China Ding international growth and worry the first "go out" coal enterprises

"Outside the world is very exciting, outside the world is very helpless," this song has been sung for 26 years, now used to describe the Chinese enterprises in overseas "growing trouble", still very appropriate. China's reform and opening-up 35 years, the implementation of the "go out" strategy 13, the Chinese enterprises out of the country tens of thousands of overseas markets seemingly unlimited, but also the wave of cloud lumpy. North Africa's political turmoil in the Middle East, conflicts among Asian neighbors, cultural differences between East and west, almost every international turmoil and conflict, overseas Chinese enterprises are suffering. Under the Jiangxi Coal Group's China Ding International Construction Group (hereinafter referred to as "China Ding International") is such a "go out" of the Transnational Engineering construction contractor, is also the national coal industry's first "go out" of the enterprise, the first to overseas contracted engineering coal Enterprises, the first overseas successful start-up joint venture hospital, The first Chinese company to invest overseas in coal mines now has its own camp in 11 overseas countries, and its course of development may be a small mirror image of China's "going global" business, reflecting the plight and breakthrough of Chinese companies abroad. "Two eyes a smear" start "two eyes a smear"--in many times to talk about the original overseas memory, Hu Lixian general manager of the international and concise tunnel out of the circumstances of the year. In the 90 's, as the Chinese government started rebuilding Africa's projects again, some Chinese companies began to go abroad and dabble in overseas projects. In the early 90, Pingxiang Mining Group (hereinafter called "Ping Mine", now a subordinate enterprise of Jiangxi Coal group) faced the pressure of exhaustion of resources, then went abroad to find coal resources and development opportunities. At that time, Ding International or only 7 people to the ping mine Abroad office. Chen Beping, who is currently vice-chairman of the International Union of Trade unions in China, recalls that he was stationed in 1992 in the Algerian project Department of the North African country. In his impression, there were only a handful of Chinese central enterprises active in the African land. At that time the Algerian economy was obviously better than the domestic, he first saw more advanced construction equipment than the domestic, the first time to see the highway. In project management, Algeria has begun to use a rare computer in the country. At night Lights, Algeria's cities were also busier than the domestic cities of the time. He told China Economic Weekly that the tens of millions of-dollar project, with only a few initial bidders, had a tight budget and sometimes even had to seek the support of other state-owned enterprises that had been working abroad. "Two eyes and one smear" is just the beginning, and on another project in Africa, the medical Hu Lixian experience the pain of an isolated venture. 1996, when Ren Ping Mine Staff General Hospital deputy Dean of Hu Lixian was ping ore sent to Cameroon to establish the joint venture hospital-"Jiangxi Hospital", this is the first of the Chinese enterprises in the overseas economic cooperation in the form of the hospital, for this "epoch-making" pioneering work, Hu Lixian feeling quite deep, "both when the Dean and when the Doctor, Both when the driver and do the translation, the language is not enough, the area is not ripe, understaffed. "This difficult situation, is almost the first time when the state-owned enterprises abroad to expand the road." In the midst of turmoil, in adversity.The overseas development of Chinese enterprises is often started from the third World countries, the turbulent political situation and occasional armed conflict in these countries has caused domestic enterprises headaches. Hu Lixian told China Economic Weekly that in 1992 Algeria had a lot of social unrest and the local government declared a national emergency. At that time, the international participation in Algeria Simidiga farmland Irrigation project construction, go out to work by the police, the gendarmerie to clear the way to protect, usually on the site, security guards are armed. In 1993, the political unrest in Algeria has not eased and the security situation has deteriorated, killing 5 people in a local Chinese company. Algerian Government announces indefinite extension of state of emergency. In order to be safe, the China International Project department not only stores a lot of water and food, but also dug up air-raid shelters and equipped with emergency alarms. But the unrest continued, so that only a few Chinese companies began to withdraw, the Algerian Government has voluntarily suspended the project, China Ding International also forced to evacuate, but there are still 10 employees remain in position. It was not until 1998 that the project started again. It is also in the unrest in the stick, so that the local government to see the courage of the international, so that the company in Algeria in the future project contracting market in the lucrative. Not only in Africa, but also in some Asian countries on the site, the fierce political party conflict has become the international expansion of China-ding overseas big trouble. Nepal's political turmoil intensified in 2001, after the world-shocked Nepalese royal tragedy. When the interim government was in power, it was hoped that the International Project department would give support and even invite China-Ding International to participate in the working Conference. As Nepal's political situation has changed, the newly-elected government has been suspicious of China-Ding International. When the Nepal India Dravadi hydropower project manager Ma Jian Tang, in a business on the way, encounter a local armed homemade "pressure cooker bomb" attack, fortunately because of a few seconds of jet lag, so that he survived. In Thailand, political unrest has stalled the international project for the long term. Zhou Zhigang, manager of the International Security Technology department, told China Economic Weekly at that time, Thaksin government aimed at low-income groups, launched a "charity house" Low-rent housing project, in June 2006, China Ding International won 5655 sets of charity housing project, originally planned to take this project as an opportunity to vigorously explore the Thai market. However, only 3 months later, a military coup occurred in Thailand and the government of Thaksin collapsed. The charity House Project, a product of Thaksin's reign, began to be criticized by public opinion for wooing votes for Thaksin's government, and was forced to slow down construction. In addition to the political unrest caused the project to be intermittent, the frequent change of local officials also caused the international and local communication difficulties. The charity Housing Project, which was awarded by China Ding International, was completed from the end of 2006 until June 2009, during which time, Thailand changed its 5-term government and the Housing Authority changed 4 secretaries. "Because of the different demands of political parties, the occasional demonstrations by Thai workers have also made the construction process even more sluggish." "China Economic Weekly," said Zhu Yuhua, the current manager of the International Thailand Management Department."In a complex local political environment, survival requires more than courage and wisdom." "Hu Lixian believes that China-ding international can be harvested in overseas markets, more from the unrest in the insistence." To resolve cultural differences by respect and understanding apart from political unrest, cultural differences also lead to frequent friction in project advancement, with each project department having to deal with the residents of the host country, and the friction caused by cultural differences becomes a "homely affair" for each project department. Algerian people mostly believe in Islam, the annual "Ramadan" period, the locals will not be able to eat before daybreak after sunrise, which causes local staff to work hard during the period of time, often lie in the construction pipe sleeping. "At first we were very difficult to accept, and now we learn to respect their religious beliefs and customs, our Chinese staff even if hungry to eat, will avoid." "China Tripod International Security Technology department Penghong said. Shangming, a project manager who worked in Algeria for many years, the attitude of the local people is often optimistic, living in the present, once the hands have spare money, they do not want to work, leisure and fun until the end, and even often have employees to find the project department advance wages, but they are very good credit, will continue to work to repay the advance pay. Islamic prohibition of alcohol, avoid eating pork, five times a day to pray, respect their religious customs life details, has become the International Overseas Project Department of a corporate culture. The differences in living customs are easy to solve, but some conflicts make China Ding international deeply surprised. Hu Lixian's "Jiangxi Hospital", founded in Cameroon, was much higher than the local medical standard, although it was recognized by the local people, but caused the dissatisfaction of local hospitals, which led the Regional medical Supervision department to boycott and "ban" the "Jiangxi Hospital". From 2000 to 2002, Huangmeili, a translator at the Dravadi hydropower project in Nepal, was besieged by the locals and still has a lingering fear in retrospect. The project Department of Hydropower station found that the local people steal steel bars, and the police have caused dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Labor and surrounding residents. As the project camp in the low-lying location, the night, thousands of locals around the slope to the camp threw stones and noisy night, the scene almost out of control. Cultural differences are not the result of such friction. Zhao Guisheng, assistant general manager of China International, said that in the African country of Botswana, a car accident at a local project department had killed local people. Originally a conflict is unavoidable, but surprisingly, convinced that "all Allah arrangements" of local people, in addition to the implementation of legal compensation procedures, not the perpetrators have too much condemnation and entanglement. Respect and understanding as a passport for Chinese enterprises to resolve cultural differences. The international implementation of the "localized" management mode, as far as possible into the local community, so that foreign employees get the greatest respect and understanding. They did not forget to invite Chinese staff to join the party at a happy meeting where local staff were married. At the annual meeting of the International Nanchang headquarters in Pigong, the "foreign model workers" who have been wounded have already become an indispensable landscape. Should be the carrier of Chinese culture 2006,Ping mine foreign engineering companies and ping mine Construction and installation corporation, such as 5 units to form the Tripod International Engineering Co., Ltd. 2011, on this basis, China Tripod International Construction Group was formally established, registered capital of up to 400 million yuan, the main business covers coal mining, forwarders at home and abroad projects, highway and bridge construction, import and export trade, labor export and so on. From the earliest only a few people of the ping Mine Abroad office, by now the most authoritative academic magazine ENR ("American Engineering News Record") has been rated as the world's largest international contractor 225 companies, the international project has been spread over 11 countries overseas, employing more than 3,000 foreign employees. While in the international rise of the tripod, Chinese enterprises overseas camp is also growing rapidly. According to the Ministry of Commerce statistics, there are about 18,000 companies outside China, located in 178 countries and regions, such a large foreign group to become the most direct expression of China's image. When talking about the story of overseas entrepreneurship, Hu Lixian can always express the authentic Pingxiang dialect and fluent English--this expression makes Hu Lixian more wonderful to explain the internationalization of local enterprises. How to "go out", "Go in", "go", How to make "Ding International" become "International tripod", is the most Hu Lixian question. He believes that in recent years, the east-west culture and many other factors of the conflict obviously intensified, but the challenge is also pregnant with greater opportunities, this opportunity is to allow overseas Chinese enterprises to become the carrier of Chinese culture, integrity into the local community, and effectively fulfill social responsibility, to regain the attraction and influence of Chinese culture At the same time, actively explore the development of common culture space for Chinese enterprises overseas development to create more favorable conditions. Today, China-Ding International is going from the field of engineering contracting to diversify the development of investment-oriented international Enterprise group transformation, like more than 20 years ago in the foreign market difficult to start, put forward the "two pioneering" Hu Lixian, and hope that the international economic recovery in the world can sail the pace of the voyage.