USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
    China
    Home / China / Society

    Expat graduates gravitate to Shanghai startups

    By Zhou Wenting | China Daily | Updated: 2017-05-03 07:36

    Expat graduates gravitate to Shanghai startups

    A woman sells British food from her startup on the Bund.Yang Yi / For China Daily

    Trial and error

    Young, foreign entrepreneurs have very different ideas to their Chinese peers, according to Wang Jiaonan, a manager with Venture Valley at Shanghai's Tongji University. The valley provides free office space, company registration and support funding for business-minded students and alumni within three years of graduation.

    "They are open to pursuing a trial-and-error approach when starting businesses, while their Chinese counterparts are more cautious and usually only start their businesses when a product is mature in the hope it will prove popular immediately after entering the market," she said, adding that five of the 300 projects in the valley are run by foreign students and graduates.

    "Moreover, they focus more on social issues. Usually their business idea derives from a social problem they have spotted," she said.

    Koh Kok Yong is the perfect example of that. The Singaporean, who spent eight years at Fudan University studying international relations at the undergraduate and graduate levels, is determined to help reduce the more than 20,000 metric tons of garbage generated in Shanghai every day.

    "I have decided to settle down here, so I hope my project will not only help me, but also Shanghai and its people, now and in future generations," he said.

    Recycling

    In 2014, he started Shanghai Xutao Greentech, a company specializing in recycling second-hand clothes. The business has placed more than 3,000 green, iron boxes in residential neighborhoods throughout the city, and collects about 300 tons of second-hand clothes every month, he said.

    The clothes are used in three ways: Those in good condition are washed and then donated to impoverished parts of inland China; some are sold to other countries; and the remainder is sold to qualified local plants that recycle the material as carpets, vehicle interiors and curtains for greenhouses.

    Koh said the policies to encourage entrepreneurship have been helpful. Last year, his company received 200,000 yuan ($29,000) in support funding from the district science and technology commission, which allowed the old collection boxes to be upgraded to electronic units.

    Users download an app on their smartphone, and when they put unwanted clothing in a box they earn reward points that can be exchanged for articles for daily use.

    Koh now plans to expand operations: "Later this year, we will start recycling plastic and glass bottles as well as pop-top cans. We hope to reach out to more cities soon."

    A growing number of foreign graduates are now making use of cultural heritage to start businesses, such as setting up apps that allow people to find language partners and establishing agencies to advise Chinese about the immigration policies of their home countries.

    Alliot Aymeric, a French national who is in the second year of a master's degree at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, plans to develop a smartphone app that will share French culture both on and offline.

    "Since I arrived in this land of opportunity, the Chinese people have been very nice to me. I want to return the favor by sharing French culture with them," the 25-year-old said.

    Contact the writer at zhouwenting@chinadaily.com.cn

     

     

    Previous 1 2 Next

    Editor's picks
    Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
    License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

    Registration Number: 130349
    FOLLOW US
     
    精品日韩亚洲AV无码一区二区三区| 中文字幕日韩精品无码内射| 中文字幕无码日韩专区免费| 亚洲国产精品无码久久一线| 日本精品中文字幕| 99久久人妻无码精品系列蜜桃| 欧美一级一区二区中文字幕 | 精品久久久久久中文字幕| 国产精品三级在线观看无码| 无码人妻精品一区二区三区蜜桃| 最近中文字幕大全免费版在线| 亚洲AV人无码综合在线观看| 中文字幕日韩三级片| 高清无码中文字幕在线观看视频 | 久久av高潮av无码av喷吹| 亚洲精品无码国产| 熟妇人妻中文av无码| 最近免费2019中文字幕大全| 中文字幕亚洲情99在线| 亚洲av麻豆aⅴ无码电影| 精品久久久久久无码人妻热| 人妻丰满AV无码久久不卡| 亚洲AV无码专区电影在线观看| 亚洲中文字幕成人在线| 中文字幕一二区| 中文字幕在线免费看线人| 亚洲成av人片在线观看无码不卡| 中文字幕丰满乱子伦无码专区| 亚洲AV无码一区二三区| 黑人无码精品又粗又大又长| 东京热加勒比无码少妇| 久久久久久久人妻无码中文字幕爆 | 久久亚洲AV成人出白浆无码国产| 人妻无码第一区二区三区| 亚洲精品无码av人在线观看| 亚洲AV无码久久精品蜜桃| 亚洲欧洲无码AV电影在线观看| 精品深夜AV无码一区二区老年| 中文字幕无码第1页| 亚洲欧洲精品无码AV| 亚洲A∨无码无在线观看|