Our last day on this trip started at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It is a fully granted and public University since 1994 with roughly 32000 students and is ranked by QS World University Ranking as the 25th best university in Asia. We met Prof. Man-kwong Leung and some of his academic colleagues who gave […]

We started the day with a visit of zones 1 and 5 of the wholeseller market in Yiwu city. This wholeseller market is a freetrade zone, which offers space for sales offices for companies from all over the world. It is possible for a normal person to buy just some products, but there are also […]

After an adventurous journey from Yiwu City to Shenzhen by night train, which included the celebration of Professor Rüttimann’s birthday, we hopped on the bus at 9:30 a.m. The bus drove us to the Futian Free Trade Zone in Shenzhen where we visited the first company of the day: Lenovo. Lenovo is a Chinese multinational […]

Ready for another interesting day we left Shanghai early in the morning. After a long bus ride, we arrived at the company Artwell, which is located in the city of Jiaxing, in the Zhejiang Province. The company got a history of over 28 years and is experienced in high end production of cashmere sweater, knitted […]

The final week of our study trip started gently by getting picked up at 8.15 am by bus. After an hour of driving we arrived at the Jiangnan ancient town Zhujiajiao. The Zhujiajiao ancient town is located in suburb of Shanghai city. The little fan-shaped town has more than 1700 years of history. In this […]

On our free weekend in Shanghai we could explore the city by our own. Many students did some sightseeing, for instance a hop-on-hop-of bus tour, and several students did some shopping. On Saturday night, Prof. Dr. Rüttimann invited us for a drink in the Indigo rooftop bar. Besides good conversations we had a breathtaking view […]

On our second day in Shanghai we visited 2 companies, namely Geberit and Schindler. The first stop was at Geberit. The swiss company manufactures and sells its products mainly under the Geberit brand, although alternative subsidiaries’ brands are also used. It has operations in more than 41 countries. Geberit’s strategy rests on the following four […]

Exhausted from our late arrival at the Bund Riverside Hotel in Shanghai yesterday, we started into another interesting day by heading with the train to Wuxi. By watching out of the window, we saw the suburbs and the housings of the working class passing by, which made the dimensions of the city even clearer and […]

The day started very early in the morning at 1 a.m. as Switzerland played against Argentina in the FIFA World Cup 2014. After 118 minutes of duration and suffering we sadly went to bed. A few hours later, the same morning, we checked out from the Japanese Ryokan hotel and started the day with a […]

First stop on our sightseeing day was at the Ginkakuji Temple. A quiet and beautiful place for meditation. The Ginkakuji Temple, a Zen temple, was established in 1482 by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eigth Murromachi Shugunate. Yoshimasa, following Kinkakuji Temple Kitayama than built by his grandfather Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, built villa Higashiyama than to spend his retired […]