Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): CityU Eminence Society Shanghai Hangzhou Exchange Tour

The CityU Eminence Society (CES) arranged a Shanghai Hangzhou Exchange Tour from 14^th to 17^th Nov 2019. The schedule arrangement showed that we would visit Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴) and then to enjoy the show named “Enduring Memories of HangZhou (最憶是杭州)” (old named was “Impression West Lake (印象西湖)” in the first day. On 15^th Nov, we would visit Geely (吉利汽車) and Zhejiang University (浙江大學). On 16^th Nov, we would visit Wuzhen (烏鎮) and join the Alumni Dinner (co-organized with CityU Shanghai Alumni Association). Lastly day morning is free time and then we went to Hong Kong in afternoon. I selfie with CES alumni on airplane.

I took a photo with Ms. Agnes Wu (胡孟青) and she is CityU Alumni.

Then we took a group photo when all alumni arrived in the Hangzhou airport.

In the travel bus, Mr. Weekly Wong introduced this tour and also all CES participants.

We enjoyed the conformable seats and talking to each other.

Firstly, we went to Fly Zoo Hotel for lunch.

It was a robot hotel with robotic cooker.

I took a photo with the robotic waiter.

We enjoyed a good lunch in this hotel.

(Left: Ms. Kathy Chan, Ms. Xu Fei, Dr. Laurie Lau, Dr. Venus Tang, Mr. Ray Chan, Ms. Jenny Chan, Mr. Weeky Wong, Ms. Agnes Wu and Mr. Harton Ma)

(Left: Mr. Xavier Wong, Dr. Lotto Lai, Ms. Lindy You, Dr. Venus Tang, Ms. Fify Li, Dr. Richard Wong, Mr. Eric Lee and Mr. Peter Jung)

(Left: Dr. Gary Cheng, Ms. Wendy Sin, Ms. Antonia Yeung, Mr. Ben Wong, Dr. Rocky Lam, Ms. Maggie Lam, Ms.Jacqueline So and Ms. Carrie Wang)

When we arrived Alibaba Group, Ms. Lucida (張輝) (Affairs General Manager, Alibaba Group Globalization Office HMT) welcome us and went with us to visit their show room.

I took a photo in the entry of Alibaba for memory.

Photo with Dr. Gary Cheng (Former Chairman, CES) in front of the Olympus logo.

I also took a photo with Dr. Rocky Lam in the slogan “Make IT Happen” that is also Science Park slogan long time ago.

After that we went to the show room and the representative briefed some background and achievement of Alibaba.

This drawing demonstrated Jack Ma and his startup team went to the Great Wall in 1999. Alibaba had six new values in the new journey below.

i) Customers First, Employees Second, Shareholders Third.

ii) If Not Now, When? If Not Me, Who?

iii) Trust Makes Everything Simple.

iv) Today’s Best Performance is Tomorrow’s Baseline.

v) Change is the Only Constant.

vi) Live Seriously, Work Happily.

And then we visited the tunnel to watch a short video which briefing the history of Alibaba.

After that we went to the meeting room, I met Ms. Xu Fei (徐非) CityU Shenzhen Alumni representative.

I also took a photo in front of Alibaba Quantum Laboratory before the exchange meeting.

Ms. Jenny Chan, Mr. Harton Ma, Dr. Venus Tang and I selfie in the meeting room.

In the beginning, Ms. Lucida (張輝) (Affairs General Manager, Alibaba Group Globalization Office HMT) introduced their team members to us.

Then Mr. Weekly Wong briefed CityU Eminence Society (CES) background to Alibaba.

And then Lucida showed a short video to introduce Alibaba.

After that Ms. Selina Xu introduced Taobao University to us. Taobao University integrates the advantageous resources of Alibaba Group and its digital economy field to cultivate profession by providing theoretical knowledge and practical operation training through online learning and offline teaching.

She also briefed some cooperation program in Hong Kong. They focused on training (i.e. digitalization, new sales, e-commerce, big data, data technology and AI) for government, enterprise and talents.

Finally, she briefed the cooperation model with local government and service local industries and talents. Some training programs were stated such as Digital Economy Camp, New Retail Program, Internet-Business Executive Program, Public Course, Ecommerce Operation Program, Gateway to China Market, etc.

Lastly, we took a group photo for memory.

Photo with Alibaba representatives.

At night, we had a quick dinner in 知味觀.

Then we enjoyed the show named “Enduring Memories of HangZhou (最憶是杭州)” I remembered that the old named was “Impression West Lake (印象西湖)” and HKSQ had arranged study mission with this event on 15^th April 2014.