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Hainan Consumer Expo
Hainan Consumer Expo
Research Question: How does Hainan Consumer Expo promote the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port?
Investigation List:
Articles
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811223877_0001
This book details the uniqueness of the China International Import Expo and what it means for producers in China in relation to opening up of international markets and the benefits that should be expected.
Zou, L. (2020). China International Import Expo: Shared Future in a New Era. World Scientific.
HYPERLINK “http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=782e7628-bf85-40b8-944b-314594421700%40pdc-v-sessmgr02” http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=782e7628-bf85-40b8-944b-314594421700%40pdc-v-sessmgr02
This article looks at how the Chinese government uses tourism as a means to stimulate the domestic consumption. With an emphasis on Hainan, the government sponsored initiatives provide a good framework to judge how far such projects can reach.
Hong, Y. U. (2011). Developing China’s Hainan into an international tourism destination: How
far can this go?. East Asia, 28(2), 85-113.
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7072/8/1/6/pdf
The authors focus on how Shanghai will lead the construction of free trade ports and the new round of higher-level opening-up based on the Hainan free trade port.
Hu, H., Wang, S., & He, J. L. (2020). Comparative advantages of free trade port construction in
shanghai under the belt and road initiative. International Journal of Financial Studies, 8(1), 6.
https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125952885.pdf
The paper discusses the construction and operation experience of famous international free trade ports such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai with the intention of drawing lessons applicable to the Hainan free trade port.
Zhao, S. (2021, February). Research on the Development Strategy of Hainan Free Trade Port.
In 6th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2020) (pp. 166-175). Atlantis Press.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/608/1/012026/pdf
The article analyzes of policies relating to the Hainan Free Trade Zone with an intention to explore the deficiencies and offer timely adjustments to improve the supporting role of policies of future projects.
Zhiyuan, G., & Rui, H. (2020, December). Policy text analysis of Hainan Free Trade Zone (Port)
from the perspective of policy tools. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 608, No. 1, p. 012026). IOP Publishing.
Websites:
https://www.bjreview.com/Business/202105/t20210514_800246532.htmlIn this website, the author presents the advantages of the free trade port in Hainan and how it will match and surpass other similar organizations in the international market bringing benefits to local Chinese manufacturers.
Xiaoyang, L. (2021, May 14). First Hainan Expo shows the advantages of the free trade port.
Beijing Review. Retrieved from https://www.bjreview.com/Business/202105/t20210514_800246532.html
https://www.hainanexpo.org.cn/exponews_en/202.htmlIn this interview, Swiss Ambassador to China Bernardino Regazzoni looks at how Hainan expo can be a new opportunity for Swiss luxury brands.
China International Consumer Products Expo. (2021, July 26). Interview: Hainan expo a new
opportunity for Swiss luxury brands: ambassador. Retrieved from https://www.hainanexpo.org.cn/exponews_en/202.html
https://www.hainanexpo.org.cn/exponews_en/200.html
The aim of this article is to present how the first China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) has provided a platform for enterprises to release new products and services while tapping on to the development potential of the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP).
China International Consumer Products Expo. (2021, July 23). Economic Watch: New products,
emerging industries shine at Hainan expo. Retrieved from https://www.hainanexpo.org.cn/exponews_en/200.html
https://bcecc.be/2021-china-international-consumer-products-expo-hainan-expo-2/This website describes the 2021 China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) in relation to what it intends to achieve in the long run.
Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce. (2021, July 5). 2021 China International Consumer
Products Expo (Hainan Expo). Retrieved from https://bcecc.be/2021-china-international-consumer-products-expo-hainan-expo-2/
https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/database/j-messe/tradefair/detail/119536
This website gives a detailed summary of the Hainan Expo – China International Consumer Products Expo including the venue, exhibition items, registration and eligibility, organizer details, and the industries targeted.
Japan External Trade organization (JETRO). (2021, April 27). Hainan Expo – China
International Consumer Products Expo. Retrieved from https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/database/j-messe/tradefair/detail/119536
Alice Munro’s Boys and Girls Evolution of the Main Character
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Alice Munro’s Boys and Girls: Evolution of the Main Character
Introduction
Boys and Girls is a short story authored by Alice Munro, a Canadian Nobel Prize winner in literature that focuses on gender roles in society. The setting of Munro’s short story is the mid-20th century in Canada. The story occurs in the 1940s on a fox farm on the outskirts of Jubilee, Ontario, Canada. The girl lives there with her immediate family that comprises his father, mother and younger brother Laird. Her life is characterized by various gender roles. They also live with a farmhand named Henry Bailey who is part of the family. Her father is decent, likable and understanding. Her mother wishes that her daughter would act more like a girl and help around the home. The main character in this story is an 11-year old girl that has not been given a name. The story is told from the girl’s point of view as she comes to terms with the expectations of womanhood and adulthood that await her. This essay discusses the evolution of the 11-year-old girl as the main character in the way they change from not wanting to carry out expected feminine duties to growing up and assuming womanhood. This short story is ideal for young adults that struggle to act according to societal expectations as they stand to benefit most from the lessons about evolving, just like the narrator.
Alice Munro, Author, Boys and Girls
Plot
The short story Boys and Girls is narrated in first person by the 11-year old girl who is also the main character in the story. In summary, the narrator tells a story about a girl’s coming of age. She narrates about her life at fox farm and the journey towards discovering her role as a girl. She starts by talking about her father, who was an ox farmer. She narrates the gruesome work of taking care of the foxes that he likes doing and how it disgusts her mother. The narrator says that she finds the smell of flesh and blood assuring. She and her brother work closely on their farm with the help of Henry who is their farmworker. The first-person narrator writes, I hated the hot dark kitchen in the summer” (pg. 530). This quote points to the fact that it came naturally that the girl hated performing house and kitchen duties that a lady was expected to perform. It shows that the girl did not want to conform to what society expected of her. Rather, she enjoyed staying outside and working with her father on the farm as it is what she deemed important.
Setting
The setting of Alice Munro’s short story ‘Boys and Girls’ is a fox farm just a few weeks to Christmas. The events take place on a fox farm in the countryside of Ontario, Canada. The narrator’s father keeps silver foxes on the farm before eventually killing, skinning and selling their pelts. The narrator states indirectly that her father’s farm is found in Canada because he says he sold pelts to Montreal Fur Traders and Hudson Bay, that are located in Canada. The story is set in the mid-twentieth century. There are pointers that the fox farm’s location is a farm located somewhere in the north with heavy snows and strong winds. Although the exact year is not indicated, the events that unfold occur at some point after the war (most probably World War II) when most farmers traded their horses for machinery. The narrator writes, “They were fed horsemeat. At this time, most farmers still kept horses, and when a horse got too old to work, or broke a leg or got down and would not get up, a they sometimes did, the owner would call my father….” The setting of the story is important because it informs the story of a girl that has to decide whether she is to become a tomboy or feminine. It speaks to the personal conflict that the narrator is facing at that particular point in time.
Conflict
The girl faces various personal conflicts as well as with other characters in the story. The personal dilemma is whether she should abide by societal expectations and rest in her femininity or do what she enjoys doing most, which is taking care of the foxes in the farm with her father, brother, and worker. She conflicts with her mother, who is disgusted by her masculine tendencies. Her mother prefers her daughter to stay with her at home and help her with kitchen and other house-keeping duties. Her mother rarely left the house and longed for assistance around the house. When the narrator’s mother tries to get to work on tasks that were more ladylike, she rebels and says that “I hated the hot dark kitchen in the summer.” This is an indication it is not something that she enjoyed doing. She enjoyed staying outside the house and working alongside the men, while her mother wished for her to be more feminine.
Climax/Conflict Confrontation
Despite initially struggling with gender roles, eventually, the narrator gets accustomed to her role in society. At the time of the writing of this story, there was no equality and men were deemed dominant authorities in the family while women were expected to take care of the children and the home. She is forced to do women’s jobs that she does not enjoy doing. The girl is masculine in her behavior. The narrator voices that were taught to her as a child, such as “Girls don’t slam doors like that” and “Girls keep their knees together when they sit down.” Initially, she was defiant. She continued sitting awkwardly and slamming doors. However, she did not keep herself free. With time, she started changing and she began conforming to societal ideology about women. The girl struggled to come to terms with the role that she should play in society, but with time she loosened up and conformed to societal expectations.
Conclusion
In closing, the title of Alice Munro’s short story Boys and Girls speaks to the gender role theme that dominates the entire story. The title hints that the story is likely concerning a conflict or clash between boys and girls. True to its word, the story centers on the conflict in gender roles between boys and girls in society. The narrator’s character evolves significantly throughout the story. While she started as a rebellious young girl who refuses to conform to societal expectations of helping her mother in the kitchen, her attitude changes over time. She becomes accustomed to her role. The most important life lesson to take away from this story is that one should not fear to be themselves and speak their mind irrespective of what other people think about them. Fear did not stop the 11-year old narrator from going against societal norms and helping his father and brother on the farm. She did not fear defying her mother. Eventually, she ended up resting in her femininity and assisting her others around the house.
Works Cited
Munro, Alice. Boys and girls. Atlantis Films, 1983.
Haier Company Analysis
PART ONE:
The name of company.
HaierOne paragraph about the company.
Haier is a Chinese company and operates among the top biggest manufacturers of while goods globally. It is situated in PRC headquarter, Qingdao, with 19 overseas trading companies in countries such as America, Europe, Central Africa, South Asia and China as well. It also has eight comprehensive R&D centers and 29 manufacturing plants. Haier has become a larger-scale manufacturing company comprising of employees approximated to 50 thousand.
Write the Vision and the mission of the company.
Vision: to be among the leading producers global wide.
Mission: to provide best quality products and services accompanied by excellent customer service and support.
Explain the competitive priorities of the company.
Haier Company is has been corned with building its brand name. the company believes that a strong brand name will help them gain a bigger market share. Additionally, the company names its products based on the original country and they believe that when a product is associated with China, it attracts more customers who believe it is of high quality.
Write the company strategies.
Consistent positioning: There is the same set of values of a particular brand worldwide. For instance, Sony is synonymous with innovation all over the world, while Disney promotes the same family values throughout all of its markets.
Corporate brand name: The brand names are of much important to both Haier Company and the customers. The brand name or trademark for Haier identifies and separates their goods from those of other dealers (Reece & Ducofee 1987).
Explain the resources’ capacity (capacity planning)
Though Haier distributes its products globally, it does so taking into account the number of products of each kind required by the customers. In other words, they capacity of production and distribution entirely depends on customer’s demands.
Explain the forecasting method which the company is using
Haier Company have started taking branding more seriously in order to face a changing environment, but their understanding of the idea remains vague and superficial (Fan, 2006, pg. 368).
Explain the demand pattern and explain the dependent and independent demands?
Demand pattern is the way the supply and demands behaves in any market structure. When a great number of customers need specific goods, then that particular good’s demand is said to increase in relative to other products. A dependent demand is a product that is used or consumed in relation to another for instance sugar is consumed with tea. An independent demand is where one good is consumed or used independently and does not depend on another. An example is buying computer and house.
Explain the processes, which are used by the company to produce the final product.
In the abroad market, Haier still obtained the revenue about 5.13 billion RMB, even though Haier faced financial crisis and Haier’s revenue declined by 16.51 %( Loos and Davies, 2006). According to the map beneath, Haier has separated the mainland of China into 8 units as sales areas on the base of Geographic and Demographic factors (Loos and Davies, 2006). Then Haier partitioned each area into 5-class according to the growth of the economy situation, as a result to create a 5-class allocation network (Loos and Davies, 2006). For the reason that the dissimilarities in each city class, inadequate personnel and cash flow of Haier, the Company subjected dissimilar allocation approaches in order to please consumers’ needs and increase the market share.
How the companies measure the performance of the processes?
The company fully depends on customer’s reviews and suggestions to determine th quality of service it delivers.
PART TWO:
4. Select two stores you shop at, and state how they compete.
Kassmatt and Nakumatt are my favorite supermarkets. I consider them among the best since they not only offer quality products and services but their prices are also affordable. The two supermarkets are often located in nearby places and so they compete.
5. What is the Balanced Scorecard and how is it useful.
A balance scorecard is the technique used in measuring the performance of an organization or a company. A balance scorecard is essential as it acts as yard stick through which the company’s success or failures are determined.
PART THREE:
7. Contrast organization strategy and operations strategy.
An organization strategy is a technique applied in the entire organization or firm in line with the company’s objectives and missions.
Operational strategy is the technique applied in a unit or department and is only applicable to what that particular unit intends to achieve.
8. Explain the term time-based strategies and give three examples.
Time-based strategies are strategies put in place to hasten the achievement of a given project or objective. For example, an organization can decide to have a quality check at every department to help in improving the entire organizational performance faster.
Part 4
Dalworth Company
1. Three-month simple moving average
Month Actual Sales Three-Month Simple Absolute Absolute Squared
(Thousands) Moving Average Error % Error Error
Forecast Jan. 20 Feb. 24 Mar. 27 Apr. 31 (20+24+27)/3 = 23.67 7.33 23.65 53.73
May 37 (24+27+31)/3 = 27.33 9.67 26.14 93.51
June 47 (27+31+37)/3 = 31.67 15.33 32.62 235.01
July 53 (31+37+47)/3 = 38.33 14.67 27.68 215.21
Aug. 62 (37+47+53)/3 = 45.67 16.33 26.34 266.67
Sept. 54 (47+53+62)/3 = 54.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Oct. 36 (53+62+54)/3 = 56.33 20.33 56.47 413.31
Nov. 32 (62+54+36)/3 = 50.67 18.67 58.34 348.57
Dec. 29 (54+36+32)/3 = 40.67 11.67 40.24 136.19
Total 114.00 291.48 1,762.20
Average 12.67 32.39 195.80
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2. Four-month simple moving average
Month Actual Sales Four-Month Simple Absolute Absolute Squared
(Thousands) Moving Average Error % Error Error
Forecast Apr. 31 May 37 (20+24+27+31)/4 = 25.5 11.50 31.08 132.25
June 47 (24+27+31+37)/4 = 29.75 17.25 36.70 297.56
July 53 (27+31+37+47)/4 = 35.5 17.50 33.02 306.25
Aug. 62 (31+37+47+53)/4 = 42.00 20.00 32.26 400.00
Sept. 54 (37+47+53+62)/4 = 49.75 4.25 7.87 18.06
Oct. 36 (47+53+62+54)/4 = 54.00 18.00 50.00 324.00
Nov. 32 (53+62+54+36)/4 = 51.25 19.25 60.16 370.56
Dec. 29 (62+54+36+32)/4 = 46.00 17.00 58.62 289.00
Total 124.75 309.71 2,137.68
Average 15.59 38.71 267.21
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3. .Comparison of performance
Question Measure 3-Month 4-Month Recommendation
SMA SMA c. MAD 12.67 15.59 3-month SMA
d. MAPE 32.39 38.71 3-month SMA
e. MSE 195.80 267.21 3-month SMA
4.Dalworth Company (continued)
a.Three-month weighted moving average (weights of 3/6, 2/6, and 1/6)
Month Actual Sales Three-Month Weighted Absolute Absolute % Squared
(000s) Moving Average Forecast Error Error Error
Jan. 20 Feb. 24 Mar. 27 Apr. 31 [(327)+(224)+(l 20)]/6 = 24.83 6.17 19.90 38.07
May 37 [(331)+(227)+(l 24)]/6 = 28.50 8.50 22.97 72.25
June 47 [(337)+(231)+(l 27)]/6 = 33.33 13.67 29.09 186.87
July 53 [(347)+237)+(l 31)]/6 = 41.00 12.00 22.64 144.00
Aug. 62 [(353)+(247)+(l 37)]/6 = 48.33 13.67 22.05 186.87
Sept. 54 [(362)+(253)+(l 47)]/6 = 56.50 2.50 4.63 6.25
Oct. 36 [(354)+(262)+(l 53)]/6 = 56.50 20.50 56.94 420.25
Nov. 32 [(336)+(254)+(l62)]/6 = 46.33 14.33 44.78 205.35
Dec. 29 [(332)+(236)+(l 54)]/6 = 37.00 8.00 27.59 64.00
Total 99.34 250.59 1,323.91
Average 11.04 27.84 147.09
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5symbol 45 f “Symbol” s 12e.Comparison of performance
Question Measure 3-Month Exponential Recommendation
WMA Smoothing c. MAD 11.04 10.34 Exponential smoothing
d. MAPE 27.84 25.85 Exponential smoothing
e. MSE 147.10 128.03 Exponential smoothing
6.Exponential smoothing (symbol 97 f “Symbol” s 12 = 0.6)
Month Dt Ft Ft+1 = Ft + symbol 97 f “Symbol” s 10(Dt symbol 45 f “Symbol” s 10 Ft) Absolute Absolute Squared
(t) (millions) Error % Error Error
Jan. 20 22.00 20.80 Feb. 24 20.80 22.72 Mar. 27 22.72 25.29 Apr. 31 25.29 28.72 5.71 18.41 32.60
May 37 28.72 33.69 8.28 22.38 68.56
June 47 33.69 41.67 13.31 28.32 177.16
July 53 41.67 48.47 11.33 21.38 128.37
Aug. 62 48.47 56.59 13.53 21.82 183.06
Sept. 54 56.59 55.04 2.59 4.80 6.71
Oct. 36 55.04 43.62 19.04 52.88 362.52
Nov. 32 43.61 36.64 11.61 36.28 134.79
Dec. 29 36.65 32.06 7.65 26.38 58.52
Total 93.05 232.65 1,152.29
Average 10.34 25.85 128.03
7.Convenience Store
May
June
July
8.Utility company
Quarter Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
1 103.5 94.7 118.6 109.3
2 126.1 116.0 141.2 131.6
3 144.5 137.1 159.0 149.5
4 166.1 152.5 178.2 169.0
Total 540.2 500.3 597.0 559.4
Average 135.05 125.075 149.25 139.85
Quarter Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Average
Seasonal Index
1 0.7664 0.7571 0.7946 0.7816 0.7749
2 0.9337 0.9274 0.9410 0.9410 0.9371
3 1.0700 1.0961 1.0653 1.0690 1.0751
4 1.2299 1.2193 1.1940 1.2084 1.2129
Total 4 4 4 4 4
Forecast for Year 5
Quarter Average Demand Adjusted per Quarter Demand 1 195 151.1055 = 151
2 195 182.7345 = 183
3 195 209.6445 = 210
4 195 236.5155 = 237
780 780
9.Garcia Garage
a.The results, using the Regression Analysis Solver, are:
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The regression equation is
b.Forecasts