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CHINICT is an international conference hosted in Beijing. Founded by Frank Nazikian a few years ago, this conference aims at gathering people around sharing that entrepreneurship state of mind and create synergies between all of them.

Here is a short part of an interview of Frank Nazikian, in december, in which he explains how he came up with that amazing idea of CHINICT :

[…] I quickly understood that I didn’t understand anything.  I didn’t understand the country, the culture, I had no network.   I didn’t know “who was who.”  In China, relationships are important.  This is not that unique to China.  In all countries I’ve worked in, it is very important to know who you can trust or not trust.

My conclusion was that I needed to get connected to the main players in the field.  I proceeded to organize an event that I would have wanted to go to, with the right players in six key categories:

• Government
• Media
• Venture capital
• Stock exchange
• Service providers (lawyers/accountants)
• Fortune 100 sized Information Technology companies

Great idea, isn’t it?

This year, CHINICT 2009 will see some of these stars:

• Gary Locke, US Secretary of Commerce
• Zhao Fengtong, Vice Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government
• Michael Barbalas President, American Chamber of Commerce
• Serge Abou, EU Ambassador to China
• Steve Ballmer - Microsoft CEO (video intervention)
• Nigel Burton - Microsoft General Manager Evangelism
• John Spelich, VP International Corporate Affairs - Alibaba
• Cheng Bing Hao, CEO - Kaixin001
• James Liu, COO of Oak Pacific Interactive - Xiaonei
• Andy Yao, VP - 51
• ZhiKang Dai - Discuz / Manyou
• Victor Koo, CEO - Youku
• Gary Wang, CEO - Tudou
• Michael Chi, CEO - Perfect World
• Inga Han, Deputy Director - Nyse-Euronext
• Simon Zhang, Managing Director - London Stock Exchange / AIM
• Guang Xun Xu - Managing Director Nasdaq
• Kejian Chao, Managing Director - Shanghai Stock Exchange
• Ren Guang Ming - Managing Director - Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia
• Andrew Lih, Author

Nicolas Chine, english China, CHINICT, entrepreneurs

Yesterday a Great News for the world of education in China was announced by @druiz on Twitter: the release of the new version of uuxuu.net, the chinese most efficient platform for teachers to find students, and the easiest and fastest way for students to find the best teachers in any subject, just next to their door.

On uuxuu.net, it’s as simple as picking a lesson category, find your location on the map and you’re done! You get a list of all the lessons in your close neighborhood and you just need to subscribe to attend to a class!

Now it’s easy to study any subject in China!

uuxuu.net is a Beijing based company aiming at providing easy to use platform to gather teachers and students around nice places, anywhere in China.

Nicolas Chine, Services utiles, english China, education, finding student, finding teacher, uuxuu.net

A few days ago, I went near the Bird’s Nest to take some photos with the whole Tongo.asia team. Though it took us almost 2 hours an a half to get there (because of the security measures, the fact that the Olympic subway line is only opened for the staff and that volunteers could hardly say how to reach the stadium), we could finally take some nice pictures. Here’s one:

And here’s a funny photo taken the same day:

I like the shy-looking girl who’s wondering “What the hell am I doing in there?” and the big bulldozer in the back of the photo that seems to say “Yes, we are ready… well, almost”!

By the way, it hardly possible to get a clear picture with Beijing weather/pollution mix…

Nicolas Chine, Photo Beijing, China, english, Tongo.asia