@englishbusiness
There are three elements of chinese military strategy, taught to every school child for generations, embedded in this response. Not all understand, but all know these strategies.
Just speaking a language fluently is insufficient to create, grow/sustain, and scale long-term relationships.
You'll need to understand your stakeholders, so you can lead them, influence, them, attract them, as opposed to following trends, which has its advantages and risks. Leaders enjoy the benefit of first kill, while the pack that follows compete amongst themselves for the scraps. This is one of tenets of entrance barriers. While your competitors are fighting over the carcass of last year's kill, you've moved on to the next market or market segment, within your chosen domain(s).
LANDSCAPE AKA BATTLEFIELD
China is not the China most westerners see. It is as diverse and as complicated as Europe in both locations and peoples - aside from the debatable and arguable advantage of centralized control.
HARD OR TECHNICAL SKILLS
2. If you have a business MODEL, it should be long term, difficult to copy, profitable (short term to longterm), sustainable, and scalable. These principles hold true regardless of where you set up shop - but even more so here - as a population density 4-5x that of the USA would logically dictate a competitive environment 4-5x as fierce.
Most successful 1 trick ponies - fail within 3 years. Typically, the first year is sunk cost building up your brand and business. The second year is spent trying to fend off copycats, and the third year is spent shutting down from ludicrously excessive competition, offering poorer cut-rate knockoff services, starving and strangling your baby to death.
That is the reality of competition and we haven't even delved into the force majeur realms of dirty tricks, corruption, and political risks.
Sales take place all over china - but can you survive on their profit margins or in their highly competitive environments until you can establish brand and distinctive differentiation?
Do you have multiple exit strategies, to include catastrophic failure?
SOFT SKILLS
This mostly addresses your short term plan to establish a beachhead, to the longer term organic and ultimately exponential growth. You'll need to have a strong executable technical plan, well trained and loyal staff and loyal stakeholders - but it will ultimately depend on your ability to influence and lead others as a leader and visionary, if you're ever to make it off the beach and push inland.
China is littered with the carcasses of local businesses inspired by brilliant ideas and native level Chinese language abilities.
China to phase out fossil fuel cars, boost domestic electric vehicle industry
Posted by@geezer
The first paragraph of that news sensationalist alarmist news article:
"...if coal was used to produce the electricity."
University in Yunnan requires students to run 240 kilometers for graduation
Posted by@asatirical
It's no prob...I was actually amused. The leadoff reminded me of Chevy Chase's famous news skits on SNL (Jane, you ignorant....). Apologies for goading you into a massive response. Out of respect, I read it all and concur - but...kids will be kids...sometimes, they just gotta learn things the hard way, in the real world.
As for the professional project management comment - I was commenting on the PM process, not the extraordinarily polarizing debatable aspects of mandatory PE for emerging adults. The university exhibited the core PM processes - which I find unusual with most government organizations and officials (to include USA - not familiar with the shenanigans of other governments, so no opinions there).
Urban re-greening effort to include 37 new Kunming parks
Posted byThis is a fantastic article. Thank you.
University in Yunnan requires students to run 240 kilometers for graduation
Posted byWell...I am after all a failure as a parent...stands to reason...
University in Yunnan requires students to run 240 kilometers for graduation
Posted byDear satyrical bloke
Perhaps it's the brevity of internet blogs - however thank you for broadly insinuating publicly I'm a failure as a parent, based on a singular vague and unimplemented opinion. I'm guessing my personal opinion must have been highly inflammatory to elicit such a highly inflammatory comment.
As a parental failure - I'll use any and all tools available to guide my children towards being self-sustaining, productive, ethical, moral, and responsible citizens of society. If the kids refuse to study at home, do their home chores, are addicted to their digital devices, disrespectful - I'll put them in boarding school jails, where they're forced to study under someone else's oppressive eye, digital devices are forbidden or destroyed, physical daily exercise is mandatory, and their every living and waking moment is controlled.
If university trained/prepared professional life isn't desirable to them, I'll try to guide them into sustainable vocational careers, to include military service.
As a parental failure, I'm also of the opinion that my primary duty is not to be my children's best friend, although perhaps that will come with time and maturity (from both parties - parent AND child) - but to prepare them for a responsible self sustainable life without me, fiscal, environmental, and social responsibility.
We never know how long we can breathe and wander the earth - so yes, I'm absolutely a chronic failure as a parent - better than some - worse than others. So I strive to "parent" with "a sense of urgency".
Incredibly astute of you to pick ascertain my chronic and pervasive failure as a parent, based on a singular, as yet unimplemented opinion of mandatory physical education with a stated and measurable performance metric.
On that note - the university was incredibly amazing in stating and implementing this specific requirement. It showed some potentially incredible project management skills as opposed to the typically vague management directives.