16 March 2007

Guang Zhou Institute

We visited a relatively old but prestigious institute. The teacher gave a lecture about Guang Zhou’s 2006 financial statistics. The lecture was very detailed with all the facts and figures regarding Guang Zhou as a whole and their financial sector.

The very old building!

But one thing I would have to bring up regarding this visit to the institute is that the powerpoint slides are very wordy and long. The words are practically covering up the whole entire screen and there are a lot a lot of slides. Even when there are pictures in a slide, he would try to cover up every single space there is for words to be typed in.

Because of the way the powerpoint is prepared, it did not manage to capture much of our attention towards the end and I even caught people dozing off half way through. Opps! But that is something that all should learn which is not to present your powerpoint slide with all the words or else it would capture your listeners. This is one lesson learnt!

Overall, his topics covered are essential. Such as investment in Guang Zhou have increased over the years and that GuangZhou’s electronics industry have increased over the 9 years. Tourism in the country has as such increased as well, resulting in China’s ¼ of inflow.