Tim Singh is an Edmonton-based designer who has just returned from Shanghai, where he spent several months working at a language school and doing research on business opportunities related to the automotive industry. His research led to some revealing and insightful discoveries of current domestic and international attitudes towards industrial development and production in China. Here's the set-up:
My journey started with 15 pages worth of contact information I had put together while there, of firms operating in Shanghai province that had some relation to the automotive industry. With few leads on who to talk to, and in some cases not even knowing what some of the firms did, due in part to a language barrier, I was nevertheless fortunate to secure meetings with vice-presidents, managers, and senior designers of domestic Chinese and foreign firms, who for the most part were happy to engage in lengthy discussions, some of which I will expand on here. Because these meetings were made with relatively little prior contact, many of the questions I asked were impromptu and varied from meeting to meeting. My intention was to open up discussion to its fullest extent to provide for a meaningful dialogue on both sides.
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