Ever since China opened up to the world in 1980's, the Shanghai Municipal Government, led by the Communist Party of China and the State Council, makes great effort to build the city into an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center. With the cooperation and hardwork of Shanghai people, the city is progressing to its goal as a global metropolitan. The new team of leaders of the Shanghai government took office in February 2003. "The power of the government is entrusted by the people; the interest of people is above all," as Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng promise in his inaugural. Guided by the Shanghai Party Committee, the city's new leadership vows to strictly perform its official duties; to make significant progress in self-improvement, and to intensify the shift of its role from administrative to public service. The Shanghai government will build itself into a service government that would share with the people all their happiness and troubles; a solid responsible government that is efficient, honest and diligent; a law-abiding government that respects legal system and rules strictly and impartially.

College Students Choose Online Business as An Alterative Option of Job

11/23/2004

What else can Internet do for the college students aside from chatting, playing games and listening to music? Statistic shows that more and more college students have been running their online business. In all the tens of thousands of online shops opened in the biggest B-to-C website named as eBay EACHNET, about 40% are run by the college students. Some this year's graduates said they would choose online business as an alternative option of job.
Xiaoxu, just graduated this year from the Dept of Chinese Language of Fudan University, has more than 2 years' experience of running online shop. At the beginning, she only managed the business of skin-care commodities that her relatives brought from Hong Kong. With better and better understanding of online business, she became a good businessman and could make more than RMB10K a month sometimes.
Fast leaning ability makes the college students stand out in online business. In the 1st College Students E-business Championship that attracted more than 10K college students from 33 cities in China, the participants should start from scratch to complete the whole procedures of finding the supply channels, describing the commodities online, setting the selling prices and delivering after the payment arriving the bank accounts, and got the final score based on the transaction revenue, transaction quantity and the credit record. In 3 months, the participants made the transaction revenue as high as RMB6.81M. The best winner completed 285 transactions with the revenue of RMB82090. The colleges were positive to "Online business". For example, Zhejiang University disclosed before the championship that any of its students could enter the graduate interview without paper tests if he won the prize.

The Shanghai government 2006