I met my colleagues from the Shanghai office, visited a Chinese freight forwarding company, where the VP for the international Business is a German (must be from Baden-Württemberg, since he had his apprenticeship with Willy Betz in Reutlingen), went for lunch with an American in a french Restaurant and had Dinner with a customer from Switzerland in an italian Restaurant. I would call that a very international day. Hope to get real chinese food as well one day here.
I didn't see too much of Shanghai yet. The city is massive and the traffic absolutely chaotic. A bit comparable to New York. But somehow I couldn't "feel" the city yet. But I guess this will come, when I have time for a bit of sightseeing.
Sorry for not posting any pictures yet, but this will come soon.
Even though I'm very impressed about Shanghai, how modern this city seems to be, it is still unbelievable that there isn't an unregulated internet yet for example. You don't have access to google, youtube, facebook etc. Bing however works fine (since Microsoft made a deal with the chinese government). At least I found a workaround via mobile apps or VPN connection (otherwise I couldn't write this blog since it's google based).
And did you know, that if you have more than one child in China, the second child doesn't get a passport and birth certificate?
This reminds me again, about the freedom we have in the Western World and that we take it for granted every single day, whereas there are still countries with, let's say, different customs.
Tomorrow we have only one appointment, so maybe there is time for a bit of sight seeing or shopping in the evening. Just heard that you get taylor made suits and shirts for ridicoulus prices here in Shanghai...
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