Your Pocket Guide to  
  Business Operation in  
  China  
   

 

  1. Everything is possible  
  2. Nothing is easy.  
 

3. Western business logic
ss does not apply

 
  4. It is a fun project if
ss there is no deadline.
 
 

5. You must persist - things
aa will come your way
aa eventually.

 
  6. Patience is the essence
ss of success.
 
  7. "You don't know China"
aa means they disagree.
 
  8. "New regulation" means
aa they found a new way to
ss avoid doing something.
 
  9. "Internal regulation"
aa means they are mad at you.
 
  10. "Basically, no problem"
aaa means big problem.
 
  11. When you are optimistic,
asa think about rule #2.
 
  12. When you are discouraged,
aaa think about rule #1.
 
     
     



 

 

     
 
 
THE COMPANY
Ingo Becker Consulting is an international consulting firm based in Beijing/China, whose mission is to help European companies turn their Asian business vision into reality.
In order to support your company on its way to profitable growth we go further than only developing concepts - together with you we also implement them. During more than six years of successful working in China we have gained extensive experience and expertise in a great variety of industry fields, supporting companies of all sizes, of all kinds of business. The focus ¨Cup to now- was mostly put on Wood-and plastic manufacturing Industry, Machines, Automotive and TV/Media.
Together with the network of the Add-Value Consulting Group, we are in the position to handle almost every question to your advantage. As an independent and effective gathering of several consulting firms, the Add-Value Consulting Group offers worldwide contacts and experiences in many different business fields.
 
Bridge between West and East
The multicultural composition of our team ¨C Chinese project managers together with the European management - ensures that both the global perspective and local knowledge are integrated to create custom tailored, interdisciplinary, and holistic solutions for our clients. Coordinating business interests of companies from Europe with those of companies inside Asia. We build a true bridge between the West and the East.
 
 
     

  Ingo Becker
Owner
 
 

Mr. Becker is a specialized Marketing Merchant, formed by the renowned Chamber of commerce in Villingen-Schwenningen/Germany. His career began with his own company in the trucking business. After having sold that company to a French forwarder he focused on the sales of abrasives and woodworking machinery. In 1994 he got together with Plocher Moebelelemente in Voehringen/Black Forest, a classic supplier of furniture parts. He was the export manager and managed to get the export quota up to 33%, from zero. The markets were France, Holland, Austria, Panama, the US, China and Poland. During his activities for the leading European and Chinese producers of laminated floorings - Classen Group (Kaisersesch/Germany), E.P. I (Marlenheim/France) and Golden Butterfly Decoration Materials Co. Ltd (Beijing/China) -, he was able to get a profound knowledge about Asian markets, mentalities and business opportunities. He traveled regularly to countries between Pakistan and Japan. Mr. Becker lived two years in Shanghai and two years in Beijing and used these cities as the hub for his commercial activities in Asia. He built up a representative office for E.P.I in Shanghai and was deeply involved in the founding of a joint venture factory for Golden Butterfly in Tianjin/China. Since mid of 2003, the company Ingo Becker Consulting was founded and works nowadays with big success. Mr. Becker travels in a rhythm of 3 months between Europe and Asia. Since October 2005 Mr. Becker is also a certified flaw-detection specialist (magnetic and penetration methods).

 
 

Chali Chen
Business

 
 

Ms Chen is a fully formed secretary with outstanding grasp and excellent technical understanding. She studied at the renowned University of Xi¡¯an in China¡¯s central Shaanxi Province. Her connections with Germany are founded on a one-year stay, as an Au-pair in Boeblingen/Germany and her German husband. She started to work as a personal assistant for Mr. Becker in March 2002. Ms Chen is fully based in China and fulfills different duties in the company. She does the basic market research and is the first person to turn to for the non-English-speaking customers. She speaks English, German and several Chinese dialects. In the past few years, she has become the ¡°heart and soul¡± of IBC and ¡°right hand¡± of the owner.

 
  Patricia Xu
Economic Law Consultant
 
  Miss Xu is the lawyer of our company and holds a full-time employment here. She studied law and economy at the Tianjin University and first worked in an international law-firm, after graduation. Later, she was the purchase manager of the biggest printing company for intelligent cards and cigarette-boxes. Miss Xu takes care of the sourcing orders from our international customers. With her long-time experience in purchasing and law, she has become one of the main carrying pillars of our activities. She is also fluent in English and understands German.

 
  Nick Tung
Representative
 
  Mr Tung is our man in the southwest of this wonderful country. He is based in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province and holds our office there. He coordinates mainly all kinds of things related to the steel industries and automotive companies in the southwest. He studied at the famous Beijing Natural Sciences University with a major in Computer Society project. His technical skills are based on the card-test center of the Bank of China and on a good experience in Science and Technology. He is very familiar with business consulting with a three year experience in this field.

 
  Catherine Fang
Administrative Assistant
 
  Being formed and trained at the Xi¡¯An translators¡¯ college with double major in English and Tourism (Bachelor¡¯s degree), Ms Fang is the ideal Partner in executing all kinds of daily tasks, which involve all kind of administrative, account-related and other forms of clerical office work. She is our key person when it comes to introduce new, customer-related software and additional functions to our software. When you call our office, you will generally speak to her first. Ms Fang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English.  
  Li Guangshuai
Computer and Marketing Manager
 
  our computer man. Originally being formed at the Heilongjiang University for agricultural Mechanization is nowadays the specialist for all of our Computer-related things and all kinds of print issues. He designs, layouts and prints (with our partner-printing companies) the Chinese brochures for our overseas customers and takes care of their Chinese-language Websites and user interfaces. This man thinks in Java and other programming languages. When you talk to him, you should always make sure that he switches over to Chinese or English. He is also responsible for all the marketing and Web-presence of IBC. He takes good care of all the data systems in our company and has always a state-of-the-art solution in his pocket. He also makes sure that the customers¡¯ and suppliers¡¯ software can communicate with each other.