Friday, January 13, 2012

参观Telefonica中国文化周有感 - 王冰

2012-01-06 欧华报    作者:中兴公司人事部 王冰       2011年12月中旬,Telefonica(西班牙电信)在马德里总部的集团公司总部举办了西班牙首个由公司自行主办的中国文化周活动,给这个不下雪的冬季增加了节日的气息。根据媒体报道,这次活动得到了中国驻西班牙大使朱邦造和使馆文化处的大力支持。朱大使亲自到场参加开幕式并致词。   本次活动的主题琅琅上口--"你好,TELEFONICA"。在办公区主楼的入口的大型建筑物上,一条醒目的红色中国龙以中国传统艺术剪纸的方式呈现在人们眼前,气势磅礴,栩栩如生。从另外一个角度,它既宣传了中国生肖文化,也表明了2012年就是中国的龙年!此外,全部楼群17栋办公楼内部都艺术性的布置了反映中国文化的装饰。公司内部闭路电视屏幕上不断的播出有关中国现代化建设的视频,遍布在全国其他地区的员工可以通过公司网站浏览有关中国文化的信息。   此次文化周活动内容丰富,是让中国文化走进跨国大企业的一种颇有新意的尝试。除了一些常见的书法绘画入门、太极气功、饮食、茶艺、针灸课以外,员工每天还能尝到美味中餐,最有特点的是那些颇有深度的文化,影视,经济,技术和中西合作关系圆桌论坛,此外,还办了一个小型中国电影节和由新华社协办的中国50年摄影图片赏析等活动。我本着好奇心,接受了此次活动的核心策划者,TELEFONICA董事长办公室总监陈弘女士的邀请,去现场参观并亲身参加了其中的一个关于中国科技发展和创新环境论坛,活动邀请了若干谙熟中国国情的公司内外知名嘉宾,为员工们献上了一顿内容生动丰盛的“大餐”囊括了中国的经济特区的发展历史,人才的教育及培养,中国政府对创新的激励及扶持等等。席间员工仔细聆听嘉宾的讲解并认真做着记录。休息期间我和旁边一位员工聊天,他很感慨地说,我已经去过中国五次了,每次都有巨大变化,每次都有惊喜!我现在在学中文,以后我的儿子,女儿也要学中文!   从我从事的人事管理的角度来讲,企业日常运作和对外交往中,若员工缺乏跨文化交流的知识和技巧,文化之间的差异会带来误解和不必要的摩擦,导致影响工作效率,降低企业竞争力。因此,文化差异管理,跨文化培训是大企业国际化进程中,人力资源管理必须考虑的问题。我们可喜的发现,TELEFONICA作为国际电信跨国公司巨头,已经开始尝试组织类似的文化活动并取得圆满的成功,相信今后更多西班牙跨国企业将加入学习中国文化的队伍中。   越是民族的,就越是世界的。 http://chinatown.ouhua.info/news/2012/01/06/1545970.html

Thursday, January 12, 2012

China’s consumer inflation falls to 4.1% - Financial Times


Chinese inflation edged down in December, setting the stage for a continuation of cautious policy loosening to support the slowing economy. Consumer prices rose 4.1 per cent from a year earlier, the lowest in 15 months and well below July’s peak of 6.5 per cent.

It was the fifth consecutive month of receding inflation. However, China’s consumer price index only edged 0.1 percentage point lower from November, compared with larger 1.3 and 0.6 percentage point drops in the previous two months.
Analysts said that seasonal factors were partly to blame for the more moderate dip in inflation, as Chinese New Year falls earlier in 2012 than in recent years, fuelling a mini-spending splurge in December, which helped push up food prices.
“This continued moderation in prices pressures is a welcome development and will increase the scope for policy to respond should growth start to weaken more sharply in coming months,” said Brian Jackson, an economist with Royal Bank of Canada in Hong Kong.
The Shanghai Composite index ended the day down ever so slightly as investors questioned just how forceful Beijing will be in easing policy. Shares surged 6 per cent earlier this week amid optimism that the government was ready to prop up growth more aggressively.
China’s shift to looser monetary settings has so far been gradual, with officials wary of repeating the massive stimulus that they unleashed when the global financial crisis broke out in late 2008.
Beijing has trimmed the portion of deposits that banks must hold in reserve as a way of releasing more liquidity into the economy. The central bank has also suspended bill sales in open-market operations in the run-up to the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated at the end of January, as another way of ensuring that there is enough cash in the financial system.
Most importantly, the government has used “window guidance” to instruct banks to increase their lending – a policy tool that can be used to great effect in China, where all large banks are owned by the state. That support was evident in a rise in lending in December, which has continued into January, according to local media reports.
Food prices, which account for about one-third of China’s consumer price index, actually picked up a touch last month, rising 9.1 per cent year-on-year in December against 8.8 per cent in November.
But Zhang Zhiwei said that a closer look at the month-on-month inflation trajectory was more reassuring. Overall consumer prices were up 0.3 per cent in December from November, below the historical average of 0.5 per cent for this time of year.
“Consumer price inflation is not the key concern for policymakers for now. Growth is slowing down quickly as imports in December indicated,” he said. “Policy is clearly in an easing cycle.”
There could be some white-knuckle moments for the government this month, with inflation likely to register a mild rebound because of booming consumption around the new year holiday, said Peng Wensheng, chief economist with China International Capital Corp.
But those same seasonal factors will work in China’s favour in February after the holiday ends and inflation “should pull back significantly” then, Mr Peng said.

January 12, 2012 2:51 am  By Simon Rabinovitch in Beijing
Link: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a77dde82-3cc3-11e1-8d38-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1jFEglMiz