China Study Tour Pre-Departure Meeting

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China Study TourPre-Departure Meeting

• February 21, 2007

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• Tour Leaders Leong (Rex) Tsui, Yue (Molly) Tu,
• Yijun (Tracy) Zhang
• Faculty Participant Professor Ronald M. Schramm
• Administration Participant Phoebe Johnson

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Flight Information (Group)
Carrier Air China Saturday, March 3 Arrive JFK
at 1200PM check in on your own Saturday, March
3 300PM- CA982 Flight Leaves JFK Sunday,
March 4 600PM Arrive in Beijing Sunday,
March 4 840PM Leave Beijing for Shanghai
CA1589 Sunday, March 4 1040PM Arrive in
Shanghai Carrier Air China Thursday, March 8
900AM - Leave Shanghai - TBA Thursday, March 8
1200PM - Arrive in Guangzhou Carrier Air
China Sunday, March 11 Depart for airport at
530am Sunday, March 11 805AM Flight Leaves
Guangzhou CA1310 Sunday, March 11 1100AM -
Arrive Beijing and depart for NY CA981 Sunday,
March 11 200PM Arrive in New York
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Shanghai Itinerary (details subject to change)
Monday. March 5th Monday. March 5th
915am Gather in hotel lobby
1000 am Company visit Ctrip (??)
130 pm Company visit Citigroup (business formal required)
400 pm Sight seeing Yuyuan Garden (???)
630 pm Dinner at Lvbolang (???)
Tuesday. March 6th Tuesday. March 6th
845 am Gather in hotel lobby
1000 am Company visit Shanghai Stock Exchange (?????)
100 pm Sight seeing Bund Boulevard (????)
230 pm Company visit Fosun (????)
500 pm Dinner at South Beauty (???)
730 pm Acrobatic performance at Shanghai Grand Theater
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Shanghai Itinerary (details subject to change)
Cont
Wednesday. March 7th Wednesday. March 7th
930 am Gather in hotel lobby
1000 am Sight seeing Ancient Chinese Village Zhujiajiao (???)
230 pm Meet back at bus and return to Shanghai
600 pm Meet in the lobby
630 pm Dinner at Yuanyuan (????)
830 pm River cruise (????) Cocktail party and mixer with Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (?????) and prospective CBS students"
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Guangzhou Itinerary (details subject to change)
Thursday. March 8th Thursday. March 8th
800AM Check-out from hotel
  Depart for airport
TBA Fly to Guangzhou as a group
1200AM Arrive in Guangzhou
  Check-in at Hotel Landmark Canton
  Lunch at the hotel
130AM Depart for Honda visit
200PM Honda Guangzhou
430PM Cultural The Ancestral Temple of the Chen Family (????)
600PM Dinner with Guangzhou Government officials
900PM Pearl River Night Cruise
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Guangzhou Itinerary (details subject to change)
Cont
Friday, March 9th Friday, March 9th
845AM Gather in Hotel Lobby
930AM Pearl River Piano visit
1245AM Group Lunch
230PM Zhujiang Beer visit
500PM Cultural activity Exhibition of ancient artifacts (???????)
600PM Group Dinner

Saturday, March 10th Saturday, March 10th
NO GROUP ACTIVITIES  

Sunday, March 11th Sunday, March 11th
600AM Gather in Hotel Lobby
  Check-out
630AM Leave Hotel for Airport
805AM Fly to New York via Beijing
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Hotel Information
RAINBOW HOTEL SHANGHAI http//www.cnhomestay.com/hotels/shanghai/rb_ind.htm 2000 Yanan Road West, Shanghai, P.R. China Telephone [phone]   Fax [phone] Check in starts on March 4th after 300PM, but you have to know / show our tour code, which is SH07-32-B0304
HOTEL LANDMARK CANTON http//www.hotel-landmark.com.cn/ Qiao Guang Road, Haizhu Square, Guangzhou 510115, P.R.of China. Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
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Room Assignments
Room First Name Last Name First Name Last Name First Name Last Name
1 Christoph Barchewitz Samanta Tatiana Salomon Navarrete    
2 Paul Sethi Peter Offenhauser    
3 Julie Grossman Rachel Solarsh Rachel Hudesman
4 Benjamin Wilson Brett Southworth    
5 Andrew Lustgarten Benjamin Braun    
6 Jessica Leigh Dickerman Sonia Abbhi    
7 Fernanda Gonzalez Ju Rhyu    
8 Christina Black Summer Poole    
9 Jordan Licht Scott Rosenthal    
10 Anne Greenberger Beth Rosen    
11 Gregory Kuczynski Dhiraj Singh    
12 Bronson Lingamfelter Christian Mienert    
13 Rafique DeCastro Preetam Rao    
14 Archith Mahadevan Vibhav Nuwal    
15 Antonio Jose Lopez Reus Sebastien Vanackere    
16 Leong Tsui Tin Duc Le    
17 Sandy Eapen Yue Tu    
18 Rebecca E. Williams Yijun Zhang    
19 Alejandro Lozano-Gonzales        
20 Phoebe McDonald        
21 Ronald M. Schramm        
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China - things to keep in mind

• Meetings
• You are required to attend all meetings as part
  of the Chazen Study Trip guidelines.
• DO NOT BE LATE!!!
• Formal Business attire is required for March 5th
  Company visits!
• Business casual is required for all other company
  visits.
• Please be sensitive to language barriers speak
  clearly and concisely when asking questions.
• Have a few intelligent questions prepared for
  each meeting.
• Other Information
• Organizer Contact information is in your agenda
  packet
• Weather
• Shanghai 54-41F on average
• Guangzhou 70-58F on average
• Currency can be exchanged at Airports most
  hotels ATMs are widely available
• 1 US 7.74 Chinese Yuen (as of February 16,
  2007)
• Tipping
• Tipping is not expected in China.
• The usual tip amount is around 10.

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Health/Food Issues

• Always drink bottled water Be careful about
  eating food sold on the street
• Hand Sanitizers like Purell are a good idea
• Fruit dont eat fruit unless it has thick skin
  that must be peeled (bananas, melons, oranges
  not apples, pears etc.)
• All meals are included
• For those who take special medicine on a regular
  basis, make sure that you carry an adequate
  supply. Bring enough to last throughout your
  trip. Carry them in the original containers to
  identify them as legally obtained drugs and pack
  them in your carry-on bag.
• Also needed are some useful medicines, such as
  those for colds, diarrhoea and constipation.