Visit to Big Bang Café
Today, Brenda and I visited Big Bang Café with the participants of China Business Exchange Program. Big Bang Café is located in the heart of Beijing’s CBD area, and is surrounded by the tall skyscrapers around it. The session started off with one of the partners, Jason, sharing with us his views about entrepreneurship. “Many of the successful entrepreneurs did not have the best or most brilliant ideas. They succeeded because they believe in what they are doing, persevere when things were hard and kept working towards their goals.” We then proceeded on to understand more about the...
Read MoreGMIC 2012
YEAN was out on full force for Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2012 last Thursday and Friday. Our very own YEANster, Zhang Min, played an integral part to the success of this event (the company she is interning in is the organiser for GMIC 2012). Some of the YEANsters were volunteers at the event, while some helped out at their company booths at the conference. As for me, I was just there as one of the 4000 over conference attendees. GMIC 2012 conference comprised of two main parts, the panel discussions and interviews and the G-STARTUP competition. The conference allows...
Read MoreIdeas for Singapore-March
For the first time, YEAN was involved in the planning and organising of the Ideas for Singapore. Being a moderator for the first time, I was pretty nervous at the start. However, I must say that the experience was really good. It not only trained me to pick up the important details during the session, but also boosted my confidence in hosting events and public speaking. Below is the article, written by me, that was posted on Ideas for Singapore. In view of International Women’s Day, we invited our first ever female speaker for our March episode of Ideas for Singapore. Our speaker...
Read MoreOur Excursion to Tianjin Eco-City
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, an hour’s train ride away from Beijing, was the result of a collaborative agreement between the governments of China and Singapore to jointly develop a socially harmonious, environmentally friendly and resource-conserving city in China. Hoping to learn more about this project, YEAN liaised with Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City for an industrial visit to the area (a component in the NOC program YEAN always look forward to!). Despite the immense disappointment of being rejected by NOC for our sponsorship, YEAN decided to self-fund and proceed on with our...
Read MoreChina’s Economic Future – The Coin Toss
Arthur Kroeber, Managing Director of GK Dragonomics and Editor of the China Economic Quarterly shared, in a breakfast seminar co-organised by IsCham Beijing, the German Chamber of Commerce and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, his opinions on where China is headed, economically in the years ahead and what the Chinese government could do to stay on its current track of rapid growth. Kroeber strongly believes that China still possesses the potential to sustain a 7-8% average real GDP growth annually over the next decade. Coupled with Beijing’s recent introductions of various...
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