Laurids Mikaelsen, Danish Ambassador to China, returned to Jiujiang City in east China's Jiangxi Province to visit his birthplace almost 60 years after he first breathed the air of day there.
"It's the first time I have been back since 1950," said Mikaelsen, who was born in 1948 in the riverside city's Danford Hospital.
The hospital, now called the Jiujiang Municipal Women & Children's Hospital, was established by American Methodists in 1896 and Mikaelsen's parents were two of the four Danish missionaries who came to work there in 1947. His father was head doctor at that time.
When the main building of the hospital was rebuilt in 1986, a small, three-storey wooden office building was preserved. It was in this grey mansion that Mikaelsen's parents lived.
A yellowing photo preserved in the hospital showed Mikaelsen's father. "There he was in the first row," said the ambassador with a gleam in his eye. "And I recognized another person in the photo -- a lady".
The lady in question is 90-year-old Wang Huanwen, or Mary Wang. Now slowed by age, the silver-haired retired nurse was reluctant to speak at first. "But when she entered the room where my parents used to live, she started to speak English and told us lots of stories," he grinned.
The young Mikaelsen lived in Jiujiang for two and a half years before moving to Denmark with his parents.

17-04-2007 |  126 Hit(s) | (0 vote)

Diamics, a privately-held company developing products for cancer screening and diagnostics, today announced that it has signed a three year $22 million plus contract for the use and distribution of its proprietary system for cervical cancer screening in China.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Beijing Jingmin Hospital Group will purchase no less then 1 million tests a year. They will initially start with the company's CerCol collector which is part of the Pap-Map(TM) cervical mapping system. The CerCol collector received US FDA 510(k) marketing clearance earlier this month. In China, product registration is being funded and organized by the Beijing Hospital Group.
Once registered, the CerCol collector initially will be used in China in conjunction with the Diamics Transfer Station, to automatically create a "touch-prep" impression onto a pre-treated slide, which then can be processed by normal Pap staining methods. Diamics' Pap-Map technique is thus able to create a "map" of the sample collected from the cervix, providing the physician with Pap stain qualitative aspects of abnormal areas of the cervix, to help direct colposcopy and biopsy procedures.

06-04-2007 |  133 Hit(s) | (0 vote)

One of the first Chinese companies to establish its presence around the world, Lenovo remains an example of how to approach global markets
To win in the new marketplace, companies must drive customer value, collaborate globally, combine the strengths of multiple cultures, embrace emerging markets, and take advantage of economies of scale on a global basis. While it's increasingly common for companies to maintain their manufacturing operations in China, only a few have leveraged the vast IT expertise available in the Chinese market. Lenovo has built a world-class IT company in China and is dominating the Chinese market as a result of this strategy. On a global scale, Lenovo is the world's third-largest PC company. While we sell primarily to business customers, we're expanding our presence in the consumer market as well.
In the summer of 2005, when I had the opportunity to join Lenovo's IT operations worldwide, I was eager to accept it. Lenovo had just purchased the IBM PC division and was expanding globally. It was one of the first companies from China to establish its presence around the world.

02-04-2007 |  121 Hit(s) | (0 vote)

Along with the booming of China's auto industry and the quick expansion of market scale, auto market in China is taking on six trends: internationalized development pattern, sustainable market growth, intensified competition, individualized consumption demand, private cars dominant, and second hand vehicle market expanding.

27-03-2007 |  141 Hit(s) | (0 vote)