2016 Summer China Seminar

2016 Summer China Seminar Host Book TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLE PAGE US Embassy Beijing .................................................................................................... 3 Lenovo ...………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Ericsson Communications ........................................................................................... 6 PricewaterhouseCoopers Beijing ................................................................................. 8 General Motors ........................................................................................................... 9 China Merchant Services (CMS) ............................................................................... 10 American Chamber of Commerce ............................................................................. 11 American Education Center ....................................................................................... 12 2 US Embassy Beijing The new U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, is a safe, secure, and functional state-of-the- art facility. The Beijing New Embassy Compound (NEC) is the second largest overseas construction project in the history of the Department of State. The multi-building complex is on a 10-acre (4-hectare) site, creating a secure and pleasant environment for approximately 950 employees. The NEC buildings represent the best in modern American architecture, while the landscape design borrows heavily from Chinese planning principles. The NEC consists of five buildings, each with their own specific functions: an 8-story main chancery, an adjacent 3-story Atrium office building, a Marine Security Guard Quarters, a consular building, and a parking and utility structure/ancillary guard structure. The compound is located northeast of the Forbidden City in Beijing's Third Diplomatic Enclave, in the Liang Ma He neighborhood just outside the Third Ring Road. The NEC’s buildings are modern, yet the compound is rooted in traditional Chinese forms. The buildings are separate from each other, but are all connected by narrow hutong-like walkways lined with bamboo, and are linked by a series of landscaped gardens or "outdoor rooms" that tie the complex together. The NEC includes three "neighborhoods" modeled on the urban gardens and courtyards of China: a consular neighborhood to the east end of the site, a professional neighborhood in the center, and a community neighborhood at the west end. All the neighborhoods are joined together by gardens, courtyards, wooden bridges, and a lotus pond. The centerpiece of the embassy is the 8-story chancery building wrapped in an outer scrim of transparent, translucent, and opaque glass, floating free of the main structure. The qualities of the floating glass envelope change as light changes throughout the day. At night the glass glows like a lantern – or beacon. The adjacent 3-story building’s atrium is designed to foster a sense of community among the staff in a safe, secure, and functional environment. In the area in front of the consular section, the perimeter wall shifts from concrete to thick transparent glass, allowing Chinese visitors to observe the reflecting pool and American artwork. Once inside, they will step on a wooden bridge across the reflecting pool that leads to the 50-foot outdoor terrace. The NEC represents the best of 21st Century American architecture, woven into the Chinese earth and symbolically combining eastern and western traditions. The size and scope of the U.S. mission in China reflects not only the importance of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship, but also the breadth of issues in which the two countries are engaged as this new century progresses. 3 Robert S. Wang assumed duty as the Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Beijing in January 2011. He is a career Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State. Most recently, he was a visiting fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS from September 2009 to December 2010. Dr. Wang was deputy director of the American Institute in Taiwan from August 2006 to September 2009. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1984 and served abroad in Tokyo (1985–1987), Hong Kong (1987–1990), Shanghai (1994–1997), Singapore (1997–2000), and Beijing (2001–2005). He also served as Cambodia desk officer at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. (1991–1993). Dr. Wang attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University (2000–2001) and was the State Department's diplomat in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles (2005–2006). He earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Iowa. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he taught international relations at Whittier College in California (1977–1984). Source: http://beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn/index.html 4 Lenovo (聯想集團) Lenovo was founded by a group of engineers from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing in 1984 with RMB 200,000. Since its humble beginnings, Lenovo has grown to become a major player in the global personal computer market capturing over 16% of total market share while driving revenues upwards of $34 billion in 2013, much of which has materialized in the last decade. Much of this success has been driven by Lenovo’s acquisition of key businesses from IBM in recent years, the first of which was IBM’s personal computer business in 2005 for roughly $1.75 billion (taking all concessions into account) and most recently having purchased IBM’s Intel- based server lines in the beginning of 2014. This is a continuation of Lenovo’s initiative to become a greater player in the global computing industry following additional acquisitions of firms in Brazil, Germany, India, and the USA. The most recent acquisition is the purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion in January of 2014 in an attempt to enter the U.S. smartphone market. Lenovo is active in a handful of computing markets worldwide, including smartphones, tablets, smart televisions, personal and business computing and servers. The firm employs over 33,000 people and is aimed at expanding further into emerging markets, such as those found in South America and Africa. 5 Ericsson Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in 140 countries utilize Ericsson’s network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through their systems. They are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end- to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards. Through their Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications joint venture they offer a range of mobile devices, including those supporting multimedia applications and other services allowing richer communication. Ericsson invests heavily in R&D and actively promotes open standards and systems. Also it reflects an ongoing commitment to technological leadership, with one of the industry's most comprehensive intellectual property portfolio containing over 20,000 patents. Ericsson origins date back to 1876. From the opening of his repair shop for telegraph equipment in 1876, Lars Magnus Ericsson envisioned the great potential of phones, and also saw the need to improve the technical quality. Ericsson contributed to making Stockholm the world's most telephone dense city by the late 1800s. Ever since, it has been Ericsson's firm conviction that communication is a basic human need. Ericsson is the only company in the world offering systems for all major mobile communication standards, actively promoting standardization and open systems. Follow the amazing story in which Ericsson starts off by repairing foreign-made telephones but soon starts making and selling his own telephones, then a few years later forms an agreement to supply telephones and switchboards to Sweden's first telecom operating company, Stockholms Allmänna Telefonaktiebolag. That was only the beginning of Ericsson’s achievements in the area of telecommunications. L M Ericsson's repair shop is now a worldwide telecom supplier. Some periods have been characterized by struggles, economic crises, or conflict such as the Second World War. You will read about the first automatic switching system, the very popular all in one telephone set known as the Cobra, the revolutionary computer controlled-switch AXE, launched in 1975 and the mobile telephone breakthrough that has led to today's high-speed communication with UMTS technology. Ericsson offers a complete portfolio of IP solutions, as well as system integration and support for network operators and service providers. Ericsson had already established a presence in China in the early 1890s through the telephone sales of Gustaf Öberg in Shanghai. Orders increased after the turn of the century when Öberg became president of a telephone operating company in the city. In 6 1913, Ericsson supplied equipment for a telephone station in Guangzhou (Canton). A few years later, the company also hoped to win the telephone concession in the city, but World War I put a stop to these plans. Attempts were made again after the war but without success. Many years would pass before Ericsson established operations in China. After the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the market was closed to Ericsson. In the late 1970s, however, the ruling Communist Party slowly began to open the enormous country to foreign companies. At this time, Ericsson began sales of AXE stations

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