2012年7月31日星期二

cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Rare earth prices to remain strong

 Rare earth prices to remain strong
The Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co in Baotou. General Manager Zhang Zhong said that the company plans to have 300,000 tons of capacity within two years. Wu Changqing / for China Daily
Baotou, Inner Mongolia - Rare earth prices will remain bullish in the second half of this year, but won't be higher than the first half's level, as companies in downstream activities halt production due to expected high operating costs, industry insiders said on Monday.
Six government agencies started a crackdown on illegal production and sales of rare earths from Aug 1 to Dec 31, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on its website on Monday.
Gan Yong, vice-head of the China Academy of Engineering, who is also expected to be chairman of the planned Rare-Earth Industry Association, said at a rare earth forum in Baotou that the average prices in the second half of the year will not be higher than the level seen in the first half, after they hit a record in June.
He said China should establish a rare earth index such as the iron ore index to accurately reflect the market.
The index should be based on different sources and comprehensive elements.
Zhang Zhong, general manager of the world's largest rare earth producer, Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co, said rare earth prices will remain at a high level in the second half of this year due to tight supply, as the government had kicked into action strict policies that serve as guidelines to sustainable development of the over-exploited industry.
"Surging rare earth prices will accelerate the elimination of the low value-added downstream companies, and propel the high-tech development in the rare earth industry," he said.
An example is neodymium iron boron, one of the rare earth elements used in many fields including permanent magnet engines and electronic engines.
Most Chinese downstream companies have been producing low value-added products such as loudspeaker components.
From a long-term perspective, Zhang said these companies will naturally fade away and the entire industry will move up in the value-chain.
Baotou Rare-Earth plans to reach 300,000 tons of capacity within two years, he added.
Industry insiders said rare earth downstream companies such as wind turbine makers and permanent magnet electronic engine producers have halted or cut production due to surging prices of raw materials.
"One third of downstream companies using neodymium iron boron had stopped production as the raw material prices rocketed too high to cover the cost," said Wei Chishan, an analyst with Shanghai Metals Market website, a service provider in China's nonferrous metal markets.
The current price is around 1.4 million yuan ($214,000) per ton, down 20 percent from the highest record in June. The price of neodymium iron boron surpassed downstream companies' bottom line.
Based on research into 200 companies across China, Wei said: "That's why companies in Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian provinces either stopped or slashed production."
Prices of most rare earth products have risen by three to five times this year since China started consolidating the industry. However, prices started to ease over the course of July, with rare earth cerium oxide, for instance, down 20 percent.
China Daily
(China Daily 08/09/2011 page13)

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Realtors will get strict rules

BEIJING - The central government plans to tighten the reins on real estate agents, in part by keeping their credit records on file and by subjecting them to exams meant to weed out those who are not qualified for such work, according to an online official statement.
The regulations, jointly issued on Tuesday by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, will take effect on April 1.
Those who work in real estate will be required to take a qualification exam, held once a year by the three administrative organizations.
Incomplete statistics show that there are more than 50,000 real estate agents in the country and about 1 million people in the business, according to People's Daily, which did not identify its source.
The new guidelines say that to better monitor the property market, administrative departments above the county level should keep the credit records of local real estate agents and make the information public.
The guidelines also stipulate that real estate agents' brochures and contracts should provide clear details about their services and charges.
If real estate agents and brokers break the rules, they will face fines ranging from 10,000 yuan ($1,520) to 30,000 yuan, according to the new rules.
Xia Yuting, a 27-year-old Beijing resident, said she almost gave up the idea of buying an apartment in the city because of the "scary" housing prices and "crafty" real estate agents.
"Most agents I met are horrible and this profession (real estate) is chaotic," said Xia, who has been looking for an apartment to buy in the national capital since June last year.
"I found out that sometimes the real estate agents asked people they know to pretend to be potential buyers," Xia said. "And then they let me see those people and tried to make me think the property was extremely popular."
Li Chang'an, associate professor with the School of Public Administration at the University of International Business and Economics, said the regulations won't produce the desired results unless they are backed by enforcement. He also noted that real estate agents, placed in certain circumstances, will be more likely to adopt sharp practices.
"It's common for a landlord to register properties he has for sale or rent with several real estate agents at the same time," Li said. "So the agents often resort to dishonest tactics to secure a deal."
Li called for the creation of a system for sharing housing information, which will help costumers make better purchasing decisions and reduce competition among real estate agents.
China Daily
(China Daily 01/27/2011 page4)

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Rare earths to be more tightly controlled

Industry to be refocused to ensure more sustainable development
Rare earths to be more tightly controlled
A worker at a rare-earth refinery in East China's Jiangxi province processes the raw materials on Oct 30, 2010. Provided to China Daily
BEIJING - China will more tightly control the exploration for rare-earth minerals and unify the distribution of precious metals in North China to regulate the previously over-exploited sector, government officials said on Monday.
The Inner Mongolia autonomous region's Bayan Obo Mine in Baotou city - the world's largest rare-earth producer and the source of 97 percent of the country's reserves - has unified the exploration of rare-earth minerals. And it will further unify the distribution of the metals, Hu Ercha, deputy head of the standing committee of the autonomous region's people's congress, said during the annual national legislative meeting on Monday.
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Hu said Inner Mongolia's Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) Hi-Tech Co, the country's largest light rare-earth producer, will further consolidate companies from Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, which are rich in heavy rare-earth metals.
Rare-earth metals comprise 17 elements of the periodic table that are used to manufacture such products as wind turbines, hybrid cars, missile guidance systems and mobile phones. Much larger reserves of light rare-earth metals have been discovered. These are easy to process, while heavy rare earths, which are mostly found in South China, are more expensive.
He also said the autonomous region will establish rare-earth stockpiles, to expand upon the rare-earth trading platform.
These measures will prevent over-exploitation and increase the country's influence over prices.
Jiangxi province, which has the country's largest reserves of heavy rare-earth metals, will impose controls on exploration and reduce exports this year to ensure the industry's long-term development, a local official said.
"The volume of this year's rare-earth exploration in Jiangxi will be equal to that of the previous year because we will concentrate more on the sustainability of the industry's development," Hu Xian, director of the department of land and resources of Jiangxi province, told China Daily on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress.
Yao Mugen, director of the development and reform commission of Jiangxi province, said: "Controlling the production of rare earths is our main task this year. Our strategy is to improve the recovery of industrial wastes and vegetation while exploring for rare-earth ores."
Ganzhou Mayor Wang Ping said the export of rare earth from Ganzhou will be reduced this year because processing and use are the city's top priorities.
China provides more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare-earth minerals, but its reserves are one-third of the global total.
The central government has issued a number of measures to protect rare-earth minerals and ensure the sector's sustainable development, as previous over-exploitation has damaged the environment and depleted resources.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection earlier this month issued stricter standards to emphasize pollution controls of rare earths. The standards, which will come into effect on Oct 1, might affect at least 60 percent of companies in the industry and raise the environmental costs for those companies.
The Ministry of Commerce last December announced this year's first export quotas - 14,446 tons - marking a decrease of more than 10 percent year-on-year.
China reduced export quotas by 30 percent to 40 percent last year, according to the ministry.
Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said environmental concerns have led to the reduction of export quotas, and other countries with rare-earth reserves can develop their own stockpiles. He also said China is willing to jointly develop substitutes with Japan and other countries to better conserve rare-earth minerals.

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Rare earths export quota unchanged

 Rare earths export quota unchanged
Minister of Commerce Chen Deming talks to European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht during a joint briefing in Beijing on Thursday. China and the EU have agreed to negotiate an investment treaty. Cui Meng / China Daily
Rare earths export quota unchanged
Move eases global fears as country committed to providing stable supply
BEIJING - China, the world's largest producer of rare earths, maintained its export quota at almost the same level as last year, a move analysts said will ease global supply fears.
The Ministry of Commerce said on its website on Thursday that rare earth export quotas for 26 companies in the second half year of 2011 will be 15,738 tons. That means the full-year export quota will be 30,184 tons, almost unchanged from last year's 30,258 tons.
The announcement was made as top trade officials from China and the European Union held talks in Beijing. A World Trade Organization (WTO) expert panel ruled, two weeks ago, that China's export restrictions on nine raw materials were inconsistent with its WTO obligations.
The raw materials cited in the WTO ruling did not include rare earths.
Some countries raised concerns about China's export restrictions on rare earths. The government has promised to keep the export quota at reasonable levels to conserve the precious resources and protect the environment.
China produces more than 90 percent of the world's supply of rare earths, even though it has just 36 percent of global reserves. Rare earths, a group of 17 minerals vital for high-tech industries, are used in electronics, defense and renewable energy.
Export quotas were reduced by 11 percent for the first batch of rare earths this year, after they were slashed 30 to 40 percent in 2010, in a bid to protect sustainable development.
The country is committed to providing a stable supply for the international market, said Wang Caifeng, a former official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and a key player in establishing a rare earths industrial association.
She said the export quota is in line with the country's production plan.
China produced more than 120,000 tons of rare earths last year, with 87,000 tons for domestic use and 34,600 tons for export. The production quota this year is expected to grow by 5 percent, she said.
Su Xinying, deputy general manager of Belgium-based Arpadis Polyurethanes, a company that specializes in the supply and sale of raw materials, said: "China's export quota for rare earths has boosted our confidence."
Although rare earths were not in the nine materials covered by the WTO ruling, analysts believed the case could serve as a precedent to take China's restrictions on rare earths exports to the WTO.
European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said on Thursday that the EU wants to see the principles that guided the WTO panel in making the judgment on raw materials also applied to rare earths.
However, Chen Deming, minister of commerce, said at a joint news briefing with De Gucht that he was not concerned about possible WTO challenges to Beijing's policy on rare earths.
The extraction of rare earths has caused environmental damage in China and rampant mining has diminished supplies.
This led to the introduction of policies to guard against over-exploitation and since 2009 export quotas have been cut.
Prices for the minerals on the international market have started to rise recently and "will remain high as demand is there", Wang Caifeng said.
China's rare earth consumption stood at 87,000 tons in 2010, up 19.2 percent from 2009. Demand is expected to grow by at least 3 percent this year, she said.
China Daily
(China Daily 07/15/2011 page1)

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Railways ministry spokesman dismissed from office

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2012年7月30日星期一

cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Party schools find new way of teaching

Officials urged to use new media in their daily work
BEIJING - China's schools for Party officials, once perceived as places for spoon-fed theory and building personal networks, are reinventing their teaching methods.
"In the past, our teaching has been characterized somewhat by spoon-feeding and lecturing," Chen Baosheng, vice-president of the Party School of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, told a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
"But now, the teaching methods emphasize more collective practices including discussions, scenario simulation and case studies."
Chen said the school and its affiliated institutions will update the contents each semester according to students' specific needs to make the teaching "more targeted, more pragmatic ... and more personal."
Chen also noted that a more open country needs Party officials with global vision.
According to Chen, the Party School's training courses are designed to cover a wide variety of subjects, including international economics, politics and culture.
In recent years, the Party School has become increasingly open to the outside world and has established academic relations with government bodies, research institutes and universities from nearly 30 countries.
More than 500 visitors, including foreign political leaders and famous scholars, came to visit the school last year.
"The visitors' speeches and face-to-face exchanges can play an important role in widening the world vision of CPC officials," Chen said.
The Party School also encourages CPC officials to use new media, such as micro blogs and other forms of social networking in their daily work.
"The Internet can help Party officials to gather public opinions and make better policy decisions," Chen said.
The other priority of the Party School is to deter corruption, according to Chen.
Chen ascribed the corruption of some officials to a "deterioration of belief."
"Our training program focuses on the study of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We aim to strengthen CPC officials' ideals and beliefs," he said.
"We are also trying to warn CPC officials of the danger of corruption by using examples from real cases. This helps to build a strong ideological line of defense against corruption," he said.
Xinhua contributed to this story.
China Daily
(China Daily 06/22/2011 page3)

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Party history details lessons from past

BEIJING - A leading historian of the Communist Party of China (CPC) stressed that the Party has learned lessons from its policy failures and the misjudgment of Party leaders.
Li Zhongjie, deputy director of the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee, said the second volume of the History of the CPC, which features major events of the CPC from 1949 to 1978, covers controversial periods, including the Great Leap Forward of 1958 and the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976).
An entire chapter of the book is devoted to the "cultural revolution", a time of turbulence when many Chinese suffered extraordinary hardship.
Li said the publication not only acknowledges the Party's positive contributions, but also analyzes the causes of policy failures and the misjudgment of Party leaders.
"It is inevitable for the Party to make mistakes during its exploration of constructing a socialist society," Li said at a news conference.
"The CPC has learned from experiences and drawn lessons from its past."
Li said efforts should be made to "put the most objective materials in historical records" after careful selection and soliciting opinion from various circles.
"History is abundant yet complicated, and experts may hold different viewpoints based on their own observation," he told reporters.
"It is important to listen to varied opinions before reaching a fair and precise conclusion on the Party's past."
As the world's second largest economy races into the future, the Party still weighs its past with "high attention", hoping it can "advise the government and nurture people", according to Li.
He said more than 1 million copies of the second volume of the History of the CPC had been sold as of mid-May, just four months since the book was published after 16 years of painstaking editing.
Historians are now working on the third volume covering the post-1978 period when China embarked on the reform and opening up, Li noted.
The first volume covers the years from 1921 to 1949, a revolutionary period before the founding of New China.
The CPC, the world's largest political party, will mark its 90th anniversary on July 1. It had 78 million members as of 2009.
Xinhua contributed to this story.

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Party officials brought to account by new rule

Beijing adopts regulation meant to hold decision makers responsible
BEIJING - Beijing officials will be held accountable for erroneous decision making and inept leadership by a new regulation meant to improve the supervision of the Communist Party of China and the government.
Both Party and administrative officials in Beijing will be forced to resign or to submit to punishments if the government offices they oversee fail to perform their duties, according to a temporary regulation released by the General Office of the city's government.
This marks the first time a local government in China has held Party officials accountable for decision making.
Some provincial governments, for their part, have passed similar rules, but those have only applied to administrative officials.
The temporary regulation in Beijing is seen as being needed largely because Party officials in China often have more influence over policy decisions than administrative officials do.
The city's rule stipulates that both Party and administrative officials will be held accountable for making bad decisions, falling down in their duties, failing to properly deal with mass disturbances and making similar types of mistakes.
The stipulation is a sign of progress in the supervision of Party officials. Such a policy has not been included in previous regulations, either those adopted for the entire country or for a specific region, an unnamed official from Beijing Party discipline inspection commission told Beijing Daily.
The official said Beijing's regulation imposes far stricter punishments on officials who neglect their duties.
For instance, China's national regulation stipulates that officials who have resigned over a violation of discipline can still be appointed to another post in the government. Beijing's regulation, in contrast, does not include a similar opportunity for redemption.
"Instead, we have added another provision, which says officials who have failed in their duties should be placed on probation for three to six months," the official said.
Moreover, officials who are under a cloud must wait for more than a year after their resignations before they can occupy posts that are in the same administrative level as they had formerly been in. And they cannot be promoted for at least two years.
Zhu Lijia, a public administration expert at the Chinese Academy of Governance, told China Daily that Beijing's regulation is reasonable because an official's powers should not exceed his responsibilities.
"Party officials who fail to perform their duties should be punished, since they usually have a greater say in important decisions," he said.
Zhu said he questions whether officials who resign in disgrace should be allowed to continue working for the government in the future.
"Almost all of the officials can be appointed to a similar post in a different place in the country, and this makes the public start to doubt the effectiveness of the whole accountability system," he said.
One example of these difficulties can be found in the case of Liu Daqun, a former chief of the agriculture department in North China's Hebei province, who was punished for his part in a tainted-milk scandal that occurred in 2008. Despite his implication, Liu was elected mayor of Xingtai city, a city in Hebei province, the following year.
In the 2008 scandal, toxic milk powder killed at least six infants and sickened 300,000 children in China.
China Daily

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- PBOC may drain more capital from financial system

BEIJING - There is still room to raise the amount of money that banks must hold to curb excessive liquidity, as taming inflation has become the No 1 priority of monetary policies, Hu Xiaolian, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), said in an article released on Tuesday.
"Because of the continued inflows of foreign currency, the nation's pressure from the excessive liquidity remains high," Hu said in the article on the website of the central bank, which was based on her speech at a forum on Friday.
She said the central bank may continue to tighten liquidity by using leverages of interest rates and required reserve ratios, as well as controlling money supply, in order to cool the inflation.
China raised banks' required reserves by 50 basis points to 20.5 percent on Sunday, the 10th increase since the beginning of 2010. It also raised interest rates on April 5, the fourth time since October.
"To improve the renminbi exchange rate mechanism and enhance the flexibility of the exchange rates can also help to ease imported inflation pressure," Hu said.
Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank governor, said on Monday that the central bank needs to maintain a tight monetary policy and reduce an "excessive" accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves. China's foreign exchange reserves increased to $3 trillion in March.
China saw a 32-month high Consumer Price Index of 5.4 percent in March. Liquidity has become one of the most significant agitators of the nation's high consumer prices, analysts said.
Concerned about the excessive lending from banks, Zhou suggested local governments study raising money from bonds and property tax for municipal infrastructure construction, to reduce potential credit risks from overheated real estate markets.
By the end of November in 2010, loans to the country's local governments stood at 9.09 trillion yuan ($1.39 trillion), accounting for 19.16 percent of the total yuan-denominated loans, said a report from the 21st Century Business Herald.
China Daily
(China Daily 04/20/2011 page13)

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cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- Party focuses on drought, flood battle

Party focuses on drought, flood battle
A worker repairs an irrigation pumping station in Dahuangwan village, Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, in May. Zhou Chao / for China Daily
BEIJING - China is aiming to upgrade its water-handling facilities during the coming five to 10 years in a bid to ensure the security of grain production and mitigate the impact of droughts and floods.
President Hu Jintao said at a meeting on Friday and Saturday that water projects will be prioritized within the country's infrastructure construction plans and such work will focus on irrigation and water conservancy in rural areas.
By 2020, China will establish a water infrastructure system that will be capable of shielding the nation from the impact of floods and droughts. The system will also ensure water is well protected and used efficiently, he said.
It was the first time that the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting focusing on water resources, showing the great importance attached to water conservation.
Analysts said the fact that such a high-level meeting was held shows China will put water conservancy high on its agenda - equal in status to grain and oil - as it pursues sustainable development.
Since the beginning of this year, the CPC Central Committee has given a great deal of attention to water conservancy. The committee and the State Council release a document at the start of each year highlighting the government's future priorities. The document often addresses rural issues but focused on water conservation this year for the first time.
In the document, the government vowed to double its average annual spending on water conservation during the coming 10 years in comparison to the 200 billion yuan ($31 billion) it invested in 2010.
Analysts believe China is facing a serious situation in terms of water conservation issues after years of industrialization and urbanization.
For a long time, the country's agricultural development has relied on natural conditions and at least half of the nation's arable land lacks basic irrigation.
In areas where there are irrigation systems, the facilities were built long ago and often have not been well maintained, leading to the waste of water.
The country's many water conservancy projects also need to be reinforced in a bid to better resist floods and handle droughts, say experts.
A string of floods and droughts in recent years have exposed weaknesses in the water conservancy infrastructures nationwide.
Last year, a severe drought hit Southwest China and serious flooding also affected some regions.
This year, rain-triggered floods have battered central and southern regions since June, killing people, destroying homes and inundating farmland. The floods followed droughts that had lasted for months and that had damaged crops and threatened drinking water.
Premier Wen Jiabao reiterated the importance of water projects at the meeting, saying the major tasks ahead will be to improve water facilities so they can mitigate floods and droughts while the nation also steps up the reinforcement of small reservoirs, expands irrigation and ensures the supply of drinking water.
The meeting triggered work on a series of major water initiatives that will be crucial to economic development.
According to the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), the country aims to improve the management of 5,000 medium-sized and small rivers by 2015. Efforts will also be made to reinforce 41,000 small reservoirs that have a capacity of more than 100,000 cubic meters by 2015. And China will also aim to maintain annual water consumption at less than 670 billion cubic meters for the next five years.
China Daily - Xinhua
(China Daily 07/11/2011 page4)

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bijoux perles eau douce-Entrepreneurs Must Actively Seek For Ways To Improve Their Businesses Through Effective Advertising

It is a fact that every business owner and entrepreneurs seeks ways to increase their sales and revenues through advertising. There are always challenges when it comes to advertising in order to increase customer traffic, increase website traffic, or to increase mail orders, more effectively, for less money. Regardless if a business is a simple mail order business, an online venture that sells hundreds of items across borders, or a multinational corporation which employs hundreds and hundreds of employees. The basis for this statement is the same… every entrepreneur and everyone working for their business needs to do more with less.?
And yet, some entrepreneurs seem to want to present advertising as unformulated and the most difficult part of running a business. They need to know what to do...
  • They need to study how to get their advertised message right...
  • They must focus on advertising to customers or clients in this specific way...
  • They need to understand segmentation and market demographics...
  • Or they won't be successful..!
All this is enough to make any entrepreneur throw their hands up in the air with disgust or be completely overwhelmed!
One of the highest sales books in the world, which focuses on advertising experiences and boasts one of the key authors in the business world tell entrepreneurs that they must focus not on the way the clients, who might purchase our products or services, are influenced. But how we, as entrepreneurs, must focus and compete on quality issues, oninnovation and its implementation, and on customer service. Nowadays entrepreneurs are taking something that is basic and easily understood and making it difficult...
What can you as a entrepreneur do to be successful by making whatever it is that you are selling, or renting, or leasing, or giving away more attractive to those who would buy it, rent it, lease it or use it? You need to find new and additional ways to build your business at less expense. If you are reading this, then most probably you are a business owner and entrepreneur interested in finding new and exciting ways to address your business' needs.?
Let's pause with that thought and go in an entirely different direction to help you to instinctively understand the concept better. Consider the following story...
The Sad Story of the Dead Donkey
Young John had looked everywhere for a donkey that he have the funds for, but every donkey that he could find available for sale cost at least $500, and he didn't have that amount of money. Desperate for a donkey to do work around his farm, he bought a donkey from a farmer he didn't know for the "special price" of $100. John knew from the beginning that this donkey would not be much of an animal for only $100. But Johnfigured that although the donkey might be obstinate, and he might be lazy or old, he would get some level of work around the farm...
The farmer with whom he worked the special deal agreed to deliver the donkey the very next day and John was both pleased and excited... sort-off.
Unfortunately, the next day the farmer searched out John and said, "Sorry, son, but I have some very bad news. You know that donkey I sold you?? Well, the donkey died."
"He died?!" John screamed. "I can't lose that $100… and you have an obligation to either produce the donkey or the money. ?
John recognized immediately that he was already into the donkey for $100 which he could not afford to lose, so he said to the farmer, "Give me my money back."
The farmer said, "I'm really sorry, but I can't do that. I went and spent the money already."
John had now lost both the donkey and the $100. What could he do!?!
Suddenly, he had a revelation as to how to capitalize on this catastrophe, as well as make enough money to buy a donkey that would do great work and – hopefully – live a long and prosperous life.
John said, "Ok, then, just bring me the dead donkey."
The farmer asked, "What are you going to do with him?"?
John said, "I'm going to raffle him off."
The farmer said "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
John said, ‘"Sure I can, just watch me. I just won't tell anybody he's dead."
A month later, the farmer met up with John and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"
John said, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a ticket and made a profit of $998."
The farmer said, "Didn't anyone complain?"
John said, "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back." ??
-xXx-
It is clear through humour that John was faced with a catastrophe. His money was gone... His donkey was dead... Rather than succumb to a loss of funds, and to what must have seemed to him to be blind, bad luck, he determined that he would make the situation work for his advantage.
Now we are not trying to promote bad ethics by advertising a dead donkey... But stories such as this create amazing learning opportunities for entrepreneurs as business owners or developers to learn to view challenges in different ways in order to find ways to improve our businesses.
The old school advertising theory for entrepreneurs revolves around the Four P's:
Price,
Product,
Place &
Promotion.
We are not trying to proclaim a difficult theory but this is based on motivating you and other entrepreneurs to use their brains and innate sense of how to make their business work better and effective for their employees and themselves.
The entire concept of advertising is predicated on the fact that entrepreneurs must seek out ways to create a need in the mind of their consumers or clients for their products or services. Then they must roll-up their sleeves and actively go out and look for the necessary set of tools to meet the needs of their clients. After all, it's their business, and if they won't improve their service or product, who will?
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2012年7月29日星期日

cotton bags,messenger bag,reusable bags- New media has hold on kidsScience-Tech

Survey director: Digital devices changing how children think
New media has hold on kids
A boy plays with a tablet while waiting for his parents at a sales office in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province. [Provided to China Daily]
Digital devices are playing an increasing role in children's development after school, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
More than half of respondents have cell phones and up to 67 percent regularly use iPads for entertainment, the survey said.
In the survey, conducted in March and April, more than 5,000 students from 50 primary schools and youth centers in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, were asked about their new media habits.
"In an era of mass information, children are now living in an environment of diversified media. They have easy access to emerging media devices such as iPads and cell phones," said Zhang Haibo, of the Guangzhou working committee of China Young Pioneers, a youth organization for Chinese children ages 6 to 14.
Zhang, who directed the survey, urged parents to pay more attention to the "Apple generation" phenomenon, which refers to the rising popularity of electronic media among children.
"Compared with traditional media such as newspapers and television, digital media can easily harm children because they cannot judge whether or not the things they encounter there are appropriate for them," Zhang told China Daily.
According to the survey, up to 90 percent of children regularly use entertainment applications such as Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds on iPads and cell phones.
Eighty-two percent of respondents log onto the Internet daily, and 84 percent have used QQ, a popular Chinese instant messenger. More than half of respondents have used micro blogs on Sina Weibo and Tencent.
"Unlike their parents, who depend a lot on newspapers and television to gather information, children have developed great interest in new media, which also definitely changes their thinking and ways of studying and social communication," Zhang said.
Twenty-seven percent of survey respondents said the Internet has become a reliable source of information to supplement their studies.
"I like to go online to learn because the things you find there have a fun way of teaching," said Lin Qiucheng, an 8-year-old student at Nanwu Primary School.
Li Juan, the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, said it is hard for parents to avoid using new media applications in front of children.
"We know it's not good for children to use digital gadgets. But they easily learn how to use them. That makes me sad because my daughter doesn't have many friends in such a lonely society," she said.
The kindergarten Li's daughter attends has "golden pad" items, similar to Apple's iPad, for children to use in class.
Liu Xuemei, a teacher at Nanwu Primary School, said that instead of barring children from digital media, parents should give children more guidance in using them safely.
"Parents and teachers should show children the right way to use the iPad. They shouldn't just be passive recipients," he said.
To better provide entertainment facilities for children, local authorities started setting up youth centers in residential communities, said Yang Jundong, director of the Guangzhou Children's Palace, a public facility where children can engage in extracurricular activities.
"The youth centers in residential communities enable children to better enjoy specially designed public education and entertainment," Yang said.
Some 30 new experimental centers will be built this year, according to Yang.
"We will promote teaching methods we have developed and provide more entertainment facilities in these community 'palaces'. Underprivileged children and kids left behind by migrant-worker parents will be given free access to the program," Yang said.

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