Was George Crum Educated

and business in Shanghai

This weekend we took a taxi to Suzhou, I, one Chinese, one Japanese, one English. Total price for an hour and a half by taxi to another city, complete with a toll highway, 45 €. We left after a stop at Starbuck's, and arrived in Suzhou after dark, going clubbing. In a night without sleep, we were in 4 different places, then refreshments, before the morning train, to eat hot pot in a little place of China, then chicken, Tofy, vegetables, and so at 4.30 am. Despite the sleep, the train took us back home in the timetable just to go to bed about 5 am. This meant that dormissimo today. A note on dancing: do not exist here. In the true sense of the word. What we call "dancing", and we pay an average of 15-20 euro per night, there are bars or clubs (a few Chinese who speak English know the word "disco") with free entry: everything revolves around the counter where it is served a drink, then be different tracks and lounges where you can dance, and become private, refreshment, but the very concept of "dance floor" does not exist. In short, everything is much more characterized by company rather than the dance itself.

Taking a flight of fancy, I have said many times that few speak English. Leaving aside the Chinese who have studied abroad, who speak it well, others have difficulties in pronunciation, even if you write decently. Nevertheless, despite some delays in the study of English, Chinese, unlike the Italians, have realized one thing: the English spoken is not the grammar that seems to prevail in Italian schools. For this study the songs, the sayings, the inflections, rather than the grammar books. And I think this is very positive.
In fact, I come to the second part of speech, I disagree with people saying that the labor force in China will not cost you anything, I've said many times too, but referring to the local companies and working here in China. If we take one with a degree already, and knows a little English, already the cost for a company, including pay-taxes-insurance, goes up to 1000 € each one, although lower than the Italian average cost, not cheap. There is another cost to be incurred: the high turnover of labor, not the loyalty of the employee, the cost of training. Which sometimes interfere. For this reason, one that comes to investing in China can not expect an immediate economic return.