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| Dr Frank Lin presented a gift to Dr Mike Cheng |
Today, we had a lecture in National Chung Cheng University. We were so happy to have an opportunity to meet Dr Mike Cheng, Associate Professor in Department of Business Administration, who offered a lecture to all of us about “A Promising Economic Vision of Taiwan: To see Through Taiwan’s Industrial Structure.”
Taiwan had a stable and competitive economy rated as no. 12 as global competitiveness according to World Economic Forum. Its successful reasons were as follows:
1. Highly innovative: fully developed into an innovation-driven economy. Strong intellectual property protection.
2. Strong human resources: more universities were built for scientific education.
3. Deep technology clusters: Taiwan Government promoted high technology such as high speed train, science parks.
4. Strong outbound FDI
5. Gateway to China: Taiwan was the strongest democracy, freedom of speech of any Chinese-speaking country and had the most experiences to do businesses with China. Foreign company might be interested to partner with Taiwanese company in order to get a business in China.
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| Learning the Art of Tea |
The 2nd section of the lecture was about learning the art of tea. A professor came to teach us how to properly brew a pot of tea. There were 3 factors to consider in producing a good brew:
1. Amount of tea leaves to be used: a small teapot should be filled to 1/5 capacity with dried leaves.
2. Water temperature: 90-100 Celsius
3. Brewing time: the first 3 brews should be no more than 50 seconds.
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| National Chung Cheng University |
Learning the art of tea could also help us to relax, refresh, and energetic.
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| Visiting AGV Products Corporation |
After lunch, we had a short tour in National Chung Cheng University. This campus was located in the central part of Chai Yi County. Different architectural styles of buildings were surrounded by tall trees, green spaces along the roads. It was a very beautiful campus like the ones in Cambridge. Then, we visited AGV Products Corporation. Its product lines included traditional foods, Chinese condiments, recreational snacks, health drinks, and dairy products. Through more than 3 decades of effort, AGV had established a reputation for healthy food products among most Taiwanese people. AGV now was planning to expand their business in other countries. Next, it was shopping time. We went to Nice Matsuya Department Store. It was the first Japanese-style department store in Chia Yi. I did not shop a lot because it was not as cheap as I thought and my classmates also agreed with that.
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| Welcome dinner in this Chinese architectural style restaurant |
At night, we went to a fancy restaurant with Chinese architectural style for a welcome dinner. A lot of professors in National Chung Cheng University also came to the dinner as well. As a Chinese, I liked the food a lot because they were valuable and delicious, such as sushimi, abalone, black chicken soup. However, my classmates did not really enjoy the food. Some of them might try a little bit. Some of them did not even dare to try. Therefore, I could enjoy most of the food but still there were so many leftover. What the professors and students enjoyed most in the dinner was karaoke. It really made me so impressed that our professors could have such a good talent in singing and dancing. Everybody was really into the show. The dinner was full of laugh and fun.
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| Dr Cheng sang and Dr Lin danced at the background. |
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| Dr Kim enjoyed Karaoke |
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