Saturday, March 28, 2009

Day 24 - March 27

Industry Visit to Yangtze Optical Fibre And Cable Company,

Woke up early to brush my teeth but I went back to sleep after seeing the sleeping bamboo on the bed next to me. And had the weirdest dream in China, I dreamt of being in Ngee Ann and had to rush back home to collect my backpack and rush to custom but on the way I got into an accident and saw my friends which are not waiting at custom crying for me. It seem very real and thus didn't managed to wake up until Jit Siong shake me awake.

Took Wuhan University of Science and Technology bus to the plant it took about 15mins to reach there. When we reach the plant Mr Chua brief us about China business culture and told us photography aren't allowed and talking loudly is considered as rude.


The personal from the company telling us how fibre optics are made while Mr Chua translating to English, although most of the chemical we couldn't make out what is it but we roughly know how the fibre optics are made
Everyone is interested in the talk as seldom do we have the chance to visit such high technology industries



Although there are diagrams telling us how they make the fibre optics, but most of what they do are still industrial secret as in China making fibre optics are still consider as high end technology because they blocked http://www.youtube.com/ thus the videos that teaches you how to make things are not accessible by China peoples. Their clean rooms are no really considered as clean room in Singapore standard as the workers aren't really wearing full clean room suits. and most of the machines here are not automatic and needed workers to start it or stop it and to transfer the product around. But since China has the largest population on earth they need the employment rates to be higher than Singapore thus automation isn't really seen as compared to Singapore where workers are higher cost than machines.




The different kind of cables which they makes.



We are only allowed to take photo in their main hall



Wuhan University of Science and Technology school bus discourages the students to eat in Bus by writing unlike Singapore where no eating signs are put up, Singapore should have words discouraging people from eating on buses like China as they attract people to read it and thus conform to it.
Singapore clay pot rice which have nothing that represent Singapore except for the words. The food they sell are things that we couldn't find in Singapore.

Written test was quite easy as compared to all the written test we did, this shows that by practicing more it helps.
Fire works are randomly shoot up into the night in China unlike in Singapore which the government controls it as it's dangerous

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