Shangrila Lost!

Zhongdian or as it is known as Shangrila once was considered the Lost Paradise settled by Europeans many years ago as their remote Shangrila!   A popular tourist destination in north Yunnan Province at the corners of Tibet and Sichuan, it has been the favorite place to relax and enjoy the Tibetan culture at   10,000 feet above sea level.  Only in the last 10 years or so has it become a well known destination for  adventure seeking tourists.  My first visit there many years ago, there were only two hotels, few restaurants and some nightly entertainment which was at a wealthy residence where they served butter tea and sang and danced to recorded music.  Having just been there two years ago, the quaint old town with its weathered wooden buildings and narrow streets was the perfect small town to relax and enjoy the culture and the people.  Many sights are near by to enjoy.   HOWEVER this all changed January 2014 when a fire broke out and destroyed over 1/3rd of  1,084 preserved wooden houses, one of which you see here in the background as my wife and a friend enjoyed a cup of tea when we were last there.  Hopefully some parts may be rebuilt but it will never be the same as when it was founded 1,300 years ago as Paradise Lost.   For more information feel free to contact me.  interlak@eskimo.com

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Hong Kong Top city in the world to do business

Hong Kong Top city in the world to do business

For the third consecutive year , Hong Kong tops the ranking Bloomberg , thanks to very low transport costs and low cost needed to create a business. Other indicators in his favor : the weakness of less tangible costs, such as corruption or inflation. Finally, in this very rich country , consumption continues unabated .
This is thanks to domestic demand that Canada has moved in a year from sixth to second in the world , a vitality that is particularly illustrated in the size of the middle class, consumption or GDP per capita. The United States closed the podium , losing a place since last year , mainly because of the cost of starting a business .

What about European Country ! 

France is ranked in 11th position , still weighed down by labor costs disqualifying domestic demand breathless costs and discouraging entrepreneurship and investment, but valued for its good economic integration.
It's better than 2012 - France was then the 14th - but worse than Spain, rose from 16th to 9th position worldwide with an overall improvement in indicators. More generally, the European countries most affected by the crisis have improved their situation is particularly the case for Greece (34th , 43th in 2012 ), Ireland (20th , 22nd in 2012) and Portugal ( 17th, 30th in 2012)

Another important lesson that can be drawn from this classification is the sharp decline in China, which tumbles 19th place in the first year to the 28th day (she was 24th last year) . The main air hole Cause: endemic corruption, revealed by scandals . An against - performance contrasts with the progress of other constituent countries of the BRICS : Brazil rises from the 61st to the 38th spot , Russia from 56th to 43rd , India 54th to 48th and Africa South of the 34th to the 31st position.


written by Mini Liu

Bloomberg

* To achieve its ranking, the Bloomberg agency www.bloomberg.com/‎  analyzed 157 countries on six main criteria: the degree of economic integration , the cost of launching a project, the cost of labor and capital , the cost of transporting goods , less tangible costs such as inflation and the level of corruption , and finally the vitality consumption .


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Stories about Chinese New year and Chinese travellers

David Jones is the latest in a series of Australian businesses face to face to step into the Chinese tourism market , the launch of a Chinese New Year Promotion and highlighting the Chinese heritage of Jessica Gomes muse .

Stories about Chinese New year and Chinese travellers

The store has adorned its flagship Melbourne and Sydney CBD stores with displays and decorations celebrating the Chinese Year of Horse, and introduces Chinese New Year gift cards online and in stores.
Chinese New Year, which this year falls on Jan. 31 , is the most important festival of the Chinese calendar , and like Christmas in Australia is a time for family gatherings and gifts .
DJ is promoting a range of Chinese -themed gifts in its stores , including the $ 349 -a- bottle Wenjun Tian Xian spirit baijiu and $ 1,129 Jimmy Choo shoes in gold, a traditional color of celebration and good fortune. DJ last week marked the beginning of the week Chinese celebration with an appearance in stores by Gomes, a Perth woman whose mother is Chinese , and two traditional Chinese lion dancers . "It is particularly appropriate that these celebrations are held during the long weekend Australia Day , because it is actually a celebration of pride multicultural Australia ," said Gomes .
DJ last year signed an agreement to accept the Chinese UnionPay credit card , which has more than 3.5 million cards in issue, making it the largest program of cards in the world.
For the next two weeks, the company offers cardholders UnionPay card $ 50 gift DJs for every $ 500 spent on their card with DJs in a single transaction .

700,000 Chinese tourists visited Australia

DJs boss Paul Zahra noted that more than 700,000 Chinese mainland travellers visited Australia each year , and the numbers have been growing rapidly. and 70 000 in Myanmar

"Our customers reflect the proud multicultural heritage of Australia and it is logical for us to celebrate this heritage on special occasions such as Chinese " New Year , said Zahra .
Both ANZ and Pernod Ricard , owner of Australian wine Jacob Creek label Bank added the Chinese characters for display on the court as part of its sponsorship of the Australian Tennis Open , which attracted a huge Chinese public through women's champion Li Na .

China is the fastest growing wine export market of Australia , and is No. 3 in terms of export revenues as well as the largest buyer of premium Australian wine

France is losing it its appeal for Chinese tourists !

 France is losing it its appeal for Chinese tourists !

The France lose it its appeal for tourists ? So this morning , France NEws reported that London would become the most visited city in the world, to Paris , a study Travelzoo update on the favorite destinations of Chinese in 2014. It appears that France, which still appeared in 8th position in 2013 , comes this year's "Top 10" .

100millions of Chinese will travel abroad this year  , but maybe less in France : via

 sources http://idee-cadeau-original.blogspot.fr/2013/12/7-choses-savoir-avant-de-partir-voyager.html

Top 10 destination ! 

This disaffection Chinese may cause a significant loss to France. China is indeed passed first in 2012 in terms of tourist spending abroad, with a total of $ 102 billion (75.5 billion euros) , stated the World Tourism Organization (WTO) in April. The WTO had explained this record by rising incomes Chinese and relaxation of exit. The number of Chinese travelers abroad has increased from 10,000,000 in 2000 to 83,000,000 in 2012, had said UNWTO. At the same time spending on international tourism of these travelers were almost eightfold . Surprisingly, the preferred destination for Chinese in 2014 will be Japan , despite the Sino- Japanese dispute over the Senkaku - Diaoyu Islands . 29% of Chinese respondents now put Japan ahead of their travel plans , against only 18 % in 2013. It is above all the weak yen that attracts Chinese , very fond of shopping during their travels abroad. It is only relatively recently that Chinese travelers began to enjoy the food and atmosphere of Japan notes Vivian Hong , President, Travelzoo China branch . The easing of visa restrictions put in place after the earthquake in 2012 also helped , he adds .

USA

The United States also attract more Chinese . They were 25% consider overseas trip in 2013 , they are 29% this year and are at par with Japan.
Taiwan, considered a breakaway province by some Chinese, also the dimension and password from fourth to third place of the most popular destinations in 2014. Now, residents of large cities in China , can go only so far in Taiwan while they were forced to go in groups. In addition , Mandarin, used by many Chinese, is widely understood in Taiwan. Conversely , Australia has lost six places in the ranking and the Maldives 4. Finally, in Europe , Italy, Switzerland and Greece are the bunch tail the Top 10

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China R&D market

China R&D market

China has exceeded the European Union for its research spending to GDP according to OECD statistics. South Korea remains, by far, the country that invests the most proportionally in R & D.
The new statistics confirm that the term "emerging" is less appropriate to the second world economy. For the first time, in 2012, China spent more than the European Union (EU) in research and development (R & D), in proportion to its GDP (Gross Domestic Product). According to statistics released Monday by the OECD, the Chinese have spent 1.98% of their GDP on research, a tenth of a point higher than the EU of Twenty-Eight has invested 1.97%. Chinese dynamism is spectacular, because since 2000, the wealth devoted to science and innovation in Europe has risen from 1.74% to 1.97% while in China, it has more than doubled, starting from 0 90% to 1.98%. The EU of Twenty-Eight weighing heavier than the Chinese economy, the expenditure in absolute terms are higher in Europe, around € 225 billion, against EUR 178 billion for China.

European R&D dicreases ! 

The European average conceals wide disparities of course, between the champion of research, Finland, who spent 3.55% of GDP in 2012 and, not surprisingly, Greece (0.69%). For comparison, the figure for France is 2.26%, slightly more than ten years ago (2.24%), unless there is twenty years (2.28% in 1995) and still far the target of 3% that are assigned the United States and the European Union. The United States has, as is the case for 20 years, a share of GDP devoted to R & D than that of the Old Continent, with 2.79% in 2012. South Korea to Israel
Among developed countries, South Korea is in the lead, before Israel. She spends 4.36% of its wealth generated research, an increasing effort for over ten years via twitter.
Beyond the competition between China, Korea and the "old nations", the total R & D expenses increased by 2.7% compared to 2011 in absolute value across the OECD. For the second consecutive year, according to the international organization it is located above the level before the crisis. "This increase is mainly in the business sector, the latter often having benefited from indirect tax incentives, the statement said, while public R & D budgets have remained stable or declined in many countries"

written by Gong Peng
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The travel Dance of China!

He Dances when he travel in China!

 It is a very funny video. This laowai is just crazzy !

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Anti corruption campaign in China : 182,000 Leaders punished

Anti corruption campaign in China : 182,000 Leaders punished

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to power today announced that it punished more than 182,000 of its executives last year, in what authorities describe as a vast anti-corruption campaign . The bodies responsible for combating corruption in 2013 received more than 1.95 million records across the country , and have investigated some 172,500 cases, said Huang Shuxian , deputy director of the powerful Central Commission for Discipline Inspection , Constable Party .

In the end, 182,038 frames have been subject to disciplinary sanctions, which may range from a warning to expulsion from the party or worse - and prison sentences and fines may be imposed by the addition of Justice members were excluded . " The disciplinary authorities of the Party at all levels (...) supported the adoption of sanctions against all ( members) corrupt ," said Mr. Huang during a briefing.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the head of the Party since November 2012 had shown its intention to take " flies like tigers ", that is to say, managers at all levels , believing that corruption could threaten the very existence of the Party. So far , at least 19 officers with a rank equal to or higher than that of deputy minister were pinned in this broad anti-corruption movement initiated by Xi, including a Vice - Minister of Public Security.
But experts believe that only political reforms depth could effectively counter rampant corruption , and nothing has been done in this direction. Meanwhile, the central authorities have imposed a politicians austerity , banishing banquets, luxury gifts, or restricting travel abroad.
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Holidays, ASC Grand Opening, and Crazy Lady Throwing Nuts at my Head

I really thought that just a few people in my family were reading my blog even though I am aware that I made it a public blog.  It turns out that 11,000 people from 10 different countries have looked at my blog at least once since I started it.  I'm a little surprised that anyone actually cares what we are doing over here apart from just being safe and sound.  The only reason it's a "public" blog is because it doesn't have anything too personal and I'm just too lazy to send everyone in my family and my closest friends a private invitation to join my blog.  So, it's out there for the world to see.  I sincerely apologize to everyone for not posting anything since November 22nd.  I want to be honest and disclose that things got a bit rough there for me for a short while.  With the heavy teaching load (7 classes and 320 students) along with trying to get the American Studies Center up and running, I really didn't have much time to write anything.   And, when I did have some time at the end of the day to write, I was simply too exhausted to do it.  The other factor was that I was trying to cope with my new surroundings, which has been a little difficult at times.  The culture shock has been more extensive at times than I had anticipated and it has sometimes led to a bit of mild depression.  But, I'm doing well now and thought it would be a good time to update everyone on what has been going on for the last month and a half. 

Maybe I've seen too many movies that mess with chronology (like Pulp Fiction and Memento), but I don't think I will go in order of events.  I want to begin with something that happened just today because nothing like this has happened to me in China since I arrived and this story absolutely must be told before I forget it down the road.  Stacie and I needed to go to the local market to buy some food for the next couple of days. We had Evelynn and Lucy with us since they wanted to spend some money they got from Grandma and Grandpa Stein for Christmas.  They had been saving up to buy new winter coats and they both bought ones they absolutely adore.  After we went coat shopping, we were wandering around the market looking for some new wool socks for Stacie and a winter hat for Nicolas (he left his other one at a restaurant too far from home to retrieve it).  As we were shopping, I noticed that this lady kept following us.  She walked right up to the children and looked directly at their faces from just a foot or two away.  Her behavior up to this point isn't too strange for the Chinese, but it became even more odd after she had been following us for about 10 minutes and seemed to go wherever we went within the store. This aisle, that aisle, left, right.  It didn't matter.  I told Stacie, "Hey, something is wrong with this lady," but Stacie is used to people giving us unwanted attention, so she didn't think anything of it.  But, I knew something was wrong.  I said, "Let's go checkout right now." 

So, we went to the checkout line and waited.  In China, the checkers are really slow, so we sat there for several minutes while this lady continued to hover over us.  She was eating these hazelnuts and she would give us dirty looks while throwing the nutshells into our basket.  Then, she started throwing the nutshells into Lucy and Evelynn's hair.  I was starting to feel VERY threatened, but still didn't want to make a big scene. So, I created a wall between myself and the children (who thankfully knew nothing of what was going on by the way).  Then, she went around me and started to bother Stacie.  She threw some nutshells at Stacie and Stacie yelled "Stop it" really loudly.  Stacie knows how to say "stop" in Chinese, but she was too mad to care.  Conversely, the crazy lady wasn't speaking at all.  Everything she was doing was just communicated nonverbally.  We continued to move through the line and try to ignore the lady without creating a confrontation, but she started pelting me in the back of my head with hazelnuts.  I'm thinking, "What the heck are you doing, lady?  Do you not know I could kill you with one American sized punch to the throat?" She continued to pester us. 

I looked over at some other Chinese people nearby and they were watching, but were obviously not sure what to do.  It kind of reminded me of this YouTube video I saw a while back where a guy got run over by a car in the streets of Beijing and a hundred people just stand there and watch curiously. Fortunately, a Chinese man about 30 years old in the other line saw what was going on and told the lady to stop what she was doing.  She did not stop.  The man looked at me again and pointed to his head to indicate that the lady was mentally ill.  By this point, that was already quite obvious.  He saw that she was not stopping her harassment of us and motioned to a security guard to help us.  When the crazy lady saw the situation was escalating, she exited the store, but the security guard knew who was causing the trouble and followed her out.  As we left the market and started walking home, we wondered if she would be waiting for us outside, but we never saw her again.  I hope we never do.  We generally feel safe in China and people are mostly kind to us.  It was a little jarring to have this experience and hopefully we don't have many more like it. 

Moving on...in December, when all of my colleagues were posting on Facebook that they had turned in all of their grades and were ready to start the holiday season, I was so jealous.  I still had weeks to go at that point.  Now, it's January 11th and I know everyone at SUU has started the new semester and yet I don't have to teach until February 15th.  So, it's now my turn to to enjoy a much needed break.  And boy do I need it!  The last month of the fall semester at Hunan Normal University was especially brutal for me.  I had to grade 320 Oral English exams and figure out how to input the grades.  It was such tedious work trying to match their student ID numbers to their Pinyin names and then to the simplified Chinese characters.  My Chinese friend who is visiting SUU as a faculty this year offered me some software to help, but it was for a PC computer and wouldn't help with the organizing of the grades, which is where I was really struggling.  I made the mistake of taking attendance by having them sign a sheet each day, but later regretted this decision when I had to try to read the chicken scratches on the page.  You think it's hard to read English names written out poorly.  Try reading some handwritten Chinese characters. It took me about a week just to calculate my grades and submit them even after the exams were already graded.  Not fun at all!  But, I made it.  Once I turned in my grades, I was wondering how the Chinese students would respond to their grades. Would they whine as much as American students do?  Some of the Chinese students scored quite well on their exams, whereas others did poorly.  It was not unlike grading in America in this way.  The big difference in China, though, is that the students never complained about their final grades (at least not to me personally which is all I really care about).  They can complain all they want to each other as long as I don't have to hear about it. 

It was a little stressful trying to finish up my grades and to enjoy Christmas in China, but I think our family managed just fine.  We went to Xiangtan to visit the Parreno family (as we did with Thanksgiving as well).  It was so fun to spend the holidays with them.  They are such wonderful people and we have become quite close friends with them.  Stacie and I are convinced this is one of those friendships that will last a lifetime.  In fact, Manolo and Jackie are expecting their third child soon (due date is January 8th so we are already beyond that point).  Jackie was crazy enough to have their second child in China a couple of years ago and is even crazier to do it yet again.  Stacie and Annie will be going to Xiangtan the day after tomorrow to help with the Parreno children while Jackie is in the hospital.  So, it's just me and the other four kids in Changsha for a few days.  Anyway, for Christmas we opened presents from Santa on Christmas morning, watched Christmas movies every night, and cooked a turkey in a toaster oven.  It was sublime.  I was told by Manolo that the Chinese don't believe the turkey is actually a turkey.  They believe it's just a giant chicken that has been overfed.  When he tried to explain that it's, in fact, a totally different bird, they just laugh at him.  The most interesting thing we did at Christmas was a series of parties the Parrenos threw for different groups of Chinese children.  They organized three parties and invited 8 children to each party.  They decked their whole apartment in trees, lights, deer, snowmen, wreaths, and many other items.  It was quite lovely.  When the children arrived, they got to help decorate Christmas trees, frost cookies, sing Christmas songs, and get a visit from Santa (any guesses who got to play Santa?).  We did this hour and a half long party three times and it was really fun to see these children experience a real Christmas.  In China, Christmas is nothing more than a big shopping day.  You see pictures of Santa Claus in store windows, but the holiday doesn't mean anything at all to the Chinese.  After all, such a small percentage of people in China are Christians.  The majority religions are atheism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism.   We all had a great time celebrating this very special holiday in China. We missed our families a great deal at this time and were very homesick and felt blessed to have such a wonderful Christmas so far away from home.

When we returned home from Xiangtan, I finished my grading and began preparations for the grand opening of the American Studies Center at HNU.  My colleague Kurt Harris (Director of Global Engagement at SUU), myself, Jay Sorensen (SUU student), and Ethan Gali (also an SUU student) have worked very hard to organize activities for the fall semester, to get the center furnished and ready for daily operation, and to prepare for the grand opening.  In the fall alone, we taught the Chinese students how to play baseball and football, welcomed Dr. Sun from SUU to give a lecture on American composers, taught the students about Thanksgiving traditions and served them pie with whipped cream, decorated the American Studies Center for Christmas, visited the local Changsha orphanage with gifts and supplies, and decorated gingerbread cookies for Christmas.  We also had the new office painted, furnished, and set up with a computer, printer, and office supplies.  It was quite an extensive undertaking.  Finally, just a few days ago, a delegation came from SUU (with our Provost Brad Cook, Kurt Harris, and Earl Mulderink) to join with HNU administrators for a formal ribbon tying ceremony to commence the opening of the center.  As part of the opening, we all gave speeches about the center and it's purpose in bringing our two cultures together.  I was flattered to receive big cheers from the students when I was introduced as Dr. Stein (they always pronounce it "stain").  I guess all those A's I gave out paid off because now I'm the popular teacher I suppose.  Actually, they don't even know what an "A" is.  When I told the students in my classes about the American grading system, they were particularly critical about the fact that we skip the letter "E" when we go straight from "D" to "F."  They thought this made no sense at all.  Anyway, I got to speak to the audience about some of the activities we had been doing in the fall and to try to promote the upcoming spring activities.  I was impressed with the size of the crowd at the ceremony, but later found out the students were forced to attend by some of their teachers (not unlike America either).  I only found out that the students were coerced into coming when we had an open house to tour the center between the ribbon tying and Dr. Mulderink's guest lecture.  We intended the tour of the office to be kind of a break time between these two parts of the ceremony and we had cookies and soda prepared for the guests.  However, none of the students would leave their seats because they were worried about getting into trouble with their teachers.  So, we only served cookies to a few dignitaries and I ended up taking about 200 cookies home to Stacie and the kids.  They didn't seem to mind at all.

Well, this blog is already long enough.  At this point, I'm hoping that the rest from school will help me to cope even better with life in China.  The last 5 months have been challenging and rewarding at the same time.  The people here have a goodness about them that is hard to describe, but they think much differently than we do in America.  You just know you are in a different place when you see T-shirts that say things like "Freedom leads to violence" or "freedom is anarchy."  Or, if a student comes up to me and says, "Why do you believe that citizens should be able to say anything they want about their government?  Don't you think they should be stopped?"  These comments lead to lengthy discussions that are probably helpful in generating some understanding between us, but it reminds me we are not in Kansas anymore (for the record, I hate Kansas). 

We get invited to do many day outings with the Tang Family and one of our favorites was to drive outside of the main area of Changsha to a local farm where we got to pick carrots, turnips, cabbages, and some red hot peppers.  The kids had a blast!

We went home with so many vegetables.  We were stocked for a week or two I think.

Stacie made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and gave them to this grandma and one of the young children.  Of course they had never had them before and they seemed to really enjoy them. 

Jeanie was having a great time playing with the Chinese children.  She kept jumping off of this ledge here once some of the boys showed her how it was done. 

This picture shows the Chinese students taking a xiuxi (rest) during the day in front of the school library.  Most Chinese take a rest between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. every day.  They would rather start the day early and end it late than to have a short lunch.  Americans would rather have a 30 minute lunch and go home at 4:30 p.m. I think.

I'm glad I finally got a picture of this.  This is how the mail often works in China.  I know sometimes things get delivered directly (such as my packages to the International Building--don't worry family, they do arrive safely).  But, often these mail carriers just set up all the packages on the sidewalk and students have to come pick them up here.

Hanging out with the Parrenos.  Little Manolo (we call him Manolito) just loves Stacie!  Here, she is reading a book to him.  This is the kid that speaks three languages and he compartmentalizes people by language.  One time, I said something to him in Chinese and he said, "No," meaning I have to speak English.  His dad speaks English to him and his mom speaks Spanish to him.  Then, he learns Chinese from the locals.

Here we are at Thanksgiving.  We had pork tenderloin (made by Jackie), cole slaw (also Jackie), mashed potatoes (made by me), pumpkin pie (made by Stacie), and Cheesecake (made by Angela at the bottom right).

It was hard to say goodbye to Jay and Katie Sorensen, who left on December 5th.  We had a nice goodbye dinner for them before they left at a steakhouse. 

For months, we toted plastic forks to the restaurant for Lucy and Evelynn.  Guess what?  We don't need to do that anymore.  They've got it down!

Christmas morning in Xiangtan.

One of our favorite parts of China is the constant mistakes on t-shirts.  First, I'm not sure why New York and Massachusetts are on the same shirt.  Did they just randomly choose two states and, if so, why is New York more important than Massachusetts.  And second, Masachnatts????

It's so cold here that everyone has to wear Chinese style quilted pajamas when they are in their houses.  I had to order mine special online and they were 5XL.  The Chinese are so tiny here.  In America, I wear a 2XL.  When I try 2XL on in the Chinese stores, I can barely get it over one arm (or leg).  I know the sizes are different, but it hurts my self-esteem to have ballooned 3 whole sizes since coming to China.

This is what we did for our New Years Eve party.  Decorated gingerbread cookies and watched movies.  It's a Stein family tradition to watch movies on this night.  Side note--Stacie's mom sent us these packets of gingerbread cookies.  I don't want Kurt Harris thinking I stole some of the gingerbread he sent for an ASC activity.  Just thought I would clarify that.

All of the important SUU and HNU administrators and faculty who are in some way affiliated with the ASC.  Obviously, some worked harder than others.  You know how PR photo opportunities go, right?

I love that Brad Cook and Kurt Harris are important enough people for the Chinese to show them a good time.  Since I followed them around for three straight days, I got to join them on some of their itinerary activities, such as this delightful foot massage.

Provost Cook, Dr. Harris, Dr. Mulderink, and Dr. Stein.  Like 4 peas in a pod.  Here we are at the favorite restaurant of all foreign students, particularly SUU students, and the Stein family of course.  When I told our Chinese hosts that the provost wanted to see where his SUU students were eating, she thought I was crazy.  He toured the foreign student dorm and went to eat at Liu Jie's (Miss Liu's).  They said it was some of the best food they had on this trip, although the expression on the provost's face doesn't look to pleased.

Santa Claus is comin' to town!  Who else can say they played Santa for 24 Chinese kids!?  What a great memory I will always have of this very special kind of Christmas.

Appeal to Chinese local tyrants in Nepal "Bai Fu beauty" advertising

Appeal to Chinese local tyrants in Nepal "Bai Fu beauty" advertising

Now foreign tourism propaganda has not only confined to relax visa policy, in order to attract Chinese tourists, many countries abroad cities and scenic spots have tried it a killer.

Nepal shop "Bai Fu beautiful love" slogan

In recent years, because of the beautiful and rich in humanity, geographical location convenient wait for a reason, Nepal has gradually become one of the popular destinations of Chinese citizens outbound travel.In Nepal each big tourist city, many shop signs in Chinese customers, some shops also posted out the latest popular attract eyeball "modern Chinese", "god horses are floating clouds", "Bai Fu beautiful love", "fire oh, kiss!"Such as AD attracted many Chinese tourists.

Trends for mobile Marketing in China

Trends for mobile Marketing in China

Advertising , the mobile Internet , there is still an important source of income . Next year , the market usher in greater growth trend . Recently published article ( Bateman of Haili) famous blog site PandoDaily Harry Bateman , article about the development trend of the future of mobile advertising , mobile advertising optimistic , and said it would stand out in 2014 . I read the article as follows .
If you earn more profits , the mobile phone business weak e- business specific : In the past few years , the industry has been circulating this maxim .

 In 2013 , the total cost of one hundred billion U.S. dollars Internet advertising market , as compared to be continues to be a piece of cake , mobile ad spending in the United States 10 billion from the corresponding between $ 8 to almost double by 2012 industry in anticipation to reach . However , in the eyes of the starting industry desktop , the mobile advertising , it is also significant growth potential movement of the mobile device is charged .
In my opinion , video advertising next year , will be the key areas of growth in the mobile advertising . Similarly , publishers and application , are competing in search of user participation , it would have the opportunity to open some applications will increase is expected . Small businesses , some will be able to solidify the position of the existing possibility that Facebook and Google will continue to dominate the advertising market is high . Then , I will announce the details of the five-year forecasts of my future .

1 video advertising to dominate

For more information about video ads , usually , 5-10 last second , the ad is a favorite in more markets , of course, in general , not only occupies an area of a larger 150 × 20 character display area , video to make the benefits of the ad . The main advantage of mobile advertising , throughout the entire 2013 it has been largely ignored , the page of a small banner ad formats of some applications , sufficient attention has not been paid . However , in my opinion , Greystripe 's as up as a mobile advertising company originally Millennium 's of AdMob, the quattro , will pop up ad formats of these . But , after all , at the initial stage , smartphone operating system , screen resolution and screen size rather than as now , these ads are intended for the design of smartphone early . The current stage of , the hardware device , in this environment , rich, interactive and more short video advertising market and display advertising colorful is equipped with high-definition display , high-speed, operating system , is full of potential . For more information , as is better than experience of text ads and banner ads , good experience , not only to the new device in the market , video advertising is more suited to the users and advertisers . I think the growth rate next year of video ads of mobile phone than text ads and banner ads faster . Therefore, large companies in these areas , as well as rhythm AdColony, and Vungle, including Crisp medium multimedia , and mobile advertising company Celtra At present, the company was expected to usher in development opportunities more next year have .

2 Application developers will attempt to application of existing re- attract users

Be to create a new mobile application, and then install the paid app has become a market that is very mature . Market because the prosperity , the next step is to re- open on your smartphone , the application of existing users , and measures more reasonable . Over the past four years , the brand of all , all publishers are competing to create a large-scale promotion and application , the application of these , obtain and install the download as much as possible . However , the cost to create an application is as high as or higher range , of $ 250,000 $ 25,000 , in many cases , they are very expensive . Very low mainly in order to obtain a competitive advantage in the $ 3 $ 1 only to the extent of the cost of each download , the installation cost is a marketing , advertising and .


According to this expert Similarly Through targeted marketing activities , and has supported mobile developers in order to improve the capacity of their applications is installed similar companies of other Flurry and Tapjoy, SponsorPay, and W3I, marketing these activities , such as subsidies and other virtual currency such as this provide a new incentive that can be downloaded to the user's application . However , despite the measures , they suggest , it is not able to spend a lot of cost for this purpose , these efforts , 75% or more of the application , the number of users to download and install small. Wasted a lot of money , and brands publishers to promote the user to download and install the application , in fact , these applications will be ignored to the user in the end. To get around this problem , there are a lot of new companies such as URX AppBoy such , Urban airship , Appoxxee, TapCommerce, ActionX, coral reefs , in order to solve the problem of the customer of the customer , the application of these re-enable in the , in an effort to re- arrangement information , and managed to solve this problem through various forms . I think in 2014 the future, this area , and will continue to be the focus of one of the mobile advertising .

3 rich has become richer

The mobile advertising platform of the maximum income will be Google and Facebook in 2014 . In the third quarter of this year , advertising revenue on Facebook is from about half to go , but a year ago , mobile advertising revenue for Facebook has created a nearly zero . Expected that this number will continue to increase in the next year . Mobile phone subscribers more than active user of 120 000 people , the seven million - - The number of the benefits of user traffic and Facebook at a glance it means in terms of mobile revenue , Facebook is to beat the companies will be hard .
In addition , Facebook is also , and began video advertising business , which is dedicated to video advertising on mobile devices in recent years . For this reason , I think, it is possible to move $ 100 million of five or more next year on the revenue side of Facebook only . At the same time , not just on the size of Google itself , coupled with mobile advertising products AdWords / AdMob basic mature , from the point of view of the rapid development of the Android platform , performance will continue to improve probably Google, mobile advertising revenue may reach ( including including the results of the mobile search ads ) , which is expected next year to 10 $ 1 billion from 6 1000000000 . The IAD of Apple Twitter and Pandora , and media such as Millennium , main competitors in the mobile advertising market , these companies will catch up with Facebook and Google in the mobile advertising market .Jbbelge says.

4 . Wave of consolidation hit

Of course , you also can have a greater variety of mobile advertising technology company in the market , ads Rich media ads like this , video ad networks , demand-side platform (DSP), ad exchange , such as relocation / information platform the analysis platform is flooded , and advertising and delivery and regional areas . All aspects of advertising , including mobile advertising technology , such as the size will be a very important factor. Why not? Supplier that all the necessary services from the service provider they just , do business with them is small , need agency or brand , of each of the major functions of the most , and would like to be able to the service provider , you can provide the service overall .
So , I think , in this ecosystem , you will need many small businesses is to integrate , to be part of large companies . For example , Kontagent processing PlayHaven is just getting started . And if it is possible to start using the mobile ads look great asset acquisition of mobile advertising platform , or merger , and see ( trembling and whether BrightRoll 's , like a dream ) some advertising luck of the desktop , it surprised it would be should . Media coverage , and so on mobile advertising network in the Mobi , I acquired a small mobile phone company several , including bean sprouts and Appstores.com.
Withdrawal or several billion U.S. dollars of five mobile advertising technology company evaluation Perhaps , this phenomenon did not occur this year . It is possible to early end of 2015 or 2014 , mobile technology companies of multi-billion dollar first from the market appears we , these companies can include a flurry , advertising HasOffers, Celtra, the notification bar , on the AdColony, InMobi , Mojiva, Smaato, the TapAd Nexage, Vungle, and drawbridge . In these companies , the majority of the current valuation has reached to the dollar from 10,000 yen to 50,000 U.S. dollars .

In fact , Millennium Media , was listed in a multi-billion dollar market that it begins to decrease to $ 581 million immediately, but in the past year , to $ 350 million , which corresponds to the revenue of the original price nearly 10 times the acquisition of Twitter of MoPub. Mobile advertising market is doubling every year , but because it is more than ever , the growth rate of these companies is that in the next period , revenue of 1 or 2 reach one hundred million U.S. dollars , the high valuation of the company you MoPub acquisition also will face a similar fate there .

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In 2014, Chinese tourists will be civilized !

In 2014, Chinese tourists will be civilized ! 

Do not put your fingers in the nose , do not spit or throw their trash are some of the recommendations made by the Chinese government . Its nationals travel enthusiasts welcome these instructions with kindness.
Spitting in public , urinating in a bottle or tag historic sites are just some of the "incivilities" prohibited under the guide of good manners for the use of Chinese tourists. Taking advantage of the increase in their standard of living , the Chinese are more likely to go on holiday abroad. However, their sometimes boorish manners " damage the image of the Chinese people " , said in May the Vice -Premier Wang Yang .

National Tourism Bureau ! 

Hoping to get back on track , the National Tourism Administration on Tuesday released a detailed manners guide on its website , on the occasion of the holiday period of the Golden Week , which marks the Chinese National Day. The detailed 64-page document calls on passengers in the second world power to " behave properly " and to " comply with the standards of civilized travel behavior ."
Thanks to its phase of " golden development" China totaled $ 102 billion in spending on travel abroad in 2012 , making the country the largest contributor to the tourism industry, according to figures from the World Trade Organization tourism. And the Chinese have made ​​over 80 million trips abroad last year. Several countries, including in Europe in crisis, has eased their administrative procedures for tourist visas to attract affluent Chinese and these often willing to spend . However, their behavior is sometimes inadequate . In May , a 15 -year-old scandal in Egypt, but also in China, etching his name in Chinese characters on a monument during a visit to a temple in Luxor . In February , a mother of mainland China had caused astonishment by her child urinate in a bottle in the middle of a restaurant in Hong Kong. The Chinese have adopted a number of practices in their country, that may shock abroad ... So they spit plenty in the street. And it happens to see mothers holding their children above the bins stores to enable them to make their needs.
No chrysanthemums in France

 The Guide !

The " good high tourist guide " recommends to avoid getting your fingers in the nose, picking his teeth with the fingers, or to throw his trash in the street , smoking or get shirtless public places, having a dirty appearance to slurp noodles at his meals in restaurants or airplanes. The guide also enacts rules or practices to be observed in some countries in particular: "Do not give chrysanthemums or yellow flowers when you're invited to a dinner in France ," not to claim pork in Muslim countries , or call Africans " blacks " or "black" and avoid touching people of the left hand in India.
These recommendations be acted upon ? "I do not think the new rules are unreasonable. Tourists represent a country. It is therefore important that we were representing well, "says a visitor to Hong Kong from Guizhou , interviewed by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. And add it always ensures that his son holds well when traveling abroad " . When we escalators , I told him to stay right not to block the passage " A another Chinese tourist preparing a trip to Thailand , quoted by people's Daily , says he learned about the use of tips before departure. " Lacking tipping culture , we are not accustomed to give in exchange for services in China. But I do not want to be considered a rude Chinese when traveling abroad , " he says , adding that he " ashamed when Chinese spit or scream in public. "

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Crazzy nationalists in China !

Crazzy nationalists in China ! 

A Chinese who wanted to disembark balloon on one of the islands Senkaku - Diaoyu controlled by Japan but claimed by China under the name Diaoyu , was rescued Wednesday 1 January by the Japanese coastguard . The man , aged 35 , who had departed Wednesday morning from the Chinese province of Fujian , was forced to request a bailout before arriving at destination , due to technical problems . A rescue helicopter had come to assist him , discovered the balloon failed at sea 22 kilometers south of the islands .
After his mishap , the man posted on his Weibo account , the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, a short message stating that he was safely back in the province of Fujian. He immediately received many messages of support , making him a "hero" , "Brother Xu, your countrymen are proud of your act pioneer ! , " Can be read in particular .
The applicant has not posted details on his journey. He announced plans on the Internet last September : "I had some expert advice today, and I am now full of meteorological knowledge ! I'll fly to the Diaoyu Islands ! , " He wrote . The text was accompanied by a picture of the Chinese flag with Senkaku - Diaoyu Islands in the background . In another message , he stated that the crossing would be " the most difficult in the history of ballooning ."
Chinese and Taiwanese activists have in the past repeatedly tried to land on these islands by boat but almost every time was blocked by the Japanese Coast Guard . However, in mid-2012 , pro- Chinese activists from Hong Kong were able to set foot and raise the Chinese flag on one of the islands Senkaku - Diaoyu before being arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard .

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