MONTHLY REPORT
08.23.2002-09.22.2002
LI Pin
In the first month, I already knew many things about our company, and I also learned many things from our company and our officers, this is my first monthly report, it is a summary of the first month.
From this basic
data, we can find, Chinese Internet market is a large market, but the low
salary users and students users are the main users, so this big market need us
to develop, but the good news is most users are youths, they are easy to accept
new things and like to try new things, and they don’t scared risk. And we can
do our business step by step; first we can enter some big cities like Beijing,
Shenzhen and Shanghai. Because in these cities, the people have higher salary,
they have many Internet users, and many people in these three cities have
mobiles, and in these three cities, it is easy to pay online, most bankcards
are available there for paying online. And these three cities are three windows
of China to the world, so you can find much international culture there.
And just this days my friends in China told me there
is only one kind of prepaid Card is available in China market, it is China
mobile card, but I haven’t found the information about that, if I find, I will
report it. And now you can pay you mobile fee to the China mobile or China
Unicom office. In one city, there are some brands offices. And you also can pay
it in banks.
6. Anther service we can do use our mobile phones include: mobile baking, WAP, caller ID, fax, sound mailbox, and mobile secretary etc. and every service you should pay 10RMB/month for the monthly rent. And in mobile banking, by now, you can’t use it to do a payment. And about WAP, even most mobiles have WAP function, but just few people use it. You should pay 0.15RMB/min for WAP, but because now the WAP speed is very slowly and the WAP website are few, so no many people use it. But CDMA and GPRS are now available, so that will make the WAP speed much fast, and now there are 2.8million CDMA users and 1.3 million GPRS users, so we can believe in the future, there more people will like to use MMS service.
1.
www.sina.com.cn, www.163.com, www.sohu.com,
www.yahoo.com.cn, are the top 4 popular
websites in China, and other popular website are: www.china.com, www.263.net,
www.chinese.com, www.chinaren.com, www.21cn.com, www.FM365.com,
www.tom.com, www.yinsha.com, www.online.sh.cn,
www.szonline.net, www.zhaodaola.com,
www.ourgame.com, www.tencent.com, www.etang.com, www.elong.com,
www.enet.com.cn, www.east.cn.net, most of these website, you
can shopping online. And www.eachnet.com,
is a website only for shopping. www.netbig.com
is a website for students, and www.dangdang.com, is a website for selling books, www.ourgame.com is my favorite for gaming
online.
2.
About the website.
Sina, Sohu, netease, and Yahoo China are integrated Websites. Because Yahoo’s
finder is Yang, is a Chinese, so yahoo enter China market earlier than other
English website. And I did not use Yahoo China, because I like Sina or Sohu
website styles. Many things on the first pages, for me I can easy find what s
new today, and where I can find the information I want. But Yahoo is so easy,
as I know many Chinese use Yahoo email or hotmail, because they thought they
are safety. But about other functions, the Sina and Sohu users are much more
than Yahoo.
About Sohu, I had good expression on Sohu, because
the first time I went to Internet, Sohu is the first website I opened. SOHU.COM (NASDAQ: SOHU) is
China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of
Chinese who use the portal for their e-mail, SMS messaging, news, search,
browsing and shopping. With 52.6 million registered users at the end of March
2002, SOHU has the largest online user base in China. It is a household name
among the 300 million people living in urban centers. For the second year in a
row the Sinomonitor International survey - the largest Internet Survey in the
country- ranked SOHU.COM as the most visited portal in China. For the second
quarter 2002, the total revenues are 6.13M US dollars. Profit is –0.87M US
dollars. The mainly four businesses are E-Marketing,
E-Technology Solutions, E-Subscription, and E-Commerce. Sohustock.com will
available on the third quarter 2002, it will be the first one do this service.
SOL Sohu on line is also available on the third quarter 2002; it is ISP
service, but now just for Beijing users.
About Sina,
for me, Sina is my favorite.
Actually Sina is similar as yahoo. SINA ( NASDAQ: SINA ) is a leading Internet media and
services company for Chinese communities worldwide, offering global
Chinese-language content, commerce and community services to four localized Web
sites targeting China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in North
America. I like sina because the design is very feet me, and I like read the
new at right, and I can easy find what I want. And sina has many good partners,
like China football association. While SINA is known in China for providing
first-rate, comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news, it also offers popular chat
rooms, community platforms, financial information, online shopping platforms,
search and free email throughout its four sites. Differences in market
preferences reinforce the need for localized and targeted content on each site.
And the second quarter, the total revenues are over 8M USD. And profit is –0.95
USD.
About
netease. NetEase.com (NASDAQ: NETE). is a leading China-based Internet technology
company that has pioneered the development of applications, services and other
technologies for the Internet in China. Our mission is to deliver "Power
to the People" by using the latest Internet technologies to enhance
meaningful information sharing and exchange. NetEase Web sites offer Chinese
Internet users Chinese language-based online content, community and electronic
commerce services. NetEase's average daily page views exceeded 340 million for
the month of July 2002. As of July 2002, NetEase Web sites had more than 71.54
million registered members, 55476 simultaneous chat room participants.
The special thing is netease pay more
attention on community. The second quarter 2002, the revenues are 4.6M USD, and
profit is +5000K USD.
And both of these three website they sell mobile logo, ringtone
and some other mobile service.
3.
Most products online in
China mainland are tangible product, like books, IT product, food, make up
products (like face cream), media products, telecom product like mobiles, TV
sets ect, gifts, entertainment, sports products, cloth, living things, office
products, medicine products. And service, most services are just for give
solutions to companies, and education services like helping students study
abroad, and just few service like give a name to a company or baby. And almost
all “fengshui” service from Taiwan.
4.
About the online game. There are 50 online
games in China mainland and also 50 online games in Taiwan. And the first
popular game is China mainland is “ The legend of Mir 2”, www.mir2.com.cn, and another is www.waei.com.cn, and there are others
website about games: www.chinagames.net,
www.17173.com, www.xajh.com.
5.
OICQ is the first
popular Internet tool in China. It is similar as ICQ, but it supports Chinese
language, and it also have many service with mobiles, like you can send a
message from your mobile to OICQ, you also can send a message from OICQ to your
friends’ mobiles. And you can buy the mobile logo, ringtones from the OICQ home
page, and you also can buy other product about the OICQ from the home page,
most are gifts. And OICQ has good relationship with China mobile and China
Unicom. Like all my classmates, everyone has one or even 4 OICQ number. And
that is our first chat tool in China even when I came here. http://www.tencent.com/english/ is the English vision website about OICQ, from this page,
you can easy get what is OICQ and how popular it is in China.
Ø The website ask a delivery company deliver the
product to you, and you pay the deliver people.
Ø You can pay one line just use your bankcards.
Ø You can go to
bank or post office to finish your payment.
There are also others payment
ways:
Ø Like sohu, you can hold a sohu-shopping card.
Ø And if you just buy mobile logo or ringtone, you just
need send message to the website. The payment is finished by mobile.
2. About how to pay an online game. All online game you just need buy a card that similar as a prepaid card. About the payment ways, you can pay follow up that three mainly ways. And other ways include:
Ø Pay by landline calling (only Beijing).
Ø Send message by mobile or you pay from your mobile
prepaid.
Ø You can go to Internet café to buy.
Ø You can go to software shop to buy.
These bankcards are:
Ø
Bank of China.
a. Great wall
international credit card. You can use it in 256
countries.
b.
Great wall RMB ( ren min bi) credit card. RMB means Chinese money.
c. Great wall saving
card.
Ø
Industrial and Commercial bank of china.
a.
Peony lingtong card.
b.
Peony RMB credit card.
c.
Peony international credit card.
d.
Peony saving card.
e.
Peony transportation card.
Ø
Agricultural bank of china.
a.
Gold fringe international saving card.
Based in US dollar. And
separate as Wan shi da card: use in mastercard shop with signature. And wan shi
shun card: use in Mastro shop with your pin.
b.
Gold fringe RMB credit card.
c.
Gold fringe saving card.
d.
Gold fringe saving wan shi shun card.
e.
Gold fringe international credit card.
f.
Gold fringe constellation card (for youth especially for students.)
Ø
China Construction bank.
a.
Dragon general credit card.
b.
Dragon gold credit card. (Only Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou)
c.
Dragon saving card.
Ø
Bank of Communications of China.
a.
Pacific credit card.
b.
Pacific saving card.
Other banks can support
shopping on line are the following:
Ø
China Merchants Bank
a.
Credit card.
b.
All in one card.
c.
All in one net card.
Ø
Shanghai Pudong development bank.
a.
Eastern saving card.
Ø
China Minsheng banking Corp. LTD
a.
MinSheng card.
Ø
China everbright bank.
a.
Sun card.
Ø
HuaXia bank.
a.
Hua Xia card.
Ø
Shengzhen development bank.
a.
Shengzhen development credit card.
b.
Shengzhen development saving card.
Ø
China post.
a.
Green saving card.
Ø
Fu Jian Industrial bank.
a.
Shun tong card.
b.
Carnation card.
Ø
Xiamen commercial bank.
a.
Yin lu saving card.
Ø
Guang dong development bank.
a.
Credit card.
b.
Saving card.
Ø
Shengzhen commercial bank.
a.
Wan shi shun saving card.
Ø
Chinatrust bank.
a.
Credit card.
b.
Saving card.
Ø
American Express card.
Ø
Japan. JCB card.
Ø
Dinners card
And the first five banks are national banks; they are
also the biggest banks in China. This year in world banks rating, Industrial
and Commercial bank of China is 10th in the world. And Bank of China
is 11th, Agricultural Bank of China is 17th and China
Construction Bank is 23rd. most people hold the five banks’ cards. American Express card,
Japan. JCB card and Dinners card are just for international users.
1.
Follow
the family genealogy. This means in some family, they have a record to remember
the entire family members name from hundred years before. And there write some
rules how to give next child name, so some Chinese name from this way. I have a
friend; his name is Meng xu guang. Why xu? Because in his family name record,
his second name must be xu.
2.
Follow
the name book. This kind of book like feng shui, so you follow the book rules
give your child a name. But now already not many Chinese follow this way.
3.
Follow
the time or season. Especially season. We can find some Chinese people’s name
include chun(spring), xia ( summer), qiu ( fall), dong ( winter). This just
follows what season they were birthed. Example, my friend,.Liu Dong, why dong?
Because he was birthed in winter. And another my friend Shi chun shen, chun
means spring, and shen means birth, so we can easy find his name meas he was
birthed on spring. Also some name like Yu, why Yu? Because when he came into
the world, it was raining. Yu means rain.
4.
Some
name just the parents find the word in a book or a dictionary, just the word
with a nice meaning. That is all. Like Ling, Li, Xiu, many girls’ mane with
this word, just because they mean beautiful. Many guys’ name with Jie, Wei, it
means great. My name is pin, it just my parent want to me be a officer of
government. Actually, now many name just give a nice hope or just with nice
meaning.
5.
Others
are like my mother. My mother has 2 sisters and 2 brothers. And my mother name
is Wu lan zhen, her sister name is Wu xiu zhen, Wu feng zhen, her brother name
wu shi zhen, we can find both of them, their name include zhen, some family if
they have many children, they like give the children name like this.
6.
Other
is just wanted to remember a story or soma important thing. Like, some parents
give their baby name based on the parents’ name, because they just want to remember
their love. And some baby was birthed in national day, so their name maybe is “
ai guo “, means love our country.
These are the basis of
giving a Chinese name, mostly Chinese name follow these rules.
LUCKY NUMBER
About Chinese lucky numbers. Actually
there is just there basis lucky number: 6, 8, and 9. 6 means all right. We often hope this number give us good luck
for every thing will be ok. 8 means make a pile. We often hope this number give
us luck good luck for becoming rich. 9 means similar as 6, also means luck or
all right. And it also has the meaning that forever. Unlucky number is 4,
because is same pronunciation as death. And some times people see 7 also as a
unlucky number, because it means angry.. And in a number, the last number is important,
example, 258 is a lucky number, because the last number is 8. So 16, 18 are
lucky numbers. 66 and 88 are lucky numbers. 98 mean you must make a pile. 99
means for ever, so in China many guys send 99 roses to the girls hoping their
relationship for ever.168 means always rich, 158 means want me rich, 518 means
I will become rich. 598 mean I must can be rich. 999 means forever and health.
So in many cases, if you go to buy a mobile number, if there is a 8 included in
the number, normally plus some money, if two 8, plus morn, but if the last
number is 4, the mobile number will sell a cheaper price, if more 4, maybe this
number will be free. Also in car license tag, some people for getting 88888,
they even like to pay more 100K RMB. In normal number, 5 always mean I or me, 0
and 1 means you, 2 means love. So 520 or 521 means I love you. Sometimes, 3 is
unlucky, but in a number is ok, just if you go to restaurant to eat with your
friend, please don’t order 3 dishes, because here 3 means separate.
So If you want to choose a luck
number be our domain name, you should not only think about the luck, and you
also should think if it is easy to remember, there is a website www.8848.com. Why 8848? Because the highest mountain
is 8848 meter high, so it is easy to remember. And also we can think about the
Chinese domain name. Because now, many website have Chinese domain.
By the way, Now many company and
website begin buy the Chinese domain name for their website, especially they
buy some important name like soma big company, because if some day, the company
want to have the Chinese website name, they have to buy from them, so maybe we
can choose a Chinese domain name also. That also will make easy to be reached
by our Chinese users.
OTHER CULTURE
1.
Chinese
people like saving money in the bank, just for their child in the future, and
for themselves in the future.
2.
When
Chinese people buy a product, they will think about if the product cost this
price, and the value of the product is very important.
ABOUT OUR PRODUCT
1.
Chinese
generator. I thought Suzanne did very well. And if she has some questions and
if she some Chinese words can make sure, she already asked me, we already solve
them, so I thought the Chinese name generator sample will no problem.
SUGGESTION
1. I suggest install a Chinese system on our computer or install a windows me system. Because now the problem is if you use Njstar, sometimes if you transfer the Chinese words to another computer, some problems will happen. So I suggest install a Chinese system, if that, we can install a Chinese WORD, and it is east to transfer simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese. And we also can install a translation tools based on the Chinese system, so that will much helpful for the translation.