People's Republic of China 中 华人民共和国

1. People's Republic of China中华人民共和国

2. Agenda • Country Facts • Business Development • Conversation and Socializing • Food and Dining • Women in China

3. Country Facts • Population: 1.3 billion (16x Germany) • Area: 9.6 million sq. km (27x Germany) • Capital: Beijing • Largest City: Shanghai (pop. approx. 19 million) • Official Languages:Standard Mandarin (spoken)Simplified Chinese (written) • Currency: Renminbi Yuan (1 EUR = 9.7 CNY)

4. Business Development

5. Conversation and Socializing • Chinese often use indirect language • It is important to keep the harmony and avoid any kind of a conflict • No full respect for Europeans (non Chinese) within a discussion • Please do not talk about politics, human rights or Tibet. But it is common to talk about the salary

6. Conversation and Socializing • Modesty and unassumingness is really important • The Chinese are asking many private questions to get into contact • Making photographs is significant. • For the younger generation: Using the “V” (Victory) hand sign and even posing is very popular nowadays • A handshake is common, but not very common. Avoid a strong handshake

7. Food and Dining Very important part when doing business with Chinese • Often invitations to business meals • Every invitation requires a re-invitation • Always about 8-12 participants • Chose a restaurant of a higher category to adulate your guests • Chinese eat quiet early, at about 18 o’clock

8. Food and Dining Agenda of a business lunch • highest ranked invitator allocate places to the participants • The food is served on a turnable plate in the middle of the tabel • Everybody eats directly from this turnable plate • Main food: Chinese eat all: meat ( also dogs and cats), all kinds of fish, seafood, vegetables, soups, but also scorpions, snakes, insects and beatles • Business meals mostly finish after 2 hours

9. Food and Dining Table manners and rituals • Relaxed table manners • Smacking, spitting and belching • “show acoustically that it taste good” • Never give one’s nose a blow into a handkerchief at the table!!! • Toasts are very popular, especially toasts to chug-a-lug!!! • Everybody has to answer the toast to be polite!! • A kind of testing how much someone can drink- it’s a chance to climb in the reputation scale!

10. Women in China Traditionally: • a loving wife and mother This is still the official view of this thematic

11. Women in China But: • In reality it is much different • Women have always been very ambitious, they only weren‘t allowed to show it • The Chinese government has passed a lot of rules for equalization of women

12. Women in China Families • In most families, women have the power! • married women have much power • administrate the money • giving pocket money to the husband • in 77% of the families, women are in authority

13. Women in China Business • More and more women earn their own money • Get well educated • Fast growing service sector even offers lots of jobs to women from the inland

14. Thank you for your attention!