicants.
Teachers also complain that China’s one-child policy and the rapid increase of incomes in many urban families has produced a generation that sorely lacks qualities such as the ability, treasured by older Chinese, to “eat bitterness”, or survive through hard times without complaining.
“We are talking about spoiled young people here,” said a teacher at Xiamen University who asked not to be named.
Surveys conducted by several universities indicate that students – forced to recognise reality – are starting to adjust their expectations.
While graduates at Wuhan University of Technology used to ask for starting salaries of Rmb2,000 to Rmb4,000 a month three years ago, many will now settle for Rmb1,800.
But these are just average numbers, and there is much less of a change in attitude at leading national institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University or Fudan University.
Graduates from relatively well-off families with household registrations in the capital or other wealthy cities, such as Shanghai or Guangzhou, are also much less inclined to lower their expectations.
That leaves those such as Mr Zhang, whose home is in Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces.
“I want to work in an export enterprise somewhere in south-east China,” he says.
“But it looks like that might not work out right away, so maybe I need to go to some more backward place to work first.”
University administrations are eager to use the current crisis to give their students a better sense of what they need to prepare for when they graduate.
As a result, they are starting more counselling programmes. The government, meanwhile, urges local authorities and schools to hold more job fairs.
But that does not change the fact that there are too few jobs in the first place.
Graduates, such as Mr Zhang, from less well-known institutions and with what education experts refer to as “fashionable degrees” are losing out.
He went to job fairs held at Peking University and Tsinghua University last month. “But the morning was reserved for their own students, and by noon, there was almost nothing left,” he says.
Source: The Financial Times
Getting a job is no easy task anywhere in the world right now and China is no exception, despite the fact that the economy is still growing.
Therefore, many of the more than 6m young people who are due to graduate from university in China this June are becoming nervous.
“I don’t know where I am going to go three months from now,” says Zhang Ming, an undergraduate at China Youth University for Political Sciences.
Set to finish an international trade degree this summer, he took entry exams for a post-graduate law studies programme, hoping for a chance to delay his entry to the job market beyond the current trough.
But he missed the required mark by a few points.
Now he will be forced to move out of relatively affordable student housing and lose a monthly stipend – and is clueless as to his future.
The government is as worried as the students themselves. Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, has spoken of a “grave” situation and named the unemployment threat to fresh graduates as his most serious concern beside the growing army of jobless migrant workers.
None of this, however, is a surprise. Education experts say the current problems are only partly the result of the global financial crisis. They are also rooted in structural distortions stemming from failed education policies.
“One factor is that about a decade ago, we started aggressively recruiting more students into university,” says Zhao Beiping who has been giving counselling at the student career centre at Wuhan University of Technology for decades.
He observes that this has not been matched by efforts to enhance the quality of university education, nor by training to make students fitter for the job market.
“For many students, getting into university is their goal in life, and they don’t think beyond that, and unfortunately it’s the same problem with the parents,” he says, adding that “our country’s university education and human resources training are not suited to the needs of a market economy.”
In more specific terms, graduates are often well-trained in theoretical subjects but lack the practical skills and thinking wanted by employers.
Job expectations among graduates are also a gross mismatch to what is available.
“Graduates are fixated on getting jobs as civil servants, in foreign companies or big state-owned companies, and in the big cities – in short, jobs which, they have been led to believe, are the best-paid and safest,” says Mr Zhao.
As exports have plunged over the past few months, companies in the export-dependent coastal cities have become extremely cautious about hiring new staff.
The state cannot make up for that gap – in civil service exams late last year, there were only 1.3 jobs on offer for every 100 applicants.
Teachers also complain that China’s one-child policy and the rapid increase of incomes in many urban families has produced a generation that sorely lacks qualities such as the ability, treasured by older Chinese, to “eat bitterness”, or survive through hard times without complaining.
“We are talking about spoiled young people here,” said a teacher at Xiamen University who asked not to be named.
Surveys conducted by several universities indicate that students – forced to recognise reality – are starting to adjust their expectations.
While graduates at Wuhan University of Technology used to ask for starting salaries of Rmb2,000 to Rmb4,000 a month three years ago, many will now settle for Rmb1,800.
But these are just average numbers, and there is much less of a change in attitude at leading national institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University or Fudan University.
Graduates from relatively well-off families with household registrations in the capital or other wealthy cities, such as Shanghai or Guangzhou, are also much less inclined to lower their expectations.
That leaves those such as Mr Zhang, whose home is in Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces.
“I want to work in an export enterprise somewhere in south-east China,” he says.
“But it looks like that might not work out right away, so maybe I need to go to some more backward place to work first.”
University administrations are eager to use the current crisis to give their students a better sense of what they need to prepare for when they graduate.
As a result, they are starting more counselling programmes. The government, meanwhile, urges local authorities and schools to hold more job fairs.
But that does not change the fact that there are too few jobs in the first place.
Graduates, such as Mr Zhang, from less well-known institutions and with what education experts refer to as “fashionable degrees” are losing out.
He went to job fairs held at Peking University and Tsinghua University last month. “But the morning was reserved for their own students, and by noon, there was almost nothing left,” he says.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Plants (3)
Four small plants convey our hope of better times to come. Wish them would flourish and have their own living space in such a small flowerpot.Monday, March 30, 2009
Chinese Vice President stresses innovation in training young cadres
March 30, 2009
Source: Xinhua
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Monday called for innovation in nurturing and selecting young cadres.
"The training and selecting young cadres is of great importance for the lasting stability of the Party and the state," said Xi at a national panel discussion on the issue.
Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, called on Party committees at all levels to explore new ways to ensure the healthy growth of a generation of young cadres.
He said the work of training and selecting of young cadres deserved continuous attention, given the succession of old cadres by the new and their cooperation was an unending process.
He urged Party committees to educate young cadres with Marxist theories to improve their theoretical attainment.
"The education of ideal and conviction is a fundamental task," he said. The young cadres should be guided and helped in fortifying their conviction in socialism with Chinese characteristics.
He also called for Party committees to enhance the education of Party spirit among young cadres and strengthen the cultivation of their morality, stressing the education of loyalty and resisting corruption.
Xi said young cadres should be encouraged to temper themselves at the grass-roots level positions.
"The promising ones should be sent to the places featuring harsh conditions."
Source: Xinhua
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Monday called for innovation in nurturing and selecting young cadres.
"The training and selecting young cadres is of great importance for the lasting stability of the Party and the state," said Xi at a national panel discussion on the issue.
Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, called on Party committees at all levels to explore new ways to ensure the healthy growth of a generation of young cadres.
He said the work of training and selecting of young cadres deserved continuous attention, given the succession of old cadres by the new and their cooperation was an unending process.
He urged Party committees to educate young cadres with Marxist theories to improve their theoretical attainment.
"The education of ideal and conviction is a fundamental task," he said. The young cadres should be guided and helped in fortifying their conviction in socialism with Chinese characteristics.
He also called for Party committees to enhance the education of Party spirit among young cadres and strengthen the cultivation of their morality, stressing the education of loyalty and resisting corruption.
Xi said young cadres should be encouraged to temper themselves at the grass-roots level positions.
"The promising ones should be sent to the places featuring harsh conditions."
Hangzhou hands out coupons to subsidize education
2009-03-29
Source: China Daily
On Friday Hangzhou in east China began to distribute more than 100 million yuan ($14.6 million) in coupons to help financially-stricken students or workers pay for academic education or vocational training in an effort to better prepare them for competition in the tightening job market.
Potential beneficiaries for coupons in the scenic city of Zhejiang province include fresh graduates from universities in Hangzhou, local students in Hangzhou universities and school-age children of migrant workers. Each coupon has a face value of 100 yuan and a receiver may get 300-2,000 yuan.
A senior Hangzhou official explained that the objective for the coupon plan was to help students and workers improve their academic credentials and professional skills to better compete in the fierce job market.
“We are handing out coupons with the hope to subsidize college education for the financially-disadvantaged students, who can use the coupons to pay part of their tuition. Meanwhile, we want to help workers in Hangzhou boost their educational levels or vocational skills,” said Sun Zhenzhou, deputy secretary-general of Hangzhou city government in the provincial capital.
About 100,000 fresh graduates in 47 universities are entitled to five coupons, or 500 yuan, per person. College students from low income families in Hangzhou will receive 2,000 yuan and children of migrant workers will get 300 yuan, both of which can only be used to pay tuition.
Permanent urban residents who take vocational training courses and manage to get certificates can receive 500 yuan. However, taking the “dual-certificate system” courses for both professional credentials and academic certificates means 1,200 yuan each. Residents with no high school education can also have 1,700 yuan if they apply for such training.
The education coupons carry real names of receivers and are instructed to be used in designated educational institutions.
The first 114 institutions designated for academic education included the Hangzhou Normal University and the first 72 institutions for vocational training included the Zhejiang Training Center for Employment. Courses are provided in 86 kinds of positions, including lathe men, electricians and software programmers.
The coupons are valid from April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.
Source: China Daily
On Friday Hangzhou in east China began to distribute more than 100 million yuan ($14.6 million) in coupons to help financially-stricken students or workers pay for academic education or vocational training in an effort to better prepare them for competition in the tightening job market.
Potential beneficiaries for coupons in the scenic city of Zhejiang province include fresh graduates from universities in Hangzhou, local students in Hangzhou universities and school-age children of migrant workers. Each coupon has a face value of 100 yuan and a receiver may get 300-2,000 yuan.
A senior Hangzhou official explained that the objective for the coupon plan was to help students and workers improve their academic credentials and professional skills to better compete in the fierce job market.
“We are handing out coupons with the hope to subsidize college education for the financially-disadvantaged students, who can use the coupons to pay part of their tuition. Meanwhile, we want to help workers in Hangzhou boost their educational levels or vocational skills,” said Sun Zhenzhou, deputy secretary-general of Hangzhou city government in the provincial capital.
About 100,000 fresh graduates in 47 universities are entitled to five coupons, or 500 yuan, per person. College students from low income families in Hangzhou will receive 2,000 yuan and children of migrant workers will get 300 yuan, both of which can only be used to pay tuition.
Permanent urban residents who take vocational training courses and manage to get certificates can receive 500 yuan. However, taking the “dual-certificate system” courses for both professional credentials and academic certificates means 1,200 yuan each. Residents with no high school education can also have 1,700 yuan if they apply for such training.
The education coupons carry real names of receivers and are instructed to be used in designated educational institutions.
The first 114 institutions designated for academic education included the Hangzhou Normal University and the first 72 institutions for vocational training included the Zhejiang Training Center for Employment. Courses are provided in 86 kinds of positions, including lathe men, electricians and software programmers.
The coupons are valid from April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.
E China city to launch second coupon package
2009-02-24
Source: Xinhua
The government of Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, is planning to release a second batch of purchasing coupons in April to further boost the city's consumption, said an official on Tuesday.
Hangzhou earlier distributed 100 million yuan (about US$14.28 million) in coupons to low-income citizens in January, prior to Chinese lunar new year.
Wang Guoping, secretary of the city's Committee of the Communist Party of China, said this 600 million worth yuan worth of coupons will be used in sectors including tourism, social security, and education which the government wants most to boost.
However, the first batch of coupons distributed, which came from the city's financial department, have raised doubts about the legality of the government using money in coupons, and whether the coupon distribution would upset the city's economic balance.
Wang said that having taken the above doubts into consideration, the city government is considering encouraging citizens to subscribe to the second batch of coupons with their after-tax salary.
Quake-hit Chengdu in the southwest and the eastern city of Nanjing last month gave low-income residents coupons for shopping and entertainment.
These programs are part of a larger national effort to boost domestic consumption in response to the impact of the global economic downturn.
Source: Xinhua
The government of Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, is planning to release a second batch of purchasing coupons in April to further boost the city's consumption, said an official on Tuesday.
Hangzhou earlier distributed 100 million yuan (about US$14.28 million) in coupons to low-income citizens in January, prior to Chinese lunar new year.
Wang Guoping, secretary of the city's Committee of the Communist Party of China, said this 600 million worth yuan worth of coupons will be used in sectors including tourism, social security, and education which the government wants most to boost.
However, the first batch of coupons distributed, which came from the city's financial department, have raised doubts about the legality of the government using money in coupons, and whether the coupon distribution would upset the city's economic balance.
Wang said that having taken the above doubts into consideration, the city government is considering encouraging citizens to subscribe to the second batch of coupons with their after-tax salary.
Quake-hit Chengdu in the southwest and the eastern city of Nanjing last month gave low-income residents coupons for shopping and entertainment.
These programs are part of a larger national effort to boost domestic consumption in response to the impact of the global economic downturn.
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