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		<title>Climate change has become the root cause for poverty in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A recent report, titled “Climate Change and Poverty: a Case Study of China”, observes that more than 95 percent of poor people’s lives in ecologically sensitive regions are deeply and mostly affected by the changing climate. According to this report, a map of China’s impoverished areas overlaps the map of the country&#8217;s ecologically fragile [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/qihou.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="190" alt="qihou" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/qihou_thumb.jpg" width="284" align="right" border="0" /></a> A recent report, titled “Climate Change and Poverty: a Case Study of China”, observes that more than 95 percent of poor people’s lives in ecologically sensitive regions are deeply and mostly affected by the changing climate. According to this report, a map of China’s impoverished areas overlaps the map of the country&#8217;s ecologically fragile areas. </p>
<p>The report, released on June 17, 2009, was initiated by Greenpeace<span id="more-2339"></span> China and Oxfam Hong Kong, with joint efforts of experts and researchers from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and local meteorological officials in Sichuan, Guangdong and Gansu. </p>
<p>The report show that at Mabian County in Sichuan province, the direct economic losses resulted from rain storms and other flood-related disasters have strikingly increased in the past 5 decades. Compared to 9.7 billion yuan in the last half a century, the average annual direct economic losses from 2001 to 2008 reached 23.8 billion yuan. </p>
<p>However, Lin Erda, a member of China&#8217;s national climate change expert panel as well as senior researcher with CAAS, observes that China has established a remarkable record in alleviating poverty. </p>
<p>According to statistics by State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, there were 250 million people living in absolute poverty in China. But the number had decreased to 14.8 million by 2007, or 1.6 percent of the country&#8217;s total population. </p>
<p>On the other hand, case studies from Guangdong, Sichuan and Gansu provinces show that global warming does lead to floods, snowstorms and landslides, which adversely affect the ecologically fragile regions and undermine poverty alleviation efforts. </p>
<p>Xu Yinlong, a CAAS expert said: “Since China’s current poverty relief projects chiefly focus on income improvement, money is only helpful to those who live in ecologically favorable regions, whereas people in the ecologically sensitive regions are often pushed back into poverty by natural disasters.” </p>
<p>Li Yan, Greenpeace China climate campaigner, observed that if the government doesn’t take the initiative to forge an aggressive climate rescue treaty in the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December, China&#8217;s poverty alleviation efforts for the past few decades could be severely undermined. </p>
<p>“Developed countries should provide at least $50 billion annually to help developing countries take climate change adaptation measures, since they are largely responsible for causing climate change,” said Li Ning, officer of Oxfam&#8217;s Climate Change Program. </p>
<p>“Meanwhile, Developing countries, including China, should give priority to take change adaptation measures, like anti-drought and anti-flood crops, infrastructure improvement and elevation of bridges and roads in flood-prone areas.” </p>
<p>Hongsipu Development Zone is China&#8217;s largest relocation and poverty reduction project that has been built on a broad stretch of reclaimed desert in Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Ma Jianjun, a 19-year-old Hui ethnic boy, is one of thousands of children who grew up there. </p>
<p>Ma recalls that when his family lived at Xihaigu, a place which was very windy and dusty all year round, they did not have enough food and their annual income amounted to 500 yuan or even less. Xihaigu was listed as one of the world&#8217;s most uninhabitable zones by the United Nations World Food Program for its extreme environment. The relocation has helped hundreds of thousands in Ningxia live a better life after the local government began the program in 1998. </p>
<p>With an area of 2,000 sq km, Hongsipu at present is home to 200,000 migrants and has more than about 2,700 hectares of irrigable land. Hongsipu’s 2008 GDP of was 502 million yuan, a 12.9 percent increase over the previous year, while farmer&#8217;s average net income reached 2,660 yuan, an increase of 16.5 percent. However, Chinese farmers&#8217; average net income stood at 4,761 yuan in 2008. </p>
<p>Li Ning of Oxfam observed that ecological migration not only requires a huge amount of investment but takes a long time to bear fruit as well.</p>
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<p><em>China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense.</em></p>
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		<title>Chinese Banks Surpass Their Counterparts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ICBC ranked first on the list of global banks last year with a profit of $21.3 billion, stated new industry rankings the other day. 
China and Spain have enjoyed the five banks with the best performance. China Construction Bank just followed ICBC earning $17.5 billion. The third, fourth and fifth was Santander ($15.8 billion), [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/icbc.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="168" alt="icbc" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/icbc_thumb.jpg" width="284" align="left" border="0" /></a> ICBC ranked first on the list of global banks last year with a profit of $21.3 billion, stated new industry rankings the other day. </p>
<p>China and Spain have enjoyed the five banks with the best performance. China Construction Bank just followed ICBC earning $17.5 billion. The third, fourth and fifth was Santander ($15.8 billion), Bank of China ($12.6 billion) and BBVA ($9.6 billion) successively, listed The Banker magazine.<span id="more-2336"></span> </p>
<p>Britain’s HSBC ($9.3 billion) and Barclays ($8.9 billion) stood in the sixth and seventh place. </p>
<p>The magazine roughly figured out that global bank profits dropped from $781 billion last year to $115 billion, an 85 percent, and return on equity dived to 2.69 percent from 20 percent. </p>
<p>Last year Royal Bank of Scotland saw the largest loss in the industry. </p>
<p>Of all the banks, RBS’ $59.3 billion loss was on the top, overseeing Citigroup’s $53 billion loss and   <br />Wells Fargo’s $47.8 billion loss. </p>
<p>JPMorgan has moved from a year earlier the fourth place to the lead on The Banker’s annual list of the strongest 1,000 global banks. The rankings, established in 1970, take capital strength, or the amount of Tier 1 capital held as indicators. </p>
<p>In spite of the difficulties in the last three years, Bank of America, Citigroup and RBS respectively occupied the position from second to fourth. JPMorgan benefited from its merger of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual and Bank of America was promoted by its buying of Merrill Lynch. </p>
<p>HSBC stepped back to fifth from the top, but it was the sole one which has not received any bailout funds, and would forward to third if the bailout pitched in, The Banker said. Mitsubishi UFJ was the No.1 within seven Asian banks ahead of China’s ICBC.</p>
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<p><em>Are you interested in the business opportunities in China?</em></p>
<p><em>China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.bpovia.com">BPOVIA</a> is the leading <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/virtual-assistant.html">virtual assistant</a> and <a href="http://www.bpovia.com">Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO)</a> service provider in China. <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/">BPOVIA</a> is the only <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/virtual-assistant.html">virtual assistant</a> company ever been nominated for the prestigious “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. Combines international perspective with local know-how, <a href="http://www.bpovia.com">BPOVIA</a> can provide our clients China business development service and help our clients doing successful business in China.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The German city of Bielefeld has bred a lot of young, ambitious Internet entrepreneurs. The Dreyer brothers were craving to leave for southern Europe when their father suggested Shanghai instead, because of an article titled “Shanghai-The City of the Future” in a newspaper. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fanhuaShanghai.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="215" alt="fanhuaShanghai" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fanhuaShanghai_thumb.jpg" width="284" align="right" border="0" /></a> The German city of Bielefeld has bred a lot of young, ambitious Internet entrepreneurs. The Dreyer brothers were craving to leave for southern Europe when their father suggested Shanghai instead, because of an article titled “Shanghai-The City of the Future” in a newspaper. </p>
<p>To the day five years ago, the Dreyer brothers booked their tickets to China. Today, David, Julius, and Robert, 28, 26, and 24 respectively are millionaires. The NetCircle is their Shanghai-based company which<span id="more-2333"></span> specializes in creating and sustaining large-scale Web communities. The most prominent one is a dating site ranking among Germany’s top 20 Web communities. </p>
<p>More than 2 million members who create 2.5 billion page views per year visit the Dreyer sites. Besides website development, the company also does business in Internet start-ups. </p>
<p>Last year, The NetCircle made a profit of 35million yuan ($5.1 million). The young brothers employ more than 50 staff from more than 10 countries and their work place is located at the end of Shanghai’s Yichang Road, occupying an area of 1,000 sqm. Their workplace is a little arrangement of two-story brick houses, an obvious contrast to the city’s overall modern and sensational layout. It is a renovated version of a warehouse, thus gets the name: Warehouse Creative Center. The three young German brothers work in one of these houses, striving for their dream. </p>
<p>The brothers started their small Internet business early in their teens back in Bielefeld. At that time, they bought memorable Web domains and programmed them to be easily found by search engines. Their work did attracted a lot of traffic to those sites, which were more serious but harder to find, so they made a decent amount of money from those websites. The money was enough to send them on a long holiday, and after some consideration, they chose the charming China as their destination. </p>
<p>The brothers rented a six-room apartment in the Putuo district, Shanghai, for their working holiday. They did some Internet project rather leisurely at first, but unexpectedly, one of their dating sites became so popular that they had to work all hours to keep the site running. Then they recruited some IT experts, and a 30-member team crowded into this small apartment by the end of 2007. It was a win-win strategy for both parties when the municipal government leased the brothers the old warehouse at a reasonable price while The NetCircle boys agreed to renovate the building. </p>
<p>During their expanding process, the brothers hired Swiss Claude Ritter as CEO to help optimize their business structure. Due to its fast-growing pace, the company needs many more hands to handle this challenging job of the Web projects. The problem wasn’t the lack of applicants, but the right people to be hired in this international team, consisting of Chinese, Germans, Uruguayans, British, Kazakhs, and many others. Misunderstandings are unavoidable in such a culturally diversified environment, but it also invites creativity and inspiration. Also, their pleasant working climate has won them a good reputation as an attractive employer.   <br />Ritter says they receive 30 to 40 applications every week, but only one or two of them are qualified to an interview and pre-employment testing. </p>
<p>The NetCircle plans to expand their group scale by another 10 to 20 percent in 2009 and they are particularly interested in hiring Chinese employees. Ritter explains that if they employ more Chinese staff, things will be easier for the company operation with fewer language barriers. </p>
<p>Ritter has encountered culture shock himself when he first came to Shanghai in 2005 on a 4-month university project. He didn’t know a thing about China or a word of Chinese at that time. He had been more interested in going westwards, like America，but the novelty and possibilities in China finally persuaded him out of his original plan. Things proved his correct choice for after the project. Ritter became so reluctant to go back to Switzerland. Then he found a job in the Dreyer’s company as a project leader and now becomes CEO after fours years. </p>
<p>Ritter learned to speak some everyday Chinese to better communicate with the local people, but it is quite another story for the Dreyer brothers who take regular Chinese lessons every weekday since their arrival in Shanghai, and they can almost speak fluently. Julius Dreyer expresses his feelings about learning Chinese that the more he knows about the language the more familiar he becomes with Chinese culture. He’s happy that he has got over the initial culture shock that leads to the uneasiness of many foreigners in Shanghai. </p>
<p>It is fairly easy for foreigners to live together in Shanghai for there are so many of them to form a community, but Dreyer suggests going out of this circle and meet new people and experience new things to expand their life circle. </p>
<p>Of course, a foreigner should take things easy, not in a rush too often, especially with Chinese food. So he always orders the strangest dishes to him to conquer his prejudice against Chinese things and he thinks it worth the try. </p>
<p>Now the Dreyer brothers are planning to set up a new business, Julius and David want to work in other places but Robert will remain in Shanghai to finish the projects. </p>
<p>They are preparing for a novel life in Barcelona and create a new and a more wonderful life. The plan is to develop a new branch of The NetCircle, which will focus on marketing and sales and some supplementing work to the headquarters. </p>
<p>They are embracing the world as a whole and trying new things all the time for a more fabulous life!</p>
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<p><em>Are you interested in the business opportunities in China?</em></p>
<p><em>China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.bpovia.com">BPOVIA</a> is the leading <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/virtual-assistant.html">virtual assistant</a> and <a href="http://www.bpovia.com">Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO)</a> service provider in China. <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/">BPOVIA</a> is the only <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/virtual-assistant.html">virtual assistant</a> company ever been nominated for the prestigious “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. Combines international perspective with local know-how, <a href="http://www.bpovia.com">BPOVIA</a> can provide our clients China business development service and help our clients doing successful business in China.</em></p>
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		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/xinshui.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="234" alt="xinshui" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/xinshui_thumb.jpg" width="224" align="left" border="0" /></a> Under the situation of economic crisis, if you want to work in a foreign country and still get a high salary, you should turn to Asia. According to a research, those expatriates who live in Asia and Middle East get the highest salary among all expatriates. </p>
<p>The HSBC Bank International, the offshore financial services arm of HSBC Holdings, indicated that the percentage of expatriates in Russia is about 30%, which is the highest in the world. The expatriates in Russia earn the most &#8212;&#8211; up to 250,000 dollars a year, in terms of the income standard, expatriates in Japan and Qatar ranked second and third following Russia. </p>
<p>Between one third and one quarter<span id="more-2330"></span> of expatriates in Hong Kong, the UAE, Thailand and India can get a salary of more than 200,000 dollars a year. In terms of the cost of accommodation, countries like Malaysia, China and India were among the cheapest ones. </p>
<p>The survey explained that Asia is the cradle of those highest paid expatriates because 25% of expatriates in Asia can earn more than 200,000 dollars per year. </p>
<p>The top ten highest paid countries for expatriates were all from Asia and the Middle East, in which Russia ranked the first. </p>
<p>Despite the low percentage in population, expatriates from Britain and United States suffered a lot from the economic crisis. A great number of expatriates in Britain and United States began to take returning home into consideration due to the high cost of living and the relative low income. </p>
<p>Paul Say, head of marketing and communications for HSBC Bank International, said in a statement that the some interesting trends appear in terms of expatriates’ reaction towards the financial crisis, and what was also interesting was the fact that most of them belong to a wealthy group. </p>
<p>According to HSBC, Expat Explorer, the largest survey of expatriates under its 2nd year, surveyed more than 3,100 expatriates with different nationalities from 26 countries. </p>
<p>The economic crisis has changed the lifestyle of more than two-thirds of expatriates worldwide, in which their luxuries and daily spending are most influenced. Nearly 40 percent of expatriates began to save more money for even worse economic situation. </p>
<p>Over half of the expatriates in Japan started to refrain from extra spending such as traveling on holidays, etc. Almost 50 percent of expatriates in Thailand and Hong Kong were also doing so. </p>
<p>However, two-thirds of expatriates in Qatar and half of those in Bahrain said that the economic crisis has no impact on their way of spending at all. HSBC pointed out that those Gulf Arab countries have not been hit that hard by the crisis due to their abundant oil resources. </p>
<p>The survey also showed that expatriates in Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Russia are also intended to keeping spending their money on luxuries.   <br />The expatriates who were surveyed should meet four criteria: annual income of more than 200,000 dollars; a monthly income of more than 3,000 dollars which is free to spend; an increase in saving after working abroad and at least two luxury items in their home country. </p>
<p>The survey was carried out between February and April 2009.</p>
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		<title>THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA CHONGQING URBAN RURAL INTEGRATION PROJECT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
CHONGQING URBAN RURAL INTEGRATION PROJECT
Consulting Services for 
Design Review and Certification (Contract No. TA-F).
Expression of Interest
This specific procurement notice follows the general procurement notice for this project, which was published at dgMarket on September 27, 2006.
The People’s Republic of China has applied for a loan of US$84 million from the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><b>THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA</b></p>
<p align="center"><b>CHONGQING</b><b> URBAN RURAL INTEGRATION PROJECT</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chongqingzhiye.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="171" alt="Chongqingzhiye" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chongqingzhiye_thumb.jpg" width="254" align="right" border="0" /></a><b>Consulting Services for </b></p>
<p><b>Design Review and Certification (Contract No. TA-F).</b></p>
<p><b>Expression of Interest</b></p>
<p>This specific procurement notice follows the general procurement notice for this project, which was published at dgMarket on September 27, 2006.</p>
<p>The People’s Republic of China<span id="more-2326"></span> has applied for a loan of US$84 million from the World Bank towards implementation of the Chongqing Urban Rural Integration Project, and it intends to apply a part of the loan proceeds to eligible payments under the contracts for consulting services as design review and certification.</p>
<p>The overall development objective of the project is to: increase access of residents in participating counties and districts to improved public services including roads, water supply, employment training, and primary health care. The project is designed to address a main development challenge in Chongqing: to narrow the public service gap between residents living in rural areas with those living in urban centers.</p>
<p>The results of the project would be measured by the following indicators: a) increase in population with access to road transport networks that reduce travel time to main urban county centers; b) increase in population with access to safe drinking water; c) increase of unemployed or unskilled rural laborers with access to vocational education programs; and d) increase of population with access to primary health care services at the community level. Under the project, the PIUs deserve specialist consultancy to provide a comprehensive oversight of all activities starting from site investigations through bidding document preparation, to achieve functionally efficient and least cost infrastructure investments.</p>
<p>The services required under this assignment mainly include:</p>
<p>(a) overall design of all the sub-components, taking account of recommendations of the Environment Assessments, Resettlement Action Plan and Social Assessment;</p>
<p>(b) civil works design for water supply, roads, sanitation infrastructure, community service centers and community health clinics;</p>
<p>(c) equipment procurement plan review for equipment for migrant rural labor training and community health clinics;</p>
<p>(d) training program review for community health clinics;</p>
<p>(e) environmental mitigation measures and landscaping design;</p>
<p>(f) other engineering designs (including electric power supply and lighting, etc.);</p>
<p>(g) completeness of technical specifications, bills of quantities and contract drawings;</p>
<p>(h) bid document review; and</p>
<p>(i) cost estimates and budget.</p>
<p>The Chongqing Project Management Office (CPMO) invites expressions of interest from interested eligible consultants, with experience of the above assignments. Interested consultants must submit information to demonstrate that they are qualified to perform the services, which should include the firm’s brochures, understanding of the project background, descriptions of similar assignments undertaken in the past five years, in similar conditions, if any, and availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.</p>
<p>Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below, no later than 17:00, July 20, 2009 (local time). They may also be submitted electronically. However, CPMO will not be responsible for any delay in delivery or loss of electronic submissions.</p>
<p>Letters of invitation for consulting services will be issued to short listed firms and a consultant will be selected in accordance with procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, May, 2004, revised October 2006.</p>
<p><b>Chongqing</b><b> Project Management Office</b></p>
<p><b>Attention:</b> Ning Yu, Deputy Director of CPMO</p>
<p><b>Address:</b> 14/F, Sun of ASIA Mansion, 248 Renmin Road. Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400015, China</p>
<p><b>Tel:</b> (86) 23 6387 7677, (86) 23 6389 9614; <b>Fax:</b> (86) 23 6387 7822</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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 1. The P. R. China has applied a loan from ADB towards the cost of Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payment under the contracts for procurement of Goods and related service as follows:
Package 1: Procurement of Equipment for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 align="center">Invitation for Bids</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wuhanfeishui.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="198" alt="wuhanfeishui" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wuhanfeishui_thumb.jpg" width="284" align="left" border="0" /></a> 1. The P. R. China has applied a loan from ADB towards the cost of Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payment under the contracts for procurement of Goods and related service as follows:</p>
<p>Package 1: Procurement of Equipment for Changqing Pumping Station (Phase II)</p>
<p>Package 2: Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Equipment for Changqing Pumping Station (Phase II) <span id="more-2323"></span> </p>
<p>Package 3: Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Equipment for Yangsigang Pumping Station</p>
<p>2. Instrimpex International Tendering Company (CNIITC), the authorized Procurement Agent of the Purchaser as shown below, now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the supply of the Goods and related services mentioned above.</p>
<p>3. The Bidding Document may be purchased in CNIITC from July 2, 2009 upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of RMB2,000 or equivalent USD for English version for each package. For mail order, the document will be sent by courier services at an additional fee of RMB100 for domestic delivery or USD20 for overseas delivery.</p>
<p>4. Bids must be delivered to the Meeting Room of the Purchaser’s address given below at or before 9:30 a.m. (Beijing time) on August 13, 2009. The bids will be opening simultaneously.</p>
<p><b>The Procurement Agent: Instrimpex International Tendering Company</b></p>
<p>ADD: Room 1002, Genertec Plaza, 90 Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Beijing, China</p>
<p>Tel: 86-10 63348944; Fax: 86-10 63373642</p>
<p><b>The Purchaser: Wuhan Urban Construction Utilization of Foreign Investment Project Management Office</b></p>
<p>ADD: Room 206, 2nd Floor, No. 40, Changqing Road, Wuhan</p>
<p>Tel: 86-27 65653533; Fax: 86-27 65653533</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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The People’s Republic of China has received the grant from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) for implementation of Demonstration of Alternatives to Chlordane and Mirex in Termite Control Project. Anhui, as one of the demonstration provinces, intends to apply part of the grant to support Review and Revision of Policies, [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/anhuibayi.jpg"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="201" alt="anhuibayi" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/anhuibayi_thumb.jpg" width="284" align="right" border="0" /></a>The People’s Republic of China has received the grant from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) for implementation of Demonstration of Alternatives to Chlordane and Mirex in Termite Control Project. Anhui, as one of the demonstration provinces, intends to apply part of the grant to support Review and Revision of Policies, Regulations and Technical Standards of Termite Control in Anhui province. The duration of the assignment is from the third quarter of 2009 to third quarter of 2010. The consultant should be a consulting firm,<span id="more-2320"></span> institute, association or other organization with detailed understanding of termite control and proven experience in reviewing and drafting policies and regulations. Experience with similar assignments will have the priority. The firm/institute with interests shall deliver expression letter of interest and information concerning their qualifications to the address below by July 15, 2009. Further information may be obtained at the address below during office hours from 09:00 to 17:00.</p>
<p><b>Contact:</b> Yao Liqun (Mr.)</p>
<p><b>Tel:</b> 86 551-2649152; Fax: 86 551-2645645</p>
<p><b>Add:</b> 14th floor, Renhe Plaza, No. 319, Yangzi River Rd, Hefei 230001, China</p>
<p><b>E-mail:</b> <a href="mailto:hfbaiyi@mail.hf.ah.cn">hfbaiyi@mail.hf.ah.cn</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ According to Telework Exchange, “If white-collar employees who feel they could do their jobs from home began to telework twice a week, the United States could conserve 9.7 billion gallons of gasoline and save $38.2 billion a year.” These calculations are based on 50 miles round trips in vehicles getting 24 miles per gallon, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/shengyou2.jpg"><img title="shengyou2" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="200" alt="shengyou2" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/shengyou2_thumb.jpg" width="204" align="left" border="0" /></a> According to Telework Exchange, “If white-collar employees who feel they could do their jobs from home began to telework twice a week, the United States could conserve 9.7 billion gallons of gasoline and save $38.2 billion a year.” These calculations are based on 50 miles round trips in vehicles getting 24 miles per gallon, with gasoline at $3.94/gallon.</p>
<p>In addition, you don’t pay for office expenses such as utilities, desk, chair, computer, and the office space itself.</p>
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		<title>Hiring a emvirommental friendly telecommuting virtual assistant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Every company nowadays is eyeing for business expansion. Therefore, employees are dispatched or even the managers themselves are driven at an increasingly frequent basis to various places around. But is that the most efficient way? Have any of those company managers and employees ever calculated exactly how much would that long distance travel cost? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/emvirommental_va1.jpg"><img title="emvirommental_va" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="173" alt="emvirommental_va" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/emvirommental_va_thumb1.jpg" width="244" align="right" border="0" /></a> Every company nowadays is eyeing for business expansion. Therefore, employees are dispatched or even the managers themselves are driven at an increasingly frequent basis to various places around. But is that the most efficient way? Have any of those company managers and employees ever calculated exactly how much would that long distance travel cost? </p>
<p>Let’s analyze it in details: </p>
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<p><strong>Environment cost</strong> </p>
<p>Consider this: According to a carbon offset broker, a 2005 Toyota Camry driving 50,000 miles a year will emit 33,728 lbs of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Then, there are so many cars and buses running on the road from place to place everyday, the amount of the emitted carbon dioxide?&#8211;horrible even to bear our imagination. The environment, which has already been severely battered, must undoubtedly be one step worse. </p>
<p><strong>Time cost</strong> </p>
<p>No doubt, it is time-consuming. With the same amount of time you spent during the travel, a large load of work can be done. Moreover, even after you arrive at the place, you cannot engage yourself immediately into the work, for the travel, as we know, can be really fatigue. </p>
<p><strong>Health and Life quality cost</strong> </p>
<p>&quot;It affects people&#8217;s health and life,&quot; said commute management expert Dr. DaveRizzo of Fullerton. Indeed, studies show that stretch travels can lead to both mental and physical problems, including high blood pressure, and increased heart rate and stress levels. </p>
<p>Moreover, long-distance commuting can also contribute to back and neck pain, short-term memory loss, a higher likelihood of frustration, lack of sleep, and an increase in illness and illness-related absences from work. </p>
<p><strong>Additional business travel cost</strong> </p>
<p>The company has to cover the cost of the workers’ business travel. That already adds to the heavy burden of the company’s expenditure. But the figure will be much more overwhelming if the workers lack the cost-saving awareness and take the advantage to spend money for personal benefits. </p>
<p>With so much cost in environment, time, health and life quality, and additional workers’ travel expenditure, can we say that a long-distance travel to work is a wise choice? If not, can we think of a way out that is possible to avoid so much trouble but also available to conduct your work efficiently? </p>
<p><strong>BPOVIA-an excellent virtual assistant liable to save your business travel</strong> </p>
<p>Here we offer you BPOVIA providing all-rounded virtual assistance services at your convenience. By hiring such a virtual assistant, the managers don’t need to dispatch employees to faraway places for BPOVIA covers business services in many parts all around the world. Plus, the working time can be virtually flexible, because the VA’s working time is totally at the clients’ own disposal. You can add, modify, cancel, or suspend any service at any time based on your business demand.&#160; </p>
<p>With BPOVIA service at hand, your business is very likely to be expanded less time-consuming and more cost-saving.</p>
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		<title>IFB Bid for Coal Mine Methane Development Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Dong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INVITATION FOR BIDS
Loan No. 2146-PRC
 1. The Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (hereinafter called the ADB) in various currencies towards the cost of Coal Mine Methane Development Project. It is intended that part of the proceeds of this loan will be applied to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 align="center">INVITATION FOR BIDS</h1>
<p align="center"><b>Loan No. 2146-PRC</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/kuangjingwasi.jpg"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="172" alt="kuangjingwasi" src="http://www.bpovia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/kuangjingwasi_thumb.jpg" width="254" align="left" border="0" /></a> 1. The Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (hereinafter called the ADB) in various currencies towards the cost of Coal Mine Methane Development Project. It is intended that part of the proceeds of this loan will be applied to eligible payments under the contract.</p>
<p>2. China International Tendering Company (ITC), for and on behalf of <b>Jincheng CMM Comprehensive Utilization Co., Ltd</b>, invites sealed<span id="more-2308"></span> bids from eligible bidders for the following Equipment.<br />
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<p>3. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from <b>China International Tendering Company </b>and inspect the bidding documents at the Address: Room 506A, Genertec Plaza, No. 90, Xisanhuan<b> </b>Zhonglu, Fengtai District, Beijing 100055, P. R. China, between 9:30-11:30/13:00-15:30 from June 27,<b> </b>2009 (Beijing Time) (Sundays and holidays excepted).<b></b></p>
<p>4. A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be purchased by any interested bidder on the submission of a written application to the address: <b>China International Tendering Company, </b>Room 506A, Genertec Plaza, No. 90, Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Fengtai District, Beijing 100055, P. R. China and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of US$300 or RMB2,000. The method of payment will be in cash, cashier’s check or direct deposit. The document will be sent by mail.</p>
<p>5. Bids must be delivered to <b><i>3rd Floor, Meeting Room, Genertec Plaza, No. 90, Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Fengtai District, Beijing </i></b><i>at or before <b>10:00 on Aug 8, 2009 </b></i>(Beijing Time). All bids must be accompanied by a<b><i> </i></b>bid security of not less than 2% of bid price or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency.<b><i> </i></b>Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose<b><i> </i></b>to attend at the above address at <b><i>3rd Floor, Meeting Room, Genertec Plaza, No. 90, Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Fengtai District, Beijing</i></b><i>.<b></b></i></p>
<p>Name of Purchaser: <b><i>Jincheng CMM Comprehensive Utilization Co., Ltd</i></b></p>
<p>Address: <b><i>No. 89, Jianshe Road, Jincheng, Shanxi Province, China</i></b></p>
<p>Tel: 86-356-2056911 Fax: 86-356-2054086</p>
<p>Name of Procurement Agent: <b><i>China</i></b><b><i> International Tendering Company</i></b></p>
<p>Address: Room 1104, Genertec Plaza, No. 90, Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Fengtai District, Beijing 100055, P. R. China</p>
<p>Tel: (8610)-63348532, Fax: (8610)-63373543</p>
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<p><em>Are you interested in this Invitation for Bids opportunity in China?</em></p>
<p><em>China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense. </em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.bpovia.com/">BPOVIA</a> is the pioneering virtual assistant and Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China. Combines international perspective with local know-how, BPOVIA can provide our clients China business development service and help our clients doing successful business in China. </em></p>
<p><em>Please visit <a href="http://www.bpovia.com/">http://www.BPOVIA.com/</a> for details about our service.</em></p>
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